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HISTORICAL SOCIETY C 

TOPEKA 

KAN. 



The Kansas Industrialist 



Volume 67 



Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, Manhattan, Wednesday, September 18, 1940 



Number 1 



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DOCTOR WILLARD'S BOOK 
NOW BEING DISTRIBUTED 

TRIBUTE! TO AUTHOR WRITTEN RY 
PRESIDENT I \ltltl:l I, 



Miss Lohmeyer on KMBC 
Donnasue Lohmeyer, I. J. '39, re- 
cently joined the staff of Station 
KMBC, Kansas City. Miss Lohmeyer 
is heard in a daily broadcast, under 
the name of June Martin, the KMBC 
Food Scout, at 8:30 a. m. daily. The 
Food Scout program is a news broad- 
cast, direct from the Kansas City 
Food terminal, about fresh fruits and 



Hiatory Covering? ColleR*'* 77 Years 

Fllla 576 Pawn and Retina with 

Early Daya of Bliiemoiit 

Central College 

A "History of Kansas State Col- vegetables. Miss Lohmeyer serves as 
lege of Agriculture and Applied Sci- both writer and market-expert on the 
ence" is being distributed this week Program. Af ter attending Kansas 
by Dr. J. T. Willard, College histori- ! State College in 1938-39, she ob- 
an, who has spent more than four tained her master's degree from the 
years assembling information, select- University of Iowa in radio education, 
ing material and writing the history. Miss Lohm eyer is a member of Alpha 

The 576-page book, printed by the ' Gamm a Delta sorority. 
Kansas State College Press, covers ♦ 
the 77-year history of the institution \ ADVANCED PILOT TRAINING 
and reviews briefly the history of iWRRBim POP MUST TIMP 
Bluemont Central College, which was; UrrfiKIiU fUK flK&l 1IMIS 
established in 1858 and transferred 

to the State Of Kansas its building s «"«1enta Will Receive Instruction In 



and 100 acres of land in 1863. 

INCLUDES MANY PICTURES 



Acrobatic and Conibnt 

might 



FALL ENROLMENT DROPS 
FIVE BEHIND LAST YEAR 



FIGURES UP TO TUESDAY MGHT 
SHOW 4.054 STUDENTS 



Dlvlalon of Ena-lneerlnK and Architec- 
ture Takea Lead for Flrat Time in 
Several Yeara; General Sci- 
ence la Second 

A total of 4,054 students had en- 
rolled in Kansas State College by 
Tuesday night, according to Miss 
Jessie McDowell Machir, registrar. 
This compared with a total of 4,059 
students at the same time last year. 

A preliminary breakdown when a 
total of 4,030 students were enrolled 
showed the Division of Engineering 
and Architecture leading for the larg- 
est enrolment, with 1,083 students, 
an increase of 21 over last year. 

GENERAL SCIENCE IS SECOND 



B. A. E. Man Is Stationed Hero 

A representative of the Bureau 
of Agricultural Economics, United 
States Department of Agriculture, 
will be stationed in the Department 
of Economics and Sociology during 
the academic year 1940-41. Douglas 
Schepmos, formerly of Washington, 
D. C, is working in the field of land 
economics in cooperation with Dr. 
Harold Howe. 

♦ 

NYA ASSISTANCE GIVEN 

330 STUDENTS THIS YEAR 



College Allotted #44,145 for Distribution 

to Needy, or $3,510 I,eaa 

Than LiiNt Year 

Three hundred thirty college stu- 
dents are receiving aid from the Na- 
tional Youth administration during 
the college semester. The NYA al- 



PHI ALPHA MU TAKES 

SCHOLARSHIP HONORS 



GENERAL, SCIENCE ORGANIZATION 
HAS 2.5» GRADE AVERAGE 



The first advanced pilot-training 
The history includes more than 130 c i asses to be offered in Kansas State ! 'rations tnan they nad during the first 

semester last year. For several years 



Farm Houae Fraternity Lead* Men's 

Social Groupa While Delta Delta 

Delta Heada List of 

Sororltlea 

Phi Alpha Mu, honorary general 
science society, had the highest schol- 
arship of all organizations at Kansas 
State College during the second se- 
mester of the 1939-40 academic year, 
Miss Jessie McDowell Machir, regis- 
trar, has announced. The society's 
scholarship average was 2.59. 

Second on the entire list was Dy- 
namis, all-school honorary society, 
with an average of 2.33. Omicron Nu, 
honorary home economics organiza- 
tion, ranked third with an average of 
2.29. 

FARM HOUSE LEADS GREEKS 
Delta Delta Delta headed the list 



illustrations. Among them are full 
page portraits of all the presidents of 
the institution, and smaller portraits 
of all deans and vice-presidents, and 



College will include instruction in 
acrobatic- and combat-type flight in 
heavier planes, according to Prof. C. 
E. Pearce, head of the Department of 



of members of the faculty in the early Machine Design, who is in charge of 



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days of the institution. The history 
primarily a book of reference, is fully 
indexed by name and by subject mat- 
ter. 

Five thousand copies of Doctor 



flight training under the Civil Aero- 
nautics administration. 

Advanced students must pass army 
or navy flight physical examinations 

and must have 145 hours of ground 
Willard s history were printed. Copies . , , .„ . crv . . „ . 

, , , ; .; school and 40 to 50 hours of flying 



lotment for Kansas State College is 
Only the Division of Engineering | $4,905 a month, a total of $44,145 
and Architecture and the Division of Ior tne college year, according to R. 
Home Economics have larger regis- ! A. Seaton, dean of the Division of 

Engineering and Architecture and of sorority scholarship ratings with 
chairman of the NYA committee for an average of 1.77. Farm House f ra- 
the institution. ' ternity ranked first in the men's so- 
The allotment for this academic | cial organizations with an average of 



the Division of General Science had 
the largest divisional enrolment 



In second place was the Division i year ls $3,510 short of the quota of | 1-93. 
of General Science, with 1,044 regis- ! $47,655 given to the College last The entire list of organizations ac- 



tered, 27 less than last year. Eight j yeai 



cording to their rank, including so- 



The decrease, Dean Seaton ex- rorities and fraternities, follows: 
plained, was due to a slight decrease Phi Alpha Mu, 2.59; Dynamis, 
of 41 more than last year's enrolment j in the number of students between I 2.33; Omicron Nu, 2.29; Quill club, 



hundred eight women enrolled in the 
Division of Home Economics, a total 



in that division. 

Enrollees in the Division of Agri- 
? r A«« el «f Sent f ',' ee t0 "ie more than These* cTawes probably will" bVsterted cultuie "umbered 670, 27 fewer than 
1,000 life members of the College by October 1. although the quota has | '"• 1939. Two hundred twenty-one 



not yet been announced. i registered in the Division of Veteri- 

The elementary flying classes will narv Medicine, only three less than 



Alumni association and are made 
available at a low cost to all mem- 
bers of the College Alumni associa- it year 
tion for the 1940-41 academic year. ' * tan within a " eek 01> 10 ^ys. The ; ' „„„„„„„„ 

Copies of the history also are being fllst C0Ulse ' which awaids a P rivate | INDUCTI °N FOR FRESHMEN 
sent to the elective state officers of Dilot certificate, has a quota of 30 i Receiving three less enrollees than 
Kansas, to members and former mem- vouns men t0 be selected from the last year was the Division of Graduate 
bers of the State Board of Regents [ mo,e tnan 90 a PPlications already re- j Study, with a registration of 149. 
and to some other persons who have ceived - Professor Pearce hopes that The five-day induction program for 
a special interest in the institution. the <» uota mav be increased to 40 freshman students was held again 

CONDUCTED WIDE RESEARCH 



Doctor Willard has been collecting 



During the summer course, completed 
September 13, the enrolment was 45. 



this year along the lines of past cus- 
tom. 



Two units of college credit are giv- 



historical publications concerning the f th k t nt , th Col . , t;A/~ttttv ruAM^cc AXTxiAirMrrn 

College and making and filing histori- ; , ege which includes meteorology. ' TWENTY-EIGHT FACULTY CHANGES ANNOUNCED 

cal material 55 years. He did this navI g at ion and probably aircraft THROUGH OFFICE OF PRESIDENT F D FARRELL 

more than 50 years while serving the opei . a tion. Professor Pearce hopes to | 

College in various capacities. Four stl . e ngthen this training by having in- 

years ago he was made College his- Btructloil from members of allied 

torian with the assignment of writing college departments. 

a history of the College. 

In assembling data for the history, 
Doctor Willard searched the federal 
laws affecting the land-grant colleges, 
all the session laws of Kansas, all 
minutes of the Board of Regents, all 



the ages of 16 and 24 who were tak- 2.19; Alpha Zeta, 2.16; Theta Sigma 
ing 12 or more semester hours of col- Phi. 2.11; Athenian, 2.08; Mu Phi 
lege work on October 1, 1939, as ', Epsilon, 2.00; Mortar Board, 1.99; 
compared with October 1, 1938. I Farm House, 1.93; Ionian, 1.90; Al- 

Another reason for the slight re- pha Mu, 1.85; Sigma Tau, 1.83; Klod 
duction in the allotment this year is al >d Kernel, 1.79; Phi Sigma Kappa, 
a recent law passed by Congress 1-774; Delta Delta Delta, 1.772; 
which provides that the total national Clovia, 1.68. 

NYA appropriation be distributed' Alpha Gamma Rho, 1.67; Block 
among the several states in propor- and Bridle, 1.65; Pi Beta Phi, 1.64; 
tion to the youth population of the ; Alpha Kappa Lambda, 1.61; Brown- 
states. That cut the Kansas State in &. 1-60; Phi Epsilon Kappa, 1.59; 
College quota from 10 per cent of the j Alpha Xi Delta, 1.589; Kappa Kappa 
students in the eligible age group to : Gamma, 1.584; Phi Omega Pi, 
9.47 per cent of those in the eligible 153409; Kappa Sigma, 1.53407; 

Sigma Nu, 1.51; Kappa Delta, 1.509; 
Zeta Tau Alpha, 1.48; Chi Omega, 
1.47; K. S. C. Dairy club, 1.46. 

ALL MORE THAN ONE POINT 

K fraternity, 1.4 4; American So- 
ciety of Civil Engineering, 1.4 3; 



age group. 



military service of the United States 
the minutes of the general faculty, foi . further nlght tra ining, if quali- 
all the minutes of the Council of fled >. 
Deans, all annual and biennial re- ♦ 

ports of the College, the College cata- 
logue, a complete file of Tm: Kansas 
Industrialist, official newspaper of 
the College, publications of the Agri- 
cultural Experiment Station and the Kiiiimiih Farm Hoys Are Llnted In Group 
Engineering Experiment Station, stu- Announced hy c. w. Mullen, 

dent newspapers, student yearbooks, Committee Chairman 



Twenty-eight faculty changes, in- Leroy F. Stutzman, part-time ! American Road Builders association, 

eluding resignations, appointments to graduate research assistant in chemi- ', 1.42; Tau Kappa Epsilon, 1.40; Mor- 

flll places of staff members who have cal engineering, employed on Indus- tar and Ball, 1.37; American Society 

Students in flight training must be , resigned, promotions and leaves of trial research fellowship, "The Manu- of Agricultural Engineers, 1.36; 

at least 19 years of age and not yet j absence, were included in an an- facture of Colloidal Fuel from Kansas Acacia, 1.358; Hamilton, 1.354; Phi 

26. If under 21, they must have par- I nouncement Friday from the office of Coal," resigned August 31; effective Kappa, 1.352; Phi Delta Theta 1 34' 

ents' consent in order to sign the | President F. D. Farrell. September 1, Frederick J. Gradishar Alpha Phi Omega, 1.318; Scabbard 

The changes included: was appointed to the position to sue- and Blade, 1.315. 

C. E. Arndt, supervisor of the state ceed Mr. Stutzman. American Society of Mechanical 

institutional dairy herds, resigned Joseph T. Ware, assistant profes- Engineers, 1.28; American Institute 
August 31; effective September 1, sor in the Department of Architec- of Electrical Engineers, 1.24; Sigma 
Howard Vernon was appointed to the ture, resigned August 7; effective Phi Epsilon, 1.21; Alpha Kappa Psi, 
position to succeed Mr. Arndt. September 1, Eugene J. Mackey, in- 1.20; Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 1.18; Pi 

Dr. John W. Hanson succeeded Dr. structor in the same department, was Kappa Alpha, 1.16; Alpha Tau 
Donald B. Frane as assistant college promoted to the position vacated by Omega. 1.14; Theta Xi, 1.11; Beta 
physician, effective September 1; Dr. the resignation of Mr. Ware. Theta Pi, 1.105; Delta Sigma Phi, 

Robert J. M. Horton succeeded Dr. Effective September 1, Don J. Ed-; 1.100; Phi Kappa Tau, 1.0408; Beta 
Hugh M. Swaney as assistant college gar was appointed part-time graduate Kappa, 1.0406; Delta Tau Delta, 1.01. 
physician; Dr. Albert G. Roode sue- assistant in the Department of Chem- ♦ 



SEARS $150 SCHOLARSHIPS 

GIVEN 15 FRESHMEN HERE 



reports of the State Board of Agncul- Fifteen Kansas farm boys have, 

_i,,_„„ „* ,, D ,„ ,>.,r. ,. a c. a i w i in j »! ceeded Dr. Harold T. Gross as assis- istry to succeed Thomas R. Thomson, , vv , ., an i vr>v imiwu aw 

ture, many volumes ot newspapeis won Sears Agricultural Foundation 1 , ,, . . . AsM.Uj (OMiKt.h Ml.\hK Shi 

FOR FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 



and many other publications. scholarships of $150 for the current 

The life of the author has been so school year at Kansas State College. 

intimately connected with the history c w . Mullen, assistant dean of 

of the College that a tribute to the , he Division of Agriculture and 

author appears in the book and was chairman of the committee on selec- 

written by President F. D. Farrell. tioni sa j d t h e scholarship winners 

TRIBUTE TO DOCTOR WILLARD were chosen from nominations made 

"No other person has known the by school superintendents and county 

College intimately so long as has Doc- agents in Kansas. 

tor Willard," wrote President Farrell. Those who received the scholar- 

"With his extraordinary knowledge ships are : 



tant college physician. resigned 

Miss Agatha Hermon was appointed Miss Ellen R. Lindstrom, assistant 
nurse in the College Hospital, effec- professor of home management in the 
tive September 1. Division of College Extension, re- 
Glen C. Krejchik was appointed signed September 2. 
part-time graduate research assistant Mrs. Eunice A. Pardee, assistant 
in the Department of Applied Mechan- professor and district agent in home i 
ics, effective September 1. demonstration work, Division of Col- 

M. J. Stutzman, assistant professor lege Extension, resigned August 17. 
in the Department of Shop Practice, Effective September 1, Delos C. 
resigned July 19. Taylor, assistant professor in the De- 
Miss Genevieve Lundvick was ap- partment of Applied Mechanics, was 



of the institution he combines a L loyd G. Alvey, Route 2, Kansas pointed instructor in the Department granted leave of absence from College 
strong historical instinct, high lit- city, Kan.; John Aiken, Moran;| f Clothing and Textiles, effective duties that he might accept active ser- 
erary ability and a veritable passion . David E. Bogart, Beverly; Harry J September 1, to succeed Mrs. Sarah vice in the United States army; effec- 



tor accuracy. No other person could Brenner Jr., Havensville; Lyle Engle, 
possibly be so well qualified to write I Abilene; Robert Flipse, Oakley; Ger- 
a history of the oldest state college | a id Goetsch, Sabetha; William D. 
in Kansas, to which he has devoted a Hadley, Alton; Richard M. Keith, 

Burlington; John McCall, Lebanon; 

William Phillips, Walton; Harry E. 

Shank, Bazine; John H. Tasker Jr., 



long and useful life." 

Roberts Writes on Forging* 



Agricultural Engineering, publica- j Caney; Glenn S. Thomas, Medicine 
tion of the American Society of Agri- Lodge; and Arthur N. Tunison, 
cultural Engineers, this month con- j Olathe. 

tains an article by June Roberts, in- The $200 Sophomore Scholarship 
structor in agricultural engineering j award was granted to Paul Kelley, 
at Kansas State College, on "Flow | Solomon, a member of last year's 



Lines in Farm Machine Forgings." 
The article explains the nature and 
importance of forging and points out 
the influence of flow lines on strength. 
Examples of good and poor flow-line 
control are given. 



group of 15 freshmen. The award 
was made on the basis of Kelley's 
scholastic record, plus his extracur- 
ricular activities, in competition with 
other Sears freshmen at Kansas State 
College. 



Sweet Carston, resigned. tive the same date, Frank J. McCor- j 

Miss Inez M. Conley was appointed mick of the same department was 
instructor in the Department of Eco- promoted to succeed Mr. Taylor, and 
nomics and Sociology, effective Sep- Paul N. Gustafson was appointed to 
tember 1, during the sabbatical leave succeed Mr. McCormick. 
of absence of Prof. H. M. Stewart. Millard A. Troxell was appointed 

John D. McNeal was appointed part-time graduate assistant in the 
part-time graduate assistant in geol- Department of Machine Design, effec- 
ogy, effective September 1. i tive September 1. 

Raymond J. Doll, instructor in ag- Eugene Wasserman was appointed 
ricultural economics, was granted instructor in the Department of Ar- 
leave of absence from September 1 chitecture, effective September 1, to 
to June 30, 1941, for the purpose of succeed Eugene J. Mackey, promoted, 
taking graduate work at the Univer- Charles Friede was appointed part- 
sity of Minnesota; during Mr. Doll's time graduate assistant in the De- 
leave, Henry J. Meenen has been em- partment of Chemistry, effective 
ployed as instructor in agricultural | September 1, to succeed Sam Long, 
economics, his appointment to be ef- j resigned, 
fective September 1. (Continued on last page) 



I'rou'i-mii Will Include tiiimes, Diiiive 
and Auditorium StmitH 

The date for the annual college 
mixer, first all-school entertainment 
of the current school year, has been 
set for Friday, September 27. 

The mixer, sponsored jointly by 
the YMCA, YWCA and the Student 
Council, will include a variety of 
games in the quadrangle north of 
Nichols Gymnasium, a program in the 
College Auditorium and a dance in 
Nichols Gymnasium. 

The arrangements committee in- 
cludes Ralph R. Lashbrook, associate 
professor in the Department of In- 
dustrial Journalism and Printing, 
chairman; Barney Limes, La Harpe, 
YMCA representative; Shirley Mar- 
low, Manhattan, YWCA representa- 
tive; and Fred Eyestone, Wichita, 
Student Council representative. 
♦ 
Hundred Frosh Report 

Approximately 100 freshman foot- 
ball candidates reported for practice 
at Kansas State College this week. 
Don Crumbaker, all-Big Six end on 
the Wildcat squad last fall, is the new 
head freshman coach. Assisting him 
is Ray Ellis, former Kansas State end. 



The KANSAS INDUSTRIALIST 

Established April 24, 1876 



R. I. Thackbiy Editor 

.unk Rockwbll, Ralph Lashbrook, 

Hilliir Kbibohbaum . . . Associate Editors 

KiKNir Pobd Alumni Editor 



elder Mr. Marlatt's name should have 
been Washington Marlatt. The In- 
dustrialist wishes to correct this 
error. 



Published weekly during the college year by 
the Kansas State Collesre of Agriculture and 
Applied Science, Manhattan. Kansas. 

Except for contributions from officers of the 
college and membersof the faculty, the articles 
in Thi Kansas Industrialist are written by 
students in the department of industrial jour- 
nalism and printing, which also does the me- 
chanical work. 

The price of The Kansas Industrialist is 
S3 a year, payable in advance. 



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as second-class matter October 27. 1918. Act 
Of July 16. 1894. 



Make checks and drafts payable to the K. 
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cluded. 




WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1940 



YOUTH AND THE PRESENT CRISIS 

Those who are by nature inclined 
to take the dark view find ample ma- 
terial in the present world crisis upon 
which their fears may feed. In times 
so sadly out of joint, pessimism seems 
even to the natural optimist as but 
the obvious refuge for those anxious 
to keep their morale from being fur- 
ther shattered by the blows of events 
abroad. 

But, as if the world did not con- 
tain enough warrant for gloom, there 
are those who seem to enjoy the 
manufacture of phantasies with which 
to frighten themselves and their 
friends. 

One of these phantasies which is 
having a current vogue is that of the 
"self-centeredness and moral decay 
of the younger generation." This, in- 
deed, is no new complaint but one 
which has existed as long as there 
have been an older generation and 
a younger generation. The elders of 
the tribe have always indulged in 
head-shaking over the manners and 
the morals of its younger members, 
and youth has been inclined to regard 
this head-shaking as an unpleasant 
but apparently unavoidable phenome- 
non affecting otherwise reasonable 

folk. 

In time of crisis, however, the dif- 
ferences which age and temperament 
create are reinforced by the feeling 
of insecurity. Youth's natural ques- 
tioning of standards and values seems 
not merely a passing and, in balance, 
desirable phase of life, but evidence 
of a coming collapse in the bases of 

society. 

Reluctance to be diverted from a 
set plan for the establishment of a 
home and the following of a career 
until convinced that a real necessity 
exists for the sacrifice becomes selfish- 1 
ness or worse. Those who but a few | 
months ago berated youth for not 
being purposeful become alarmed | 
that youth is not easily diverted from 
its purpose. 

The generation now becoming ma- , 
ture was taught by its elders that 
wars settle nothing, accomplish noth- 
ing, that we were led into the last 
one by appeals to our emotions, that 
they should "beware." Today, many 
of those who held that view no longer 
hold it, and because young people 
question their new viewpoint, they, 
feel that youth no longer is unselfish, 
as it was when they were young. 

College people of the older genera- 1 
Hon are fortunate, however, because 
they come into direct contact with 
youth They know that the young 
people of today are as sincere, ideal- 
istic and unselfish as youth always 
has been, and somewhat more intel- 
ligently aware of the choices that 
confront them. 

The "older generation of this 
country does not need to worry about 
the stuff of which its youth is made. 
The way to find that out is to become 
reacquainted with young people. The 
word "reacquainted" is used advised- 
ly Those who have not gotten out 
of touch with youth do not need such 
reassurance. 

♦ 

CORRECTION 

In the item published in The In- 
„, STH.A..1ST of July 31 regarding the 
gift of the "Top-of-the-World" to the 
College by C. L. and AbbyL. Marlatt 
as a memorial to their father, the 



BOOKS 

A Saga of Pioneering 

"Days of My Life." By Flo V. Men- 
ninger. Richard R. Smith, New York. 
1940. 310 pages. $2.50. 

Those all too numerous persons 
who regard the present times as un- 
precedentedly difficult, particularly 
for young people, would do well to 
read and ponder this autobiography 
of the wife of a prominent Topeka 
physician. It is an intimate and 
charming story of a pioneering life 
begun in Dickinson, Clay, Jackson 
and Shawnee counties in Kansas, and 
reaching a climax at the celebration 
of Doctor and Mrs. Menninger's 50th 
wedding anniversary at their subur- 
ban home near Topeka in 1935. A 
family history as well as a personal 
one, the story is a veritable saga of 
pioneering — in farming, teaching and 
homemaking. It was written partly 
in 1899, partly in 1921 and partly in 
1939. 

The book is distinguished for its 
high spiritual quality. It demon- 
strates repeatedly the triumph of 
faith, hope, intelligence and hard 
work over obstacles that subject the 
human spirit to tests of extreme se- 
verity. The author and the members 
of her family met and survived these 
tests before it became fashionable to 
shift individual burdens to govern- 
ment. Their mode of life was strenu- 
ous and zestful. Like the ancient 
Greek heroes "they prayed and strait- 
way answered their own prayers." 
The author seems to be an extraordi- 
narily happy person who has earned 
her happiness by her own efforts. 

Mrs. Menninger was for 14 years 
a teacher in Kansas schools and for 
much longer a teacher of church 
classes. Her story of her experiences 
of teaching and studying in rural 
schools in Dickinson county and in 
city schools in Clay Center, Holton 
and Topeka during the last quarter of 
the 19th century has great historical 
interest and value. Whether she was 
pioneering in awakening an interest 
in good literature among underprivi- 
leged grade school children or in de- 
vising new methods of Bible study for 
adults in church school classes, she 
was an inspiring and effective teacher. 
Her description of the efforts of 
the family of her widowed mother to 
transplant to the Kansas prairies in 
the '70's and '80's the life habits and 
agricultural practices of the Penn- 
sylvania countryside is highly illu- 
minating. These habits and practices 
were based on an intense love of the 
land, family self-sufficiency, unremit- 
ting toil and boundless faith and 
hope. The zest and enthusiasm with 
which she and her associates pro- 
ceeded with their enterprises are in- 
spiring and beautiful. 

The philosophy that seems to have 
dominated the author's life is a phi- 
losophy of faith, hope, self-reliance 
and hard work. The fact that such a 
philosophy is sound and practical, 
that persistent application of it will 
bring satisfying rewards, both mate- 
rial and spiritual, is impressively 
demonstrated in this narrative. For 
young persons wishing to develop 
lives of usefulness, interest and 
beauty — and willing to pay the price 
— this book is an inspiration. 

— F. D. Farrell. 



By S. A. NOCK 
Vice-President, Kansas State College 
Some of our social critics, regard- 
ing the dreadful employment of me- 
chanics in warfare, demand a mora- 
torium on scientific inquiry. If it 
were not for such activity, they say, 
the horrors of modern warfare would 
not exist. Man's power to devise ma- 
chines has passed his ability to use 
them intelligently; therefore he 
should stop devising machines. A 
moratorium on science will, they in- 
sist, give man a chance to catch up 
with himself before he destroys him- 
self. 

Perhaps these critics do not under- 
stand the nature of scientific endeav- 
or. The scientist is an inquirer: he 
investigates fact in the light of hy- 
pothesis. In the course of his investi- 
gation he does, it is true, make many 
discoveries which enable men to ruin 
themselves and all that is theirs. On 
the other hand, he makes discoveries 
that eliminate pestilences, that beau- 
' tify living, and that make it possible 
I for such men as the critics to make 
themselves heard. Yet his contribu- 
i tion is method, not machines. 

There is no way for a scientific in- 

i vestigator to know what is going to 

come, in the long run, of his investi- 

i gation. Perhaps nothing will come 

i of it ; perhaps cure of pneumonia or 

prevention of diphtheria will come of 

it; perhaps contrivances will come of 

it that will prevent men and women 

getting old and wearing out early in 

life. What is done with the results 

of the scientist's inquiry depends on 

the intelligence of mankind — which 

the inquiries of scientists have shown 

ways of improving. 



Contrary to the preachments of 
some, wars have always been just as 
terrible as warriors have been able 
to make them: a gentle and lovely 
war would be sheer waste of time. 
Those who crave power do not hesi- 
tate to use violence when they make 
war; and others do not make war. 
The scientist has been able to improve 
society a little: he is not responsible 
for the senseless destruction of what 
is good in life, any more than he is 
responsible for auto accidents when 
drunken fools drive. 

Newspapers, autos, radios, air- 
planes and countless other familiar 
things result from scientific inquiry. 
So do our sanitary arrangements, our 
lights, and our heating. But what 
improves our daily life may be per- 
verted to destroy us. It is up to us, 
not to blame the scientist who has I 
made a better life possible, but to 
Stop perverting our forces. 

The whole discussion is academic, 
of course; and those who insist on a 
moratorium on science must know it. j 
Perhaps they want to save themselves 
the trouble of thinking; perhaps they 
want to cover up the true state of 
affairs. Whatever may be back of 
their activity, they cannot stop in- 
quiry till the last man is done in. 

If they really want to work out 
their plan of salvation, by the way, 
they might as well be fundamentally 
thorough. Instead of shouting male- 
diction at the results of modern sci- 
entific thought, and at thinking it- 
self, they might confine themselves 
to one activity: they might abolish 
the wheel. That would be successful 
beyond their fondest dreams! 



FIFTY YEARS AGO 
E. H. Snyder, '88, became publish- 
er of the Chief, a newspaper published 
at Highlands, a suburb of Denver. 

Mrs. Kedzie, after spending several 
weeks with relatives in Maine, visited 
at the Michigan Agricultural college. 
Miss Phoebe Haines, '83, was 
elected to the chair of industrial 
drawing in the Agricultural College 
of New Mexico, at Las Cruces. 



T 



SIXTY YEARS AGO 

Professor Ward returned from his 
vacation in Colorado. 

N. A. Richardson, valedictorian of 
the class of '80, was elected principal 
of the Longton city schools. 

Professor Failyer returned from 
the Michigan Agricultural college 
where he pursued chemical studies 
requiring an extensive laboratory. 

The following officers were elected 
at the first meeting of the Webster 
society: Warren Knaus, president; 
W. S. Myers, vice president; S. C. 
Mason, secretary; George F. Thomp- 
son, recording secretary; E. V. Cripps, 
treasurer; J. C. Allen, librarian; M. 
A. Reeve, marshal. 



KANSAS POETRY 

Robert Conover, Editor 



lit r:il.lrv of the Ilnnge 

"Hot Irons." By Oren Arnold and 
John P. Hale. The Macmillan Company. 
New York. 1940. $2.50. 



Three years ago while driving from 
Tucson to Phoenix, Ariz., I noticed 
that a graduate of Kansas State Col- 
lege was listed as living in Mesa — 
John P. Hale, '25. Mr. Hale showed 
me his world famous collection of 
cattle-branding irons. At that time, 
he was receiving occasional invita- 
tions to speak to Rotary Clubs, school 
assemblies and conventions of cattle- 
men. Since that time John has been 
invited to New York- City to speak on 
the Hobby Lobby radio program. His 
reputation as a speaker has spread 
and now he is co-author of "Hot 
Irons." 

After admiring several branding 
irons such as one from the Prince 
of Wales' ranch in Canada, and the 
Hearst ranch in Mexico, I innocently 
asked John how he was able to get 
some of the rare specimens in his col- 
lection. He told me that most of them 
had been given to him. Occasionally 
a friendship could be established with 
the ranch foreman by presenting him 
a quart of whiskey. 

In "Hot Irons," Oren Arnold and 



John Hale present a valuable narra- 
tive of the beef cattle industry. They 
rightfully assume that the nearest ap- 
proach to an aristocracy in America 
has been the cattlemen of the west. 
They refer to the knights of the sad- 
dle with their family crest or cattle 
brands. Cattle branding, they say, is 
necessary for identification purposes. 
The brand itself is an expression of 
family pride and ownership of prop- 
erty. By common consent the death 
i penalty is considered proper for any- 
1 one caught tampering with cattle 
brands. 

"Hot Irons" is not a Hollywood 
version of cowboy life. It is admitted 
that burning flesh under the hot 
iron stinks like sin. Branding cattle 
beneath a desert sun, the authors 
write, is a dirty, sweaty job. They 
point out that when a bull calf is 
thrown he may be castrated, vacci- 
i nated, dehorned, and branded. 

"Hot Irons" is more than an inter- 
esting story for the young rancher. 
The book reflects the school master 
in its clear detail of how, when, and 
why to brand cattle. 

Of special interest to Kansas State 
College alumni is a reference to a j 
young rancher getting his start in 
Arizona — Dr. F. F. Schmidt, '32. 
Fred is a brother to State Senator 
William J. Schmidt of Junction City. 
"Hot Irons" tells of Fred as a veteri- 
narian, now in charge of cattle dip- 
ping at Douglas. Occasionally an ani- 
mal breaks a leg in the dipping vat. 
Fred buys the animal for a very small 
sum, fits the broken leg out with a 
special crutch he has designed and 
hauls the animal to his ranch. In 60 
days, the animal is fully recovered 
and is carrying the Fred Schmidt 
brand — a crutch. 

"Hot Irons" contains many humor- 
ous cowboy stories, and a few poems. 
For example, an old cowboy becomes 
enmeshed in the coils of matrimony. 
At the church he got his first lesson 
as to who would be boss in his family, 
i A guest wrote the following poem: 
A wedding is the greatest place 
For folks to go and learn. 
He thought that she was his'n 
But he found that he was her'n. 
Lovers of the west — the range in 
particular — will be most grateful to 
Oren Arnold and John Hale for mak- 
ing "Hot Irons" a delightful histori- 
cal record of life on the range as told 
and lived around campfires at cattle- 
branding time. — Kenney L. Ford. 



Miss Alice T. Marston, '24, was 
teaching bacteriology, immunity and 
parasitology at the school of medi- 
cine at Boston university. Miss Mar- 
ston also was doing research work. 

M. F. Ahearn, director of athletics, 
presided over the football rules in- 
terpretation meeting of the fifth dis- 
trict in Kansas City. Mr. Ahearn was 
fifth district representative on the 
national football rules committee. 



STRAWBERRY CHAPLET 

By Kenneth Porter 

Parting the weeds between the field 

and road 
a gleam to leftward pricked me with 

its goad. 
Idly I turned to mark what it might 

be — 
a broken jug, a bleaching stub of tree, 
a lime-splashed slab from a forgotten 

wall?— 
I saw instead a gleaming coronal: 
strawberry-blossoms, ivory flecked with 

gold, 
clustering thickly on the deep black 

mould, 
and in their midst — O still more bright- 
ly — shone 
peaceful complete the slender skeleton 
of a small hound — as purged from taint 

each bone 
as if it were a sun-washed river-stone. 



TWENTY YEARS AGO 
W. M. Jardine, president of Kansas 
State College, was elected vice presi- 
dent of the National Educational as- 
sociation at its convention which was 
held in Salt Lake City in July. In at- 
tendance at the meeting were 4 5 dele- 
gates from Kansas. 

Seven members of the College fac- 
ulty were listed in the 1920-21 
"Who's Who in America." The col- 
lege professors and officials listed 
were: Dr. W. M. Jardine, Dr. J. T. 
Willard, E. L. Holton, Dr. Helen 
Bishop Thompson, J. W. Searson, 
Albert Dickens and Nelson Antrim 
Crawford. 

R. A. Seaton, dean of the Division 
of Engineering, was appointed vice 
chairman for the state of Kansas and 
to membership on the executive com- 
mittee of the mid-continent section 
of the American Society of Mechani- 
cal Engineers. He also was appointed 
a member of the paper committee of 
this section of the society. 



Kenneth Porter, a native of Sterling 
and an instructor in history at Vassar 

1 college, Poughkeepsie, N. Y„ is the 
author of a collection of poems, "The 

' High Plains." Poems by him have ap- 
peared in leading newspapers, maga- 
zines and anthologies. This year he 
was awarded the Golden Rose award 

1 of the New England Poetry society. 



THIRTY YEARS AGO 
Prof. George A. Dean left on a 
three-week trip through the Eastern 
states where he planned to study the 
grain-shipping methods in Chicago, 
Buffalo, New York, Philadelphia and 
other Eastern cities. 

H. M. Cottrell, '84, commissioner 
of agriculture for the Chicago, Rock 
Island and Pacific railroad, spent a 
few days in Manhattan. He was on a 
trip through 13 states arranging his 
work with the several boards of agri- 
cultural and experiment stations. 

Miss Margaret Haggart, '05, was 
appointed to an instructorship in die- 
tetics in the hospital department of 
Johns Hopkins university. She taught 
in the domestic science department of 
the New Mexico Agricultural college 
during the first four years after her 
graduation from this College. 



m OLDER DAYS 

TEN YEARS AGO 
j. W. C. Williams and Mabel 
(Root) Williams, '17, formerly of, 
Portland, Ore., accepted positions in 
the federal census bureau, Washing- 
ton, D. C. 



FORTY EARS AGO 
William Anderson, '98, spent the 
summer studying mathematics and 
physics at Chicago university. 

Miss Grace Secrest, '96, accepted 
a position as supervisor of sewing in 
the Akron schools, Akron, Ohio. 

R. E. Eastman, '00, left for Cor- 
nell university, Ithaca, N. Y., where 
he planned to make a special study 



H. W. Davis 

HOW'S YOUR INTELLIGENCE? 

Most of the intelligence quizzes I 
see floating around are far and away 
too easy, if you've been reading the 
sport page and a Hollywooden maga- 
zine. Here is one that isn't, if I'm 
any judge. If you average 10 per 
cent or better, you're a college presi- 
dent, or worse. 

1. What on earth does Germany 
want? 

2. What else? 

3. What will Italy get? 

4. When will Russia take out chips 
in the gamble? 

5. Will the U. S. A. be led into war 
by Willkie, Roosevelt or Oscar Vitt? 

6. What is France? 

7. Would England swap Canada 
for our Honolulu fleet? 

8. What is a bottleneck? 

9. Is big business trying to get us 
into war, slow up defense, make a 
little money for the stockholders, em- 
barrass Roosevelt (fawncy that!) or 
arrange a deal with Hitler? 

10. What is little business (if any) 
doing (if anything)? 

11. Do educators have any notion 
about what they are educating us for? 

12. How many congressmen con- 
sider immediate, adequate defense 
(or anything) more important than 
reelection? 

13. What will our national debt 
be on January 1, 1944? What will 
we do then, poor thing? 

14. Will voluntary enlistment 
make conscription a joke? (Candi- 
dates for office from justice-of-peace 
up may skip this one.) 

15. How would the Panama Canal 
Zone do as the seat of the U. D. W. 
H.? (Never heard of it? Neither have 
I— yet. ) 

16. When will the last (or first) 
of our 50,000 airplanes be delivered? 

17. Unemployment plus conscrip- 
tion equals what? And why not? 

18. Where is Rumania? 

19. Who decides how far short of 
war a nation is? 

20. How much good will our two- 
ocean navy do by 1946, if there is a 
1946? 






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AMONG THE 
ALUMNI 



The golden wedding anniversary of 
Hattie (Gale) Sanders, '89, and W. 
H. Sanders, '90, Inverness, Fla., was 
•celebrated at the home of their daugh- 
ter, Dorothy (Sanders) Roush, '26, 
and Eber Roush, '26, at Garden City, 
Kan. Members of the Sanders family 
in Garden City for the dinner were: 
Mr. and Mrs. Sanders, Mr. and Mrs. 
Eber Roush, E. G. Sanders, '13, and 
Mrs. Sanders, Topeka, and Mrs. Anna 
(Sanders) Poland, '14, Manhattan. 
The couple visited friends at Kansas 
State College during their stay in 
Kansas. Mr. Sanders was formerly 
an associate professor in the Depart- 
ment of Agricultural Engineering. 

John Stingley, B. S. '94, is funeral 
director of the St. Joseph Undertak- 
ing company in St. Joseph, Mo. 

Harriet (Vandivert) Remick, '97, 
still lives in Manhattan where her 
husband is a mathematics professor 
at Kansas State College. 

Clara (Goodrich) McNulty, B. S. 
'03, lives in Stockton. She was princi- 
pal of the high school there for 10 
years and has served as postmistress. 
She traveled in Europe last year. Her 
two hobbies are hand-weaving and 
the study of the Spanish language. 

Verda (Murphy) Hudson, B. S. '06, 
Hill City, is the director of social wel- 
fare in Graham county. 

E. F. and Emma (Lee) Kubin, D. 
V. M. '09 and B. S. '10, are located 
at McPherson, where Doctor Kubin is 
a practicing veterinarian. 

Mary (Williams) Wells, H. E. '12, 
holds the position of director of the 
Stockton school board. 

Grace (Barker) Baker, H. E. '15, 
is a home maker in Wakeeney. Her 
husband, C. H. Baker, is the owner 
of a meat market there and they have 
a daughter, Esther Grace, 15. 

Leslie A. Wilsey, M. E. '16, is a 
salesman with the Fred E. Cooper 
company in Tulsa, Okla. His resi- 
dence is 3137 South Utica. 

S. M. Mitchell, Ag. '18, has a busy 
life this time of year. He is the sec- 
retary of the Kansas State fair which 
is being held at Hutchinson, Septem- 
ber 15-21. 

A card has been received from 
Clyde E. Beckett, C. E. '20, in Bur- 
lingame, Calif. He is employed as a 
service engineer for Quigley Com- 
pany, Inc., of New York. He was 
married in 19 22 to Dorothy Jeffrey, 
who graduated from Northwestern 
university in 19 20. 

George E. Starkey, Ag. '22, is in- 
structor in sciences at the Syracuse 
high school. His wife is the former 
Mary Helen Gilbert, H. E. '21. 

Alfred Paden, Ag. '23, is doing ser- 
vice work with the Federal Livestock 
Market News. Until recently his work 
has been in Cincinnati, but now his 
work is in Indianapolis. 

G. D. Lingelbach, E. E. '24, is em- 
ployed by the American Electric com- 
pany at St. Joseph, Mo. Since he 
works as a salesman, he lives in Man- 
hattan and does his work in this dis- 
trict. His sons are Dee, 15, and 
Clyde, 14. 

W. W. Frudden, Ar. E. '25, is now 
living in Ackley, Iowa. He is a sales- 
man for the Vincent Clay Products 
Company which has its headquarters 
in Fort Dodge. 

Mary Dillon Russell, M. '26, is in 
Doniphan, Mo. In addition to teach- 
ing in the schools there, she is county 
superintendent. 

Ralph E. Brown, C. E. '27, is a 
draftsman with Paulette and Wilson 
company in Salina. His two children 
are Richard, 8. and Barbara, 3. His 
residence is 610 South Front street. 

Harry L. Hazzard, M. E. '28, is a 
development engineer now working 
on air-cooled engines, carburetors and 
magnetos. Mrs. Hazzard is the for- 
mer Pauline Meeker, f. s. '28, and 
their home is at 2966 North Forty- 
First street in Milwaukee. 

V. H. Harwood, C. E. '29, is a civil 
engineer with the Kansas State High- 
way commission and is stationed at 
Minneapolis. He formerly lived in 
Russell. 

Karl Ernst, E. E. '30, is employed 
by the Southwestern Bell Telephone 
company as a toll engineer. His chil- 
dren are Jo Ann, 9, and Carol Lee, 5. 
His home is at 1304 West Third, 
Abilene. 

James W. Taylor, C. '31, is now a 
lawyer in Kansas City, Mo. His resi- 



dence address is 4 809 Roanoke park- 
way. 

In addition to the general veteri- 
nary practice which he has been doing 
since graduation, W. L. Jones, D. V. 
M. '32, has become the owner of a 
dog and cat hospital at 307 Linn 
street, Leavenworth. Mrs. Jones is 
the former Leone Pacey, G. S. '32. 
They have three sons, Ramon, 5; Sid- 
ney, 3; and Russell, 2. 

Floyde N. Kennedy, Ar. E. '33, re- 
cently notified the College Alumni 
office of his marriage in 1937 to Mar- 
garetta Bettis, a 1932 graduate of 
Wichita university. The couple are 
living at 626 South Ash, Wichita. Mr. 
I Kennedy is an engineer with the 
I Beech Aircraft corporation in Wich- 
I ita. 

Virgil T. Chapman, C. E. '34, has 
i been county engineer in Trego county 
i since 1937. He has one daughter, 
i Bonnie Bell, 4. 

Roland F. Turner, G. S. '35, and 

| Marion (Greene) Turner, f. s., are 

■ now in Pratt, where Mr. Turner is 

! bookkeeper for the Pratt Implement 

company. 

Wilbur Creighton, *36, visited in 
| the alumni office on July 2. He has 
been working at the Puget Sound 
navy yard in Bremerton, Wash., for 
the past year as a naval architect. He 
reported that the company has prac- 
tically doubled in size since he has 
gone into the work. He has been on 
a five weeks' vacation during which 
he visited the New York world's fair 
and many other interesting places. 

Leslie (Fitz) Lovering, '37, is now 
employed as organization clerk in the 
personnel department with Montgom- 
ery Ward and company, Chicago. Her 
residence address is 6839 Knox av- 
enue, Lincolnwood, 111. 

Neils K. Anderson, '38, is em- 
ployed with the Kansas Electric Pow- 
er company, Leavenworth. His wife, 
Edith (Hewitt) Anderson, to whom 
he was married last August plans to 
receive her degree from the College 
in the spring of 1941. 

Thelma Holuba, '39, is employed 
on the Kingman Leader-Courier as 
society editor. Before obtaining this 
position, she was employed as stenog- 
rapher in the Department of Agron- 
omy at the College. 

Edward Leland, '39, who worked 
J toward his master's degree in agricul- 
tural economics here last year, re- 
ported for work July 25 with the Bu- 
reau of Census in Washington, D. C. 

William Ljungdahl, '40, has ac- 
: cepted a graduate assistantship at 
| Michigan State college, East Lansing, 
| Mich., in the department of animal 
, husbandry. For two years, he will be 
I a half-time instructor in the meats 
' laboratory. While here, he was a 
member of the meats and livestock 
judging teams. 

♦ 

BIRTHS 



LOOKING AROUND 

KENNEY L FORD 



Establish Loan Fund 

The Kansas State Horticultural so- 
ciety has established a unit of $500 
in the alumni loan fund. Majors in 
horticulture and sons or daughters 
of horticulturists receive preference 
from this fund. 



Buffalo Alumni Meet 

Ursula S. Senn, H. E. '21, 288 Lin- 
wood avenue, Buffalo, N. Y., enter- 
tained with a buffet supper for Kan- 
sas State College graduates June 30. 
Those present included Ruth (Gillis) 
Vaughan, '21, and Leonard Vaughan; 
Dr. Fredrick Emery, '23, and Lena 
(Moore) Emery, '25; Mr. and Mrs. 
Eugene P. Farrell, '35; Mr. and Mrs. 
Warren F. Kellar; Lynne Sandborn, 
'10; and Mary (Vanderveer) Cush- 
man, '18. 



Meetings for Adams 

Several alumni get-acquainted 
meetings for Hobbs Adams, new Col- 
lege head football coach, were held 
during August. 

Local alumni arranged the meet- 
ings and good crowds attended. 
Everyone seemed to enjoy meeting 
and hearing the new coach, according 
to reports to the College Alumni 
office. 

Meetings were held at Salina, 
Hutchinson, Abilene, Russell, Hays, 
Great Bend, Pratt, Dodge City, Gar- 
den City, Scott City, Colby, Oberlin 
and Concordia. 



art) Johnson, '28, and daughter, 
Randi, 151 Prospect avenue, Mt. Ver- 
non, N. Y. ; L. E. Steiner, Mary 
(Brandly) Steiner, '26, Mary Jo, 
Margaret and Katherine, 219 Eagle- 
croft road, Westfleld, N. J.; Lois Fail- 
yer, '07, Tudor City, 25 Prospect 
place, New York City; Ralph W. 
Sherman, '24, Mrs. Sherman, Emilie, 
Ralph, Jr., and Roger, 91 Morse av- 
enue, Bloomfleld, N. J.; and Gladys 
Winegar, '27, 115 Ludlow place, 
Westfleld, N. J. 

— *• — 

MARRIAGES 



RECENT HAPPENINGS 
ON THE HILL 



LEHMANN— SCHAFER 
The marriage of Janice Lehmann, 
'40, Manhattan, to Dr. LeRoy Schafer, 
Ag. '38 and D. V. M. '40, Wichita, 
was announced June 2. The marriage 
took place October 8, 1939, at Ober- 
lin. Doctor and Mrs. Schafer will live 
at Cape Girardeau, Mo. 



Pass 1,000 Mark 

The goal of 1,000 paid-up life 
members in the Kansas State College 
Alumni association has been reached 
and passed. 

The following have completed their 
payments since May 15: 

May (Umberger) Long, '07, San 
Jose, Costa Rica; Earle W. Frost, '20, 
Kansas City, Mo.; Russell H. Gripp, 
'38, Hiawatha; Charles G. Dobrovol- 
ny, M. S. '33, Durham, N. H.; LeRoy 
Culbertson, '39, Bartlesville, Okla.; 
Dwight S. Tolle, '39, Osborne; Lau- 
rence Daniels, '33, Stockton; J. Ed- 
ward Taylor, '30, Ulysses; Raymoi.d 
G. Frye, '30, South Haven; Charles 
W. Pence, '38, Seneca; Forrest O. 
Cox, '34, St. Joseph, Mo.; Louis P. 
Reitz, '30, K. S. C, Manhattan; Caro- 
lyn (Brandesky) Massey, '29, Casey- 
ville, 111.; Leon E. Wenger, '36, Hays; 
Kermit V. Engle, '31, Lakin; Louis 
B. Bender, '04, Washington, D. C.J 
Avis C. Hall, '38, Anthony; Oliver 
Dilsaver, f. s. '31, Smith Center; Max 
Burk, '35, Manhattan; and L. Henry 
Schweiter, '39, Columbia, Mo. 



JOHNSTONE— CRANDELL 
Ella Gertrude Johnstone, '37, Wa- 
mego, became the bride of C. Francis 
Crandell, '3 5, Falls City, Neb., June 
2 at St. Luke's Episcopal church in 
Wamego. Mrs. Crandell was a mem- 
ber of Phi Kappa Phi, Mu Phi Epsilon, 
Phi Alpha Mu and Dynamis. Mr. 
Crandell received his master's degree 
in electrical engineering in 1938. The 
couple will live in Kansas City, Mo., 
where Mr. Crandell is an engineer 
with the Southwestern Bell Telephone 
company. 



The Independent Student Union, 
independent social organization, has 
moved into a new and larger house 
on Bluemont. A bigger and better 
house provides increased space for 
dancing and other activities. 



The first fall issue of Kickapoo, 
campus humor and picture magazine, 
will appear on the campus September 
27. Victor Blanks, Manhattan, has 
been selected editor and Paul De- 
Weese, Cunningham, has been named 
business manager. 



Both new and old students have 
to learn the numbers of their class- 
rooms this year. According to the 
new system of numbering rooms, 
basement rooms run from 1 to 99, 
the first floor from 100 to 199, the 
second floor 200 to 299 and the third 
floor 300 to 399. 



ALSOP— CASE 
Annette Alsop, '38, Manhattan, and 
Arthur Case, '37, Nickerson, were 
married June 6 at the home of Dean 
and Mrs. J. E. Ackert. After the cere- 
mony, the guests were received in the 
dining room, where Mrs. R. K. Na- 
bours, Mrs. R. W. Babcock, Miss Mar- 
garet Alsop and Miss Virginia Case 
assisted. The couple will be at home 
at 1409 Laramie. Both received their 
bachelor's and master's degrees in 
the Department of Zoology. They re- 
ceived their master's degrees only this 
spring. 



Roy Fisher, first semester editor of 
The Collegian last year, was selected 
to receive the Capper award for 1940. 
His name has been engraved on the 
silver plaque presented to the Depart- 
ment of Industrial Journalism and 
Printing by Sen. Arthur Capper. 
Fisher is a reporter on the Hastings, 
Neb., Daily Tribune. 



Sixty students of the Departments 
of Animal Husbandry and Dairy Hus- 
bandry judged all types of livestock 
exhibited at the Kansas State Free 
fair in Topeka last week as a part of 
their class study. The advanced judg- 
ing class and the form and function 
class of the Department of Animal 
Husbandry competed for prizes. 



C. E. Elling, '32, and Mrs. Elling 
of Scott City have named their 
daughter, born June 11, Karen Sue. 



Vein Morris, '40, and Mrs. Mor- 
ris, Manhattan, are parents of a son 
born July 16 at St. Mary hospital in 
Manhattan. He has been named Don 
Phillip. 



Karleen Rae is the name given to 
the daughter of Mary Frances (Wag- 
ner) Lindberg, '29, and H. C. Lind- 
berg, '29, Long Island, N. Y. Her 
birthday was July 2. 



Eva (Morrison) Hunter, f. s., and 
James W. Hunter, '33, Manhattan, 
are the parents of a daughter born 
May 30 at the St. Mary hospital in 
Manhattan. She has been named 
Sarah Montez. 



To Grace (Burson) Shoemaker, '37, 
and Karl Shoemaker, '36, Manhattan, 
a daughter, Karlyn Sue, was born on 
May 19 at the St. Mary hospital. Mr. 
Shoemaker is an extension specialist 
on the use of land at the College. 



Mary Louise is the name that 
1 Helen (Weygandt) Celluci, '34, and 
! Joe L. Celluci have given to their 
: daughter. She was born May 2. The 
' couple's home is in Philadelphia, 
where Mr. Celluci is with a construc- 
tion company. 



Jo Elizabeth (Miller) Henderson, 
'36, and Dr. Philip A. Henderson, 
West Lafayette, Ind., announce the 
birth of twins, Larry Scott and Sigrid 
Elizabeth, on June 20. Doctor Hen- 
derson is a graduate of the University 
of Nebraska and received his Ph. D. 
from Cornell university in 1939. 



New York Alumni Picnic 

Favored by fair, cool weather and 
a lack of mosquitoes, members of the 
New York City alumni group held 
their annual summer picnic on the 
spacious grounds of Ina (Turner) 
Bruce, '89, on the North Shrewsbury 
river at Red Bank, N. J., on July 13. 
This is the second summer that the 
group has gathered at this site. 

One of the annual features for the 
children was repeated in the form of 
canoe rides for the children given by 
Mrs. Bruce's son, Robert. A high tide 
in the river made excellent bathing. 

Contributing to the friendly atmos- 
phere was the pot luck supper. Each 
family brought its own food but it 
was all placed on a central table from 
which the group ate cafeteria style. 
Mary Nicolay Deal was chairman of 
the refreshments committee. One of 
the members said that the only things 
missing to give it the atmosphere of 
a real Kansas picnic were fried chick- 
en and freshly baked cherry pie. 

Walter S. Deal, '16, presided dur- 
ing the election of officers. Francis 
E. Johnson, '29, acting for the nomi- 
nating committee, recommended re- 
election of the previous year's officers. 
Officers re-elected for the coming year 
were: president, Ralph W. Sherman, 
'24; vice president, Keith E. Kinyon, 
'17; secretary-treasurer, Mary Brand- 
ly Steiner, '26. 

Thirty-six Kansas Staters and 
guests were present. They included 
Orville K. Brubaker, '22, Mrs. Bru- 
baker, and daughter Dorothy, 928 
Field avenue, Plainfleld, N. J.; Lillie 
P. Brandly, '27, 538 Summit avenue, 
Westfleld, N. J.; Walter E. Deal, '16, 
Mary (Nicolay) Deal, f. s. '17, and 
Patricia, 622 Fairmont avenue, West- 
fleld, N. J.; Louis R. Parkerson, '16, 
Mrs. Parkerson and Mary Jean, 48 
Slocum place, Long Branch, N. J.; 
Francis E. Johnson, '29, Edna (Stew- 



CHURCHILL— REID 
The marriage of Marybelle Church- 
ill, I. J. '39, Topeka, and Ervin E. 
Reid, G. S. '40, Manhattan, took place 
July 27 at the First Methodist church 
in Topeka. The bride is a member of 
Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and 
taught last year in the high school 
at Hill City. Mr. Reid was prominent 
in athletics while in college and was 
awarded letters for three years in 
basketball and baseball. This sum- 
mer he has been optionee of the To- 
peka Owls, playing professional base- 
ball in the Florida State league. The 
couple's home will be in Waterville, 
where Mr. Reid is basketball coach 
in the high school. 
•♦■ 

DEATHS 



Eugene Wasserman, instructor in 
the Department of Architecture, 
placed first in the national architec- 
tural contest conducted by the Beaux 
Arts institute of New York City. He 
was awarded the Beaux Arts institute 
Paris award, which entitled him to 
receive one year's study in Paris, 
France. Carol Lewis, '40, placed 
eighth in this competition. 



A Roman Twister, an informal 
dance for independent students, last 
week inaugurated the series of Ro- 
man activities for this fall. A mem- 
bership campaign ended with the 
dance, according to Cam Logan, 
Paola, Roman president. The group 
hopes to incorporate the 3,000 inde- 
pendent Kansas State College stu- 
dents into its organization. 



HELPER 
Arthur H. Helder, B. S. '04, died 
May 22 at Lapeer, Mich., from in- 
juries received in an automobile ac- 
cident. He was formerly a resident 
of Manhattan, where he taught land- 
scape architecture at the College. 
Graveside services were held for him 
at the Sunset cemetery here. 



Approximately $43,000 has been 
spent on improvements on the College 
campus. Remodeling and landscap- 
ing were started in the early spring 
and extended throughout the sum- 
mer. Installation of fluorescent lights 
over two tables in the Library and 
construction of two formal terraces 
on the east side of the Physical Sci- 
ence building are part of the project. 



COLE 
Murray S. Cole, M. E. '02, died 
July 13 after a sudden illness. For 
the past 26 years, his home had been 
in Pocatello, Idaho, where he had 
been employed in the O. S. L. railroad 
shops. He was an active Mason, work- 
ing through all the branches of the 
organization and holding at various 
times the place of grand high priest, 
master and commander. 



Students at the year's first College 
assembly last week heard greetings 
from W. T. Markham, member of the 
Board of Regents, and President F. 
D. Farrell. "When I see facilities for 
only half of the Kansas State College 
students, not including the faculty, I 
see work to be done by the regents," 
said Mr. Markham, as he looked over 
the students packed into the College 
Auditorium. 



HOLMES 
A letter received from Julia 
! Holmes, H. E. '12, tells of the death 
J of her brother, George B. Holmes, B. 
S. '11, of Santa Ana, Calif. He died 
J on June 27 after a six months' illness. 
1 Mr. Holmes was born in Blue Rapids, 
' Kan., in 1888 and attended the Uni- 
j versity of Kansas at Lawrence before 
j coming to Kansas State College. 
| While in school here he was affiliated 
j with Tau Omega Sigma (now Beta) 
! and took an active part in journalis- 
j tic work and amateur theatricals. He 
! taught one year at Yates Center, and 
then went to California where he 
taught at Azusa, Pasadena and Vi- 
salia. He was with the Veterans* 
bureau at San Diego for a number of 
years prior to his employment by the 
Santa Ana school system in 1926. He 
was head of the commerce depart- 
ment of the Santa Ana Junior college 
at the time of his death. 



Kansas State College students pos- 
sess a total buying power of $2,066,- 
309, recently published figures of a 
Collegian survey reveal. The average 
student spends $530.18 during the 
school year. A survey conducted by 

; the business staff of The Collegian 
showed that men pay $172.09 for 
food, while women spend $175.45. 
About 10 per cent of the entire stu- 
dent body — 250 men and 150 women 

i — were interviewed in the survey. 



Two former students of Kansas 
State College were in auto accidents 
early this month. Donald Thomas, 
who would have been a senior in vet- 
erinary medicine and vice-president 
of Sigma Nu fraternity, was one of 
four persons fatally injured in a mo- 
tor car crash near Tucumcari, N. M. 
Lyle Cox, assistant editor of the 
Kansas State Engineer, was injured 
seriously in an automobile accident 
near Hannibal, Mo. Cox is convalesc- 
ing satisfactorily in a Hannibal hos- 
pital, according to latest reports. 



GREEK ORGANIZATIONS 

PLEDGE 251 STUDENTS 

FRATERNITIES TAKE 14S WHILE 
SORORITIES ADD 108 GIRLS 



I' I 



Delta Delta Delta Was Hljrh with a 

Total of 27 Prospeetlve Members 

as Beta Theta PI lints 

21 Men 

Greek organizations pledged a total 
of 251 students at the close of rush 
week this year, with both sororities 
and fraternities increasing their 
pledge number of last year, when 224 
were pledged. 

Fraternities led, with 18 organiza- 
tions pledging 143 men. This was an 
increase of 17 over last year. Sorori- 
ties pledged 108 girls, an increase of 
10 over the number pledged at the 
end of rush week last year. 

TRI DELTS PLEDGE 27 

Delta Delta Delta sorority was high 
with a total of 27 pledges. Beta 
Theta Pi fraternity led the fraternity 
list with a total of 21 pledges. 

The new pledges, by organizations, 

Alpha Delta Pi— Betty Bloom, 
Hutchinson; Margaret Buzzard, Fort 
Scott; Elizabeth Clarke, Winfleld; 
Glennys Doll, McPherson; Corrine 
Duffy, Manhattan; Margaret Har- 
mon, Kansas City; Mary Lou John- 
ston, Manhattan; Virginia Keas, 
Chanute; Marilyn Kirk, Cottonwood 
Falls; Betty Lou Kirkman, Plain- 
ville; Jane Klingner, Chanute; Mary 
Cay Randall, Marysville; Mary Helen 
Schulz, Sterling. 

Alpha Xi Delta— Connie Black- 1 
burn, Wichita; Margaret Dickhut, 
Scott City; Betty Jean Hale, Manka- 
to- Dorothy Johnstone, Wichita; , 
Mary B. Kelley, Atwood; Ruth Elaine 
Kreuter, Marion; Maxine Myers, 
Junction City; Dorothy Triplett, 
Humboldt; Dorris Mae Kastner, Man- 
hattan. 

CHI O'S GET 14 

Chi Omega— Roberta Dexter, Shar- 
on Springs; Jeanne Elmer, Chicago; 
Fay Elmore, McCracken; Virginia 
Feller Leavenworth; Madge Mary 
Haas, ' Junction City; Gene Keller, 
Clyde; Barbara Millhaubt, Wichita; 
Betty Lou Moore, Kansas City, Mo.; 
Luella Morrison, Pratt; Irene Peter- 
schmidt, El Dorado; Jeanne Sellon, 
Westfield, N. J.; Doris Shull. Kansas 
City; Nan Sperry, Overland Park; 
Mary Marjorie Willis, Newton. 

Delta Delta Delta— Jean Babcock, 
Manhattan ; Barbara Beechley, Joliet, 
111 • Jean Bishop, Whitewater; Bettie 
Brass, Wilmore; Dorothy Bressler, 
Wamego; Eleanor Brooks, Tescott; 
Louise Clayton, Kansas City, Mo.; 
Jeanette Coons, Canton; Jane Ann. 
Douglas, Wichita; Anbeth Enns, New- 
ton- Harriet Harbeck, Abilene; Pa- 
tricia Jones, Omaha, Neb.; Doris 
Knuth, Herington; Evelyn Magill, 
Fanwood, N. J.; Victoria Majors, 
Manhattan; Margery Marshall, To- 
peka; Betty Kay Pierce, Wichita; 
Jane Riddle, Kansas City, Mo.; Doro- 
thy Sawtell, Junction City; Margaret 
Anne Stanley, Wichita; Alice Jane 
Steins Hiawatha; Sarah Seaton, 
Manhattan; Lucille Smith, Kansas 
City; Barbara Vandaveer, Hutchin- 
son" LaVerne Welk, Pratt; Betty May 
Wilson, Valley Center; Kittie Marie 
Woodman, Independence. 

Kappa Delta— Marian Bliesner, 
Lawrence; June Burton, Topeka; 
Laurel McLeod, Manhattan; Aline 
Sheeley, Emporia; Dorothy Taylor, 
Kansas City. 

KAPPAS PLEDGE 20 
Kappa Kappa Gamma— Marilynn 
Carr Kansas City, Mo.; Mary Charl- 
son, Manhattan; Mary Pauline Feder, , 
El Dorado; Jane Ellen Faulkner, 
Belleville; Jean Gilbert, Topeka; 
Elizabeth Glidden, Topeka; Betty i 
Jeanne Hamlet, Coffeyville; LiUian , 
Hoover, Manhattan; Betty Alice Hos- ■ 
mer San Diego, Calif.; Jeanne Jac- , 
card Manhattan; Margery Lawrence, 
Topeka; Rae Ruth Loriaux, Hering- 
ton ' Phyllis McFarland, Topeka; 
Dorothy Maurin, Kansas City; Martha 
Meckel. Topeka; Ardis Nash, Lyons; 
Mary Palmer, Kansas City; Adelyn 
Peterson, Kansas City; Pauline 
Rickabaugh, Lyons; Jo Ann Schmidt, 
Junction City. 

Pi Beta Phi— Jeri Ames, Arkansas 
Pitv Iva Lee Ballard, Topeka; Mar- 
celle' Beckman, Topeka; Barbara 
Benton, Kansas City; Betty Boone, 
Manhattan; Mary Callan, Victoria, 
Texas; Nancy Donnelly, Staffoid, 
Virginia Gemmell, Manhattan; Betty 
jo Glanville, Kansas City; Janet 
Goodjohn. Leavenworth Betty Lou 
Green, Jewell; Harriet Holt, Ells- 
worth; Virginia Howenstine, Manhat- 
tan- Mary Ann Montgomery, Salina, 



Miriam Moore, Manhattan; May 
Pierce, Fort Riley; Peggy Proffltt, 
Chase; Joan Schmidt, Lyons; Mary 
Jane Wick, Hutchinson. 

Zeta Tau Alpha — Elizabeth Keeley, 
Beloit. 

Acacia — Donald Fisher, Alta Vista. 

Alpha Gamma Rho — Arlo Bailey, 
Salina; Wilbur Kraisinger, Timken; 
G. A. Mullen, Jr., McCune; Chester 
Sebert, Kansas City, Mo. 

Alpha Kappa Lambda — Robert An- 
derson, Partridge; Lloyd Billings, 
McLouth. 

Alpha Tau Omega — Roy E. Gwin, 
Jr., Leoti; Martin E. McMahon, Beat- 
tie; John Neal, Greenleaf; Norman 
Niemeier, Manhattan; Clarence Pen- 
ticuff, Kansas City, Kan.; John B. 
Rogers, Manhattan. 

Beta Kappa— Robert Servis, Gi- j 

rard. 

BETAS GET 21 PLEDGES 

Beta Theta Pi — James Bartels, In- 
man; Charles Bentson, Wichita; Ken 
Brown, Salina; Harry Corby, Jr., 
Merriam; Eugene Foncannon, Ash- 
land; Jack L. Hamilton, Hutchinson; 
Richard Hedrick, Hutchinson; Burns 
E. Hegler, Arkansas City; E. L. Kist- 
ler, Jr., Manhattan; Roger Lehman, 
Protection; William Luttgen, Wich- 
ita- James Miller, Manhattan; Mal- 
colm B. Miller, Lyons; Perry Peine, 
Manhattan; Bob Pickett, Manhattan; 
William Ransopher, Clyde; Jim D. 
Sharpe, Council Grove; Phil Smith, 
Manhattan; Metz Wright, Jr., Salina; 
Mont J. Green, Manhattan; Stewart 
Reed, Topeka. 

Delta Tau Delta — Albert Chapin, 
Glasco; Eugene Copeland, Kansas 
City, Kan.; Bob Dahlin, Kansas City, 
Kan.; James Green, Manhattan; Har- 
old Kalousk, Kansas City, Kan.; War- 
ren Lungstrum, Hays; Byron Martin, 
Kansas City, Kan.; Arthur Meeks, 
Kansas City, Kan.; Edward Porter, 
Iola; Ridge Scott, Kansas City, Kan.; 
I Frank E. Sesler, Jr., Kansas City, 
Kan.; Ed Spearing, Columbus; Ar- 
thur E. Stearns, Kingman; Wayne 
! Wittenberger, Marysville. 

Kappa Sigma— Robert Abbey, 
Macksville; Glen Brown, Bird City; 
Willard Colvin, Idaho Springs, Colo.; 
j Wayne Falkenstein, Onaga; Dean 
! Gross, Russell; Harvey Hefner, Gove; 
[Gene Lake, Manhattan; Jeral D. 
j Stewart, Wellington; Robert Strowig, 
j Abilene; Robert Wood, Kansas City, 

Mo. 

PHI DELTS GET 16 

Phi Delta Theta — Max Cables, Con- 
cordia; Bob Chubb, Baxter Springs; 
Joe Drgastin, Kansas City, Kan.; G. 
C Etherington, Abilene; Newton 
Fehr, Kansas City, Mo.; Francis 
Gould, Dodge City; Cleve Holland, 
Wichita; William D. Guy, Liberty; 
Hal Hogue, Hutchinson; Claude How- 
ard, Kansas City, Kan.; John Hudel- 
son, Pomona; Dayton B. Jenkins, 
Kansas City, Kan.; Jack Landreth, 
Wellington; Dan Maurin, Kansas 
City, Kan.; Gerald Tucker, Winfleld; 
Bob Walker, Kansas City, Kan. 

Phi Kappa — Archie E. Armstrong, | 
Seneca; Joseph L. Bettinger, Roches- 
ter, N. Y.; James D. Bulger, Charry- 
val'e; Louis A. Ferro, Kansas City, 
Mo.; Vincent Hoover, Greenleaf; 
Warren Kurtenbach, Herington; Rob- 
ert Lorson, Chapman; Lawrence 
Liebl, Claflin; Donald Richards, Man- 
hattan; Bernard H. Rottinghaus, 
Coining. 

Phi Kappa Tau — Bob Oberland, 
Clay Center. 

Phi Sigma Kappa — Raymond Mal- 
doon, Marysville. 

Pi Kappa Alpha— Robert W. 
j Christmann, Kirkwood, Mo.; Sanford 
Moats, Mission; Robert Read, Par- 
sons; Allen Webb, Manhattan; Dean 
; Wells, Parsons; Carl L. Pitts, Wel- 
lington. 

SIG ALPHS PLEDGE 12 
Sigma Alpha Epsilon— Howard 
i Bond, San Leandro, Calif. ; Lawrence 
; Duncan, Lucas; Richard A. Fincham, 
i Pratt; Jack Johnston, Topeka; Lloyd 
Kuhnmuench, Clayton, Mo.; Robert 
1 Nelson, Kansas City, Kan.; James 
I Reid, Clyde; Charles Roberts, To- 
peka; Don Taylor, Kinsley; Howard 
Van Cleave, Kansas City, Kan.; Her- 
bert Vanderlip, Manhattan; Gene 
Walters, Kinsley. 

Sigma Nu — William B. Bachelor, 
Belleville; Bob Blount, Jetmore; 
Floyd Garrelts, McPherson; Jim Ger- 
loch, Manhattan; Leonard Jones, 
Jetmore; Robert E. Krause, McPher- 
son; R. Kendall MacKirdy, Manhat- 
tan; Bob Manning, Olathe; Bob 
Mauser, Lyons; Kenneth Muirhead, 
Dresden; Walter Paul Nelson, Con- 
cordia; Jimmy Stone, Manhattan; 
Neil Smull, Bird City; Robert Wiss- 
man, Parsons. 

Sigma Phi Epsilon — Charles W. 
Clark, Kansas City, Mo.; Tom Ellis, 



COACH SEEKS TO BUILD 
WILDCAT GRID RESERVES 



ADAMS AND STAFF SPEND WEEK 
CONDITIONING MEN 



Doubllng-l |> for Position Assignment* 

Is Reins Tried Out AmoiiR Linemen 

with Manner, Wntklns at End 

and Welner at Tackle 

In an effort to build a reserve sup- 
ply before Kansas State College meets 
Emporia State Teachers at Manhat- 
tan September 28, Coach Hobbs 
Adams has his sophomores working 
at top speed and he has given a num- 
ber of his dependable varsity men the 
task of learning to play two positions. 
Accomplishments of the first week 
of practice were limited because much 
time had to be devoted to condition- 
ing, but the Kansas State mentor 
plans to give his huskies everything 
needed for the Emporia game before 
Saturday. 

WEINER AT TACKLE 
Most of the doubling-up on posi- 
tion assignments has been among the 
linemen. Don Munzer, senior letter- 
man from Herington, and Jim Wat- 
kins, Manhattan, promising sopho- 
more, are learning to play at either 
end. Charles Fairman, Manhattan, a 
lettered guard, has been running 
plays at both the .running-guard and 
left-end spots. 

Fans may see Big Bernie Weiner, 
Irvington, N. J., all-Big Six tackle 
I last fall, at either the right or left 
1 tackle positions during the fall. He 
i played left tackle last season. Nor- 
: bert Raemer, 20 5-pound Marysville 
lad who lettered as Weiner's under- 
study last fall, is another who is 
learning to fill either tackle job. 

Two halfbacks have been moved to 
center as Adams continues his search 
for reserves for Ken Hamlin, letter- 
man from Eureka. The halfbacks, 
who still work part of the time in the 
backfield, are Clif Makalous, sopho- 
more from Cuba, and Dick Wolgast, 
junior from Alta Vista. Harold Ben- 
ham, El Dorado sophomore, also will 
be tried at the pivot post as soon as 
an arm injury heals sufficiently. 
ADAMS FAVORS NEBRASKA 
Coach Adams believes that Nebras- 
ka's Cornhuskers are "head and 
shoulders above the field on pre- 
season rating" but will encounter 
trouble from Oklahoma, Missouri and 
Iowa State on the 19 40 Big Six 
gridirons. 

"It's too early to tell about the 
Wildcats," Coach Adams said. "Quite 
a few candidates were unable to re- 
port for spring practice and must 
start from scratch this fall. We badly 
need reserves, but hope we can de- 
velop so we will be able to give some- 
one an interesting afternoon this 
fall." 



Wins Eastern Star Award 

Helen Pilcher, Gridley, senior in 
home economics, has been awarded 
a scholarship by the Order of the 
Eastern Star of Kansas. The selec- 
tion for the award was made by the 
committee in charge of the Lockhart 
Student Loan fund. A member of 
Ionian Literary society, Prix, Mortar 
Board, Dynamis and Omicron Nu, 
Miss Pilcher has worked to pay a por- 
tion of her school expenses and has 
maintained a scholastic average of 
2.7 during three years of college. 



OFFICERS' COMMISSIONS 

GIVEN TO 68 STUDENTS 

COAST ARTILLERY, INFANTRY, AND 
CHEMICAL WARFARE INCLUDED 



HIGH AND McCLELLAN BACK 

FOR 2-MILE COMPETITION 



Topeka; Eugene Euwer, Goodland; 
T. C. Galbraith, Cottonwood Falls; 
Max Grandfield, Manhattan; Frank 
Kirk, Kansas City, Kan.; Fred Kohl, 
Kansas City, Mo.; Donald McDonald, 
Satanta; Phil McDonald, Satanta; 
Marshall Reeve, Garden City; Claude 
Seward, Scott City; Bill Seymour, El 
Dorado; Howard Teagarden, Manhat- 
i tan. 

Tau Kappa Epsilon — Lawrence 
j Chambers, Independence, Mo.; John 
IS. Glass, Sherwood, Wis.; Robert 
;Scheloski, Kansas City, Kan.; Lloyd 
Stephenson, Independence; Wayne 
Sundgren, Hays; William Quick, 
, Beloit. 

Theta Xi — Voice Beck, Colby; 
I Vera Heinsohn, Wichita; Raymond 
lOchsner, Tribune; Harry A. Pearce, 
Moline; Floyd Templer, Moline. 



Coavh Ward Haylett's Squad Will Seek 

Fifth Consecutive Title 

This Fall 

Two lettermen and several promis- 
ing sophomores and returning squad- 
men are working out under Coach 
Ward Haylett for the Kansas State 
College two-mile team which will 
seek its fifth consecutive Big Six con- 
ference championship this fall. Capt. 
Thaine High of Abilene and Verle 
j McClellan, Wichita, are the returning 
I "K" men, but McClellan may not be 
able to compete because of a cartilage 
injury in his knee. 

Sophomores trying to make the 
team are Don Borthwick, Beeler; 
Rufus Miller, Hiawatha; Max Miller, 
Newton; and John Sexson, Weskan, 
a numeral winner in 193 8. Lawrence 
Kelley of Chapman, who lettered last 
spring but who was not eligible for 
competition last fall, is among the 
candidates. 

Experienced squadmen are Bill 
Burnham, St. Francis; Sam Johnson, 
Oswego; Loyal Payne, Manhattan; 
Don Adee, Wells; and Paul Fowler, 
Independence. 

FACULTY CHANGES 

(Continued from page one) 
A. L. Neal, instructor in the De- 
partment of Chemistry, was granted 
leave of absence from September 1 
to January 31, 1941, to do graduate 
work at the University of Wisconsin ; 
during Mr. Neal's absence, Dr. Eugene 
H. Huffman will serve as temporary 
instructor. 

Miss Vera May Ellithorpe, county 
home demonstration agent in Chero- 
kee county, will be transferred on 
September 21 to the position of in- 
structor in home management in the 
Division of College Extension to sue- 1 
ceed Miss Ellen Lindstrom, resigned. 
To succeed Maj. Marlin C. Martin, 
Maj. Everett E. Brown, Capt. Harry 
S. Aldrich, and Capt. Karl Frank, 
army officers who have been trans- 
ferred to other stations by the War 
department, the following appoint- 
ments have been made: 

Capt. Harold Stover of the Coast 
Artillery reserve, and a member of 
the staff of the Department of Rural 
Engineering of the College, and Capt. 
Delos C. Taylor, Coast Artillery re- 
serve, a member of the staff of the 
Department of Applied Mechanics of 
the College, have been assigned to the 
coast artillery unit; First Lieut. Mil- 
fred J. Peters, military property cus- 
todian in the Department of Military 
Science and Tactics, and First Lieut. 
Ernest D. Jessup, both of the Infantry 
reserve, have been assigned to the 
infantry unit. 

Sgt. Virgil F. Secrest has been ap- 
pointed military property custodian 
in the department to succeed Milfred 
J. Peters, called to active military 
service. Mr. Secrest's appointment 
was effective September 1. 

Harold Fry was appointed instruc- 
tor in the Department of Machine De- 
sign, effective September 1, to succeed 
Stanley D. Gralak, resigned. 



EVERYDAY ECONOMICS 

By W. E. GRIMES 



Col. C. F. McKlnney, President F. D. 
Farrell, Fort Riley Assistant Com- 
mandant Speak to R. O. T. 
C. Saturday 

Sixty-eight students were awarded 
commissions as second lieutenants in 
the officers' reserve corps of the 
United States army at the annual R. 
O. T. C. graduation exercises in May. 
Included in the list were 31 mem- 
bers of the coast artillery corps, 36 
members of infantry, and one stu- 
dent in the chemical warfare service. 
R. O. T. C. commissions formerly 
were presented as part of the com- 
mencement ceremony for all graduat- 
ing seniors, but the constantly in- 
creasing size of graduating classes 
made it necessary to eliminate the R. 
O. T. C. commissions from the regu- 
lar commencement program. 

MUST HAVE CAMP SERVICE 
To receive commissions in the re- 
serve corps, a student must have com- 
pleted the advanced R. O. T. C. 
course, be 21 years of age, and have 
attended camp during a summer pe- 
riod. Those starred received their 
commissions in absentia. 

Students in the coast artillery 
corps receiving commissions were: 
Dale W. Baxter, Manhattan; William 
G. Bensing, Manhattan; * Walter E. 
Burrell, Emporia; Jack D. Butler, 
Hutchinson; * Donald F. Dresselhaus, 
Lincoln; *Lawrence J. Duncan. Wich- 
|ita; Richard C. Evenson, Claflin; 
Gustave E. Fairbanks, Topeka; Fred- 
erick J. Gardner, Manhattan ; Clem- 
lent Garrelts, McPherson; Elvin V. 
Giddings, Manhattan; James Russell 
Hammitt, St. John; Marion Hennes- 
sy, Hutchinson; Albert S. Holbert, 
Newton; Ernest Wayne Leive, Brook- 
ville; Robert G. McKay, Winfleld; 
Charles F. Manspeaker, Topeka; Al- 
bert L. Niemoller, Wakefield; John 
P. Nulty, Jewell; Clarence A. Powers, 
Alta Vista; Robert H. Pyle, Welling- 
ton; Joseph James Redmond, Lillis; 
James O. Ridenour, Kismet; Winston 
A. Schmidt, Lyons; Edward F. Sefcik, 
Cuba; John A. Shaver, Salina; Clar- 
ence P. Smith, Marysville; *Harry 
James Stockman, Wichita; Robert S. 
Thornburrow, Wetmore; Rex F. 
; Toomey, Neodesha; Harold W. Un- 
' derhill, Wichita. 

INFANTRY NUMBERS 36 

Students in infantry receiving com- 
missions were: William D. Beeby, 
Topeka; George J. Bird, San Juan, 
Porto Rico; Edward L. Brady, Fre- 
donia; James C. Brock, Glasco; 
Theodore S. Clark, Penokee; Virgil 
Eugene Craven, Erie; Charles J. Da- 
vidson, Madison; Roger S. Dildine, 
Delphos; Robert Edwards, Jewell; 
Robert Foulston, Wichita; *Richard 
G. Freeman, Tonganoxie; Albert R. 
Henry. Salina; Gerald Ingraham, 
Manhattan; * Calvin Jenkins, Man- 
hattan; *Dale E. Johnson, Manhat- 
tan; Robert Kauffman, Salina; Ralph 
W. Knedlik, Belleville; Henry Kup- 
fer, Kansas City, Mo.; Delbert E. Mc- 
Cune, Stafford; Raymond C. McPeek, 
Ramsey, N. J.; Alfred E. Makins, 
Abilene; * Joseph Eugene Meier, Clay 
Center; William L. Muir, Norton; 
Robert H. Musser, Milwaukee, Wis.; 
Arthur T. Mussett, Leavenworth; 
James T. Neill, Miltonvale; Ray H. 
Pollom, Manhattan; Elwin Prather, 
Eureka; Donald Pricer, Hill City; 
Earl Llwyn Redfield, Bucklin; Leon 
M. Reynard, Manhattan; John L. 
Rice, Leavenworth; Vernal G. Roth, 
Emporia; George W. Shrack, Pratt; 
Kenneth E. Spring, Sabetha; Louis 
M. Wheeler, Plevna. 

Robert L. Mueller, Anthony, re- 
ceived his commission as a member 
of the chemical warfare service. 






•Probably a new order embodying some of the advantages of both types 
of economic systems may emerge over the longer time." 

Advantages in the production of duction in the opportunity to engage 
e oods enjoyed by totalitarian states in enterprises at will or the right to 
include absence of delay between the have any part in the determination 
time of making decisions and carry- f his conditions of work, 
ing them out, no arguments with la- These conflicting advantages and 
bor, ability to command all available disadvantages clash throughout the 
capital for a given purpose without world today. The ultimate outcome 
delay and the ability to utilize labor q( the strugg i e between economic sys- 
without regard for standards of liv- temg w{th these differing advantages 
ing. land disadvantages is problematical. 

Offsetting these advantages are dis- uul ately one or the other probably 
including the possible 



GLENN BU8SBT, MANHATTAN, 

WINS $250 BANKERS' AWARD 



advantages 

loss of initiative of the individual, 
lowered productivity of labor in the 
long run as a result of lowered stand- 
ards of living and the loss of free- 
dom for the individual through re- 



will prevail or more probably a new 
order embodying some of the advan- 
tages of both types of economic sys- 
tems may emerge over the longer 
time. 



Senior In Ak Administration Get* 12th 
Consecutive Scholarship 

Glenn M. Busset, Manhattan, se- 
nior in agricultural administration, 
has been awarded the $250 loan 
; scholarship in agricultural economics 
offered each year by the American 
Bankers' association. This is the 12th 
consecutive year in which a senior in 
agricultural economics here has re- 
ceived this award. 

A Sears scholarship winner in his 
freshman year, Busset has lived with 
his mother and brother in a trailer 
parked west of the dairy barn during 
the past three years. He is a member 
of Alpha Zeta, Collegiate 4-H club, 
Agricultural Economics club, Dairy 
club and Sears Scholarship club. 



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HISTORICAL SOCIETY C 

TOPEKA 

KAN. 



The Kansas Industrialist 



Volume 67 



Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, Manhattan, Wednesday, September 25, 1940 



Number 2 



f FARMERS' SHORT COURSE 

TO BE HELD IN JANUARY 

■BARS-ROBBUCK AGRICULTURAL 

FOUNDATION IS SPONSOR 



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Group of 00 Men Will ItepreHcnt 51 

I'.nsi.-i ii KniiMiiK Oonntlea in First 

School of Km Kind Hold 
on Campus 

A select group of 60 farmers, of 
the ages 21 to 41, from 51 eastern 
Kansas counties will return to school 
for a four weeks' agricultural short 
course at Kansas State College Janu- 
ary 6 to 30. It will be the first short 
course of its kind ever given on the 
College campus. 

Counties from which these short- 
course representatives will enroll in 
1941 include all counties east of the 
west line of Republic, Cloud, Ottawa, 
Saline, McPherson, Harvey, Sedgwick 
and Sumner. The short course will be 
a cooperative undertaking between 
the Sears-Roebuck Agricultural Foun- 
dation and the College. 

SCHOLARSHIP OF $50 EACH 

The Foundation will provide finan- 
cial assistance to this "back-to- 
school" group in the form of a $50 
scholarship to each farmer selected, 
the agricultural college providing the 
course of instruction and the faculty 
to teach the courses offered. Similar 
scholarships will be awarded in the 
54 counties in the western part of the 
state in 1942. 

Those attending the planned short 
course will be young farm men, who 
had not had college training, who are 
leaders in their communities and who 
have been nominated by their neigh- 
bors for the scholarship award. 

WILL ASSIST YOUNG FARMERS 

The short course will be designed 
to assist young men engaged in farm- 
ing. The course will be offered by 
the College Divisions of Agriculture 
and College Extension, directed by 
L. E. Call, dean of the Agricultural 
division, and H. Umberger, dean of 
extension. 

Committee members of the two 
divisions framing the short course 
are: Clyde W. Mullen, John V. Hep- 
ler, F. W. Bell and George Gemmell. 
Instructional work will be given by 
resident faculty members and agri- 
cultural extension specialists. 
♦ 

LOUIS BENDER TO RETIRE 

AFTER 31 YEARS IN ARMY 



Enrolment Figure Grows 

Enrolment for Kansas State Col- 
lege undoubtedly will be greater this 
year than last, judging from compara- 
tive figures at this time, believes Miss 
Jessie McDowell Machir, registrar. A 
total of 4,078, or eight more students 
than the same date last year, had en- 
tered the College by Tuesday. Enrol- 
ment for the fall semester 1939 was 
4.082. 

LLOYD HUNTER'S ORCHESTRA 
WILL FURNISH MIXER MUSIC 



CONSUMERS' CONFERENCE 
TO BE HELD IN OCTOBER 



HISS MYRTLE GUNSELMAN IS IN 
CHARGE OF MKFTING 



Colonel Hns Accepted Job n» Consulting; 

Engineer with WeBtlnghouse 

In niiltlmore 

Col. Louis B. Bender, a graduate 
of Kansas State College in 1904 with 
a degree in electrical engineering, has 
accepted a job as consulting engineer 
of the radio division, Westinghouse 
Electric and Manufacturing company 
at Baltimore, Md., effective upon his 
retirement from the Army Signal 
corps on September 30. He will re- 
tire after three decades of military 
service. 

Colonel Bender went into commu- 
nications work immediately upon 
leaving the College. Besides his de- 
gree from Kansas State College, he 
earned one from Massachusetts Insti- 
tute of Technology, and later did 
graduate work at Ohio State univer- 
sity. In the course of his military 
education, he was an honor graduate 
of the Coast Artillery school and of 
the Second Corps Signal school, 
American Expeditionary Forces. The 
Army Register also lists him as a 
graduate of the Command and Gen- 
eral Staff school, the Army War col- 
lege and the Army Industrial college. 

Assignment to the key post that he 
has accepted is a recognition of his 
superior qualities, his genius for or- 
ganization and sound judgment. 

In his military career, Colonel 
Bender has set his hand to a variety 
of activities. In 1929, he undertook 
and completed a comprehensive sur- 
vey of the commercial and govern- 
mental communications facilities of 
the Philippine Islands. During the 
World war, he was engaged in pro- 
curement, distribution and mainte- 
nance of communications equipment 
for the entire A. E. F. 



All-School Function to Stnrt nt 7:30 p. 

in. Fridny with Pop Meeting 

In Quadrangle 

Students will dance to the music 
of Lloyd Hunter's Negro orchestra 
from Omaha at the all-school mixer 
Friday night in Nichols Gymnasium, 
according to Ralph Lashbrook, associ- 
ate professor in journalism and chair- 
man of the mixer committee. This 
annual free school event is planned 
to acquaint students with each other. 

Sponsored by the YMCA, YWCA 
and Student Council, the mixer will 
begin at 7:30 o'clock, with the first 
pep meeting of the year in the quad- 
rangle north of the Gymnasium, un- 
der leadership of the newly-elected 
cheer leaders. The College band will 
furnish music to aid enthusiasm in 
getting under way for the Emporia 
State Teachers-Kansas State College 
game on Saturday. 

Barney Limes, YMCA representa- 
tive on the committee, has planned 
games, stunts and competitive enter- 
tainment for all after the pep meet- 
ing. 

The YWCA representative, Shirley 
Marlow, has arranged a program to 
be held in the Auditorium after the 
games in the quadrangle. Special 
dances, popular music and sound, 
comedy, moving pictures are the high- 
lights of the program. 

"The Auditorium entertainment 
will not end until the dance is well 
started, so there will be plenty doing 
every minute for students from 7:30 
p. m. on," Professor Lashbrook said. 
-♦■ 
Faith Is Associate Author 

Prof. W. L. Faith of the Depart- 
ment of Chemical Engineering is as- 
sociate author of "The Applications 
of Chemical Engineering," a textbook 
in chemical engineering recently pub- 
lished. The book is edited by Harry 
, McCormack and published by the D. 
Van Nostrand company, New York 
City. Doctor Faith was the author of 
the chapter on evaporations and 

evaporators. 

♦ 

Name Dairy Team 

Members of the intercollegiate 
dairy judging team were announced 
today by Dr. A. O. Shaw, team coach. 
Members named are: Edward A. 
Reed, Walter S. Robinson, Francis R. 
Wempe and Russell C. Nelson. The 
team will compete in intercollegiate 
judging at Waterloo, Iowa, and at 
the Dairy Cattle congress in Harris- 
burg, Pa. 



Ilrs. John Is.- .iiiiI Uonienlce Gnglinrilo 

of University of Kiiiihiim mid Ste- 

pheiiN College Professor Are 

on Tentntive Program 

The third annual Kansas Confer- 
ence on Consumer Education will be 
October 11 and 12 on the College 
campus. 

Miss Myrtle Gunselman, associate 
professor of household economics, 
who is in charge of program arrange- 
ments, has received inquiries from 
several institutions, and indications 
are that every university and college 
in the state will be represented at the 
sessions. Although the program is 
designed especially for persons in the 
educational field and leaders of or- 
ganizations interested in education, 
Miss Gunselman explained that all 
interested in the subject are invited 
to attend. 

WILL DISCUSS DEFENSE 

Due to national defense activity, 
the subject of consumer education 
this year is of even greater impor- 
tance, Miss Gunselman said. 

Speakers listed on the tentative 
program include Dr. John Ise of the 
University of Kansas, who will dis- 
cuss the national defense program 
and consumer interests; Dr. Dome- 
nice Gagliardo of the University of 
Kansas, who will outline consumer 
and labor problems; and Dr. Lucile 
Reynolds, chief of the Family Credit 
section of the Farm Security admin- 
istration, Washington, D. C, whose 
subject will be "Credit Problems of 
Kansas Families." 

Dr. James Mendenhall of the In- 
stitute of Consumer ^Education, Ste- 
phens college, will lead a panel dis- 
cussion on final afternoon program. 
FOUR FACULTY MEMBERS 

College faculty members on the 
program include President F. D. Far- 
rell; C. K. Ward, associate professor 
in the Department of Economics and 
Sociology; Mrs. Katherine Hess, asso- 
ciate professor of clothing and tex- 
tiles; and Miss Gladys Myers, in- 
structor in home management. 



Ten to Take Advanced Aviation 

Ten students for the advanced 
course in pilot-training have been 
authorized for Kansas State College 
by the Civil Aeronautics administra- 
tion, according to Prof. C. E. Pearce, 
who is in charge of the College train- 
ing. One new heavy-type plane will 
be used. The quota may be advanced 
to 30 men and three planes if suit- 
able equipment and instructors are 
available later. 

♦ 

MILITARY DEPARTMENT ASKS 
INCREASE FOR R0TC QUOTA 



SIGMA TAU CONVENTION 
OPENS HERE THURSDAY 



COPIES OF THE ENGINEER WILL 

HE l»IS TICIIII ii:i> 



Six Attend Meeting 

Faculty members of the Depart- 
ment of Mechanical Engineering in 
the Division of Engineering and Ar- 
chitecture attended a meeting of the 
Kansas City section of the Society of 
Mechanical Engineers in Kansas City 
Friday night. Those attending were 
Dean R. A. Seaton; M. A. Durland, 
assistant dean of the division; Profs. 
Linn Helander, A. J. Mack and B. B. 
Brainard; and A. O. Flinner, Wilson 
Tripp and W. T. Thomson, all three 
assistant professors. The group drove 
down in the afternoon and returned 
after the meeting. 



! Col. C. F. McKliiney Requests Permls- 

sion to Traiii 322 Potential Officers, 

nil Increase of 10 

With 10 more qualified applica- 
tions for advanced training in the 
I ROTC than the official quota allows, 
i Col. C. F. McKinney, head of the De- 
partment of Military Science and 
Tactics, has asked the War depart- 
, ment to authorize an increase in the 
! advanced class enrolment at Kansas 
: State College. 

Selected on a basis of leadership, 
scholarship and aptitude, 222 poten- 
tial army officers are seeking ad- 
i vanced military training. The quota, 
j set up last spring, permits 212. In 
order to qualify, each advanced stu- 
i dent must be recommended by Presi- 
dent F. D. Farrell and the deans of 
the College. 

Those enrolled in the advanced 
course are exempt from registering 
on October 16 for selective ser- 
vice. After graduation, they are eli- 
gible for appointment in the Officers 
Reserve corps and, under certain 
conditions, may become regular sec- 
ond lieutenants in the United States 
army. 

At Kansas State College, men stu- 
dents are required to have two years 
of military training. This semester 
1,600 are learning basic information 
in infantry and artillery. Less em- 
phasis is being placed on drill and 
more on classroom work since the 
crystallization of the national defense 
program. Advanced students are 
studying the latest in military equip- 
ment, including anti-aircraft defense. 
Colonel McKinne/, head of the de- 
partment since September, 1939, re- 
ceived advancement from the rank of 
lieutenant-colonel to that of colonel 
this summer. He is a graduate of the 
Army War college. 



SECOND FRATERNITY LIST 

HAS NAMES OF 38 PLEDGES 



GRADUATE STUDENT IS GIVEN RECOGNITION 

BY HAVING NEW SPECIES NAMED AFTER HIM 



James Koepper, Medora, Ind., 
probably is the only graduate student 

1 at Kansas State College who has had 
several species of plants named after 
him while he still was attending 
school. Mr. Koepper now is complet- 

1 ing his work for a master's degree in 

i the Department of Botany and Plant 
Pathology. 

During the summer of 1938, Mr. 
Koepper and another student, Ken- 
neth Wagner, were chosen as assis- 
tants to Dr. T. G. Yuncker of DePauw 
university to accompany him on a 
botanical expedition to Honduras, 
Central America. The group left New 
Orleans on the Standard Fruit com- 
pany boat and landed at La Ceiba, 

i Honduras, the early part of the sum- 
mer after having stopped at Havana, 
Cuba, Panama, the Canal Zone and 
Nicaragua. 

The botanists spent two months 
making plant collections around the 
villages of La Ceiba and Olanchito, 
areas along the coast and dry arid 
regions in the mountainous interior. 



They worked hard collecting speci- 
mens during the morning, and dur- 
ing the afternoon and evening these 
had to be pressed and dried over 
stoves because of the high humidity. 
The summer's collection amounted to 
more than 10,000 specimens, includ- 
ing 1,000 species, 60 of which had 
never been described before and were 
unknown to the scientific world. 

All three members of the group 
were honored by the taxonomists who 
classified these newly discovered 
species. Four species were named 
after Koepper, namely, Eugenia koep- 
peri, Peperomla koepperi, Dioscorea 
koepperl and Piper koepperi. 

Separate collections of the 1,000 
• species were prepared and sent to the 
larger botanical museums of the 
world, including Harvard, New York 
Botanical gardens, United States 
National museum and the Field mu- 
seum in this country, as well as the 
British museum, Kew gardens in 
London and museums in Berlin, 
Stockholm and Geneva. 



Knppn Sigmn Tnkes Lend In Current 
Helensc, with 11 Men 

Names of 3 8 College students ap- 
j peared on the second fraternity re- 
( lease for this fall. The list of pledges 
land their fraternities: 

Acacia — Edwin Scott Donovan, 
Manhattan. Alpha Gamma Rho — 
! Vernon Eberhart, Huron; Luther C. 
Kissick Jr., Mt. Hope. Alpha Tau 
Omega — Glenn Duncan, St. Francis; 
! Bill Guthrie, Kansas City; Milton 
Hall, Leavenworth. Beta Kappa — 
Blane Gauss, Weskan; Dean Lander, 
Lindsborg. Delta Sigma Phi — James 
A. Colon, Puerto Rico. 

Delta Tau Delta — Ronald Conrad, 
Clay Center; Jim Goodell, Kansas 
City; Bob Hentzler, Topeka; Ken- 
neth Palmer, Murdock; Dick Parker, 
Fort Leavenworth; Gabe Sellers, 
Manhattan. Farm House — Roman 
Abb, Medicine Lodge. Kappa Sigma 
— Louis Akers, Atchison; Bob Banks, 
Atchison; Gordon Brown, Lawrence; 
Walter Crawford, Overbrook; Mer- 
rill Dunn, Topeka; Daniel Forbes, 
Wichita; Bud Loftin, Atchison; Wil- 
bur McNeese, Atchison; John Ru- 
dolph, Atchison; Francis E. White, 
Emporia; Lothar Wickman, McPher- 
son. 

Phi Delta Theta — Willard King, 
Potwin. Phi Kappa — Richard Willis, 
Sedan. Phi Sigma Kappa — Lewis 
Messerli Jr., Turon. Sigma Phi Ep- 
silon — Lue Dill, Goodland; John B. 
Markey, Wichita. Tau Kappa Epsilon 
— Julius Binder, Hays; J. Eldon 
Carper, Cherryvale; William Lawless, 
Belle Plaine; Clarence Stewart, Hart- 
ford. Theta Xi — Hollis B. Logan, 
Clay Center; E. Richard Kaspar, Wil- 
son. 



DelegnteK from 23 ChnpterN In Every 
Section of Country Expected to 
Attend Second Blennlnl Meet- 
ing on Cnmpiis 

The national conclave of Sigma 
Tau, honorary engineering fraternity, 
will be on the College campus this 
week-end, starting Thursday. This is 
the second of the biennial meetings 
ever to be held on this campus. The 
gathering will bring delegates from 
23 chapters located in every section 
of the United States. 

At the first meeting, issues of The 
Kansas State Engineer will be dis- 
tributed to delegates, according to Al 
White, Topeka, editor. 

BANQUET IS FRIDAY NIGHT 

One of the main events of the 
three-day meeting is the banquet to 
be held Friday evening at the First 
Methodist church. Honored guests at 
the dinner will include Alf M. Lan- 
don, former governor; John C. Page, 
Washington, D. C, national president 
of Sigma Tau ; C. A. Sjogren, Lincoln, 
Neb., national secretary-treasurer; 
Willard Leihy, Chicago, historian; 
and Verne Hedge, Lincoln, Neb., and 
William F. Roeser, Washington, D. 
C, councilors. Music will be fur- 
nished during the meal and at the 
dance later by Matt Betton and his 
band. 

Registration will begin in Recre- 
ation Center at 10 a. m. After regis- 
tration, the delegates will be guests 
of the local chapter at a luncheon 
served in the cafeteria. On Thursday 
afternoon, the convention will be 
taken in a caravan of cars to Fort 
Riley where they will be met by des- 
ignated staff officers and a motorcycle 
escort to be conducted through the 
fort. The delegates will be guests at 
dinner. In the evening, the Olympic 
equestrian team will perform. 

WILL SEE FOOTBALL GAME 

On Friday in addition to the ban- 
quet, the program includes a tea in 
the afternoon at the Sigma Alpha Ep- 
silon fraternity house. 

The sessions will close Saturday 
morning. Delegates will be the guests 
of the local chapter of Sigma Tau at 
the Kansas State-Emporia State 
Teachers football game. 

Officers of the chapter here are: 
William Keogh, New York City, pres- 
ident; Victor Mellquist, Leavenworth, 
vice-president; Robert Washburn, 
Manhattan, treasurer; Bert Sells, 
Wichita, recording secretary; Gar- 
land Childers, Augusta, correspond- 
ing secretary; Fred Eyestone, Wichi- 
ta, historian. 

L. V. White, associate professor in 
civil engineering, is the faculty ad- 
viser for the organization. 



DR. I). O. WARREN RECEIVES 
$1,000 AWARD, BORDEN MEDAL 



PrcNeiitutlon Mnde nt Meeting of Poul- 
try Science Association This Summer 

In recognition of contributions 
made during the past seven years of 
research. Dr. D. C. Warren, profes- 
sor of poultry husbandry, has re- 
ceived the annual $1,000 award and 
a gold medal from the Borden com- 
pany. 

The award, the third made by the 
company for research in the field of 
poultry science in the United States 
and Canada, was presented to Doctor 
Warren this summer at a meeting of 
the Poultry Science association at 
Cornell university, Ithaca, N. Y. 

Doctor Warren's project included 
a new method of sex identification of 
day-old chicks through the use of 
wing feather growth. He has con- 
tributed research to determine hy- 
brid vigor and has mapped the vari- 
ous genes of the fowl. 

During the past five years, Doctor 
Warren has been associate editor of 
the Poultry Science Journal and is 
now first vice-president of the Poul- 
try Science association. He has been 
with Kansas State College 17 years. 
Articles about his research are ap- 
pearing in national poultry maga- 
zines. 



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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1940 



•row Aim BETTER UHDBBOTAMDINa 

The Conference on Science, Phi- 
losophy and Religion, which held its 
initial meetings in New York City 
early in September, marks the first 
effort of such large dimensions to 
deal with the relations of these inter- 
related problems and their relation 
to the democratic way of life. 

Among the papers presented at the 
conference were original contribu- 
tions to philosophy, history and the 
appraisal of modern literature as well 
as discussion of the problems of the 
interrelations of the various disci- 
plines. 

In judging the success of the 
meetings, it is notable that men oi 
different faiths, and even persons 
professing no faith, and disciples of 
differing philosophies came together 
without compromising their respec- 
tive faiths and inner convictions. 

"Among the problems to be solved 
was that relating to the differences 
among different types of philoso- 
phers, the separation between the 
sciences and the possibility of a meet- 
ing ground among scientists, philoso- 
phers and theologians." said a state- 
ment issued to the press during the 
meetings. "Before any progress 
could be made in this direction, the 
extent of the difference between these 
disciplines had to be explored. Not 
only did the conference succeed in 
clarifying the issues between the in- 
tellectual groups, but it has removed 
some of the grounds for misunder- 
standing among them. 

"As the discussion at the confer- 1 
ence proceeded, it became obvious! 
that the various groups of philoso- j 
phers, as well as the scientists of dif- 
ferent fields, were being drawn more ] 
closely together. The scientists who I 
presented papers were able to issue ; 
a common statement of their views. 
The philosophers narrowed the area, 
of disagreement among themselves." 
Educators and laymen alike can 
hardly disagree with the dual aim of 
the conference in (1) developing a 
consensus covering the whole field 
of science, philosophy and religion 
and (2) applying the principle of 
"corporate thinking," which has been 
so useful in both applied and pure 
science, to the problems of philoso- 
phy. ^ 

BOOKS 

Story of II 20-Yenr ArmlNtlee 

-Whv Europe Eights." Ry "Walter 
MHUsV William Morrow and Company. 
New York. 1940. $2.50. 



Treaty of Versailles and the Nazi in- 
vasion of Poland. 

Mr. Millis makes no secret of his 
position, especially in prefaces to 
both the first and second editions 
(the later one written after the inva- 
sion of the low countries) but, in the 
main, he has conformed with known 
f nets. 

An example of Mr. Millis' failure 
to conform to the ivory tower tradi- 
tion of some histories is his reference 
to the Nazis as the '"gangster govern- 
ment" of Germany. This may square 
with the typical American's viewpoint 
but it hardly reflects impartial objec- 
tivity. Apparently that is not what 
Mr. Millis wanted. 

Bitter as are his criticisms of Nazis, 
Mr Millis is no apologist for the 
British and French leaders of ap- 
peasement. He shows them for what 
they were and then adds reasons why 
Chamberlain and Daladier could ac- 
cept a Munich without being lynched 
when they returned home. 

The author believes that there is no 
single "reason" or even a series of 
them for the present war. He writes 
that, because the policies, leaders 
and economic conditions were what 
they were, "there was simply no way 
in which the knobbly building blocks 
of the European nations could be put 
together into a stable and working 
system without a war." 

This came about, Mr. 
"very largely" because 
dangerous things when 
have been left undone" 
to do the reasonable and conciliatory 
things when he might have done 
them " However, Chamberlain and 
Daladier and their advisers also must 
share in the blame, Mr. Millis writes. 
Underneath all was an era "of fear, 
Jealousy and hatred, of tremendous 
armaments ready to be used, of di- 
rectly conflicting ideals between 
which there was no ground for com- 
promise." 

Unfortunately the book lacks much 
of the illuminating detail of "The 
Road to War" and "The Martial 
Spirit" which makes these earlier 
studies such intriguing reading. 

An intelligent appreciation of Eu- 
rope's contemporary history is a 
mandatory minimum for Americans, 
whether they intend to remain at 
peace or go to war. The success of 
either depends upon understanding j 
the facts and then acting for the best 
interests of the United States of 
America— not France, not Britain 
and possibly not even South America. 
Mr Millis has done a service to his 
countrymen in presenting such a| 
simple, graphic story of what hap-, 
pened to send Europe down the road 
to war again.— Hillier Krieghbaum. 



SCIENCE TODAY 



Ry W. J. PETERSON 

Assistant Professor, Department of 
Chemistry 



Millis says. 
Hitler "did 
they might 
and "failed 



Dr. Vernon Kellogg, speaking from 
a wide knowledge of food conditions 
in America and Europe during the 
World war, has said: "A dietetic re- 
gime for a semi-starving people is 
strong or weak, appeasing or danger- 
ous in proportion to the bread it 
contains." 

It is probably with this thought in 
mind that the British Food Control 
commission recently ruled that vita- 
min B, (thiamin) and calcium be 
added to all white flour used in En- 
| gland. It has been estimated that 
'the cost of this fortification will be 
I between 50 and 75 cents a barrel. 

In peace or in war, the role of vita- 
, mins in human nutrition is becoming 
increasingly important. It is signifi- 
cant that the British government 
shose to fortify white flour. Bread 
made from wheaten flour and yeast 
enters into the diet of more people 
than does any other single food item 
with the possible exception of rice. 
For many, bread is the chief constitu- 
ent of the diet, owing perhaps to its 
cheapness and high calorie value. 

The vitamin content of wheat flour 
has declined to a great degree since 
the introduction of the roller mill. 
The major part of the diet as repre- 
sented by wheat flour and cane sugar 
now contains about one-twelfth the 
amount of thiamin that it did a cen- 
tury ago The remainder of this es- 1 
sential vitamin has been removed I 
from the diet in the production of 
white flour in which both the germ j 
and bran from the wheat kernel have | 
been removed. 

The restoration of these vitamins 
to the human diet is of major impor- 
tance to nutritionists and to public 
health officials. 

Thiamin plays a role in the metab- 
olism of every living cell. Since it 
cannot be synthesized in the normal 
body processes, it must therefore be 
supplied in the diet. England, en- 
gaged in war, finds its peace-time 
mode of life inadequate to the needs 
of the hour. Persons of sedentary 
occupation have been assigned to 
duties to which their bodies are un- 



accustomed. It is of inestimable im- 
portance that these bodies be well 
nourished. 

Because thiamin is concerned with | 
the breakdown of foods that furnish 
energy for the body processes, and, | 
furthermore, since it has been shown i 
that the daily requirement for this 
vitamin depends upon the amount of 
energy expended, it would seem im- 
perative that the inclusion of thiamin 
in adequate amounts in the dietary 
of the English people be assured. 

Perhaps with the mobilization of 
1 our peace-time army and the in- 
creased activity in industry it would 
be well for public health officials in 
this country to take cognizance of 
the recent action of Great Britain. 
The malnutrition of the average 
"rookie" in our training camps in 
1917 should have brought home the 
fact that malnutrition is not limited 
to any one nation or class of people. 
The United States is noted for its 
epicurean tendencies. Food proces- 
sors have sought long to please our 
palates without much consideration 
of our vitamin needs. We have ac- 
quired a taste for many vitamin de- 
ficient foods. Any program designed 
to improve our dietary from a nutri- 
tional standpoint is bound to encoun- 
ter these developed tastes of the peo- 

Since it is unlikely that we would 
ever be able to successfully educate 
the public taste to a point where un- 
processed foods would be really en- 
joyed, is it not time that more serious 
consideration be given to the thought 
of fortifying many of our processed 
foods? — a task, which, in most cases, 
could be accomplished with but slight 
changes in present manufacturing 
methods, and produce a finished 
product which even the most fastidi- 
ous could not distinguish from the 
unfortified food. 

How long it will be before the food 
"vitaminizing" idea becomes general 
is difficult to say, but the movement 
is destined to receive increased con- 
sideration in the next few years, par- 
ticularly in view of the success of 
many recent discoveries in the eco- 
nomical large-scale chemical and 
biochemical synthesis of many of our 
important vitamins. 



had taken entrance examinations, 34 
of them being women students; 25 
were entirely self-supporting; 72 
were from farm families; 4 were 
from families of lawyers and doctors; 
and 3 were from out of state. 

The Alpha Beta society held its 
first meeting of the year and elected 
the following officers: William J. 
Lightfoot, president; F. M. Jeffery, 
vice-president; Miss D. Mason, re- 
cording secretary; Grace Parker, cor- 
responding secretary; E. H. Kern, 
marshal; B. L. Short, treasurer; 
I Anna Hunt, librarian. 



♦ 






KANSAS POETRY 

Robert Conover, Editor 



NIGHT ACROSS BCANSAS 

By Irma Wassail 
Leaving Wichita in the summer mid- 
the buent a moted silver swathe of 
on the ht flat fields and the seemingly 

through'^ arfaiike. all twelve o'clock 

small towns. 
Beyond them was a vast and moonless 
and from the plains that still remember 

raindroi'fsTicked like tiny sliver arrows 
on the glass. And at a lonely paper stop 
there was a newsboy, blond and sleepy, 

staring. 
When the sky at four o'clock lightened 
for morning, „„v,~.i 

j cool in the late-June dawn we reached 

j There°the unpavefl street of our route 

was utterly empty, 
I so that a shot would hit nothing at all. 
And as we left the town, there was full 

ion the y Boot Hill sign, emblem of his- 
tory's dead. 



Irma Wassail, Wichita, has con- 
tributed verse to many of the lead- 
ing magazines and other publica- 
tions, including Coronet. Her latest 
long work, on Mexico, was illus- 
trated by her artist-husband, Fred 
Wassail. 



SUNFLOWERS 

H. W. Davis 
WHAT TO DO 
Sometimes I don't know — and then 
again I think I do. Just now I do — 
I think. 



What I do and don't know is what 
a decent, humane American should 
think about the bombardment of Lon- 
don. 



Walter Millis' widely circulated 
"The Road to War" has been accept- 
ed and cited as a Bible by the isola- 
tionists because it reveals how propa- 
ganda, passions and politics helped to 
pull this nation into the World war 
of 1914-18. Mr. Millis, however, be- 
lieves that higher and more vital 
stakes are jeopardized in the present 
European conflict. He has been work- 
ing to have this country declare war 
upon Nazi Germany. 

With this background, one natural- 
ly would suspect that Mr. Millis, 
scholar though he is, might use his 
current book to help foster his point 
ot V iew with his fellow countrymen. 
-Why Europe Fights" is. however, 
almost an impartial recital of Eu- 
rope's 20-year armistice between the 



THE EXPERIMENT IS DEAD 
The Communist experiment reared 
by Lenin on the principles of Marx is 
dead, no matter what the relationship 
between Russia and Europe after the 
war. To say that it was slain by Stalin 
in the fullness of life on August 23,1 
1939, is not historically accurate. He 
only gave it the coup de grace. It had 
been visibly dying for years. Perhaps 
it had never really lived, but was born 
a monstrosity, doomed to early death. 
That Karl Marx would have found 
life in Soviet Russia unbearable in the 
last few years (and been relieved of 
the strain by a shot fired in the course 
Of one of Mr. Stalin's purges) seems 
self-evident. He would have been dis- 
illusioned and wretched almost from 
the beginning. The Communist in- 
ternational has always been a mis-, 
nomer, the word international a pat- 
ent fraud. But if it ever existed it is 
BOW dead. The faith of all Western 
Europe's Communists, except a small 
unreconstructed minority, has been , 
irreparably shattered. If it could be ] 
patched together in spots it would 
not endure. 

If Russia should win sovereignty 
over Europe a majority of former 
Communists would be apathetic or 
dissident, submitting to force like the 
rest of Stalin's alien subjects. They 
would recognize a dictatorship, but 
not the dictatorship of the proletariat 
in which they had believed and for 
which they had sacrificed.— Nathaniel 
Peffer in Harpers Magazine. 



kinds again which have not yet been 
discovered and catalogued. 

The number of individual insects is 
so vast that there are no figures, ex- 
cept in the most rarefied reaches of 
our mathematics, to express it. Under 
the bark of the single sugar maple 
outside my window there are more 
beetles than there are human inhabi- 
tants in this entire township; on a 
summer day the crickets and gnats 
and ladybirds in the small copse on 
the hill easily outnumber the human 
inhabitants of the United States. 

Overturn any rock in any field and 
there are disclosed whole colonies 
and settlements of the creatures 
whose age, properly speaking, this is. 
; We are too self-absorbed to hear it, 
but there is a humming of trillion 
wings in our atmosphere and an om- 
nipresent rustling of little creeping, 
crawling legs.— Alan Devoe in the 
American Mercury. 



tural Engineering at the university. 

THIRTY YEARS AGO 
Mrs. Henrietta Calvin, '86, was 
head of the Domestic Science depart- 
ment at Purdue university. 

Miss Virginia Meade, '09, took ad- 
vanced work in domestic science at 
Columbia university during her sum- 
mer vacation. 

E. H. Webster, dean of agriculture, 
and William M. Jardine, professor of 
agronomy, went to Pueblo, Colo., to 
attend the Irrigation congress. At 
the close of the meeting, they planned 
to go to Spokane, Wash., to attend 
the Dry Farming congress. 



Here we are, seemingly safe for 
the time being, going into a world's 
series, a football season, a presiden- 
tial election, more technicolor than 
ever before, and a lot of other amus- 
ing, entertaining things. There our 
British cousins are — but what they 
are doing you can better fill in with 
your imagination. 

By no mental gymnastics can I con- 
vince myself there is anything fair 
about it. If it is fair, my sense of 
justice is as cuckoo as the whole 
world looks to be. 



THE AGE OF INSECTS 
Actually, ours is not the age of 
man— in fact, it is not an age of 
mammals at all, but an age of insects. 
Thus far the entomologists, not with- 
out awe, have recorded some 700,000 
varieties of them, and my entomo- 
logical friends feel confident that 
there are probably four times as many 



IN OLDER DAYS 

TEN YEARS AGO 
Glen R. Fockele, '29. was employed 
by the Goodland News-Republic 
Goodland, as advertising manager. 

Dr. W. A. Pulver, '12. was veteri- j 
narian at the dairy ranch of the Gold- 
en States Dairy Products company. | 
Brentwood, Calif. 

Miss Rose T. Baker, '17, who was 
assistant professor of home econom- 
ics and institutional dietitian at 
Drexel institute, Philadelphia, Pa., 
for seven years, accepted a position 
as director of the commons in Phil- 
lips academy, Andover, Mass. 

TWENTY YEARS AGO 
Dr Robert W. Clothier, '97, was 
named president of the New Mexico 
College of Agriculture and Mechanic 
Arts. 

At the semi-annual celebration of 
Iowa State college, that institution 
conferred the honorary degree of doc- 
tor of science upon R. A. Oakley, '03. 
John D. Parsons, '15, and Mrs. Eva 
(Alleman) Parsons, '14, were living 
in Lincoln, Neb., where Mr. Parsons 
was teaching courses in farm ma- 
chinery in the Department of Agricul- 



FORTY YEARS AGO 
Dean B. Swingle left for Madison, 
Wis., to take up postgraduate studies 
in botany at the University of Wis- 
consin. 

In addition to his farmers' insti- 
tute work, Prof. J. D. Walters ad- 
dressed nine county normal institutes 
during the summer. 

W. A. McCullough, '98, visited the 
college on his way to Kansas City to 
resume his medical studies at the uni- 
versity medical school there. 



Now, what attitude or action to 
take is the problem that has just 
about driven my conscience into de- 
lirium. And so it has yours. (This 
column is not about me at all. It's 
about you, too, and the other fellow 
— all of us, who go about doing what 
we're accustomed to and choking our 
consciences back every hour or so be- 
cause we are enjoying the quiet of 
civilized living while millions of 
other people who would like to can- 
not.) 



FIFTY YEARS AGO 
M. M. Lewis, '84, was elected to 
the pastorate of the First Baptist 
church of Nebraska City, Neb. 

D. E. Bundy, '89, and Miss Cora 
Waldraven were married at the home 
of the bride's parents in Parallel. 
They planned to live at Ponca Agency, 
Indian Territory, where Mr. Bundy 
was employed as an instructor in the 
government school. 

President and Mrs. Fairchild and 
Miss Anna Fairchild returned from 
a vacation trip in Ohio, Michigan and 
Illinois. The President was called to 
Washington for a week in the inter- 
est of the College in connection with 
the Morrill College-Aid bill. 

SIXTY YEARS AGO 
Professor Walters returned from a 
i prolonged visit at the home of his 
parents near Milford. 

The following statistics were com- 
| piled during enrolment: 97 students 



As I said, just now I think I know 
what we should do about the Ameri- 
can League pennant race, the poor 
coaches who have only 24 letter-men 
back, the battle between Roosevelt 
and Willkie and the super-colossal 
cinema production that starts on Fri- 
day at the Iris. I think we should 
take a cue from what we have been 
doing and go ahead enjoying them, 
and our meals, as always — if we eat 
meals. 



It's either that or fall into a long 
spell of confluent jitters and ultimate- 
ly demolish our sense of values. 

I figure that at some pretty im- 
mediate date we are going to have 
to get out our judgments and force 
them to stand and deliver. If we're 
all off-balance with conscience and 
jitters, that will be a pathetically sad 
day. 



What do you figure? 

Then on with the season — clear 
through that Tuesday in November 
to the Rose Bowl game! 



™ 



AMONG THE 
ALUMNI 



Many plans for the 50th anniver- 
sary of the class of '91 are being 
made by three members of that class. 
The committee making plans consists 
of Frank A. Waugh, Amherst, Mass.; 
( H. W. Avery, Wakefield; and Dr. 
Clay Coburn, Kansas City. Since only 
seven of the 28 living members of 
the class live in Kansas, the commit- 
tee members desire that members of 
the class cooperate on getting a full 
attendance at the meeting. 

Sue (Long) Strauss, B. S. '96, is 
assistant librarian of the Manhattan 
City library. She has been there for 
the past five years. 

Clara Spilman, B. S. '00, is secre- 
tary to the superintendent of schools 
in Manhattan. 

Lawrence A. Doane, Ag. '04, is a 
carpenter at San Diego, Calif. His 
wife is the former Kate Toomire. 
Their residence is at 4 420 Estrelle 
street. 

A. D. Stoddard, E. E. '06, is vice- 
president and chief of the Department 
of Engineering and Manufacturing of 
the Halliburton Oil Well Cementing 
company at Duncan, Okla. 

The address of W. R. Scholz, M. 
E. '07, is 5623 Walnut street, Kansas 
City, Kan. 

J. O. Parker, E. E. '09, is owner 
of the Parker Electric company at 
Lakin. He is the city electrician and 
also does private surveying. 

William A. Barr, Ag. '11, is a deal- 

( er in feed, hay and grain at Van 

\" Nuys, Calif. He was married in 1920 

to Leta Wintermute, a graduate of 

Ohio Wesleyan. Their residence Is 

at 1344 3 Galewood street. 

Dr. Jesse J. Frey, D. V. M. '14, and 
Louisa (Dyer) Frey, B. S. '14, 3948 
Sherman way, Sacramento, Calif., 
visited relatives and friends in Man- 
hattan early last summer. He is 
manager of the Golden State com- 
pany, limited, at Sacramento. This 
is probably the largest dairy company 
in California. 

Clytice Ross, H. E. '16, is home 
demonstration agent at Las Cruces, 
N. M. Until June, she was home dem- 
onstration agent at Tucumcari, N. M. 

Dr. Warren R. Sheff, D. V. M. '17, 
P. O. Box 1517, Las Vegas, Nev., is 
with the United States Bureau of 
Animal Industry. 

H. S. Woodard, Ag. '20, is owner 
of a firm in Webster Groves, Mo., 
which deals in General Motors prod- 
ucts — Frigidaire and air-conditioning 
equipment. Mrs. Woodard is the 
former Frances Ford, f. s. '19. 

Harry H. Connell, C. E. '22, lives 
in Salina where he is an engineer 
with Paulette and Wilson, engineers. 

Marion Welch, H. E. *23, informed 
the Alumni office of her marriage in 
1930 to A. L. Farmer, graduate of 
Baylor university, Waco, Texas. They 
* * live at 2222 South Madison, Tulsa, 
Okla. 

B. J. Miller, Ag. '24, is farm ad- 
viser with the Farm Security admin- 
istration. He has been at Washing- 
ton for four years. 

Wilbur Hanson, G. S. '25, M. S. '31, 
is a cereal chemist in Detroit, Mich. 
He is not married. 

Earl L. Hinden, G. S. '26, called 
at the Alumni office in August. He 
is field scout executive for the Boy 
Scouts of America and lives in Syra- 
cuse, N. Y. 

Hannah B. Murphy, H. E. '27, 
writes: "I was transferred from the 
veterans hospital at Wichita to Dal- 
las, Texas, on July 16 to open the 
dietetic department of their new 300- 
bed veterans hospital." 

Opal (Osborne) Grinnell, G. S. '28, 
is a home maker at Bonner Springs 
where her husband, Harold C. Grin- 
nell, teaches in the city schools. 

Ray S. Myers, R. C. '29, is manager 

of the Southwestern Bell Telephone 

company at Abilene. He and Mar- 

„ jorie (Ash back) Myers have a son, 

p' Stephen Phillip, 4 years old. 

| R. P. Hunsberger, C. E. '31, is city 

engineer at Wellington. He and his 

wife, the former Elizabeth McGeorge, 

f. s., have two children, Joan, 5, and 

Jon, 4. 

W. J. Conover, Ag. '3 2, is field man 
of the Farm Management association 
at Clay Center. Jacqueline, 5, and 
Jay, 3, are his two children. 

D. D. Becker, M. S. Physics '33, 
is an optometrist at Stockton. He 
has notified the Alumni office of his 



marriage in 1930 to Gladyne Baum- 
gartner, f. s. '32. 

Visiting the campus July 24 was 
Robert Huey, C. '34, who is assistant 
state director of the Professional 
and Service division of the Works 
Progress administration. His office is 
in Topeka. 

Dr. Sanford E. Johnson, D. V. M. 
'35, may be addressed at 3030 New- 
port, Omaha, Neb. He writes that 
he is a junior veterinarian with the 
United States Bureau of Animal In- 
dustry. 

Gladys Westerman, P. E. '36, is 
program director of the YMCA at 
Atchison. Her residence address is 
321 Commercial street. 

Fritz L. Furtick, Ag. '37, is doing 
landscape architecture in Dallas, 
Texas. His address is 6007 Ms Hill- 
crest in Dallas. 

Frank B. Kessler, Ag. '38, is the 
Lyon county rural rehabilitation su- 
pervisor at Emporia. 

Doyle Reed, Ag. '38, M. S. '40, has 
a half-time position as instructor in 
the Department of Agricultural Eco- 
nomics at the A. and M. College, Col- 
lege Station, Texas. He also will take 
some graduate work there. Until go- 
ing to Texas, he held a similar posi- 
tion at Kansas State College. 

Edward C. Moore, C. '39, is book- 
keeper of the United Life Insurance 
company in the Salina offices. 

Herman Reitz, S. H. '39, Belle 
Plaine, received his master of science 
degree from Ohio State university 
this summer. 

Vearl N. Huff, E. E. '39, is now 
research assistant and graduate stu- 
dent at the Ryan High Voltage lab- 
oratory, Stanford University, Calif. 

Helen M. Foster, M. S. '40 in In- 
stitutional Management, is state su- 
pervisor of the Hot Lunch program in 
North Dakota. Her office is at Bis- 
marck, N. D. 

Dorothea Nielson, H. E. '40, is 
teaching vocational home economics 
in Springfield, Colo. 

Charles A. Fisher, I. J. '40, has a 
position on the staff of the Wichita 

Eagle. 

♦ 

BIRTHS 



LOOKING AROUND 

KENNEY L. FORD 



To Trilla (Goheen) Beck, '31, and 
Franklin H. Beck, 109 Water street, 
Chestertown, Md., was born a son on 
August 9. 



To A. V. Schwartz Jr., '38, and 
Roberta (Row) Schwartz, f. s., Bis- 
marck, N. D., a daughter, Dixie Lee, 
on August 19. 



Mary (Maxwell) Moline, '30, and 
Lloyd Moline, Randolph, announce 
the birth of their daughter, Mary 
Ann, on July 17. 



Lela (Huber) O'Brien, '3 7, and 
Dean O'Brien of 17 East Sixteenth 
avenue, Denver, Colo., announce the 
birth of a daughter, Patricia Jane, 
born August 2. 



William D. Fitch, '35, and Eliza- 
beth (Lamprecht) Fitch, '36, have 
named their daughter Charlotte Ann. 
Mr. Fitch is director of music in the 
Central Junior High school in Kansas 
City. Their residence address is 2921 
North Twenty-Sixth street. 
♦ 

DEATHS 



WILLIAMS 

Word received from Owen E. Wil- 
liams, Ag. '11, tells of the death of 
his wife, Edith (Maddux) Williams, 
on July 17 after a long illness. She 
is survived by her husband and a son, 
Robert Owen. Mr. Williams is a dairy 
manufacturing specialist with the 
United States Bureau of Dairy Indus- 
try. 



.McKEEVEl! 

Dr. William A. McKeever, former 
Kansas State College professor, 72- 
year-old psychologist and writer, died 
July 8 at his Oklahoma City home of 
complications resulting from a kidney 
ailment. 

In recent years he inaugurated a 
lovers' church and founded the Mat- 
urates society for persons over 70. 
Slogans of the society included, "Old 
age is a delusion" and "Life begins 
at 70." He founded the lovers' 
church in 1937, and predicted "that 
it would plant a bomb under this in- 
fernal divorce mill." 

He was professor of philosophy at 
the College from 1900 to 1913 and 
head of the Department of Child Wel- 
fare at the University of Kansas from 
1913 to 1920. 



Plan Boulder Luncheon 

Walter J. Ott, '16, Patterson build- 
ing, Denver, Colo., president of the 
Colorado-Kansas State Alumni asso- 
ciation, announces that the Memorial 
building on the campus of Colorado 
State university, Boulder, will be 
alumni headquarters for the Kansas 
State-Colorado university football 
game Saturday afternoon, October 5. 
An alumni luncheon is planned. After 
the luncheon the group will go in a 
body to sit in a special reserved sec- 
tion at the football game. Reserved 
tickets for the game, including the 
tax, are $2 each and the luncheon 
is 50 cents. Those wishing to make 
reservations for the game or the 
luncheon should write to Miss Grace 
L. Craven, '14, University of Colo- 
rado, Boulder, Colo. 



California Picnic 

John F. Davidson, '13, Glendale, 
Calif., writes: 

"Following the custom since 1907, 
the K. S. C. Alumni association in 
Southern California held their annual 
midsummer picnic the last Saturday 
in June at Brookside park, Pasadena, 
Calif., with Coach Hobbs Adams and 
Mrs. Adams, Coaches Bill Schutte 
and Jack Gardner as the honored 
guests. 

"Coach Adams gave an interesting 
talk on football at Kansas State and 
added other items of interest about 
the College. He then showed motion 
pictures of the football games played 
last fall with certain of the Big Six 
teams. This was extremely well re- 
ceived, and needless, to say, Coach 
Adams won the confidence of all 
alumni present. 

"Coach Schutte gave a short talk 
on the progress made in football at 
Kansas State. Coach Gardner also 
gave us some information regarding 
the much-needed fieldhouse which 
has been proposed that the state build 
for the College. 

"One of the numbers of the pro- 
gram was the electrical transcription 
arranged for us by our alumni secre- 
tary, Kenney L. Ford, in which he 
greeted us and introduced President 
F. D. Farrell. President Farrell gave 
us a hearty welcome which was eager- 
ly received by the alumni. The tran- 
scription also included music by the 
College band and the College glee 
club. To receive a message by tran- 
scription from our Alma Mater and 
its faculty, some 2,000 miles away, 
was certainly an innovation. 

"Officers elected for the coming 
year are: George R. Hewey, '21, 
president; John F. Davidson, '13, 
vice-president; Dr. James M. Brown, 
'40, secretary-treasurer. 

"This is the first year the meeting 
has been held in Brookside park, 
Pasadena. This has been chosen as 
the permanent meeting place for the 
June picnics. The fall picnic will 
be held the first Sunday in November 
at 1 p. m. in Anaheim City park, Ana- 
heim, Calif. 

"Among those in attendance were: 
Boyd F. and Gladys (Flippo) Agnew, 
'20 and '21; W. H. Allen, f. s. '24; 
Karl M. Anderson, '39; John G. and 
Dorothy (Buschow) Auld, '14 and 
'14; Henry A. Avery, '02; Harry S. 
and Edna (Bolleau) Baird, '11 and 
f. s.; Raymond A. Baldwin, '13; Hugh 

D. Barnes, '20; Edythe (Groome) 
Bartley, '14; Harold R. Batchelor, 
'27; Wallace N. Birch. '04; Hazel 
(Peck) Bishop, '16; Josephine (Fin- 
ley) Blain, '00. 

"Dr. James M. Brown, '40; E. F. 
Carr, '27; Helen E. Cass, '25; Wil- 
lard M. Cheney, '34; Lora P. Chest- 
nut, f. s. '10; J. G. and Minnie (Ise) 
Chitty, '05 and f. s. '07; Bradbury 

I B. Coale, "34; Elizabeth Clothier, '97; 
Robert W. Clothier, '9 7; Margaret 

: (Bane) Cox, '23; F. A. Craik, f. s. 

!'97; Lulu (Zeller) Crandell, '22; 

| John F. Davidson, '13; Charles L. 

i Dean, '29; Homer and Elizabeth 
(Asbury) Derr, '00 and '00; James 
Drew, '34; Don A. and Lenore (Hat- 

jter) Duckwall, '38 and '38; Roy A. 
Dunham, '37. 

"Charles Eastman, '02; Lathrop 
W. and Crete (Spencer) Fielding. '05 
and '05; Robert S. and Wilma (Mills) 
Florer, '3 2 and f. s. '30; John F. and 
Grace (Bressler) Gartner, '25 and 
'25; Harry W. Ganstrom, '33; Lu- 
cille A. Gramse, '23; Catherine (Lori- 
mer) Gilbreath, '28; Fred J. Grifflng, 
f. s. '02; John B. Grifflng, '04; Mary 

E. Hall, '04; Florence (Deputy) 
Haskell, f. s.; Greeta (Gramse) Hay, 



'19; George R. Hewey, '21; Fern 
(Weaver) Hobbs, '12; Mar jorie E. 
Holman, '38; Rosema L. Holman, 
'35; Flora Hoots, '21. 

"Harvey B. and Nellie (Baird) 
Hubbard, '05 and '05; Ralph W. and 
Nell (Hawkins) Hull, '08 and f. s. 
'06; Wilber W. and Bertha (Lap- 
ham) Humphrey, '24 and '27; James 
E. Hyett, '34; Mable (Hawkinson) 
Issaison, '13; Donald S. and Juanita 
(Reynolds) Jordan, '16 and '16; 
Walter W. Keith, '14; Homer W. and 
Virginia (Holman) Kerley, '38 and 
'3 6; Mary (Morrison) Kerns, '3 7; 
Clarence B. and Gabriella (Venard) 
Kirk, '06 and '07; Nell (Shoup) Kirk, 
'19. 

"Elmer F. and Mabel (Hammond) 
Kittell, '11 and '11; Russell N. 
Loomis, '23; J. O. and Ruth (Par- 
cels) McDougal, '35 and f. s. '34; 
Sarah (Thompson) Manny, '03; Nor- 
ris Meek, '32; Kate (Reed) Metzger, 
f. s. '08; Marvin A. Michall, f. s.; 
Helen (Green) Miller, '27; Fred W. 
Milner, '15; George Nesbit, '35; 
Arthur Parks, f. s. '16; Margaret 
Peltier, f. a.; Maude (Knickerbocker) 
Pyles, '93; James C. Riney, '16; 
Bella C. Robertson, '26; Ruth Rob- 
ertson, f. s.; Helen (Hockersmith) 
Rockoff, '14; W. S. and Phoebe 
(Smith) Romick, '97 and '97; Ben- 
jamin F. Royer, '95; Frank D. Rup- 
pert, '25; Charles Jr. and Flora 
(Deal) Sardou, '29 and '29; Harold 
A. Senior, '29; Albert E. and Cornelia 
(King) Siler, '34 and '37. 

"Alfred C. and Mary (Waugh) 
Smith, '97 and '99; Ralph B. Smith, 
'13; Bruce S. and Doris (Train) 
Stewart, f. s. '06 and '06; Ruth E. 
Stevens, f. s. '39; Homer J. Stock- 
well, '33; Mabel (Groom) Teffean, 
'05; George W. Vaught, '40; William 
E. Wareham, '24; Clarence W. and 
Christine (Van Vliet) Watson, '12 
and f. s. '12; Vorin E. and Dorothy 
(Nelson) Whan, '22 and f. s.; Lelia 
Whearty, '18; Ruth Whearty, '23; 
John E. Wherry, '40; Edward W. 
and Helen (Edelen) Wichmann, f. s. 
and '27; Edwin Jr. and Alice (En- 
glund) Winkler, '21 and '26." 
♦ 

MARRIAGES 



RECENT HAPPENINGS 
ON THE HILL 



NABOURS— RALL, 

Elizabeth Nabours, H. E. '39, Man- 
hattan, and Kenneth E. Rail, C. '38, 
Wichita, were married July 14 at the 
Congregational church in Manhattan. 
The bride was given in marriage by 
her father, Dr. R. K. Nabours. After 
the ceremony, Mrs. F. D. Farrell and 
Dr. Margaret Justin assisted at the 
reception. 

The bride is a member of Pi Beta 
Phi sorority, and for the past year 
had been a student assistant at the 
Merrill-Palmer institute in Detroit, 
Mich. Mr. Rail is a member of Delta 
Tau Delta fraternity and is now affili- 
ated with General Mills in Wichita. 
Mr. and Mrs. Rail will make their 
home there. 



POOLE— AVERY 
The marriage of Elizabeth Poole, 
G. S. '33, Kansas City, Mo., and 
Thomas B. Avery, Ag. '34, Urbana, 
111., was solemnized July 14 in the 
music room of the Alpha Xi Delta 
sorority house. Mrs. Avery, a mem- 
ber of that sorority, had been em- 
ployed in the office of Dean R. W. 
Babcock for the past two years. Mr. 
Avery received his master's degree in 
poultry husbandry here last summer. 
He is now associated with the depart- 
ment of poultry husbandry at the 
University of Illinois. 



Don Makins, Abilene, editor of the 
Royal Purple, said that all color pho- 
tographs for the 1941 yearbook ex- 
cept two have been taken. More than 
550 students already have received 
receipts for their Royal Purple photo- 
graphs, Makins said. 



Dorothy Axcell, Chanute, was 
elected to fill the vacancy in the Stu- 
dent Council position left vacant by 
Jean Marie Knott, Independence, who 
did not return to school this year. 
Miss Axcell is a senior in the Division 
of Home Economics. 



Theta Sigma Phi, honorary jour- 
nalism sorority, and Sigma Delta Chi, 
professional journalism fraternity, 
gave a banquet in Thompson hall 
Tuesday night honoring Prof, and 
Mrs. R. I. Thackrey. Professor Thack- 
rey is head of the Department of In- 
dustrial Journalism and Printing. 



C. M. Correll, assistant dean of the 
Division of General Science, will talk 
on conscription at 7:30 p. m. Thurs- 
day in Recreation Center. This is 
one of the series of addresses by fac- 
ulty members sponsored by the YMCA 
for the purpose of informing students 
about subjects of vital concern to 
them. 



President and Mrs. F. D. Farrell 
held their traditional garden party 
for the College faculty Saturday after- 
noon. In the receiving line were 
President and Mrs. Farrell, Miss 
Helen Moore, new dean of women, 
and Prof, and Mrs. R. I. Thackrey. 
Professor Thackrey is new head of 
the Department of Industrial Jour- 
nalism and Printing. 



A new 500-h'orsepower boiler, ca- 
pable of carrying 300 per cent of its 
load, and a new 1,000-kilowatt tur- 
bine generating unit and auxiliary 
units have been installed at the Pow- 
er Plant. The added power was 
needed due to the addition of the 
Physical Science building and more 
greenhouses last year. Power for the 
entire campus is supplied by the 
plant. 



Dr. Ralph R. Dykstra, dean of the 
Division of Veterinary Medicine, was 
principal speaker at the recent meet- 
ing of the Kansas City, Kan., branch 
of the Employees of the United States 
Bureau of Animal Industry. The 
meeting was held September 12 at 
Kansas City. Dean Dykstra's talk 
concerned research work in veteri- 
nary medicine at Kansas State Col- 
lege. 



Matt Betton and his orchestra have 
been engaged to play for the annual 
Homecoming ball, which will be 
staged Friday, October 18, at the 
Avalon ballroom. Blue Key, senior 
men's honorary organization, spon- 
sors the dance each year. Jack Hay- 
maker, Manhattan, president, has an- 
nounced that due to a Panhellenic 
j ruling last spring sorority members 
I will not be allowed to sell dance 
I tickets. They will be available only 
from Blue Key men and Manhattan 
business houses. Each of the nine 
i sororities, Van Zile hall and the In- 
dependent Student union will be en- 
| titled to enter one candidate for the 
queen. 



DOCTOR WILLARD'S HISTORY 

Dr. Julius T. Willard's "History of Kansas State College 
of Agriculture and Applied Science" is now ready for dis- 
tribution. Return the following order blank to the Alumni 
office, Kansas State College, for your copy: 

I am a paid-up life member of the K. S. C. Alumni asso- 
ciation. Kindly send my free copy. 

Enclosed find $ to complete payments on my 

life membership, which will entitle me to a free copy. 

Enclosed find $4 for one copy and annual membership 

in the Alumni association for 1940-41. 

Enclosed find $1 for one copy. My 1940-41 dues already 

have been paid. 

Please ask Doctor Willard to autograph my copy. 



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ADAMS TO MAKE DEBUT HOBBS ADAMS HATES LOAFERS ON HIS SQUAD 



AS COACH ON SATURDAY 

WILDCAT SQUAD WILL BATTLE 
EMPORIA STATE TEACHERS 



SO DRILLS ARE REALISTIC AND EFFICIENT 



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Eight Senior* mid Three Juniors Ex- 
pected to Stnrt Season's Opening; 
Gnme In Memorial Stii- 
dluni at 2 p. m. 

Hobbs Adams will make his debut 
as Kansas State College's head foot- 
ball coach here Saturday afternoon 
when his gridiron machine renews a 
40-year-old rivalry with the Emporia 
State Teachers college eleven. The 
game will start at 2 p. m. in Memorial 
Stadium. 

Eight seniors and three juniors 
compose the only team which has 
satisfied the Kansas State mentor in 
workouts thus far. They probably 
will start the season's opener. Most 
of the other squad members have 
failed to come up to expectations, 
leaving the Wildcats still weak on re- 
serves. 

FAIR AT QUARTERBACK 

The probable starters for Saturday 
are Don Munzer, Herington, and 
Wallace Swanson, Sharon Springs, 
ends; Norbert Raemer, Herkimer, 
and Bernie Weiner, Irvington, N. J., 
tackles; Ed Huff, Marysville, and Bill 
Nichols, Waterville, guards; Ken 
Hamlin, Eureka, center; Gene Fair, 
Alden, quarterback; Max Timmons, 
Fredonia, and Chris Langvardt, Alta 
Vista, halfbacks; and Art Kirk, Scott 
City, fullback. Raemer, Huff and 
Timmons are juniors. 

Kent Duwe, Lucas, Kansas State's 
sophomore star at fullback last sea- 
son, did not participate in Saturday's 
scrimmage because of a leg injury, 
but is expected to be ready to share 
the quarterback duties with Fair 
against the Hornets. 

WILDCATS TAKE 12 

The Emporia school has provided 
Kansas State College with plenty of 
trouble In their football series which 
dates back to 1899. The Wildcats 
have won 12 and Emporia seven 
games. Three contests ended in ties. 

A pre-game sports broadcast direct 
from the College football practice 
field will be presented over radio sta- 
tion KSAC at 5:15 p. m. Thursday. 
— i ♦ — 

CHRISTIAN MISSION MEET 

EXPECTED TO ATTRACT 100 



Hobbs Adams, raw-boned Kansas 
State football coach, dislikes a loafer 
on a football team more than any- 
thing else. 

No time is wasted in Coach Adams 
drills. He runs the workouts in a 
highly efficient and businesslike man- 
ner and never lets the boys forget 
that they are to go out onto the field 
with the idea of beating somebody. 

If a back is supposed to run, he's 
expected to turn on all his speed and 

power. 

"Might as well make 20 or H) 
yards," the curly-haired mentor tells 
them. "It takes too long for gains 
of two or three yards to do you any 

good." 

That's characteristic of Coach 
Adams. He knows what he wants ac- 

\ complished and how to go about it. 
It isn't long until anyone associated 
with him catches his fire and enthusi- 

i asm, his love for doing a job well. 

Along with his conscientious at- 
tention to duty, Coach Adams has a 
keen sense of humor which has made 
him immensely popular with his play- 

: ers as well as with everyone in this 

; college town. He's in constant de- 
mand as an after-dinner speaker. 

While a student at the University 
of Southern California, Adams starred 
in both football and baseball and is | 
the only U. S. C. athlete in the last 
20 years to captain two major sports 
teams. He was all-Pacific Coast con- 

SCOTT HORTON, WELLINGTON 
AWARDED $5 POETRY PRIZE 



ference end his last two years of 
competition. 

After graduation in 1926, Mr. 
Adams began his outstanding coach- 
ing career at Monrovia, Calif., High 
school where his football teams won 
24 games, lost three and tied one in 
three years. He then moved to San 
Diego, Calif., High school to turn out 
a record of 58 victories, two ties and 
four losses in six football seasons. 
Among the individual stars produced 
at San Diego were Irvine (Cotton) 
Warburton, later all-American quar- 
terback at Southern California; Ab- 
ros Schindler, later all-Coast quarter- 
back at Southern California and hero 
of U. S. C.'s 14 to victory over Ten- 
nessee in the Pasadena Rose Bowl 
game January 1, 1940; Ben Sohn, 
outstanding guard on the present 
Southern California eleven; and 
Grant Stone, recent captain and all- 
Coast end at Stanford. 

Mr. Adams was called to the Uni- 
versity of Southern California coach- 
ing staff in February, 1935. He 
served as head freshman coach two 
years and then joined the varsity 
staff, starting with the 1937 cam- 
paign. He was end coach for Howard 
Jones the last three seasons, assisted 
with the backs and did much of the 
school's scouting. He was chosen 
head coach at Kansas State last 
spring to succeed Wesley L. Fry, now 
assistant to Lynn Waldorf at North- 
western university. 



Have New Purple Jerseys 

A new set of Northwestern purple 
, jerseys with socks to match has been 
! added to the wardrobe of the Kansas 
\ State College 1940 football team. The 
jerseys have large, white numbers 
on both the front and back. The Wild- 
cats also will appear in new gold 
pants and tan helmets. They will use 
both the purple jerseys and white 
jerseys with purple numbers during 
the 1940 grid campaign. 



MANY JUNIORS ALLOWED 
VOLUNTARY ATTENDANCE 

SELECTED GROUP OF 100 HAVE 
MAINTAINED B AVERAGE 



POSTERS ARE DISTRIBUTED 
ON PROPER FOOD HANDLING 



Dr. A. A. HoltB Sny» Early Interest In 

KiiiixiiN City Sessions Indicates 

Record Delegation 

Approximately 100 YMCA, YWCA 
and church social group members at 
Kansas State College are expected to 
attend the National Christian mission 
at Kansas City on October 5. 

Dr. A. A. Holtz, YMCA secretary, 
expressed the hope that the large j 
delegation of students to the college- 
university day at the sessions wi 1 
establish a new record for the Col- 
lege The previous high mark for a 
College delegation was made when; 
54 students attended a gathering in 
Des Moines. If reports from churches 
keep at the present high tide, Doctor 
Holtz said approximately 100 stu- 
dents will make the trip. 

The college-university day will be 
devoted to the interests of youth, 
Doctor Holtz said. Conference ses- 
sions will fill the day's program and 
a mass meeting of young folk will be 
held in the arena of the Municipal 
auditorium Saturday night. 

Dr E. Stanley Jones, missionary 
from India, and Miss Grace Sloan 
Overton, lecturer from Ann Arbor, 
Mich , both of whom were at the 
Christian mission on the campus two 
years ago, will be guest speakers at 
Kansas City. Miss Overton, an au- J 
thority on home and family life and ( 
on young people's problems, will lead . 
a seminar on "The Christian Family. 
♦ 
Graduate Picnic Saturday 
The Graduate club, organization of 
all graduate students of the College, 
will hold a picnic Saturday from 
4-30 to 8 p. m. at the southeast cor- 
ner of Sunset park. The get-together 
is being held so advanced students 
may meet each other, according to 
Lyman Frick, Kansas City, Mo., presi- 
dent of the group. James Koepper, 
Medora, Ind., is treasurer of the 
Graduate club. There are no fees fo 
membership in the organization but 
guests have been requested to bring 
1 5 cents to cover the cost of the food 
for the affair Saturday night, the of- 
ficers said. 



"Safe Nest" Selected as Best Spring 

Verse Contributed 

to Paper 

Scott Horton, Wellington, was 
awarded The Kansas Industrialist 
poetry prize of $5 which is given each 
spring semester by The Kansas Maga- 
zine for the best poem published in 

THE KANSAS INDUSTRIALIST during 

that semester. The title of her poem 
is "Safe Nest." It appeared in the 
paper's poetry corner April 24. 

Mrs Horton spent the first 17 years 
of her life on a farm near Jefferson 
City Mo., and since that time has 
lived in Oklahoma, Nebraska, and 
Kansas. Her poetry has been pub- 
lished in a large number of magazines 
and newspapers, among them the 
New York Times and The Kansas 
Magazine. 

Second place, though no prize 
money, was awarded to Lucille Mcin- 
tosh, Palmer, who was graduated 
from Kansas State College this year. 
She has contributed poetry to the 
Parchment, national journal of Quill 
Club and the Mirror, publication of 
the local chapter of Quill Club. Her 
poem was entitled "With Riches Such 
as These." 

"Sharecroppers Leaving the Land," 
by Vivian Pike Boles, Fulton, Mo., 
formerly of Winfleld, placed third. 
Mrs. Boles is a regular contributor 
to the Kansas Magazine and has rec- 
ords showing the sale of 221 poems 
she has written. She was born on a 
claim halfway between Wellington 
and Arkansas City. Her husband 
heads the department of economics 
and business administration at West- 
minster College. 



Beauty Ball November 22 

Don Makins, Abilene, editor of the 
Royal Purple, announced this week 
that the annual Royal Purple Beauty 
ball will be held on Friday, Novem- 
ber 22. 



R. I. THACKREY ANNOUNCES 

$50 STUDENT WRITING PRIZE 



Entries Should Be Submitted Before 
Noon on April 5 

Prizes totaling $50 annually will 
be offered for reflective writing by 
students in the field of journalism at 
Kansas State College, starting with 
the current school year. 

Prof. R. I. Thackrey, head of the 
Department of Industrial Journalism 
and Printing, said the $50 in prize 
money is being offered, through the 
President's office, by an anonymous 
donor. Prizes of $25, $15 and $10 
for first, second and third places, re- 
spectively, are offered to undergradu- 
ates in the journalism curriculum or 
in journalism and agriculture or 
journalism and home economics. 

Competition is restricted to articles 
written between October 1 and April 
1, 1941. Entries must be submitted 
before noon next April 5. Manuscripts 
must be typewritten or in ink on one 
side of the paper only, and prepared 
in such form as to be suitable for 
publication in a newspaper, general 
or technical periodical or yearbook. 
Each manuscript must be accom- 
panied by a bibliography. Manu- 
scripts of fewer than 700 or more 
than 2,000 words will not be accepted. 
Manuscripts must designate the pub- 
lication for which they are intended. 
Articles must deal with topics which 
would be suitable for discussion in 
a contemporary newspaper, periodi- 
cal or yearbook. There is no restric- 
tion on subject matter. 



College Committee Seeks to Safeguard 

Student Health In 

Mnnhnttan 

As a means of safeguarding stu- 
dent health in Manhattan, placards 
were distributed last week to approxi- 
mately 150 eating places which cater 
to College students. Two of the cards, 
together with a letter and six copies 
of a two-page bulletin on "Procedure 
for Food Handlers," are being dis- 
tributed by the College Committee 
on Student Health. 

The committee includes Prof. L. E. 
Conrad as chairman, Dr. L. D. Bush- 
nell, Prof. M. F. Ahearn, Dean Helen 
Moore and Dr. M. W. Husband. 

The placard lists several sugges- 
tions to food handlers, most of them 
relating to sanitation. The final ad- 
monition on the card is "Never Work 
When 111 — See a Doctor." 

The bulletin included suggestions 
to employees on disease prevention, 
hand washing and clean utensils, with 
a section directed to the attention of 
employers asking them to inquire 
regularly of food handlers to deter- 
mine whether they have had typhoid, 
para-typhoid, dysentery or tubercu- 
losis. Employees having or suspected 
of having ailments of a possible com- 
municable nature are to be required 
by their employers to report to a 
qualified physician for examination. 

The letter enclosed with the bulle- 
tins and placards indicated the Com- 
mittee on Student Health wished to 
minimize the possibility of disease 
transmission through improper food 
handling. Employers were asked to 
place the cards in conspicuous places 
in kitchens and in lavatories used by 
food handlers. The committee asked 
that the employer read the bulletin 
carefully, then distribute the extra 
copies to food handlers, with instruc- 
tions to follow the suggestions given. 
The posters have been sent to fra- 
ternities, sororities, student boarding 
clubs and other food distribution 
places on and near the campus. 



LA VERNE NOYES SCHOLARSHIPS 
ARE AWARDED TO 18 STUDENTS 



EVERYDAY ECONOMICS 

By W. E. GRIMES 



" Man, taken alone, is not a complete functioning unit." 



Man, taken alone, is not a complete 
functioning unit. Man cannot exer- 
cise all of his functions if isolated 
from other human beings. Oral and 
written language would be useless 
without the existence of other human 
beings to hear or to read that which 
is said or written. Reproduction is 
dependent upon both male and fe- 
male. Leadership is useless without 
others to lead. Initiative would be 
meaningless if only the individual en- 
joyed the benefits of the initiative. 
All of this merely stresses the vital 
importance of human relations. 

No one of us is self-sufficient. And 
being dependent upon others and 
others being dependent upon us, the 
development and maintenance of sat- 
isfactory relations among people be- 
comes more important than the fur- 
therance of the selfish desires of the 
individual. 

The unsolved riddles of this age 



.evolve around the problems of satis- 
factory relations among human be- 
ings. And this has been so in every 
age. To make bricks for Pharaoh or 
to grow grain for themselves was one 
of the problems facing the Israelites. 
I To produce war munitions for the 
j conquests of Hitler or to produce 
! goods for their own use is one of the 
problems of peoples of Europe today. 
These are but a few of the ways in 
which the problems of human rela- 
tions have presented themselves over 
the ages. 

It is encouraging to note that 
through the ages these relations 
gradually but slowly have been ad- 
justed in ways that have resulted in 
improvement for all mankind. How- 
ever, the processes usually have been 
so slow that one needs the philosophy 
of the Chinese to get a great deal of 
encouragement out of it for himself 
and his generation. 



Ench Receives $25 for Assistance Dur- 
ing Present School Year 

Eighteen students received La- 
Verne Noyes scholarship awards of 
$25 each this fall. 

Those who received the scholar- 
ships are Carnot Bellinger, Junction 
City; Mary Margaret Bishop, Had- 
dam; Doris Blackman, Hill City; 
Thelma Bouck, Manhattan; Catherine 
Coxsey, Leavenworth; John Crabb, 
Topeka; Plorine Craig, Kansas City; 
Edward Kirkman, Topeka ; William 
Meredith, Lincoln; Clarice Morris, \ 
Wichita; Freda Mumaw, Onaga; Dru- 
silla Norby, Pratt; Lloyd Peterson, 
Tescott; Alma Pressgrove, Tecum- 
seh; Rex Pruett, Culver; Ernest' 
Rothfelder, Axtell; Mary Stahl, Wich- 
lita; Donald Timma, Manhattan. 

The LaVerne Noyes scholarships 
i are awarded each year to direct de- 
! scendants of World war veterans who 
served for a period of not less than 
six months prior to November 11, 
1918, or served overseas prior to that 
! date, in the army, navy or marine 
corps of the United States, and were 
.honorably discharged, or to World 
! war veterans themselves who served 
< in the army under these same speci- 
! fications. Students from the eligible 
list are selected on the basis of need 
and previous scholarship record. The 
scholarships are awarded for a period 
of one school year, but may be re- 
newed at the end of that time if the 
student qualifies in scholarship. 
♦ 
Bob Washburn Cheer Leader 
Bob Washburn, Manhattan, was 
chosen head cheer leader for the 
Wildcats at a competition Monday 
night. Judges were Bill Bixler, Em- 
poria, pep chairman of the Student 
Council, Miss Katherine Geyer of the 
Department of Physical Education, 
Norman Webster of the Department 
of Public Speaking, Wampus Cat and 
Purple Pepster representatives. 



Divisions of General Science and Engi- 
neering nnd Architecture Lead 
with 25 Students Each 
on List 

One hundred juniors at Kansas 
State College have the privilege of 
voluntary attendance this year be- 
cause they have maintained a B av- 
erage for each of the two preceding 
semesters, had no failing grades and 
have carried enough hours to earn 
30 grade poin'-s each semester. 

Those named are, by divisions: 

21 IN AGRICULTURE 

Division of Agriculture — Acton R. 
Brown, Sylvan Grove; Paul Q. Chron- 
ister, Abilene; Harry Cowman Jr., 
Lost Springs; Max Dawdy, Washing- 
ton; Leonard Deets, South Haven; 
Donald Fleming, Ottawa; Eugene S. 
Hersche, Bucyrus; Oliver Conrad 
Jackson, Elsmore; Scott Kelsey, To- 
peka; Murray Kinman. Wamego; 
Harvey Kopper, Ingalls; Orville 
[Love, Neosho Rapids; Edward Mayo, 
I Indianapolis, Ind.; Joseph Mudge, 
Gridley; Oscar Norby, Pratt; Ray- 
mond Rokey, Sabetha; Robert Single- 
ton, Kansas City; Floyd William 
Smith, Shawnee; Vernon Smith, 
| Bloomington; Robert Wagner, Gar- 
den City; Francis Wempe, Frankfort. 
Division of Home Economics — 
Dorothy Beezley, Girard; Ada Bent- 
ley, Shields; Phyllis Billings, Topeka; 
Freda Butcher, Cold water; Virginia 
Delano, Hutchinson; Martha DeMand, 
Lincolnville; Von Eloise Eastman, 
Matfield Green; Jean Elaine Falken- 
rich, Manhattan; Jane Haymaker, 
Manhattan; Clara Hellmer, Olpe; 
Betty Elaine Hutchinson, Goddard; 
Dorothy Mae Montgomery, Sabetha; 
Shirley Alice Pohlenz, Freeport; Irma 
Popp, Marion; Eleanor Reed, Clrcle- 
ville; Helen Reiman, Byers; Mar- 
garet Salser, Wichita; Margaret 
Smies, Courtland; Lenora Jeanne 
Stephenson, Larned ; Nita Mae Strick- 
lin, Webster; Virginia Van Meter, 
Ada; Shirley Wing, Columbus. 

Division of Engineering and Archi- 
tecture — Frank Bates, Topeka; Wil- 
liam Bixler, Emporia; James M. 
Bowyer Jr., Courtland; John Brewer, 
Arkansas City; Robert Brown, Na- 
toma; Duane Davis, Cawker City; 
George Fetters, Manhattan; William 
Fitzsimmons, Macksville; Clyde Hin- 
richs, Leonardville; Wilber Hole, 
Topeka; Don Holshouser, Dwight; 
Harold Hossfeld, Willis; Melvin John- 
son, Quinter; Edward K. Kirkham, 
Topeka; John McClurkin, Clay Cen- 
ter; Arthur McGovern, Schenectady, 
N. Y.; Donald Moss, Miltonvale; Ray- 
mond Patrick Murray, St. Marys; 
Norman Noble, Johnson; Dennis 
O'Neill, Ransom; George Sample, 
Council Grove; Glenn Schwab, Grid- 
ley; Lawrence Eldon Spear, Kansas 
City, Mo.; Paul Waibler, Great Bend; 
Alice Warren, Manhattan. 



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GENERAL, SCIENCE HAS 25 
Division of General Science — Mary 
B. Anderson, Manhattan; Shirley 
Bartholomew, Norton ; Donald Wayne 
Brown, Paradise; Robert Car- 
penter, Oswego; Clarence Curtis, 
Lenora; Marvel Dale Dietz, Esbon; 
Raymond Keith Eshelman, Sedgwick; 
Betty Lou Ford, McPherson; Charles 
J. Glotzbach, Paxico; Keith D. Hen- 
rikson, Manhattan; Romaine Edwin 
Johnson, Manhattan; Philip Kaul, 
Holton; Richard Keith, Manhattan; 
Raymond O. Keltner, Hoisington; 
Reva A. King, Council Grove; Hurst 
K. Majors, Manhattan; Arlene V. 
Mayer, Alta Vista; Ida Isabel Moore, 
Alta Vista; Lindell C. Owensby, Man- 
hattan; Harold J. Santner, Gaylord; 
Dreda Maxine Smith, Vermillion; 
, Marjorie Spurrier, Kingman; Doro- 
thy Swingle, Manhattan; Dorothy 
Triplett, Humboldt; Keith Walling- 
i ford, Manhattan. 

Division of Veterinary Medicine — 
Ralph A. Bruce, Prescott; Donald K. 
Christian, Leavenworth; Robert E. 
Hauke, Meriden; Quentin E. Jeppe- 
sen, Garden City, Minn.; Richard A. 
Shea, Kansas City; Frederic Barber 
Walker Jr., Santee, Calif.; William 
Roger West, Manhattan. 



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Management Houses Full 

The three home management 
houses, Ula Dow cottage, Margaret 
Ahlborn lodge and Ellen H. Richards 
lodge, are filled to capacity this se- 
mester. Students in the Division of 
Home Economics seeking Smith- 
Hughes certificates are required to 
live for two weeks in each of the 
houses owned by the department. 



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HISTORICAL SOCIETY C 

TOPEKA 

KAN. 



The Kansas Industrialist 



Volume 67 



Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, Manhattan, Wednesday, October 2, 1940 



Number 3 



ENROLMENT STATISTICS 

SET ALL-TIME RECORD 



FIGURES SHOW 4,000 STUDENTS ARE 
REGISTERED 



Dlvlalon of General Science la First un 

Engineers Tnke Second Place and 

Home Economics Places 

Third In Rank 

Enrolment on September 30 totaled 
4,090, a new all-time high in the 78- 
year history of the institution, ac- 
cording to a complete detailed an- 
nouncement tabulation, issued today 
by Miss Jessie McDowell Machir, 
registrar. The total exceeds by 20 the 
previous record of 4,070 students en- 
rolled on September 30, 1939. The 
grand total for the present semester 
includes only 293 non-residents of 
Kansas. 

The complete analysis made by 
Miss Machir gives the enrolment by 
divisions, departments, classes and 
curricula. The analysis also shows 
the number of special, graduate and 
non-resident students in each classi- 
fication. 

INCREASE IN WOMEN 

Men students outnumber women 
students 2,864 to 1,226 or more than 
two to one. However there are 26 
more women students than a year 
ago. This increase more than ac- 
counts for the increase of 20 for the 
entire institution. 

Enrolments by divisions are: Agri- 
culture, 727; Veterinary Medicine, j 
228; Home Economics, 869; General' 
Science, 1,160; Engineering, 1,129. 

The Division of Agriculture has 
four women students, Division of Vet- j 
erinary Medicine has one woman stu- 
dent, Division of General Science has j 
349 women students and the Division 
Of Engineering has five women stu- 
dents. There are no men students 
included in the 869 persons enrolled 
in Home Economics. 

GRADUATE SCHOOL. HAS 188 

Other totals revealed in Miss 
Machir's enrolment analysis are 983 | 
men and 351 women in the freshman | 
class, a total of 1,334; 650 men and j 
33 2 women in the sophomore class; I 
560 men and 270 women in the se- j 
nior class. 

There are 18 men and 10 women 
enrolled as special students. 

The graduate study group includes 
138 men and 50 women, a total of 
188. 

The totals by curricula in each divi- 
sion: Division of Agriculture — agri- 
culture, 395; agricultural administra- 
tion, 186; animal husbandry and vet- 
erinary medicine, 2; milling industry, 
78; specialized horticulture, 22. 
MECHANICAL ENGINEERS LEAD 

Division of Engineering and Archi- 
tecture — agricultural engineering, 
59; architecture, 34; architectural 
engineering, 44; chemical engineer- 
ing, 172; civil engineering, 124; elec- 
trical engineering, 264; industrial 
arts, 19; mechanical engineering, 
380. 

Division of General Science — pre- 
veterinary, 68; general science, 367; 
industrial journalism, 165; business 
administration, 221; business ad- 
ministration and accounting, 71; 
physical education, 93; industrial 
chemistry, 47; music, 46. 

Division of Home Economics — 
home economics, 583; home econom- 
ics and art, 49; institutional man- 
agement and dietetics, 152; home 
economics and nursing, 57. 

Division of Veterinary Medicine, 
227. 



Briles Named Adviser 

E. A. Briles, publisher of the Staf- 
ford Courier, has accepted an appoint- 
ment to the advisory council of the 
Department of Industrial Journalism 
and Printing at Kansas State College. 
Mr. Briles succeeds the late Leslie E. 
Wallace of Larned. Long prominent 
in affairs of the Kansas Press asso- 
ciation and other organizations of 
newspaper publishers, Mr. Briles is 
one of the state's most influential 
newspapermen. 



COLLEGIAN IS AWARDED 

ALL-AMERICAN HONORS 



Calls Meeting 



STUDENT NEWSPAPER WINS FOR 
SECOND TIME 



BOARD ALLOCATES $55,000 
AMONG STUDENT ACTIVITIES 

Athletics Receives Largest Single Sum 

While Roj »1 Purple Is In 

Second Place 

The Department of Physical Edu- 
cation and Athletics will receive ap- 
proximately $26,000 from the $55,- 
000 collected in student activity fees, 
according to the apportionment board 
this week. 

Athletics will receive 47.273 per 
cent of the fund, the largest single 
allocation. The Royal Purple, College 
yearbook, was awarded 27.136 per 
cent, or approximately $15,000. Both 
amounts are expected to be the same 
as last year. 

A new fund was set up this year for 
the Student Celebrity series. It has 
been allotted a total of $1,550. An 
addition of $800, which was trans- 
ferred from the unused balance of the 
Student Governing association fund 
last year to the celebrity series, makes 
a total available for the series of 
$2,350. 

The Student Governing association 
received the largest cut in any of the 
allotments, $487, due chiefly to the 
separate fund for the Student Celeb- 
rity series. The apportionment board 
allotted $500 to the publicity fund, a 
decrease of $100 over last year, and 
$225 to the Rifle team, another $100 
decrease. 

Other allotments included: Band 
and orchestra, $2,000; Student Gov- 
erning association, $1,063; Manhat- 
tan Theatre, $1,850; Collegian, 
$2,270; debate, $720; judging teams, 
$1,910; Engineers' Open House, 
$9 75; Home Economics Hospitality 
Days, $487; oratory, $200; and ac- 
counting and bookkeeping, $325. 

William Hickman, Kirwin, Student 
Council chairman, and two other stu- 
dent representatives, William Keogh, 
New York City, and Jean Scott, Man- 
hattan, met last week with the fac- 
ulty members of the board, Prof. H. 
W. Davis, head of the Department 
of English and chairman of the board, 
and Prof. R. I. Throckmorton, head 
of the Department of Agronomy. 



Prof. R. I. Thackrey, Head of Depart- 
ment of Industrial Journalism 
and Printing, Says He 
Is Pleased 

The Kansas State Collegian of last 
semester won All-American honors in 
the All-American Critical service of 
the Associated Collegiate press, ac- 
cording to word received Monday 
from Fred Kildow, director. This is 
the second consecutive semester the 
Collegian has received this recogni- 
tion. 

The A. C. P., a nation-wide organi- 
zation under the sponsorship of the 
Department of Journalism at the Uni- 
versity of Minnesota, includes nearly 
5 55 college and junior college news- 
papers. In this third Ail-American 
Critical service, 353 papers were 
judged. 

THACKREY IS PLEASED 

Prof. R. I. Thackrey, head of the 
Department of Industrial Journalism 
and Printing, was pleased at the news 
of the Collegian's success. 

"I am well acquainted with and 
have the greatest respect for the 
judges of the Ail-American Critical 
service of the Associated Collegiate 
press. Therefore, it gives me a great 
deal of pleasure to learn that the Col- 
legian, for the second consecutive se- 
mester, has been given an All-Ameri- 
can rating by them." 

Editor of last semester's honor- 
winning Collegian was Carl Rochat, 
j who is employed now in the editorial 
! department of the Herington Times- \ 
Sun. Ivan Griswold, business man- 
ager, is a salesman for the Burger- i 
Baird Engraving company in Kansas 
City. 

MEDLIN GRADUATE MANAGER 
Other members of the staff were 
James Kendall, Dwight, associate 
editor; Harry Bouck, Manhattan, j 
campus editor; Glenn Williams, Man- 
hattan, news editor; Herbert Hollin- 
ger, Chapman, sports editor; Richard 
Cech, Kansas City, Kan., assistant 
sports editor; Kendall Evans, Ama- 
rillo, Texas, intramurals editor; Mary 
Jean Grentner, Junction City, society j 
editor; Mary Margaret Arnold, Man- 
hattan, assistant society editor; and 
Gilbert Carl, Hutchinson, photog- 
rapher. 

John Williams, Parsons; Murray 
Mason, Manhattan; Bob Gahagen, 
Manhattan; and Eddie Mauck, Lyons, 
were advertising assistants. C. J. 
Medlin is graduate manager of pub- 
lications. 




K. U. GAME IS HIGH POINT 
ON HOMECOMING PROGRAM 



ALUMNI LUNCHEON WILL, BE HELD 
IN THOMPSON HALL 



WHEAT VARIETIES RETAIN RELATIVE RATINGS 

IN 1940 YIELD TESTS CONDUCTED OVER KANSAS 



Improve College Museum 

Leon Lundstrom, a graduate stu- 
dent from Bethany college, will have 
charge of improvements in the mu- 
seum of Fairchild hall. Changes will 
be made in order to make the museum 
more interesting and of better use 
to the students, according to A. L. 
Goodrich, assistant professor of zool- 
ogy. Articles will be repaired and 
many relabeled and efforts will be 
made to build up the museum. An 
interesting display on the first floor 
of the building shows some of the 
birds migrating at this season of the 
year. 



Only features of the 1940 wheat 
crop tests that met the expectations 
were the results of the cooperative 
variety yield tests conducted over the 
state, in the estimation of Prof. A. L. 
Clapp, Department of Agronomy, who 
has charge of the tests. 

Last fall seed was distributed to 
83 cooperating farmers over the state 
and last summer results were ob- 
tained from 43 of those tests. The 
remainder of the tests were failures 
because of unfavorable weather con- 
ditions at planting time, uneven pas- 
turing of the test plots, weeds or 
drought, Professor Clapp said. 

"In general the varieties retained 
their relative rankings in the yield 
tests," he stated, explaining that be- 
cause of the variations in climatic 
and soil conditions in Kansas, the 
state is divided into seven districts 
for the purposes of the tests. A high- 
yielding variety of wheat in one of 
the districts may not be adapted to 
another district. 

"Although eastern Kansas is 
known as the soft wheat section, 
there is a comparatively small area 
that generally produces a typically 
soft wheat. Kawvale, a semihard va- 
riety, has produced the highest yield 
in this section over a period of years," 
Professor Clapp asserted. 

There has been a considerable in- 



crease in the acreage planted to Io- 
bred, a hard red winter variety, in 
northeast Kansas in the past few 
years according to a survey made by 
the Agricultural Marketing service 
and the Bureau of Plant Industry of 
the United States Department of Ag- 
riculture, and Professor Clapp ques- 
tions the preference of Iobred over 
Kawvale and Tenmarq, stating that 
"the results of the cooperative yield 
tests do not indicate a superiority of 
the Iowa variety for northeast Kan- 
sas." Of the adapted and approved 
varieties, Tenmarq, a hard wheat of 
high quality; Kawvale, a semihard 
variety; and Clarkan, a soft wheat, 
are consistently high-yielding varie- 
ties for eastern Kansas. 

Tenmarq and Blackhull continued 
to be the high-yielding varieties for 
the two central Kansas districts, with 
Tenmarq having an advantage of 1.4 
bushels per acre over Blackhull in 
the southcentral district and only 0.2 
bushel advantage in the northcen- 
tral district. Blackhull, however, has 
averaged higher in test weight, ac- 
cording to the results of the tests. 

The Blackhull and Turkey varieties 
continue to predominate in western 
Kansas from the viewpoint of acre- 
age planted, but Tenmarq has out- 
yielded both varieties in the coopera- 
(Continued on last page) 



Gaylord Munson 

Gaylord Munson, '33, Junction 
City, president of the College Alumni 
association, has called a meeting of 
both the board of directors and the 
advisory council for Friday, October 
25, and has asked approximately 40 
representative alumni to listen to the 
discussion of the College's needs. 

ALFRED M. LANDON WARNS 

OF LOWERED STANDARDS 

Former Governor Tells Si^niii Tail Con- 
clave of Costs If Armament 
Ilnce Is Continued 

Alfred M. Landon, former Kansas 
governor, warned the Sigma Tau na- 
tional honorary engineering frater- 
nity at a banquet Friday night that 
the armament race can not continue 
without lowered standards of living. 

The Republican presidential nomi- 
nee for 19 3 6 spoke at a dinner given 
by the Manhattan Chamber of Com- 
merce and Sigma Tau during the 
three-day national conclave of the 
fraternity. Dr. J. D. Colt, president 
of the Chamber of Commerce, intro- 
duced Mr. Landon. William Keogh, 
president of the fraternity, presided. 

Dr. F. D. Farrell, president of Kan- 
sas State College, Dean R. A. Seaton 
cf the Division of Engineering and 
Architecture and Verne Hedge of Lin- 
coln, Neb., made short talks. 

Mr. Landon advised the engineers 
to study Russian ideas and principles 
because the "soviet already has had 
its revolution and therefore is way 
ahead of the other nations. They are 
gradually working back towards the 
profit motif." 

"Sooner or later in our own coun- 
try we will have an uprising of the 
common people not in favor of war," 
he predicted. 

Approximately 75 delegates from 
the organization's 23 chapters at- 
tended the conclave on the College 

campus. 

♦ 

Library Adds 463 Books 

From May to August, the Kansas 
State College library added 4 63 new 
books to its shelves, according to fig- 
ures released today by A. B. Smith, 
librarian. 



Gaylord Munson, Alumni Association 

Head, to Preside at Noontime 

Affair; Members of 1030 Grid 

Squad Expected 

An alumni luncheon, the football 
game with the University of Kansas 
and a dinner for K-men, a new fea- 
ture this year, will highlight the 
Homecoming program this year, ac- 
cording to Kenney L. Ford, secretary 
of the College Alumni association. 

Activities will open with registra- 
tion and informal reunions of return- 
ing graduates and former students 
during the morning. Mr. Ford has 
asked that all guests register in the 
College Alumni association office. 

LUNCHEON IN THOMPSON HALL 
At noon a luncheon will be held 
upstairs in Thompson hall. Gaylord 
Munson, '33, Junction City, president 
of the College Alumni association, 
will preside at the luncheon. There 
will be no speeches, Mr. Ford said, 
but state officials and members of the 
Board of Regents will be introduced 
to the visitors. 

Members of the 1930 football team 
have been invited to be guests for 
the game in the afternoon and to sit 
in an especially designated section. 
This continues a program, started 
a year ago, as an honor to football 
heroes of a decade ago during Home- 
coming. 

The traditional crowning of the 
Homecoming queen will take place 
between halves of the game. Gov. 
Payne H. Ratner has been invited to 
participate in the ceremonies of 
crowning the queen. Ten sororities 
already have nominated their candi- 
dates for the Homecoming honor and 
the Independent students are signing 
petitions to name their selection for 
candidates. 

DINNER FOR K-MEN 

A new feature will be the dinner 
sponsored by the K fraternity. The 
affair is for K-men only and will be 
held at 6:30 p. m. in the cafeteria at 
Thompson hall. 

Mr. Ford said that officials of the 
University of Kansas Alumni associa- 
tion have been asked to attend the 
luncheon in Thompson hall. 



HOMECOMING HINTS 

1. Alumni should buy their 
football tickets from the Alum- 
ni association office. Make your 
reservations early. Price is 
$2.25 a ticket. Send 20 cents 
extra for registration and mail- 
ing. 

2. Visitors should register 
and meet friends at the Alumni 
association office. 

3. Guests may attend the 
Homecoming alumni luncheon 
Saturday noon, October 26, up- 
stairs in Thompson hall, the 
College cafeteria. Tickets will 
be on sale at the Alumni asso- 
ciation office and College cafe- 
teria at 51 cents. 

4. K men's dinner will be in 
the College cafeteria at 6:30 p. 
m., October 26. It is sponsored 
by K fraternity. 



UNIVERSITY WOMEN TO GIVE 

TEA SATURDAY AFTERNOON 



Dean Helen Moore Will Discuss Alms 
of Campus Organization 

The American Association of Uni- 
versity Women will give a tea at Rec- 
reation Center at 2:30 p. m. Saturday 
for members and women eligible for 
membership. 

Miss Helen Moore, dean of women 
and past president of the Kansas divi- 
sion of the A. A. U. W., will discuss 
"The What and Why of A. A. U. W." 
The group chairman will outline in- 
terests and plans of the study groups. 

Mrs. Grace Varney is chairman of 
the social committee in charge of the 
tea. Assisting her are Mrs. E. H. 
Leker, Mrs. H. S. MacKirdy, Mrs. J. 
Mont Green, Mrs. Katharine Hess, 
Mrs. Robert Conover, Mrs. Allen 
Hills, Miss Dorothy Barfoot, Miss Le- 
Velle Wood, Miss Myrtle Gunselman 
and Miss Esther Cormany. 



Eligible for Training 

Thirteen of a quota of 30 possible 
students at Kansas State College 
have passed their physical examina- 
tions by the Civil Aeronautics admin- 
istration surgeon and are now eligible 
for lessons and instructions in the 
flight training course here. Those 
who have passed the test are Bruce 
Downs, Wichita; Francis Dresser, 
Manhattan; Clair Eugene Ewing, 
Blue Rapids; Clifford Fanning, Mel- 
vern; George Howard Fittell, Beloit; 
Earl John Garvin, Manhattan; Eu- 
gene Edmond Haun, Larned; Barney 
Limes, La Harpe; Donald McMillan, 
Manhattan; Raymond Muret, Win- 
fleld; Wayne Winston Rumold, Elmo; 
Frank Earl Sesler, Kansas City; and 
Byron White Jr., Neodesha. 



The KANSAS INDUSTRIALIST 

Established April 24, 1875 



R. I. Th aokki v Editor 

Jane Rockwell, Ralph Lashbrook, 

Hillibh Krieghbaum . . . Associate Editors 
Kinniv Ford Alumni Editor 



Published weekly durtni? the college year by 
the Kansas State College of Agriculture and 
Applied Science. Manhattan, Kansas. 



Except for contributions from officers of the 
college and members of the faculty, the articles 
In The Kansas Indusi rialist are written by 
students in the Department of Industrial Jour- 
nalism and Printing, which also does the me- 
ohanical work. 

The price of The Kansas Industrialist is 
13 a year, payable in advance. 

Entered at the postofllce, Manhattan, Kansas, 
as second-class matter October 27. 1918. Act 
of July 16 1894. 



Make checks and drafts payable to the K. 
S C. Alumni association. Manhattan. Sub- 
scriptions for all alumni and former students, 
$3 a year; life subscriptions. $50 cash or in instal- 
ments. Membership in alumni association in- 
cluded. 




WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1940 



"EVER IT HOMJS ME. . ." 

The approach of Homecoming will 
turn the thoughts of alumni, scattered 
over the world, to Kansas State Col- 

For each of the thousands who will 
actually make the pilgrimage to the 
campus, hundreds more will make it 
"on the wings of the mind." 

For alumni and undergraduates 
alike, the beauty of the campus in 
October may well symbolize security 
and sanity and the continuity of the 
processes of civilization, in a threat- 
ened world. 

Those alumni who revisit the cam- 
pus will have opportunity to join with 
the 4,000-odd undergraduates, who 
make the student body the largest in 
the history of the College, in singing 
"Alma Mater." They will And a com- 
mon bond with the undergraduates in 
that experience, in singing of the spot 
they "love full well." 

There is a line in the "Alma Mater" 
song, however, which belongs pecu- 
liarly to the alumni, since they alone 
have the perspective to appreciate 
its truth. It is the line which runs, 
"Ever it holds me with magic spell 

That line expresses the spirit of 
and the necessity for Homecoming. 
It is the reason thousands of alumni 
will return to the campus October 2G 
and thousands more will be with 
them in spirit. 



or quantity of emotional argumenta- 
tion will change the fact, the author 
contends. 

Some glaring peculiarities of style 
suggest that the book was "dictated 
but not read" by the author. For ex- 
ample, there are hundreds of sen- 
tences without verbs: "Even agricul- 
ture," "So almost without end," 
"The case of Boulder Dam," "With 
all this, huge losses," "Inevitable," 
"Almost wholly the result of eco- 
nomic ignorance." It is as if the 
author had dictated fragmentary re- 
minders and had neglected to expand 
them into sentences or paragraphs. 
This is irritating and it detracts from 
the pleasure and facility of reading 
the book. Better editing would have 
improved the book considerably. 

More than 30 years ago, Carl Sny- 
der wrote a book called "The World 
Machine," which has long been out 
of print but which because of its hard- 
headed facing of facts deserves a 
popularity that it has not received. 
It is an unemotional presentation of 
certain cosmic realities. The present 
book, notwithstanding its defective 
style, obviously was written by the 
same intellectually courageous, and 
often dogmatic, author. For many 
years statistician of the Federal Re- 
serve Bank of New York, Mr. Snyder 
has accumulated a vast store of eco- 
nomic data which he uses as the basis 
for "Capitalism the Creator." The 
book will not be popular with the in- 
tellectually flabby or with the starry- 
eyed, but among persons who do not 
wish to be deceived or coddled it is 
likely to gain a considerable follow- 
ing. Though it cannot reasonably be 
regarded as the last word, it is an 
arresting presentation of an unpopu- 
lar thesis; a thesis to which the world 
may in some degree return when the 
gods of the copybook maxims, as Kip- 
ling has said, "limp up and explain 
it once more." — F. D. Farrell. 



SCIENCE TODAY 



BOOKS 

Importance of Capitalism 

"Capitalism the Creator." By Carl 
Snyder The Macmlllan Company. New 
York. 1940. 13.75. 

After a decade of almost continu- 
ous deprecation of the beneficence of 
capital and capitalism, it is refresh- 
ing to read this vigorous defense. As 
always in times of acute economic 
depression, many emotional explana- 
tions of our difficulties have been , 
brought forward during the past 10 
years. One of the most common of 
these explanations is that the insti- 
tution of capitalism is at fault. The 
author of this book takes a contrary 
view and presents a wealth of factual 
material in support of his contention. 
Mr. Snyder holds that the modern 
world's "wondrous industry, and all 
our comfort, convenience and luxury" 
are products not principally of labor, 
agriculture, and the like, but of capi- 
tal savings. "No principally agricul- 
tural or pastoral nation we know of," 
he says, "has ever grown rich, power- 
ful and civilized. These are the fruits 
of wealth and enterprise; and these, 
in turn, of organized industry and 
trade." And he contends that this 
was no less true 5,000 years ago than 

it is now. 

A chapter in which the author 
takes specially vigorous issue with 
the recurringly popular democratic 
dogma is entitled Pareto's Law of 
Universal Inequality. Here he pre- 
sents a well-documented argument 
that the concentration of wealth, abil- 
ity and genius is both inevitable and, 
in the interest of the general welfare, 
supremely desirable. Universal in- 
equality, he says, applies no less cer- 
tainly to human beings and their eco- 
nomic and social interests than to 
plants, animals— and even mineral 
deposits. We may not like it as we 
do not understand its essential be- 
neficence, but there it is and no kind 



AMERICAN FAITH 
Europeans are convinced that 
Americans are an extremely childlike 
and naive people. If you get down to 
it, though, you will find out that it 
is not naivete but the faith in hu- 
manity which Americans, for some 
unknown reason, still possess, that 
gives you that impression. 

To be any good in America at all, 
you will, yourself (as an immigrant), 
have to adopt that faith in humanity. 
And it won't do you any good to ac- 
quire it only provisionally. Retaining 
that faith until you have been let 
down and then discarding it is no 
great feat. To retain it through all 
failures and through all disappoint- 
ments, to retain it because you can't 
help it, to retain it because life, as 
you know it, would lose its meaning 
without it, is one of America's fun- 
damental characteristics. 

Europeans believe that life in 
America is brutal, but I wonder if 
life is less brutal anywhere else. Per- 
haps it is only camouflaged better in 
other parts of the world. At any rate, 
America has no pity for old age, for 
inefficiency, for lack of success. Un- 
less you are successful, unless you 
remain efficient and stay young, life 
will throw you out into its back yard 
and leave you to die and rot. The car 
dumps strewn all over the United 
States are quite symbolical of the 
American spirit. 

You will have to acquire the neces- 
sary toughness, a toughness shorn of 
the fear of stepping on someone 
else's toes, a toughness adorned with 
a perpetual smile. Humility is the 
one thing for which America has no 
room. — Count Ferdinand Czernin in 
: Coronet Magazine. 



By ROGER O. SMITH 
Professor, Department of Entomology 
Columnists have had a little fun 
lately with the news item that po- 
tato beetles are reported to have been 
dropped in Germany by English air- 
men sometime this summer as an eco- 
nomic war measure. It appears that 
some persons do not understand why 
this might prove to be an effective 
weapon. Potato beetles have been 
compared with bombs by the humor- 
ists to the great disadvantage of the 
beetles. Yet, since these injurious 
insects are destined to promote hun- 
ger and starvation among the masses, 
there is a tinge of horror in the ma- 
neuver rather than humor. 

Nearly every farmer or gardener in 
Germany and Austria plants a por- 
tion of his small plot to potatoes 
every year. Potatoes, bread and meat 
are the basic food triad of these na- j 
tions. Since potato flour is one of 
i the first substitutes for grain flour 
J in bread making, the so-called Irish 
! or white potato is probably a leg and 
! a half of this triad. 

The potato also is one of the chief 
sources of starch and of industrial 
i alcohol, a part of which is used in 
' synthetic motor fuel. Both are needed 
| to keep the diabolical blitzkrieg ma- 
! chine in operation. 

The Colorado potato beetle, as we 
' know it, was first introduced into 
i France and Germany in 1917 when 
it crossed the ocean with the Ameri- 
: can army and became a serious threat 
to the potato crop of southern Europe. 
Squads of German soldiers were ac- 
! tually detailed to potato fields to de- 
i stroy these insects. They jarred them 
' to the ground, then stepped on them 
I to destroy them. I was impressed to 
see signs in 193 6 throughout France, 
England and Germany, calling the 
people's attention to the "Colorado 
beetle," as they called it, and urging 
them to destroy all specimens seen 
or to notify some local control station 
of their presence. The farmers of 
these nations are not accustomed to 
spraying their crops to protect them 
from insects because it is ordinarily 
not necessary. They are not, there- 
fore, equipped to control potato bee- 
tles in their potato patches other than 
by gathering them by hand which is 
a laborious task, usually delegated 
to the women and children. 

A destructive insect introduced into 
a new environment without its natu- 
; ral controlling factors is likely to be- 
come a far more serious agency of 
destruction than it is in its original 
home. Consequently, what we would 
! regard as a small population of these 
beetles here might ultimately bring 
destruction to this important item of 
food over an extensive area. So these 
countries have been taking no chances 
i with these beetles. They have tried 
to stamp them out and they have been 
held to small numbers, but not eradi- 
cated. 

I was told in England, as a part of 
the public campaign for the destruc- 
tion of these pests, that a monetary 
reward was offered, particularly to 



inspectors and agents, for the first 
beetles taken each summer. There 
are laws in the nations mentioned, 
requiring the people to destroy every 
beetle they see, with penalties for 
neglect. 

With these facts as evidence, the 
report that large numbers of these 
beetles were introduced into Germany 
during the potato-growing season is 
neither a joke nor a trivial matter to 
that nation. 

I was impressed with the small 
yield of the potato crop and the small 
size of the potatoes in North Ger- 
many. Most of the potatoes I saw in 
the fields would have been culled out 
by a Kaw valley potato grower 
though, of course, there were some 
patches which produced larger pota- 
toes than others. But much of the 
land is sandy and poor. The potato 
stalks on such land were weak and 
spindly. Even a little foliage damage 
would be serious to them. Further- 
more, the potato beetle helps spread 
the late blight of potatoes, which is 
' a major potato disease in Europe, 
made more destructive than in the 
i United States by climatic conditions. 
War being what it is, the timely 
spreading of these pests of a major 
food source could be a practical weap- 
1 on in a war which has become total. 
There is a slight preponderance of 
\ evidence that the hessian fly came to 
this country with the German troops, 
called Hessians, hired by George III 
to help suppress the Colonial rebel- 
lion. This pest continues to this day 
to be the most important pest of 
growing wheat in the wheat belt of 
this country. 

During the first World war, Austra- 
lian wheat replaced American wheat 
which had been shipped to Europe. 
The Australian wheat borer was 
therefore introduced into the United 
States. In 1939, it was one of the 
chief sources of damage to stored 
wheat in Kansas. There is every rea- 
son to believe that it will continue 
to be an important pest in this state 
to stored wheat for many years to 
come. 

Wars come to an end, but some of 
their effects are endless. The bed- 
bug. German roach and house fly are 
supposed to have been the first insects 
to find the trip to North America 
easy, and the new world congenial. 
They have been followed, in more re- 
I cent years, by the codling moth, the 
gypsy moth, Japanese beetle, Euro- 
: pean corn borer and the pink boll 
I worm, all of which came across in 
i times of peace. But war breaks down 
the safeguards against such introduc- 
tions, most of which have been 
erected in recent years. When they 
are relaxed or unenforced in the exi- 
gencies of the moment, the danger of 
spreading such pests, both for de- 
liberate destruction and through ac- 
cident, is greatly increased. 

Thus, in an unspectacular manner, 
war visits its evils not only on the 
present generations, but on the future 
ones as well. 



J. W. Evans, '94, left for Chicago 
where he planned to resume his 
studies in the Chicago Homeopathic 
school. 

Professor Hitchkock was elected 
secretary of Section G, Botany, of the 
American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science. 



FIFTY YEARS AGO 
Professors Popenoe and Georgeson, 
Secretary Graham and Mrs. Winchip 
visited the state fair in Topeka. 

W. H. Olin, '89, reported a success- 
ful opening of the schools of Waver- 
ly, Coffey county, where he was prin- 
cipal. 

Prof. B. T. Galloway, chief of the 
section of vegetable pathology in the 
United States Department of Agricul- 
ture, visited at the College. 



SIXTY YEARS AGO 
The Hon. John A. Anderson, M. C, 
former president of the College, ad- 
dressed the people of Manhattan and 
vicinity upon national issues. 

The Scientific club held its first 
meeting of the year, and the follow- 
ing officers were elected: I. D. 
Graham, president; W. Knaus, vice- 
president; G. H. Failyer, recording 
secretary; Doctor Blachly, corre- 
sponding secretary; Prof. E. A. Pope- 
noe, treasurer; S. C. Mason, librarian. 



KANSAS POETRY 

Robert Conover, Editor 



By Jane Browning 

Silver dome 

And clouds that roam 

Enchant the sky with lace. 

Stars that shine 

Look through the pine; 

To light your hidden face. 

Moonbeams dance, 
They ride and prance 
Upon the trees with grace. 



i 



Jane Browning Snider was born in 
Lin wood, where she now lives. She 
is a former student of both Kansas 
State College and the University of 
Kansas. 



H. W. Davis 
ALMA MATER, HAIL!! 

Very, very personally I don't care 
a whoop whether women — in the 
mass or individually — grow thicker 
or thinner. I should hate to see them 
vanish utterly; but aside from that, 
their weight makes me little or no 
difference, if they keep off my feet 
and out of my hair. 



Most of us become so groggy when 
contemplating the gigantic fortunes 
which glamorous young women like 
Doris Duke and Barbara Hutton have 
inherited from their daddies and 
granddaddies, that we forget the 
smaller amounts that are continually 
passing from the estates of dead men 
into the bank accounts of their very 
much alive feminine relatives. But 
the simple truth is that the oftener 
men die the richer do women become. 
Wives and daughters and aunts and 
nieces, and occasionally girl friends, 
are the beneficiaries of more than 80 
percent of all the insurance policies in 
this country. 

Women have acquired so much 
money in so many different ways 
within recent years that they now 
control almost half of all the railroad 
and public utility stocks in America, 
and more than two-thirds of all the 
savings bank deposits. — Grace Adams 
in the North American Review. 



The accent in such words as "exqui- 
site," "recondite," and "despicable" 
is a nuisance to a movie actress. So 
far she has never encountered them 
in scripts and she could very well get 
along without them in conversation; 
but being a dogged woman (badger- 
ing directors for two years did things 
[ to her character), she uses them to 
[ prove that nothing can daunt her. 
Watching her approach "exquisite" 
reminds you of Junior with his fork 
suspended over the spinach. — Loren 
Carroll in Coronet. 



new chief of the division of publica- 
tions, United States Department of 
Agriculture, Washington, D. C. He 
was promoted to this position from 
that of head of the office of informa- 
tion. 

Lois Emily Witman, '16, sailed 
from Vancouver, B. C, for Foochow, 
China, where she was sent by the 
Topeka branch of the Women's For- 
eign Missionary society. Miss Wit- 
man was to serve as the head of the 
Chemistry department of the Foo- 
chow Women's college. 



What reduces me (to my lowest 
terms) are the chatter-clatter inci- 
dent to the removal of an unwanted 
pound or two and the barrage of blah- 
blah that going on raw milk for a 
day or three can stir up. Even a hus- 
band who slithers about trying to 
hear as little as he can goes to bed 
at night with his ear-drums still vi- 
brating to, "No, cauliflower is out for 
me. I ate a half a stalk last Tuesday 
and gained a pound and seven 
ounces." Or maybe it's — "Well, I ate 
only one piece of butterscotch pie yes- 
terday, so I can have three pieces of 
this delicious chocolate cake tonight. 
Tomorrow I'll do without breakfast 
anyhow." 



TEN YEARS AGO 

Balford Q. Shields, '18, was prac- 
ticing law in Chicago. 

F. E. Balmer, '05, was appointed 
director of agricultural extension 
work in the state of Washington. 

Prof. M. W. Furr of the Depart- 
ment of Civil Engineering was ap- 
pointed to the committee on city plan- 
ning for Manhattan. 



TWENTY YEARS AGO 
Dr. Harry E. Van Tuyl, '17, first 
lieutenant of the Veterinary corps, 
regular army, was stationed at Fort 
Myer, Va. 

Harlan D. Smith, '11, was chosen 



THIRTY YEARS AGO 

Director Webster of the experiment 
station addressed the Osage county 
farmers at their county fair. 

Daisy Harner, '06, was elected 
teacher of domestic science in the 
State Normal school, Oshkosh, Wis. 

Helen B. Thompson, '03, was pro- 
fessor of domestic science in the 
Rhode Island Agricultural college at 
Kingston. 

O. A. Stevens, '07, who filled an as- 
sistantship in botany for the past two 
years, had accepted a position in the 
North Dakota Agricultural college. 



Remarks equal to or even worse 
than these, coining from a husband's 
wife and her girl friends are, if prop- 
erly isolated and insulated, not neces- 
sarily detrimental to a husband's 
sanity, and should not be objected to 
in the early stages. But when they 
become chronic, and confluent, they 
bring about a domestic emergency 
that justifies drastic and unconstitu- 
tional measures, as in time of any 
other type of war. 



FORTY YEARS AGO 
Harriet Nichols, '98, returned to 
the College to take postgraduate 
work in mathematics. 



However, I am not yet angry 
enough to fight. Besides, I'm practi- 
cally sure a policy of appeasement 
will be much safer. Consequently I 
have determined to write to Emily 
Post and all the male editors of all 
the female magazines perpetrated up- 
on America and ask that they use 
their influence to have conversation 
about rolls of fat relegated to the 
bathroom scales and the gymnasium 
and kept out of the ears of gentlemen 
who want to listen to the world's se- 
ries or to the Homecoming do-or-die 
of Alma Mater, who has no objection 
whatever to beef and lots of it. 



f 



There's a girl for you — Alma 
Mater, the only woman who never 
talks about reducing. She's for beef 
all over. 



mmm 



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SUPPLEMENT TO 

E KANSAS INDUSTRIALIST 

October 2, 1940 



FALL ALUMNI MY s^S 
ARE BEING PLA B D NOW 

SESSIONS SCHKDULBD^' R STATK 
TEACHERS' GAT1* a<1 N GS 

Set, 

Columbia, S. C, Hoys »n«' t LannlnK, 
Mich., Alrendy Haifthtotlfied 
Anaorlntlon of I^od.te 
Progr»nu :oE 

Several alumni meetj .gare being 
planned for the fall m(g *,. Alumni 
will meet at the a ^ all rom-home 
football games to get a< ( L ^ n ted with 
the new coaching staff." 

The Kansas State ^ g ie rs asso- 
ciation meets October C^Jd Novem- 
ber 1-2 at the followi: c (aces: To 



Will You Be in the Crowd at Homecoming? 



peka, Salina, Hays, 
Wichita and Parsons, 
ings will be held at 
places, Kenney L. For 
retary, said. 



V 

u 



19flen City, 
{ jjnni meet- 

enf of these 
umni sec- 

85, 



The following meet j n 8a£ ave been 
definitely arranged: ^ nne 

COLUMBIA, S. C, r er ITING 
Mike Ahearn andeffei football 
squad will arrive in C bia, S. C, 
for the game with th'kni.versity of 
South Carolina, at 9: 3' the i., Friday, 
November 8. They w^o^y at the 
Jefferson hotel, wfoemf lim i .head- 
quarters will be all^ liv ,3aA.urday. 
Alumni will get togeti * Catr a lunch- 
eon at noon and then vj , in a body 
to the football game ;■ ° 8 a special 
section will be reserj 011 ,,. Kansas 




ALUMNI BOARD, COUNCIL 
WILL MEET OCTOBER 25 

GAYLOHD MVNSOIV ORDERS SESSION 
AT COUNTRY CLUB 



SeCllOIl Will "<= ■>'" v, I . JI I\ouno» 

State College alumni. ectl lner meet- 
ing will be held in th reading, with 
Mike Ahearn the spea obb, 

HAYS ALUMNl ere ^g 
A letter received frrf c. Aicher, 
•10, chairman of comi*- B - for mak- 
ing alumni meeting * f cr Vead8: 

"Arrangements ha£ av aen made 
with the Lamer hote» Ae alumni 
meeting to be held ; ys Friday 
evening, November* ^j^ *> -, .iuection 
with the Kansas S«Bf*°° .^-s asso- 
ciation meeting held ^"""'.he end of 
the week at that tir reas 'he dinner 
will be 65 cents and t bl>1 a ir will be 
held in the functioP- m of the 
Lamer hotel. ute, 1 

"My main job now.athdi )e to nunt 
a speaker for the occ Obrtand I may 
be down towards thehome the week 
at which time we ujpd, R. <)le to get 
someone for this jol state b 

EAST LANSING, M .INNER 

Joe Lill, '09, EastMvans lgi Mich., 
writes that a numbeA l' nv '.umni liv- 
ing near there are pjw g a dinner 
at the time of the j state vs. 

Michigan State footi.,,, y ie on No- 
vember 2. The gi;opp f thit (together 
at the game, afta,. tmen t, Arrey will 
gather in the third i... ;y chJge of the 
Union building for , degrt visiting 
period before the dii state There will 
be no speeches. Som ,t 8 may be 

asked to take a bow^ fi , ie general 
trend will be to let ' ftt L t e nds talk 
together, Mr. Lill sa g 
OKLAHOMA CITY, 1 
Alumni near Ok 



^^^^^^^ •„ tho ahnve nicture taken in the Memorial Stadium last year, will 

Tense moments, such as the one shown in ^the abo J*W™ £«£ t0 Manhatta n for the Homecoming game 

await you if you are among the alumni and former ggg^g^ 1 ^ ma ke his first appearance before a Wildcat 

with th'e University of Kansas «OJ^ft^JJ|-TS «ormer students and graduates to help make 

Homecoming throng, and the College Aiumm »»»« 

it a gala affair. 



LETTERS FROM ALUMNI 



secretary-treasurer 
group there, writes • 



Si 



fon 

.EETINO 

near OKf g a City are 
making plans for a', g '. 97 • meeting 
previous to the Kane roa( jte College- 
University of Oklaho me at Nor- 
man, Okla. Vilona^ .gutler, '17, 
, 9 ' 7 e alumni 
jj re will be 
a dinner at the YW' ^Oklahoma 
City at 7 p. m. Frida * , ber 18. 
__ -#.- B. S. 

ALL-SCHOOL MDOfig >" iws 

RECORD "TH 1 ilt ll OP 2,500 
t _}erame 

Gnmea, S<n«e Show , M. KnncInK !■- 
<>luded on Vnrlnger ('.nun 

The all-College m living iday n i g ht 
attracted an estimatms, On 8tu dents 
and townsfolk, saia _, r. Lash- 

brook, associate pro) Gallof journal- 
ism and chairmtMi »r at 2f c oramittee 
planning the afftjfir h. tr?.? a rec- 
ord attendance for t g 'Ofltional fall 

party. \a now 

Games were held ^ he unuadrangle 
in front of Nichols £ r icultuium while 
a stage show was tdminhtne Audi- 
torium and dancin< r i e Gymna- 
sium. Lloyd Huntt -05™ orches- 
tra furnished the r' e m?r dancing 
in the Gymnasium^ 

The party was ( houBea .1 by the 
Student Council, *L_ ed ir a's Chris- 
tian association an- Women's 
Christian asaociatir ^ ^ 



Mrs. Florence (James) Ofelt, '31, 
who was with the College cafeteria 
from 1934 until last August 1, is now 
living at 1408 Hythe street, St. Paul, 
Minn. Mr. Ofelt received his master's 
degree in milling industry in the sum- 
mer of 1939 and begins work for a 
doctor of philosophy degree in bio- 
chemistry at the University of Min- 
nesota this fall. Mrs. Ofelt writes: 

"I missed not returning to Manhat- 
tan for the September opening but 
we have one here, now. Classes be- 
gan Monday, September 30. I have 
had two weeks to become acquainted 
with the cafeteria and the farm cam- 
pus. Much of that time has been 
spent in organizing material for two 
courses— Quantity Cookery and In- 
stitutional Buying— which includes 
foods and equipment. I have charge 
of all food production, and Miss Dun- 
ning, who is head of the section, has 
charge of all of the service— a new 
division of responsibilities in my ex- 
perience. The business manager and 
I — between us — buy the food. 

"Emma Shepek, '3 2, on the staff 
of the section of Foods and part-time 
instructor in the cafeteria section, is 
well liked and we have fun talking 
over old times at Kansas State Col- 
lege. 

"Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Aubel saw me 
walking off the campus recently so 
we visited a minute. Fun to see them. 
"Bob and Gladys (Morgan) Shoff- 
ner, '40, are established in an apart- 
ment near the campus, as we are. 
They enjoy St. Paul and the people 
in his Poultry department. 

"Saw David Thompson, '39, not 
long ago— he is thoroughly enjoying 
a cottage on a nearby lake where he 
lives in the summer with a couple of 
other young men— they 'commute' to 
their work in St. Paul. 

"Will you please see about a signa- 
ture from Doctor Willard and my ad- 
dress changed for The Industrialist? 
Thank you." 



"Last December we bought an all- 
metal Luscombe airplane; so we will 
be flying to Kansas sometime this 
fall. See you then." 



Vorras Elliott, M. E. '36, and Mar- 
lene (Dappen) Elliott, H. B. '35, 
write from 215 Sixteenth street, Sche- 
nectady, N. Y.: 

"Find enclosed a check for $3 to 
cover my membership to July 10, 
1941. 

"I have been in Jersey City and 
Newark for the past three months 
starting a new power station for the 
Public Service Electric and Gas com- 
pany. Will be back in Schenectady 
in a week or so. 



C. M. Barringer, Ag. '23, writes 
from Newton, N. C, as follows: 

"Months ago I put a ring around 
November 9 on my calendar and have 
cautioned everybody not to bother me 
on that date or the day before or the 
day after. I intend to see the Kansas 
State game at Columbia, S. C, on that 
day. 

"I have been wondering if any 
steps have been taken to have a re- 
union or get-together of Kansas State 
alumni of this area at that time. I 
would particularly like to meet any 
alumni in this area and if I can be 
of any assistance in getting them to- 
gether I shall be glad to do so. 

"I shall need four tickets and 
would like to have good seats if they 
are at all available. I hope I may 
have the pleasure of meeting you at 
this game." 

L. S. Hobson, E. E. '27, writes from 
9 29 Blythe avenue, Drexel Hill, Pa., 
of a July 1 meeting of electrical engi- 
neers who are graduates of the Col- 
lege. His letter follows: 

"I thought you would be interested 
to hear of a very fine meeting of 
alumni of the Electrical Engineering 
department, which we held while Pro- 
fessor Kloeffler was here. The meet- 
ing was on July 1, at the Walt Whit- 
man hotel in Camden, N. J. We had 
a very fine dinner in a private room 
at the hotel, and Professor Kloeffler 
gave an exceedingly interesting talk, 
then opened the meeting for discus- 
sion, which lasted hours. Everyone 
took part and I am sure enjoyed the 
meeting as much as I did. 

"I think it was fine that Professor 

Kloeffler could take time to stop in 

and see us here in Philadelphia. I 

hope that you will suggest to any of 

the faculty of Kansas State who are 

traveling through Philadelphia and 

plan to stay a day or two, or even 

over night, that they will be welcome 

to stay at my house and spend the 

evening with us if they have the time. 

"The following were present: 

"H. L. Bueche (former faculty 

member at Kansas State College), 

Villanova, Pa.; A. M. Vance, '29, 304 

East Second street, Morristown, N. 

J.; Max L. Graham, M. S. '32, 264 

New Jersey avenue, Collingswood, N. 

j. ; W. L. Garnett, *28, Box 403, 



Mickleton, N. J.; L. W. Baily, '28, 
2903 Marshall road, Drexel Hill, Pa.; 
M. E. Karns, '27, 228 Burrwood av- 
enue, Collingswood, N. J.; H. R. 
Wege, 3232 Cove road, Merchant- 
ville, N. J.; R. A. Remington, '40, 
General Electric company test course; 
K. L. Stuckey, '40, General Electric 
company test course; William L. 
Daniels, '39, General Electric com- 
pany test course; L. S. Hobson, '27, 
929 Blythe avenue, Drexel Hill, Pa.; 
W. J. Bucklee, '23, Johns Manville, 
Philadelphia, Pa.; W. F. Knopf, '30, 
2221 Lexington avenue, Merchant- 
ville, N. J. 

"I am also wondering when you 
are coming to see us again. We en- 
joyed having you and Mrs. Ford and 
I do hope you will come again." 



President P. D. Fnrrell to Address Group 

on ColIeRe Needs; Representatives 

from All Sections of State 

Have Been Invited 

Gaylord Munson, '33, Junction 
City, president of the Kansas State 
College Alumni association, has 
called a meeting of the board of direc- 
tors and advisory council of the 
Alumni association for 5:45 p. m. 
Friday, October 25, at the Manhattan 
Country club. 

President F. D. Farrell will speak 
to the group on the present needs of 
Kansas State College. 

ALUMNI WILL ATTEND 
Forty representative alumni from 
over the state have been invited to 
attend. 

Members of the advisory council 
are: C. E. Friend, '88, Lawrence; 
Mame (Alexander) Boyd, '02, Phil- 
lipsburg; Clarence G. Nevins, '07, 
Dodge City; W. Carleton Hall, '20, 
Coffeyville; J. W. Ballard, '26, To- 

LUHNOW IS DIRECTOR 
Members of the board of directors 
in addition to Mr. Munson include 
H. W. Luhnow, '17, Kansas City, Mo.; 
Dr. W. E. Grimes, '13, Manhattan; 
Prof. A. P. Davidson, '14, Manhat- 
tan; Henry W. Rogler, '98, Matfleld 
Green; Dean R. A. Seaton, '04, Man- 
hattan; Dr. R. V. Christian, '11, 
Wichita; L. C. Williams, '12, Manhat- 
tan; and Charles Shaver, '15, Salina. 
Kenney L. Ford, '24, is executive sec- 
retary. 



George Inskeep Elected 

George Inskeep, Manhattan, was 
elected vice-president of Block and 
Bridle, organization of animal hus- 
bandry students, to All the vacancy 
created by the absence of Victor Ein- 
sel from school this fall. The election 
was held at the club's first meeting 
recently. The club will hold a steak 
fry October 10 for students in the De- 
partment of Animal Husbandry, Eu- 
gene Watson, president of the or- 
ganization, announced. 



f 7t's the everlastin' team work 
Of every bloomin' soul" 
That makes a great alumni association, a great Kansas State 

Is it any >vonder that yon are nrged to become < *n active mem- 
ber of the Kansas State College Alumn asso c £«•»» ^7.™ ^ 
time to make good on your determination to be a part of an or 
ganization working for a great college. ,.««.. 

You will enjoy reading The Industrialist eac h week of tte 
school year. You will also enjoy having a part in the J"™™ 
association program which includes: complete alemnj files, 
a umni meeting" throughout the country, ^^/^fo^h 
behalf of the College, alumni loan fund now aiding one-foitttli 
f each uridunting class, promotion of class reunions and home- 
comings^ ' enctWnlent of extending jMag i torttond 
Kansas State College, a fleldhouse and a Student Union bulding. 

Active membership is within the reach of nearly all alumni 
Bv Paying your dues promptly you will put a "wallop in your 
"[umni association activities. Won't you help us win with your 
check? 



□ Annual Membership $3.00 

Industrialist for One Year 
Life Membership (INDUSTRIALIST for Life) 



of the "••••"• 

amounts when due: •_ 



$50.00 on or before *> 18< - 



2. 



D 



$50.00 in 10 successive monthly instalments 
of $5 each, beginning 1 > 194 - 



D 



$13.00 on or before *« 

$12.40 on or before June 1, 194.... 
$11.80 on or before June 1, 194.... 
$11.20 on or before June 1, 194.... 
$10.60 on or before June 1, 194. 



194. 



Signed. 



FOURTH POULTRY MEETING 
IS SET FOR OCTOBER 24 



PROF. 



L. F. PAYNE IS IN CHARGE 
OF PROGRAM 



LOST ALUMNI 



Arthur F. Peine, Manhattan Packer, and 

J. O. Mohler, Secretary of State 

Board of Agriculture, 

Will Preside 

The fourth annual poultry conven- 
tion will be held October 24 on the 
campus of Kansas State College. 
Many poultry producers, packers, 
hatchery operators, feed dealers, edu- 
cators and others in closely allied 
fields are expected to attend. 

Emphasis this year will be placed 
on the improvement in the quality of 
market poultry, according to Prof. L. 
F. Payne, head of the Department of 
Poultry Husbandry, who is in charge 
of program arrangements. 

DIVIDE ALL-DAY PROGRAM 
The all-day program has been di- 
vided into two sessions, one morning 
and one afternoon program. Arthur 
P. Peine, manager of the Perry Pack- 
ing plant, Manhattan, will preside at 
the morning program. Presiding in 
the afternoon will be J. C. Mohler, 
president of the Kansas Poultry In- 
dustry council and secretary of the 
State Board of Agriculture in Topeka. 
In a foreword in connection with 
the program, Mr. Mohler said, "If an 
exact history of Kansas ever should 
be written, it would give large credit 
to the hen for the important position 
she has occupied in the agricultural 
picture of the state." 

Other speakers appearing on the 
program will include: Prof. L. D. 
Bushnell, head of the Department of 
Bacteriology; L. E. Call, dean of Divi- 
sion of Agriculture and director of 
Agricultural Experiment station; C. 
B. Dominy, marketing specialist in 
extension poultry and dairy; Dr. H. 
M. Scott, associate professor in the 
Department of Poultry Husbandry; 
Prof. D. C. Warren of the Poultry 
Husbandry department; and C. Peairs 
Wilson of the Department of Eco- 
nomics and Sociology, all of Kansas 
State College. 

ROLLA CLYMER TO TALK 
Rolla A. Clymer, director of the 
Kansas Industrial Development com- 
mission, Topeka; E. D. Edquist, man- 
ager of the Concordia creamery, Con- 
cordia; R. George Japp, poultry 
geneticist, Oklahoma A. and M. col- 
lege, Stillwater, Okla.; G. D. McClas- 
key, Held manager, Kansas Poultry 
and Egg Shippers association, To- 
peka; C. A. McPherson, manager of 
the Swift and company packing plant, 
Salina; O. M. Straube, president, Nu- 
trena mills, Kansas City; R. B. 
Thompson, head of the Department 
of Poultry Husbandry, Oklahoma A. 
and M. college, Stillwater, Okla. 

In addition to the poultry conven- 
tion on October 24, the annual meet- 
ing and banquet of the Kansas Poul- 
try Improvement association, with R. 
O. Christie, general secretary, in 
charge, and the fall meeting of the 
Kansas Poultry and Egg Shippers as- 
sociation, with G. D. McClaskey, field 
manager, in charge, will be in Man- 
hattan on October 23. 
♦ 

ASSOCIATE COURT JUSTICE 

SPEAKS TODAY AT FORUM 



LOANS TO STUDENTS AMOUNT TO $451,831.04 

OVER FUNDS' PAST 25 YEARS OF EXISTENCE 



The Alumni association is trying to 
find the present address of "lost" 
alumni. Any information that you can 
give on the following will be greatly 
appreciated. 

1871 — Luella M. Houston. 

1882 Ida (Cranford) Sloan, Ed- 
ward B. Cripps. 

1883 Kate (McGuire) Sheldon. 

1884 William A. Corey. 

1890 Charles W. Earle. 

1891 Charlotte (Short) Houser. 
1894 John U. Secrest. 
1896 Lisle Willits Pursel. 

1898 Charles Percy King, Lewis 
F. Nelson, f. s. 

1899 Nellie (Towers) Brooks. 

1900 Herman C. Haffner. 
1902 Roger Bonner Mullen. 
1904 John Arthur Johnson. 
1906 Charles W. Cummings. 

1906 Lewis M. Graham, Warren 
Elmer Watkins, Thomas F. White. 

1907 Lee S. Clarke, Stella (Fin- 
layson) Gardner, Samuel P. Haan, 
Frank Sorgatz, Virginia (Troutman) 
Wilhite. 

1908 Vincent G. Manalo, Phillip 
E. Marshall, Matilda (Trunk) Mou- 
tray. 

1909 Jesse T. Hirst, Roy Wilkins, 
Marion Williams. 

1910 Earl J. Trosper. 

1911 Raymond Cecil Baird, Ralph 
Morris Caldwell. 

1912 Earl Watson Denman, Sel- 
ma Nelson, Clinton J. Reed, Franco 
Thomas Rosado, John Allen Higgins 
Smith. 

1913 Irene Fentoa, Elmer Scne- 

der. 

1914 Lloyd Gearhart, Helen Mar- 
guerite Hornaday, Harry Virgil Mat- 
thew, Mary Katherine Sterrenberg. 

1915 Lulu May Albers, Juanita 

Davis. 

1916 Ethel Brown Duvall, George 
Louis Farmer, Albert Rufus Miller, 
Edward Russell, Edith Mary Walsh, 
Elizabeth Blanche Walsh. 

1918 Hobart McNeil Birks, Jo- 
seph E. Taylor. 

1919 William Axtell Norman, 
Kathryn Browning Heacock. 

1920 Estella (Barnum) Shelly, 
Adelaide Evelyn Beedle, Loring El- 
mer Burton, Leonard Sinclair Hobbs, 
Harold Frederick Laubert, Joseph 
Linn Mullen. 

1921 Edlena (O'Neill) Flagg. 

1922 Harriet May Baker. 

1923 Theodore Dennis Cole, Paul 
Frederick Hoffman, George Sneer 
Holland, Bernice S. Prescott, Gerald 
Clair Sharp, William Fuller Taylor, 
Charles L. Turley. 

1924 Dorothy Ackley. 
1926 Karl F. Hoelzel. 

1931 Norman O. Butler. 

1932 Eugene Clifford Livingston, 
Elizabeth (Lloyd) Minton. 

1933 Roy Blanchett Smith. 
1936 William Charles Kosinar. 

-♦- 

Writes from Topeka 

E. Malcolm Strom, Ag. '39, recent- 
ly wrote: "Now that College activities 
1 are in full sway once more and due 
I to the fact that my Alumni associa- 
I tion dues for 1940-41 remain unpaid 
I hasten to pay up so The Industrial- 
' ist will come to me once more. It is 
' impossible to keep up with what goes 
1 on at Kansas State and to keep in 
touch with all acquaintances and 
i classmates, but The Kansas Indus- 
trialist fills the bill pretty well. 

"I don't remember whether I wrote 
and told you I am now working for 
the Union Central Life Insurance 



these students have used credit. The 
loan administrators use special care 
to impress upon students the impor- 
tance of prompt and full attention to 
these obligations as they come due. 



PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES 

NINE FACULTY CHANGES 



During the 25 years since the estab- 
lishment of the College's student loan 
funds, 3,668 students received $451, 
831.04 in aid, according to a recent 
survey by Dr. W. E. Grimes, chair- 
man of the Student Loan committee. 

These figures do not include loans 
made since July 1. 

On June 30, the total of all funds 
available In the student loan funds 
was $128,179.97. More than $76,000 
of this amount was in the Alumni 
Loan fund and the remaining $52,000 
was divided between the Lockhart, 
Waters, Harbord, Hamilton, Frank- 
lin Literary society, Social club, 
Daughters of the American Revolu- 
tion, Belle Selby Curtice, Heuse 
Mothers, Woman's Club and Emer- 
gency Loan funds. 

On July 1, loans outstanding to 814 
persons totaled more than $100,000. 

One of the most recent sources of 
loan funds is a $500 fund set up by 
the Kansas State Horticultural soci- 
ety in July, 1940. This is a permanent 
fund built up from life memberships 
and is intended to be used for loans 
to students at Kansas State College 
with a preference to sons and daugh- 
ters of Kansas horticulturists who 
need the aid. 

The usual loan is repaid in from 
one to three years, the survey showed. 
The funds then are reloaned and used 
again and again. This has made it 
possible for as many as 600 students 
to obtain loans totaling approximate- 
ly $60,000 in each of several recent 
years. 

Reserves to protect the funds' 
principal against lasses have been set 

up in recent years. Each year 10 per I slon, effective October 1, to serve dur 
cent of the interest collected is trans- Ing the leave of absence of Harold E 



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Four Appointment*, Three Resigna- 
tion*, One Change of Statu*, One 
Leave Are Included 

Faculty changes announced Tues- 
day from the office of President F. D. 
Farrell included four appointments, 
three resignations, one change of 
status and one leave of absence. 

June Roberts, instructor in the De- 
partment of Agricultural Engineer- 
ing, has resigned effective September 
30. Dr. Alfred Marsh was appointed 
instructor in the Department of Shop 
Practice, effective September 23, to 
succeed Mile J. Stutzman, resigned. 
Freda Carlson has been appointed 
part-time instructor in mathematics 
for the first semester of the school 
year. 

The status of employment of Karo- 
lyn Wagner has been changed frem 
part-time graduate assistant to part- 
time assistant. Nina Edelblute has 
been appointed assistant in food eco- 
nomics and nutrition, effective Sep- 
tember 1. Ellen Warren, assistant 
extension editor, has resigned effec- 
tive September 39. 

Walter M. Carleton has been ap 



t Bragg-, N. C, la Plan- 
Id Get-Tog-ether After 
at Columbia, 8. C, 
Next Month 

er (Students of Kansas 
Statcico 1 R-l Wfc ^ e among the 13 lieu- 
tenants c e \ Coast Artillery Reserve 
corps w> — pcently reported to the 
77th Co? e /Artillery (anti-aircraft) 
at Fort I ar \ g ' "■ C " according to a 
letter fr fire p a ^ R - E - McGarraugh, 
'17, com 7 <F In S officer. 

The se officers included Lieuts. 
Ivan L. f i f> t - s - '28-32; Leonard 



R. Adler, 
ly, C E. 
E. '35; 
George I, 



ond Lieu* 



>unj 
wi 



•34; Elbert E. Wheat- 
Marvin A. Weihe, Ar. 
'£&[ H. Shurtz, C. E. '36; 
lynes, C. '37; and Sec- 
ter L. Peterie, C. E. '39. 

Pl^es| AROIjINA PARTY 
We aduajanning on getting up a 
party to thej ee tlie South Carolina 
Universit (nsas State football 
game," V — &i° r wrote of the game 
on NoveninaP 1 

"Do yc'm^w ir an y o)t the Kansas 
State alu 8ch l llving near Columbia, 
S. C. are t0 ping on a 'get-together' 
after the and p lt so > please give me 
details s m tvnay plan on attending. 
Will any jivedn of tne grandstand be 
reserved w afKansas State support- 
ers?" s - ) 

IN NE- JTI-AIRCRAFT UNIT 

Major l t 8 a ont rraugh was formerl r 
stationed le f( £ catur . Ga - and was re " 



cv 

"- V tlv tru . Tred to Fort Bragg. The 

pointed instructor in rural engineer- f ™ y i^ le ; f-tit.'ery is one of the 
ing in the Division of College Exten- ^'^ f ^* Vrcraft regiments be- 



has 



Stover, who is on active duty with the 
United States army and assigned to 
the Reserve Officers Training Corps 



ferred to the reserves. This 
proved adequate for all losses. 

These funds are available through 
the interest and the generosity of «"* at Kansas State College, 
alumni, former students and friends 
of the College, officials said. 

Loans are made only to students 



Glenn Reed in Hugo 



Glenn M. Reed, Ag. '25, 
who qualify under rules adopted for ! {rom HugQ 0Ma afJ {ollow8: 

the administration of these funds. As j ,._,,,-,.. „„„ ^ „ a t^^A 
a rule, the student must be a junior ■ "°\ 3 ^ J last ' l ^l ZZ^ 
or senior, must have at least a C ; « rom Rush Springs, Okla., to Hugo 
grade average and must be recom- i Please change my address on your 
mended as trustworthy and needy by | n^ ln S "«*• J am engaged in the 
College faculty and by people in his ! ^e work as before the transfer ; .OU 
home community. Each note must be conservation employed by the United 
signed by the student and one other States Department of Agricu ure and 
person and this other person must be assigned to work in cooperation with 



regiments 

ingorgarsVc^t Fort Br ^S- 

J, Me — ♦ 

Tpans ,conU to Fort Sheridan 

Lieut .( hair iarry E. Van Tuyl, D. 
V M 'it Mary (Greever) Van 
Tuyl, I. j" 



writes 



have been transferred 

e 8 poJ Pplne "I™** W £ er ! 
3 * since 1937, to Fort 



recommended by his bank as finan- 
cially reliable and trustworthy. 

In administering the funds, It is 
recognized that these loans probably 



the Kiamichi Soil Conservation dis- 
trict, with headquarters at Hugo. If 
there are any Kansas State College 
alumni close, I would he glad to hear 



constitute the first time that many of | from them." 



they havt.ggioV Bim:o *••,'• ,* 
Sheridan, Theieutenant-Colonel Van 

, . c »iate professor in the 

Military Science and 

ollege from 1931 to 



Tuyl waf lligm/ 



Departme ay 4™ * 
Tactics aiollea^ 0116 
1934. gabl ^ 



E. 



LITTLE THINGS COUNT 



wr pages 

■««s, a f* Campus 
Abbie * on feanx) Daniel, H 

•20, Olatl- f ited the camp " 8 t U " 
t 29 <k J^ she came with her 

niece V ir»t ioi * ,urneaux ' to make ar " 
two-r her to enroll as a 

ha» one 8 . t0 .*>■ 16 ' 

u'oxim . 

the ra> 

first fo> 

the ' 

halve, les in the alumni 



Our national defense program includes the maintenance of correct alu foot* fof ft Ust of men 
office. Recently the College received a request from the War department * country 

available for active duty in the army. You can be most helpful to the Loll*. of each graduat e. 
by helping us keep an accurate file as to the address marriage and occu, offlce 

Please fill out and send in the following record blank to the Alumni agn to" , 

.a.iy ir 



ty from 5f= 
have i 



1. 
2. 
3. 
4. 



Name 

Residence address 

Business address 

Married? If so, to whom 



ClaSfthat - 

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Judge Wllllnm Smith to Diacuaa Wen- 
dell Willkle 

Judge William Smith, associate 
justice, Kansas State Supreme Court, 
will address the first Student Forum 
of the year today. His subject will 
be "Why Vote for Willkle and the 
Republican Ticket?" company. 1 have been employed will 

Te, t : ' r"™cA Se heW them as office manager of the Topeka 
sored by YMCA and YWCA, are held ^^ ^ ^ A ^ 

each Wednesday at 12.20 p. m. to offlce e Qf the com . 

Recreation Center during October | ^^ ^ ^^ ^ ^^ ^ Qkla _ 

and November. aphpr1nlP I homa. I find the work very interest- 

Other speakers on the fall schedule can tQ 

are Prof. Maynard Kreuger .Professor 8 7 P ^ 8uppo8ed 

of economics at the Universit yof J ag an &t Kan8a8 

Chicago; Robert K. Corkhill, vice- 
nrpsident Young Democrat club of otaie - 

Kansas ArtSuf Peine, manager, I "My address here is 1015 Harrison 
Perry Packing company, Manhattan, i but I am asking that The I»dubm^ 
formerly of the College Department j ist be sent to 412 C. B. and L. build- 
of History; Dr. W. E. Grimes, head, j ing." ^ 

Department of Economics and Soci- 



Date of marriage. 



► — i 

9 n Pr«V 

er, assi/ 

.rtmenv 

„»ear on ibrmer student of 



Is wife or husband gradu* 



ukers 



5. 



some college or university? Name of institution. 

Children's names and ages 



warn When?. 



RY 



Statej 
eady 



ology; Prof. Roger C. Smith, Depart- 
ment of Entomology; and Miss Alice 
Jefferson, assistant professor in the 
Department of Music. 



Practices Law 

Balford Q. Shields, I. J. '1 



prac 



Edits Capper's Weekly 
A. G. Kittell, B. S. '09, continues 
his work as editor of Capper's Week- 
ly, a post he has held since 1932. The 
Kittells (Marie Fenton, '09) have two 
daughters, Marjorle, who took physi- 
cal education at Kansas State Col- 



OCCUPATION 

Occupation (Give complete information, company you work for, ttt^"££ e 
teaching, tell what and where, etc.) 



Aluml 



' aentS 

a frt • 

). mem v.r.v 



•dues j 



iy copj 



tices law, collects rare books and is ! lege, and Doris, a senior in Physica 
service officer of the Russell-Black- education here this fall. Mr. Kittell 
hawk Post 107, Department of Illi- says that Patricia Shoaf, '38, is a 
nois. His home is 155 North Clark member of the Capper's Weekly offlce 
street, R. 317, Chicago. staff. 



Do your part 
— send in this 
blank today. 



Signed 



.Include your 
check for the 

' lumni 

association. 



1 



r our position; if 



AMONG THE 
ALUMNI 



n* 



Nellie (Sawyer) Kedzle Jones, A. 
B. '76, M. S. '83, LL. D. '25, Kansas 
State's oldest living graduate, is 
emeritus professor of the Home Eco- 
nomics division of the University of 
Wisconsin. She lives at 320 Lathrop 
street, Madison, Wis. 

Wilmer K. Eckman, B. S. '79, is 
bookkeeper for the G. A. Kelly Plow 
company. He may be addressed at 
305 South Fredonia street, Longview, 
Texas. 

Flora (Donaldson) Rhodes, B. S. 
'81, is living in Lakewood, Ohio. Her 
street address is 2208 Concord drive. 
James W. Berry, B. S. '83, and Hat- 
tie (Peck) Berry, B. S. '84, live at 
15 26 Poyntz in Manhattan. Mr. Berry 
is with the Golden Belt Lumber com- 
pany, 231 Pierre. 

Charles L. Marlatt, B. S. '84, M. S. 
•87, is living at 1521 Sixteenth street 
N W Washington, D. C, where, un- 
til his retirement in 1933, he was 
chief of the Bureau of Entomology, 
United States Department of Agricul- 
ture. 

Albert Deitz, B. S. '85, runs a real 
estate business in Kansas City, Mo. 
Besides managing this line for others, 
he is owner and manager of the Deitz 
apartments at 3406 Jefferson street, 
where he lives. 

John U. Higinbotham, B. S. '86, 
writes a column for the Los Gatos 
Mail News and the Saratoga Star. He 
lives in Saratoga, Calif. 

Bert R. Elliott, '87, lives at Daw- 
son, Yukon Territory, Canada. 

Carl E. Friend, B. S. "88, Lawrence, 
is lieutenant-governor of Kansas, and 
is a candidate for re-election this fall. 
In the business of real estate and 
loans is Samuel S. Cobb, B. S. '89, 
in Wagoner, Okla., where he has been | 
18 years. 

Harry N. Whitford, B. S. '90, in- 
vestigates supplies of crude rubber 
for the Rubber Manufacturers asso- 
ciation, 414 Madison avenue, New 
York City. 

Christine M. Corlett, B. S. '91, is 
employed by the division of loans and 
currency as an adjustment clerk in 
the United States Treasury depart- 
ment. Her address is 613 F street, N. 
W., Washington, D. C. 

William II. Edelblute, B. S. '92, is 
a civil engineer in Ratbdrum, Idaho. 
Mary (Gardiner) Obrecht, B. S. 
•93 M S '97, is a home maker and 
lives with her husband, It. C. Obrecht 
graduate of Iowa State college, at 
Route 7, Topeka. 

Dr Jephthah W. Evans, B. S. '94, 
has his oflice at 330A Poyntz avenue, 
Manhattan. He is an eye, ear, nose , 
and throat specialist. 

Ernest H. Freeman, B. S. '95, is 
professor and head of the Electrical 
♦ Engineering department, Armour In- 
stitute of Technology, Chicago. He 
received his doctor's degree in engi- 
neering at Kansas State College in 
1935. 

Arthur H. Morgan, B. S. '9 6, is a 
farmer and stockman at Long Island. 
Mrs. Morgan is the former Emma 
Robinson, f. s. '96. 

W S Romick, f. s., and Phoebe 
(Smith) Romick, B. S. '97, are living 
at 1056 Baseline road, LaVerne, 
Calif. 

William L. Hall, B. S. '98, and Ger- 
trude Lyman, P. S. '97, have their 
home in Hot Springs, Ark., where Mr. 
H ;l ll is consulting state forester. 

Louise M. Spohr, B. S. '99, is doing 
nrivate duty nursing in California. 
Her home address is at 1125 Del Paso 
boulevard, North Sacramento, Calif. 

Walter P. Lawry, M. E. '00, chief 
draftsman for Hollinger Consolidated 
Gold Mines, Ltd., is living at 15 Mur- 
dock street, Timmins, Ontario, Can- 
ada. 

Anna (Summers) Galligan, B. S. 
•01, is a home maker at 291 Pleasant 

< street, Concord, N. H. 
Leslie A. Pita, B. S. '02, grain ex- 
change supervisor, is now working in 
that capacity with the United States 
Department of Agriculture's Com- 
modity Exchange administration in 
Chicago. 

Ula May Dow, D. S. '05, is profes- 
sor of foods and home management, 
Simmons college, Boston. One of the 
home management houses at Kansas 
State College is named in honor of 
her. 

Thomas M. Wood, E. E. '06, 



teaches shopwork and mathematics 
in the Caney Creek Junior college at 
Pippapass, Ky. Mrs. Wood is the for- 
mer Grace Enfield, '05. 

Allen G. Philips, Ag. '07, is the gen- 
eral sales manager of the Allied Mills, 
Inc., Chicago. 

Herman A. Praeger, Ag. '08, and 
Gertrude (Grizzell) Praeger, D. S. 
•08, live at Claflin. Mr. Praeger is a 
farmer there. 

E. H. Dearborn, M. E. '10, E. E. 
•12, and Gladys (Nichols) Dearborn, 
D. S. '10, are at 810 Poyntz avenue, 
Manhattan. Mr. Dearborn is the own- 
er and operator of Dearborn Auto 
parts. 

W. H. Goldsmith, Print. '11, is 
postmaster of New Plymouth, Idaho. 
Clare (Hoaglin) Goldsmith, H. E. '13, 
is his wife. They have five children. 
Hattie P. Gesner, H. E. '19, is 
managing the restaurant in the Bos- 
ton Store in Milwaukee. 

Carl Mershon, Ar. '21, is an archi- 
tect in the oflice of Mann and com- 
pany in Hutchinson. He and Adelaide 
(Carver) Mershon, H. E. '22, have 
one child, Carladel, 15 months old. 

H. L. Collins, Ag. '23, M. S. '29, 
and Lois (Richardson) Collins, H. E. 
•25, are at 508 Virginia avenue, Jef- 
ferson park, Alexandria, Va. He is 
the principal agricultural statistician 
of crops work in the 1940 federal 
census. 

Mrs V. E. Whan (Dorothy Nel- 
son), f. s. '24, called at the Alumni 
association office in July while Mr. 
Whan, G. S. '22, visited friends on 
the campus. Mr. Whan is advertising 
and sales promotion manager for the 
Pacific Coast district of Wilson and 
company, meat packers. He is active 
in publicity and public speaking work 
in California. This summer the 
couple toured Canada from Victoria, 
B. C, to Winnipeg, visited Chicago 
and stopped in Manhattan on their 
way back to the West coast. 

Milton Eisenhower, I. J. '24, is co- 
ordinator of the land use program 
!of the United States Department of 
I Agriculture. His address is 511 
[ Broad street, Falls Church, Va. 

A. R. Loyd, Ag. E. "25, is rural 
service engineer for the Kansas Gas 
and Electric company in Wichita. He 
has one son, Richard, 8 years old. He 
lives at 149 North Oliver. 

Mary (Lowe) Barber, H. E. '26, 
visited the campus July 3. Her hus- 
band, Galen Barber, f. s., is an engi- 
neer of the Illinois Bell Telephone 
company. Their home is 226 169th 
street, Hammond, Ind. They have one 
son, Gayle Barber, 10. 

E. W. Westgate, G. S. '27, Atchi- ; 
son, is the science teacher in the se- 
nior high school. He has been 
teaching there 10 years. He has one 
daughter, Katherine Laverne, 4. 

Visiting the campus July 2 was 
Samuel N. Rogers, I. C. '28, who is a 
chemist in the laboratories of the 
Diamond Match company, Oswego, N. 
Y He has been employed by this 
company for the past 10 years. He 
has five children: Marion Alice, 8; 
Nicholas, 7; George, 5; Samuel, 2; 
and Lawrence, 1. 

Wayne Amos, I. J. '29, is in the 
production control department of 
Douglass Aircraft corporation. His 
home is 261 Mabery road, Santa 
Monica, Calif. He visited Kansas in 
.Inly and reported that the Douglass 
force had been increased to 18,000 
workers. 

Andy Crawford, D. V. M. '30, has 
a private practice at Rolling Fork, 
Miss. Doctor Crawford supervises 
livestock on the largest long-staple 
cotton plantation in the world, 18,000 
acres, on which there are 1,250 
mules. He has one daughter, Joan, 5. 
Charles Dobrovolny, M. S. '33, is 
assistant professor in zoology and 
wild life conservation at the Univer- 
sity of New Hampshire, Durham. 
N. H. 

Lyle M. Murphy, Ag. '37, is re- 
search assistant at the Rhode Island 
State college, Kingston, R. I. Until 
this fall, he has been located at Michi- 
gan State college where he got his 
master's degree in 1939. 

Jay D. Andrews, Ag. '38, received 
his master of philosophy degree from 
the University of Wisconsin last 
spring. Besides working on that de- 
gree, he has been doing graduate as- 
sistantship work in zoology at the 
university. 

• Henry J. Meenen, Ag. '40, is an in- 
structor in the Agricultural Econom- 
ics department on the campus this 
fall. He is a member of Phi Kappa 
Phi and Gamma Sigma Delta. 



LOOKING AROUND 

KENNEY L. FORD 



lege, received both his bachelor and 
master of science degrees from Massa- 
chusetts Institute of Technology, one 
in 1934 and the latter in 1936. 



Class of '16 Issues Challenge 

Members of classes ending in one 
and six should begin making plans 
for the trip back to Manhattan for 
class reunions next commencement, 
May 24-26. 

The class of 1891 has been work- 
ing for some time on its Golden Jubi- 
lee reunion. 

Zane Fairchild, '16, Omaha, Neb., 
challenges all comers that his class 
will have the largest percentage and 
largest number back of any class 
group ever to attempt a reunion. 

Every alumnus who has a class 
reunion next commencement is asked 
to accept the 1916 class challenge and 
beat them on percentage attendance, 
if possible, by writing to old friends 
and classmates and urging them to 
come back. Addresses will be fur- 
nished upon request by the Alumni 
association oflice. 



BIRTHS 

Iva (Rust) Johnson, H. E. "31, and 
Roy Johnson, Woodbine, are the par- 
ents of a son, Ronald Roy. Mrs. John- 
son formerly taught in the Woodbine 
schools. 



RECENT HAPPENINGS 
ON THE HILL 



College students who have had two 
years of basic Reserve Officers Train- 
ing corps training will not be ex- 
empted from conscription, according 
to a letter from Rep. Ed H. Rees to 
The Kansas State Collegian. 



James E. Edwards, P. E. '36, and 
Mrs. Edwards, Wichita, are parents 
of a daughter, Margene, born July j 
18. Mr. Edwards is athletic coach at 
Central Intermediate school in Wich 
ita. 



Word has been received from Les- 
ter J. Asher, '36, and Leona (Ochs- 
ner) Asher, '39, of the birth of a 
daughter, Colleen Elizabeth, in June, 
1940. Their home is in Cheyenne, 
Wyo. 



Here and There 

Dr. J. T. Willard, '83, is busy auto- 
graphing copies of his fine "History 
of Kansas State College." . . . Seems 
to me the public is more favorable to- 
ward a fleldhouse for Kansas State 
than they were for the Physical Sci- 
ence building. ... The Student Union 
building project is not dead, just dor- 
mant. . . . Many alumni visitors call 
at the alumni office and other offices 
on the campus. These visits are ap- , 
predated. 

The Dean Mary Pierce Van Zile 
portrait will soon be on the campus, 
i Those phonograph recordings of 

"Alma Mater" and "Wildcat Victory" 
! should be ready for distribution soon. 
i . . . The campus is beautiful this fall. 
Wendell Willkie's brother, Rob- 
ert Trisch Willkie, spent the year of 
'21-22 as a special student in agri- 
culture at Kansas State. 

Many alumni are being called to 
active service and many in the ser- 
vice are getting promotions in rank. 
Fort Riley is scheduled to be a com- 
munity of 26,000 by next April. . . . 
Again Kansas State breaks all former 
enrolment records. "The best crop in 
years," is what the experts are saying 
about the freshman football and bas- 
ketball candidates. 

See you Homecoming? 



John H. Tietze, '35, and Mrs. 
Tietze, 1110 West Forty-Fifth street, 
Kansas City, Mo., are the parents of 
a son born July 27. Mr. Tietze is dis- 
trict credit manager for General Elec- 
tric company. 



Students in the College who have 
had infantile paralysis during the 
past 10 years were asked by Dr. W. 
M. Reitzel, Riley county health offi- 
cer, to provide blood yesterday to 
help increase the store of serum in 
Kansas. 



Loyd E. Boley, '32, and Esther 
(Stuewe) Boley, '32, are parents of 
a daughter, Patricia Kay, who was 
born July 29. Doctor Boley is pro- 
fessor of anatomy and pathology at 
the University of Illinois in Urbana. 



The annual Aggie Pop, sponsored 
by the student Young Women's Chris- 
tian association, will be held the eve- 
nings of November 15 and 16. Ten 
dollars will be presented to the win- 
ner of the individual acts and a cup 
will be given to the winning organi- 
zation. 



Alonzo Lambertson, Ag. '31, and 
Ruth (Shattuck) Lambertson, f. s., 
announce the birth of a son on June 
30 in the St. Anthony hospital, Sa- 
betha. The baby, who has been named 
David, is a grandson of Rep. and Mrs. 
W. P. Lambertson, Fairview. 



Physical examinations have been 
given to all freshman students since 
the opening of school three weeks 
ago. In addition to the examination, 
tuberculin tests and smallpox vacci- 
nations were given to those who had 
not already received them. Similar 
examinations now are being offered 
graduating seniors. 



Helen Kling is the name that has 
been given to the daughter of Kling 
Anderson, M. S. '38, and Elinor 
(Murphy) Anderson, H. E. '39. She 
was born July 8 at the Parkview hos- 
pital in Manhattan. Mr. Anderson is 
assistant professor in the Department 
of Agronomy at Kansas State College. 



The Kansas State College Glider 
club at the season's first regular 
meeting elected the following officers: 
Howard R. Turtle, Quinter, presi- 
dent; John McClurkin, Clay Center, 
vice-president; Robert V. Huffman, 
Kansas City, Mo., secretary-treasurer; 
Marvin Chindberg, McPherson, chair- 
man of the flight committee; Richard 
Dreyer, Newton, chairman of the pro- 
motion committee. 



MARRIAGES 



RUST— PARTNER 

Louise Rust, H. E. '37, Manhattan, 
became the bride of Daniel Partner, 
I. J. '36, Kansas City, in a ceremony 
at the Methodist church in Manhat- 
tan on June 16. After the vows, a 
breakfast was served in the sun room 
of the Gillett hotel for the immediate 
families of the couple. After a honey- 
moon in New Orleans, the couple re- 
turned to their home at 4348 Rock- 
hill road, Kansas City, Mo. 

The bride is a member of Kappa 
Kappa Gamma sorority. For the past 
year she taught in the high school 
at Atchison. Mr. Partner is affiliated 
with the Beta Theta Pi fraternity and 
is on the sports staff of the Kansas 
City Star. 

MAUCK- JOHNSTON 
Elizabeth Mauck, M. Ed. '37, Junc- 
tion City, became the bride of Donald 
W. Johnston, Oklahoma City, on June 
26. The ceremony was held in the 
Oscar Seagle colony near Schroon 
Lake, N. Y., by the Rev. Frederic F. 
Bush, uncle of the bride. Mrs. John- 
ston is also a graduate of William 
Woods college, Fulton, Mo., which 
she attended before coming to Kan- 
sas State College. She is a member 
of Kappa Kappa Gamma and was 
chosen as a princess for the Royal 
Purple ball in 1937. Mr. Johnston is 
a graduate of the University of Okla- 
homa. Since his graduation there, 
he has been a member of the Seagle 
Singers organization. 

ROSS— McCAULLEY 
The marriage of Louise Ross, H. 
E. '3 8, Wamego, to George R. McCaul- 
ley, Tulsa, Okla., took place July 1 
at the Methodist church in Wamego. 
After a wedding luncheon at the Gil- 
lett hotel in Manhattan, the bride 
and groom left for Rochester, N. Y., 
where they spent the summer. Dur- 
ing the school year of 1938-39, Mrs. 
McCaulley taught home economics in 
the Winchester High school and last 
year, she was a graduate assistant in 
child welfare and euthenics at the 
College. Mr. McCaulley, assistant pro- 
fessor of structural design at the Col- 



To A. G. Aldridge, C. E. '25, and 
Mrs. Aldridge, a son was born July 
25 in Christ's hospital, Topeka. The ' 
baby has been named William Flad. 
Mr. Aldridge is a civil engineer with , 
the State Highway department in To- 
peka. The family lives at 3017 Sow- 
ers cite. 

DEATHS 

REDDING 

Tom M. Redding, a junior in agri- 
culture at Kansas State College last 
semester, died in a hospital at March 
Field, Calif., on May 16, from injuries 
received in an automobile accident 
the day before. Redding was prepar- 
ing to leave for Randolph Field, 

' Texas, for advanced army aviation 
training. He had completed his pri- 

! mary training as an army pilot. 



BLACHLY 
Charles P. Blachly, E. E. '05, died 
! July 20 of a heart disease with which 
| he had been ill several months. He 
: had been engaged in insurance busi- 
ness in Chicago since his graduation 
in 1905. 

Among his survivors besides his 
widow are two sisters, Minerva 
(Blachly) Dean, '00, Manhattan; and 
Adella (Blachly) Freeman, '01, 
Washington, D. C. A brother, J. Har- 
old Blachly, '00, died in 1931. 



The initial fall issue of Kickapoo, 
College magazine sponsored by Sigma 
Delta Chi, professional journalism 
fraternity, and Theta Sigma Phi, 
honorary journalism sorority, ap- 
peared last Friday with an article 
suggesting that College professors be 
graded on teaching ability. The maga- 
zine included four pages of pictures, 
two short stories, a gossip column 
and other features on campus life. 
-♦■ 
Hold Track Tryouts 
Tryouts for positions on the Kan- 
sas State College two-mile team will 
lie held Saturday at 5 p. m. on Ahearn 
field, according to Ward Haylett, 
track coach. Approximately 10 boys 
will take part in the race, and those 
who finish in the first four places will 
compete against the University of 
Missouri between halves of the Kan- 
sas State-Missouri football game. 
♦ 
YWCA Campaign On Today 
The Young Women's Christian as- 
sociation's campaign for membership 
will be held today from 5 to 8 p. m. 
Women students have been asked to 
spend as much of that period as pos- 
sible at their homes so that YWCA 
workers may call on them regarding 

membership. 

♦ 

Webster on Program 

Norman Webster, assistant profes- 
sor in the Department of Public 
Speaking, will appear on the program 
of the Kansas Bankers association's 
group meeting at Wamego on Octo- 
ber 14. 



DOCTOR WILLARD'S HISTORY 

Dr Julius T. Willard's "History of Kansas State College 
of Agriculture and Applied Science" is now ready for dis- 
tribution. Return the following order blank to the Alumni 
office, Kansas State College, for your copy: 
n I am a paid-up life member of the K. S. C. Alumni asso- 
ciation. Kindly send my free copy. 

n Enclosed find $ to complete payments on my 

° nL membership, which will entitle me to a free copy. 
n Enclosed find $4 for one copy and annual membership 

in the Alumni association for 1940-41. 
□ Enclosed find $1 for one copy. My 1940-41 dues already 
have been paid. 
Please ask Doctor Willard to autograph my copy. 



□ 



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MANHATTAN HAS 10 STUDENTS ON 
LIST OF THOSE CHOSEN 



Bill Quick Scores Touchdown Against Emporia 



New York, Texas, Illinois nnd Hawaii 

Have Representatives Selected 

as Well as tw Kansas 

Communities 

Sixty-eight Kansas communities, 
three other states and Hawaii have 
representation among the Kansas 
State College band membership for 
the coming year, Lyle W. Downey, 
bandmaster and associate professor 
In the Department of Music, disclosed 
last week in announcing those who 
qualified this year. 

Manhattan has 10 representatives 
to lead all other communities. Topeka 
is represented by five members. New 
York state has two students on the 
list while there is one each from Illi- 
nois, Texas and Hawaii. 

FOUR FLUTE PLAYERS 

Band members and the instruments 
that they play include: 

Flute and piccolo — John Waring, 
Salina; Clayton Chartier, Concordia; 
Hoyt Brown, Manhattan; Harold 
Volkmann, Lyons. 

B-flat clarinet — Keith Wallingford, 
Manhattan; Severo Cervera, Junction 
City; Frank Wichser, Beardstown, 
111.; Harold Furneaux, Pittsburg; 
James Kenney, Kansas City, Kan.; 
Rodney Beaver, Ottawa; John Whit- 
nah, Manhattan; Carl Alleman, Kan- 
sas City; Ralph Samuelson, Manhat- 
tan; Wilbur Soeken, Claflin; Loyd 
Peterson, Kinsley; William Bachelor, 
Belleville; Otho Lamb, Elsmore; 
James Peterson, Norton; Jack Hor- 
ner, Minneapolis; John Mangelsdorf, 
Honolulu, Hawaii; Donald Brenner, 
Clay Center; Herbert Beyer, Sabetha; 
Kenneth Kirkpatrick, Bucklin; James 
Bartels, Inman; Donald Henshaw, 
Herington; Morris Barrett, Dodge 
City. 

Saxophone — Harold Leckron, Abi- 
lene; Lyle Knapp, Topeka; William 
Johnson, Sterling; Herbert Campbell, 
Beverly; Eugene Close, Solomon; 
John Lindan, Lincolnville; Sam Jew- 
ett, Dighton; Max Leuze, Sabetha. 

ELEVEN ON CORNET, TRUMPET 

Comet and trumpet — Frank Cash, j 
Fredonia, N. Y.; Orville Hill, Bloom; j 
Aven Eshelman, Abilene; Ronald 
Billings, Topeka; Norman Butcher, 
Coldwater; John Crabb, Topeka; 
Gene Walters, Kinsley; Max Cables, 
Concordia; Carroll Mogge, Ruleton; 
Keith Rohlflng, Bennington; Joe 
Kirkpatrick, Bogue. 

Max Wenrich, Oxford; Wayne 
Starr, Hiawatha; Milton Kingsley, 
Formoso; Carol Montgomery, Sa- 
betha; Harold Heise, Scranton; Les- 
ter Brenneis, Hollenberg; Carl Holt, 
Great Bend; William Parmely, Le 
Roy; Clyde Pence, Topeka; Wilbur 
Kraisinger, Timken; Wayne Prichard, 
Kansas City, Kan.; Joseph Bettinger. 
Rochester, N. Y. 

E-flat alto horn — Edwin Beach, 
Marysville; Arthur Kingsley, For- 
moso; Harlan Shuyler, Bethel; Rich- 
ard Willis, Sedan. 

French horn — Alan Cowles, El 
Dorado; Kenneth Rice, Greensburg; 
Wallace Richardson, Kingman; Ed 
Beach, Marysville. 

NINETEEN TROMBONE PLATERS 

Trombone — Robert Deatz, Hutch- 
inson; Jack Corn well, St. John; Ralph 
York, Dunlap; Rex Leuze, Sabetha; 
Rex Brouillard, Moran; Herman Helt- 
zel, Manhattan; Paul Farrar, Nor- 
wich; Dean Umberger, Rozel; Keith 
Giddings, Manhattan; Bob Mclntire, 
Manhattan; Richard Nordeen, Man- 
hattan; Dale Berger, Abilene; Neil 
Detrich, Chapman; George Callow, 
Garnett; Raymond Mussatto, Bur- 
lingame; Charles Holtz, Manhattan; 
Charles Krause, Belleville; Hollis 
Logan, Clay Center; Harry Shank, 
Bazine. 

Baritone — Charles Horner, Abi- 
lene; Val Gene Sherrard, Great Bend; 
Brinton Kirks, Moundridge; Howard 
Johnstone, Wamego; Robert Annis, 
Gypsum; Douglas Chapin, Manhattan. 
Bass— Cornelius Vanderwilt, Solo- 
mon; Donald Pricer, Hill City; 
Harold Bellairs, Wakeeney; Jack 
Eckhart, Almena; William Moseley, 
Topeka; Cecil Siebert, Pretty Prairie; 
John Hartman, Hoxie; James Ear- 
som, Win field; Robert Peugh, Hois- 

ington. 

Percussion — Kendall Evans, Ama- 
rillo, Texas; Sanford Moats, Mission; 
Eldon Kile, Wellington; Ed Lyons, 
Mission; Channing Murray, Manhat- 
tan; Lowell Clark, Waterville; Val 
Gene Sherrard, Great Bend; Paul 
Roach, Manhattan. 




William Quick, Beloit, sophomore quarterback, is shown going across the Emporia State Teachers' goal line 
for the Wildcats' second touchdown of Saturday's game in Memorial Stadium. The score gave the local squad a 
temporary lead in the closely fought contest which ended in a Wildcat victory by the score of 21 to 16. 



WHEAT VARIETIES 

(Continued from page one) 
tive yield tests for the past 10 years 
in the western section of the state. 

The unusual and unexpected fea- 
tures of the 1940 wheat crop in Kan- 
sas were the total yield for the state 
and the "spotted" character of the 
yields, according to Professor Clapp. 
The yields varied widely within the 
districts, and within the fields in com- 
munities. Planting conditions last 
fall were perhaps as unfavorable as 
they have ever been in Kansas for 
its wheat crop. Seeded acreage was 
reduced, many fields were "dusted 
in" and others were not planted un- 
til there was surface moisture avail- 
able, which in some localities was as 
late as January when many farmers 
drilled their wheat in the snow-cov- 
ered fields. 

Crop forecasters' estimates of the 
probable yield varied from a low of 
60 million bushels to as high as 85 
million bushels for the state's total 
production. The final estimate of 
production was fixed at about 100 
million bushels. The average for 
Kansas is about 138 million bushels. 

"The old saying that Kansas wheat 
has as many lives as does a cat proved 
to be true again," Professor Clapp 
said, in commenting upon the state's 
total yield. 

Another significant fact about Kan- 
sas' No. 1 crop has been the rapid 
rise in the popularity of Tenmarq 
wheat over the state, Mr. Clapp said. 
Tenmarq is described by millers and 
bakers as a high-quality wheat. The 
variety was developed by Dr. John 
H. Parker while he was connected 
with the Kansas Agricultural Experi- 
ment station, and was first grown 
commercially in 1932. In 1934 Ten- 
marq was seeded on 1.3 per cent of 
the state's total wheat acreage. Last 
season, eight years after its introduc- 
tion, Tenmarq was a leading variety 
in the state, with 19.6 per cent of the 
total wheat acreage seeded to that 
variety. 

The large gain in acreage of Ten- 
marq over that period has been made 
at the expense of Blackhull and Tur- 
key according to the surveys con- 
ducted by the Agricultural Marketing 
service. Turkey wheat has declined 
in acreage in Kansas from 82 per cent 
in 1919 to 28 per cent in 1940. Tur- 
key wheat is the first preference of 
millers in the Middle West, according 
to a survey conducted by the Okla- 
homa Agricultural Experiment sta- 
tion, and Tenmarq ranked second in 
preference, results of the survey dis- 
closed. 

The Department of Agronomy is 
cooperating with the Kansas Wheat 
Improvement association in encour- 
aging the planting of pure seed of 
adapted and approved varieties and 
discouraging the planting of mixed 
and inferior varieties. Doctor Parker 
now is director of the Wheat Improve- 
ment association, with offices in Man- 
hattan. 

♦ - -— - - 

Manhattan Theatre Tryouts 

Candidates for the Manhattan 
Theatre play squad held tryouts this 
week before H. Miles Heberer, asso- 
ciate professor in the Department of 
Public Speaking. The theatre's first 
production will be given November 1 
and 2, although the play has not yet 
been announced. 



CIVIL ENGINEERING GRADS 
FIND JOBS IN EIGHT STATES 



Eighteen Hnve Kansas Positions) Others 

Work In Texas, Ohio, Virginia, New 

York, Missouri, Oklahoma, California 

Thirty-eight 1940 graduates of the 
Department of Civil Engineering have 
obtained positions since graduation. 
Eighteen of the civil engineering 
graduates are working in Kansas, and 
11 in Texas. Other states represented 
are Missouri, Ohio, Virginia, New 
York, Oklahoma and California. 

The graduates and their positions 
include: Clarence L. Abell, Petty 
Geophysical Engineering company, 
Bowie, Texas; Bruce Logue Amos, 
Fluor Corporation, Ltd., Liberal; 
Dale Baxter, St. Louis airplane divi- 
sion, Curtiss-Wright corporation, 
Robertson, Mo.; Chester Boles, State 
Highway commission, Topeka; Ver- 
non B reusing, Texas company, Fort 
Worth, Texas; Jack D. Butler, St. 
Louis airplane division, Curtiss- 
Wright corporation, Robertson, Mo.; 
Roger M. Crow, instructor, Randolph 
Field, Texas; George T. Dean, gradu- 
ate assistantship, Department of Civil 
Engineering, Kansas State College; 
LaRue Delp, State Highway commis- 
sion, Topeka; Donald Dresselhaus, 
Brown Gravity Meter company, Hous- 
ton, Texas. 

Dean L. Fisher, J. H. Marchbank 
Construction company, Dayton, Ohio; 
Chester A. Foreman, National Geo- 
physical company, Dallas, Texas; 
Larry Fowler, Caterpillar Tractor 
company, Peoria, 111.; Jack Fuller, 
Texas company, Houston, Texas; 
Freddie J. Galvani, Pittsburg McNally 
Manufacturing corporation, Pitts- 
burg; Clement Garrelts, Waddell and 
Hardesty, consulting engineers, New 
York City; Harold V. Henderson, 
Texas company, Houston, Texas; E. 
Earl Hickey, working with county en- 
gineer, Great Bend; Howard J. Jack- 
son, Hanlon-Waters, Inc., Tulsa, 
Okla.; Duane G. Jehlik, Magnolia Oil 
company, Dallas, Texas; Alvin D. 
1 Kaufman, State Highway commission, 
Topeka; Wayne Lill, Magnolia Oil 
company, Dallas, Texas. 

Richard Lindgren, National Geo- 
physical company, Dallas, Texas; 
Louie Marshall, State Highway com- 
mission, Topeka; Kenneth W. Mat- 
1 thews, General Geophysical company, 
Houston, Texas; David F. Mickey, 
State Highway commission, Topeka; 



Glenn R. Nelson, soils laboratory, 
State Highway commission, Topeka; 
Lester L. Peterie, State Highway com- 
mission, Topeka; Kenneth W. Ran- 
dall, Virginia Engineering Company, 
Inc., Norfolk, Va.; Donald D. Reid, 
State Highway commission, Topeka; 
William R. Rostine, J. A. Tobin Con- 
struction company, Kansas City; Wil- 
liam R. Sachse, State Highway com- 
mission, Topeka; Charles J. Sheetz, 
State Board of Health, Topeka; Merle 
M. Shilling, State Highway commis- 
sion, Topeka; Fred F. Townsend, 
State Highway commission, Topeka; 
George W. Vaught, Lockheed Air- 
plane corporation, Burbank, Calif.; 
William Wafler, State Highway com- 
mission, Topeka; Fred Wiruth, State 
Highway commission, Topeka. 

SWINE-FEEDING INDUSTRY 

TO BE DISCUSSED MONDAY 



WILDCATS TAKE OPENER 
FROM EMPORIA TEACHERS 



FINAL, RALLY GIVES TEAM THIN 
MARGIN OF 21 TO 16 



Department of Animal Husbandry Spon- 
sors Full-day Program ot Tnlks 
and Demonstrations 

Phases of the swine-feeding indus- 
try will be covered in the Swine Feed- 
ers' day program Monday by the 
Department of Animal Husbandry at 
Kansas State College. 

Dr. C. E. Aubel, swine specialist, 
announced there would be no 
speeches in the forenoon. A special 
program of practical demonstrations 
has been prepared for 4-H club and 
vocational agriculture students. There 
will be an opportunity also to inspect 
the swine herd and the fat barrows to 
be shown at the American Royal Live- 
stock show. 

At 1 p. m. there will be a program 
of speeches by nationally known live- 
stock men covering the hog outlook 
for 1940-1941 and other important 
phases of swine production. The pro- 
gram: 

The Hog Outlook for 1940-41 — R. 
J. Eggert, Department of Economics 
and Sociology. 

The Lard Situation. What Are We 
Going To Do About It — Delmar La- 
Voi, National Livestock and Meat 
board, Chicago, HI. 

Where the Value of the Hog Lies. 
Carcass Demonstration — David L. 
Mackintosh. 

Reports of Swine-Feeding Experi- 
ments for 1939-40 — C. E. Aubel. 

Corn Substitutes for Swine Produc- 
tion — C. W. McCampbell, head, De- 
partment of Animal Husbandry. 



EVERYD'AJY ECONOMICS 

1 By W. E. GRIMES 



Visitors Exhibit Mid-season Form at 

Game Which Marks Debut of Hobbs 

Adams as Head Football 

Coach at College 

By H. W. DAVIS ^ 

Head, Department of English T 

The Kansas State Wildcats made 
their bow to the 1940 football season 
Saturday last on Ahearn field. They 
bowed almost too low, and only with- 
in the last five minutes of play 
showed determination and despera- 
tion enough to take the game by a 
21 to 16 score. 

Once before in the first quarter, 
stung by a neat field goal on the part 
of the Emporia State Teachers Hor- 
nets, they grew infuriated and in four 
plays, and two minutes, put over a 
touchdown. 

EMPORIA IN MID-SEASON FORM 

The State Teachers from Emporia, 
on the other hand, displayed a brand 
of mid-season skill in handling and 
hounding the ball and buzzing their 
way through for long gains and score- 
makers. Hoyt, Caywood, Goldsmith 
and Hamman, an always dangerous 
bunch in anybody's backfield, pulled 
surprise plays with a smoothness that 
had the Wildcats in all directions ex- 
cept the right one. Linemen Long 
and other members of the forward 
wall too frequently slipped through 
the heavier Wildcat line to stop Kan- 
sas State offensives before they were 
started. A 

Even at that, the game was inter- y 
esting; for even the most rabid home 
fan could not help enjoying the mid- 
season form of the experienced team 
coached by "Fran" Welch, and no- 
body could long remain quiet at a 
game that changed the lead six times. 

Langvardt in the backfield and 
Nichols in the line occasionally did 
brilliant work for Kansas State. So 
at times did Quick while he was play- 
ing quarterback. Aside from that the 
rest of the team seemed to show signs 
of having won earlier in the week. 
FIRST GAME UNDER ADAMS 

The Emporia game was Coach > 
"Hobbs" Adams' introduction to the 
squad. He had never before seen the 
boys play under game conditions, the 
only conditions that ever put on the 
full pressure. To the Kansas State 
fans the squad looked big and capa- 
ble, but a bit bewildered by the dash 
and sting of the Hornets, as well they 
might; for "Fran" Welch's ball-lug- 
gers displayed a brand of football any 
college might well be proud of. 

Here are the statistics: 

K. s. E. T. 

First downs 8 9 

Yards gained rushing (net).... 82 199 

Yards lost rushing 15 25 

Passes attempted 19 

Passes completed 8 

Passes completed behind line.... 

Yards gained on passes 97 51 

Passes intercepted by 2 1 ,,± 

Yards gained run back in- 
tercepted passes 5 5 

xPunting average (from 

scrimmage) 35.5 26 

Total yards kicks returned 132 102 

Opponents' fumbles recovered 2 

Yards lost by penalties 35 15 

xlncludes punts and klckoffs. 
Scoring summary: Kansas State 
touchdowns — Langvardt, Kirk, Quick 
(sub for Fair). Points after touchdowns 
— Nichols 2, Weiner. 

Emporia touchdowns — Caywood 2. 
Point after touchdown — Hoyt. Kick 
from placement — Hoyt. 
Score by quarters: 

Kansas State 7 7 7—21 

Emporia 10 6—16 

PLAY COLORADO SATURDAY 
fall schedule follows: 

— Colorado University at Boul- 
der. 
•Missouri (Parents' day) at 
Manhattan. 
i — Oklahoma at Norman. 

•Kansas (Homecoming) at 

Manhattan. 
•Michigan State at East Lan- 
sing. 
■South Carolina at Columbia. 
-Iowa State (Bands day) at 
Manhattan, 
i — Nebraska at Lincoln. 



"Democracy assumes an intelligent and informed citizenry." 



Democracy assumes an intelligent 
! and informed citizenry. The govern- 
j ment of a democracy is expected to 
put into effect the wishes of the peo- 
ple of the democracy. The legislators, 
as representatives of the people, pass 
laws which express the wishes of the 
people. The executive branch of the 
government is expected to see that 
the laws of the country are put into 
effect. The judicial branch of the 
government interprets the laws and 
dispenses justice. All of this assumes 
that the people are informed and ca- 
pable of acting intelligently on the 



basis of their information. 

Basic to an informed and effective 
citizenry is education. Democracy has 
succeeded in America, as every fair- 
minded person will recognize when 
he reflects on the opportunities and 
advantages enjoyed by the people of 
America. It is doubtful if many of 
these opportunities and advantages 
would have been possible without 
the knowledge and ability acquired 
through education and resulting from 
the wisdom of the choices of a people 
enjoying the advantages of a univer- 
sal educational system. 



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Many Visitors Expected 

The third annual Kansas Confer- 
ence on Consumer Education, October 
11 and 12, will bring to the College 
campus many college and university 
representatives who are interested in 
the field of education, according to 
Miss Myrtle Gunselman, associate 
professor of household economics at 
Kansas State College, in charge of 
arrangements. She said that the con- 
sumer education program, due to 
national defense activity, is of even 
greater importance at the present 
time. 



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HISTORICAL SOCIETY C 

TOPEKA 

KAN. 



The Kansas industrialist 



Volume 67 



Kansas 



State College of Agriculture and AppliedScience, Manhattan, Wednesday, October 9, 1940 



Number 4 



REGISTRATION PLANS 

NEARING COMPLETION 

FIFTY FACULTY MEMBERS TO HELP 
STUDENTS SIGN LP 



Display Filipino Articles 

Articles from the Philippine 
Islands, owned by Mrs. Katharine 
Hess of the Department of Clothing 
and Textiles, are on display this week 
in Calvin hall. 



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Between 1,250 and 1,500 Are Expected 

to Be Inclnded In Selective 

Service Enumeration 

Next Wednesday 

Fifty faculty members will help an 
estimated 4 5 per cent of the men stu- 
dents of the College register for se- 
lective service in Recreation Center 
next Wednesday, said Prof. Charles 
H. Scholer, head of the Department 
of Applied Mechanics and head of the 
College registration. 

Professor Scholer said that plans 
were being made to register between 
1,250 and 1,500 students on next 
Wednesday. 

OPEN AT 7 A. M. 
Headquarters in Recreation Center 
will be open from 7 a. m. to 9 p. m. 

Professor Scholer said that faculty 
members between 21 and 35 years, 
the years designated in the conscrip- 
tion legislation, were supposed to 
register at their voting places but 
that a few might be taken care of at 
Recreation Center. 

The estimate of approximately 45 
per cent of the men students being 
eligible for registration was based on 
a sampling of 900 registration cards 
and a study of the age groupings of 
students for the 1935-36 academic 
year. Both surveys showed approxi- 
mately 45 per cent of the men were 
over 21 years. 

Professor Scholer said that prob- 
ably all of the 50 faculty members 
•who will help in the registration will 
be over the registration age limit. 
He estimated that registration will 
take approximately 20 minutes for 
npch individual. 

CALLED UP BY LETTERS 
Students will be called up in letter 
groups so that the registration may 
proceed with as little confusion as 
possible. 

President F. D. Farrell has re- 
quested that the faculty members who 
are helping with registration in Rec- 
reation Center be excused from their 
classes on Wednesday. Students will 
be excused from classes if there is a 
conflict between classes and the desig- 
nated time for registration announced 
by Professor Scholer. 

Professor Scholer said that stu- 
dents should register according to the 
initial letter of their last name at the 
time indicated in the following table: 
HourH Inltlnl letters 

7:20 to 8:00 a. m Wa — Wi 

8-00 to 8:40 a. m Wj— Wy, J, N, O 

8:40 to 9:20 a. m Ma— Mi 

9-20 to 10:00 a. in Mj — My, I, K, Y 

10:00 to 10:40 a. m Ha— lip 1 

10:40 to 11:20 a. in Horn — Hy, R, X, 6 



MANHATTAN THEATRE SQUAD 
WILL GIVE "WHAT A LIFE" 



QUOTA OF 30 STUDENTS 
PICKED FOR AIR COURSE 

PROP. C. B. PEARCE ANNOUNCES 
ENROLLEES IN PRIMARY 



First Production of This Season to Be 

Presented November 1 and 2 

In Auditorium 

"What a Life," Clifford Gold- 
smith's three-act comedy of high- 
school life, will be produced by the 
Manhattan Theatre November 1 and 
2 in the College Auditorium. 

H. Miles Heberer, director and as- 
sociate professor in speech, said 
Henry, the character around whom 
the action of the play centers, is the 
origin of the character played by Ezra 
C. Stone in the Aldrich family of ra- 
dio fame. 

Director Heberer produced the 
play, which was first given at the Bilt- 
more theatre in New York in 193 8, 
at the Booth Bay playhouse in Maine 
last summer. He directed a company 
of young professional actors in the 
production. Professor Heberer praised 
the play, both for its comedy and 
character portrayal, and is sure that 
it will be well received by a College 
audience. 

Tryouts for the play, which pro- 
vides parts for 12 women and 10 
men, began last Wednesday. The 
cast is being chosen from the Man- 
hattan Theatre squad of 60 members, 
23 of whom are newcomers. Among 
the new members are 11 freshmen 
who will be eligible for participation 
in the plays given next semester. 

♦ 
DYKSTRA RECEIVES THANKS 

FOR 1017 TIP ON VACCINE 



Colorado Rancher Makes Special Visit 
to College to Express Appreciation 

Dr. R. R. Dykstra, dean of the Divi- 
sion of Veterinary Medicine, last 
! week received the thanks of Edward 



A. Brown, 70-year-old rancher of 
Colorado Springs, for service per- 
formed by the College in 1917. 

Mr. Brown wrote to Doctor Dyk- 
stra about a blackleg epidemic among 
his cattle which made his ranch un- 
I profitable. Doctor Dykstra recom- 
; mended the use of modern blackleg 
! vaccine developed at the College. The 
j treatment was successful. 

Mr. Brown made the trip to Man- 

I hattan last week on his first visit into 

the state of Kansas to thank the dean 

and College officials for the service 

offered long ago. 



Training Already Under Way for Be- 
ginners as Ground Work Is Delayed 
Because Texts Fall to 
Arrive 

The quota of 30 Kansas State Col- 
lege students to receive the primary 
flight training, sponsored by the Civil 
Aeronautics board and the College, 
has been filled. 

Prof. C. E. Pearce, local flight- 
training chairman and head of the 
Department of Machine Design, said 
the students are now beginning train- 
ing, and they must complete the work 
by December 15. 

FLIGHTS ALREADY START 
Primary students spent approxi- 
mately 60 hours in flight training last 
week. Ground school has been de- 
layed pending arrival of textbooks, 
but will be started this week, Pro- 
fessor Pearce said. Contracts and ap- 
plication blanks for the advanced 
course have not arrived as yet, he 
said. 

Primary students are charged a 
College fee of $19, made up of a $10 
operations charge and $9 for insur- 
ance. In addition, there is a $6 fee 
for the physical examination. Those 
students taking the advanced course 
will pay $12 for insurance and a $10 
operations fee. 

TAKE PRIMARY TRAINING 
Students approved for primary 
training are: 

Benjamin Bryant, Garnett; Ben- 
jamin Buehler, Bushton; Bruce 
Downs, Wichita; Francis Dresser, 
Manhattan; Clair Ewing, Blue Rap- 
ids; George Fittell, Beloit; Clifford 
Fanning, Melvern;' John Green, 
Mound City; Earl Garvin, Manhattan; 
Harry House, Cheyenne, Wyo.; Ar- 
thur Hudson, Nashville; Charles 
Hodgson, Little River; Eugene Haun, 
Larned; James Hamburg, Marysville; 
John Haines, Kansas City. 

CALIFORNIA STUDENT 
Barney Limes, La Harpe; Donald 
Merton, Morganville; Raymond Mu- 
ret, Winfield; John Muir, Norton; 
George Mellard, Russell; Donald Mc- 
Millan, Manhattan; Charles O'Brien, 
Iola; Wayne Rumold, Elmo; John 
Rickenbacker, Turlock, Calif.; Glenn 
Revell, Chase; Frank Sesler, Kansas 
City; Grant Sherwood, Independence; 
Harden Tubbs, Elkhart; Howard 
Turtle, Quinter; Byron White, Neo- 
desha. 



PRESIDENT REQUESTS $2,908,720 
FOR COLLEGE'S 1942-43 BIENNIUM 

REPORT TO REGENTS INCLUDES RECOMMENDATIONS FOR COLLEGE 
AND FOUR EXPERIMENT STATIONS 



Farrell Outlines "Major Problems" Which Must Be Solved if Institution Is 

to Be of Maximum Usefulness; Funds Are Sought for Radio 

Station, Home Management, Improvements 

(Table on las* page) 
President F. D. Farrell recommended, in his 38th biennial report re- 
cently submitted to the State Board of Regents, the appropriation of $2,908,- 
720 for the College proper and the four experiment stations for the next 

biennium. 

The recommendation for the 1942-43 fiscal years compares with the 
$3,192,060 recommended by the President in his report to the State Board 
of Regents two years ago. The 1940-41 recommendations included $350,000 
for beginning a building program. 

A breakdown of the recommended appropriations for the next two fiscal 

years follows: 



BARNWARMER PRINCESSES 

SELECTED AT AG SEMINAR 

One of Five Chosen Will Reign as 

Queen at Party on 

October 10 

The queen of the Ag Barnwarmer, 
annual dance sponsored by the Agri- 
cultural association, will be chosen 
from five Kansas State College coeds 
designated as candidates at an agri- 
cultural seminar last week. 

Eunice Wheeler, Manhattan, repre- 
senting the Independent Student 
Union; Mary Shaver, Salina, repre- 
senting Pi Beta Phi; Lois Mary 
Robinson, La Crossj, representing 
Chi Omega; Shirley Karns, Coffey- 
ville, representing Kappa Kappa 
Gamma; and Marguerite Gilek, An- 
thony, representing Van Zile hall, are 
the Barnwarmer princesses, one of 
which will reign as queen over the 
dance on October 19. 

Matt Betton's orchestra will play 
for the dance, according to a com- 
mittee member. 

Students on the committee are 
John "Stan" Winter, Dresden, man- 
ager; Oscar Norby, Pratt, assistant 
manager; Walter Keith, Manhattan, 
and Ronald Campbell, Cherryvale, 
decorations; William Winner, To- 
peka, and Thomas Benton, Olathe, 
publicity; Keith Fish, Neodesha, re- 
freshments; and Mack Yenzer, Saf- 
fordville, ticket sales. 

The candidates for queen will par- 
I ticipate in a milking contest next 
I Monday while students of the College 
i look on. Officials said that the con- 
1 test was arranged so that the students 
could select a queen who had a "real 
farm" background. 



1042 1043 

$1,367,250 |1, 389,250 



47,000 

13,000 

13,500 

4,500 



TWO STUDENTS PROPOSE NATION-WIDE GROUP 

TO WORK FOR PRESERVATION OF DEMOCRACY 



12:30 to 
1:10 to 
1:50 to 
2:30 to 
3:10 to 
3:50 to 
4:30 to 
5:10 to 
5:50 to 



1:10 p. m Sn— Sm 

1:50 p. m Sn — Sz, D, U 

2:30 p. m Ca — Con 

3:10 p. in Coo — Cz, E, G, Q 

3:50 p. m A, F 

4:30 p. m P, T 

5:10 p. m lia — Bra 

5:50 p. m Bre— By, L, V 

9-00 n m. ..Students who failed 
to report during the 
period provided for 
their group. 



COLLEGE-OWNED COW SETS 

MILK PRODUCTION RECORD 



Plehe 



Sunflower Is Holsteln-Frleslan 
Kansas State Champion 

A state production record has been 
made by a registered Holstein-Frie- 
sian cow owned by Kansas State Col- 
lege, the Holstein-Friesan Association 
of America announced last week from 
Brattleboro, Vt. 

Piebe Sunflower is the new cham- 
, pion, taking the lead for all of Kan- 
f sas' senior 3-year-old Holsteins 
' milked three times daily in the 10- 
months division, with the production 
of 561.1 pounds butterfat f rom 16,378 
pounds milk. The average dairy cow 
in the country produces only 30 per 
cent as much butterfat, using United 
States Department of Agriculture sta- 
tistics as the basis of comparison. 

Testing was supervised by the Hol- 
stein-Friesian Association of America, 
Brattleboro, Vt., in cooperation with 
the Vermont State College of Agri- 
culture. 



Two students at Kansas State Col- 
lege are laying the foundation for 
what they hope will be a nation-wide 
youth organization for the preserva- 
tion of democracy. The group, to be 
known as "Democracy's Volunteers," 
proposes not words but action. 

Frank Rickel, 21, blond senior who 
does debating at the College, and 
Merrill Peterson, 19, sophomore who 
last year won the Missouri Valley Ora- 
torical contest, conceived the idea of 
a book, as yet unpublished, and an 
active youth movement last June. 

The five-point general program 

follows: 

(1) Belief in democracy as the best 
expression of human dignity and in- 
tegrity and the pledge to work un- 
stintingly for it," not by words alone, 
but by deeds and sacrifices;" 

(2) Recognition of democracy's 
faults and belief that these can be 
corrected "by intelligent opinion and 
determined action;" 

(3) Belief that autocracy and des- 
potism cannot be appeased and that 
free peoples must stand together 
when their liberties are threatened; 

(4) Condemnation of youth's in- 
action and recognition of the neces- 
sity of accompanying education with 

action; 

(5) Determination to lay now the j 
foundations for a just and permanent | 



peace under the influence of democ- 
racy. 

Government-sponsored work camps 
where youth can work for democracy 
and exchange ideas with young people 
from other parts of the country, "all 
aid to Britain," an aggressive stand 
in the Far East, forums in schools and 
between schools for action-provoking 
discussions are some of the proposed 
group's definite aims. 

Letters to liberal writers brought 
quick, enthusiastic replies offering 
advice and suggestions. 

Freda Kirchway, editor of Nation; 
Reinhold Niebuhr, author-professor 
of the Union Theological seminary at 
New York City; Lewis Mumford, lec- 
turer and author; Waldo Frank, con- 
tributor to New Republic, and many 
others have consented to be on the 
advisory board for "Democracy's 
Volunteers." 

"Your plan seems to me excellent 
and I should like to give it my hearty 
\ endorsement," wrote Prof. Frederick 
L. Schuman of the Department of 
Political Science at Williams college, 
Williamstown, Mass. "The apathy 
and indifference with which many 
American college students look upon 
the present state of the world make it 
all the more important that some such 
nation-wide organization as you pro- 
| pose be established as soon as pos- 
sible." 



INDEPENDENT SLATE WINS 

AT FRESHMAN ELECTION 

John Aiken, Mornn. Selected President 

of Class of 1044 and Helen Dahl, 

Mnnhattan, Vice-president 

John Aiken, Moran, who is enrolled 
in agriculture, was elected president 
of the freshman class at Tuesday's 
election, as the Independents swept 
the field. 

Helen Dahl, Manhattan, was chosen 
vice-president and Gerald Goetsch, 
Sabetha, was selected secretary-trea- 
surer. 

The freshman class rally of Inde- 
] pendents last week chose the slate of 
candidates at a meeting in Recrea- 
tion Center. Approximately 125 
freshmen attended the gathering. 

William Hickman, Kirwin, presi- 
dent of the Student Governing asso- 
ciation; Jessie Collins, Dwight, and 
Roger West, Manhattan, both mem- 
bers of the Student Council; Gordon 
Hair, Wichita, vice-president of last 
year's freshman class; and James 
Kendall, Dwight, editor of the Col- 
legian, student newspaper, talked to 



College proper 

Hays Experi- 
ment station 42,720 

Garden City Ex- 
periment station 13,000 

Colby Experi- 
ment station 14,000 

Tribune Experi- 
ment station 4,500 

TOTAL FOR . ... ... 

FISCAL YEAR $1,441,470 $1,467,250 

Special items included in the rec- 
ommendations are $3 8,000 for mod- 
ernization of the College radio sta- 
tion, KSAC; $30,000 for three home 
management houses, $15,000 for pur- 
chase and improvement of orchard 
land and $10,000 each for resetting, 
modernizing and re-walling an old 
steam boiler and for purchase and in- 
stallation of condensing equipment in 
the power plant. 

ASK LABORATORY EQUIPMENT 
Recommendations, in general, were 
for the same amounts as in the pre- 
vious biennium. An additional $38,- 

000 was requested for extension work, 
an increase of $20,000 was sought 
for laboratory equipment and the 
same amount would be added to the 
funds for repairs and improvements 
if the recommendations are followed. 
New funds of $10,000 each were re- 
quested for a bindweed experiment 
field and for industrial research fel- 
lowships. 

The President included a 12-point 
list of some of the "major problems 
that must be solved if the College is 
to be of maximum usefulness to the 
public." Included in the recommen- 
dations were improved salaries, a 

1 sound retirement policy and a long- 
time building program. All of these 
were mentioned in the 37th biennial 
report two years ago. 

The list of problems, which Presi- 
dent Farrell said were not placed in 
order of their importance, included 
the following: 

1. "There is increasing develop- 
ment of superannuation among facul- 
ty members, together with a lack of 
a faculty retirement policy and with 
inadequate financial means for at- 
tracting and holding competent young 
faculty personnel. The College can- 
not increase in usefulness unless its 
faculty increases in competence." 

NEED FUNDS FOR TEACHERS 

2. "There should be more nearly 
adequate funds for operating ex- 

: penses so that the work of the College 
in resident teaching, in research and 

\ in extension, could be expanded and 
improved. State appropriations for 
salaries and wages and for mainte- 
nance, improvements and repairs 
should be restored to at least the level 
of 10 years ago." 

3. "A long-time, comprehensive 
j program for the improvement of the 

College's physical plant should be 
adopted in the interest of increased 
efficiency and effectiveness. The pro- 
gram should include the construction 
of new buildings, the modernizing of 



the Independents. o]d bui i din g S an d the purchase and 

The election yesterday was held in . mn] . nvfiment of a few Bmall tracts 
the College Auditorium 



Basketball Starts Soon 
Coach Jack Gardner announced to- 
day that varsity basketball practice 
will start next week. The squad will 
•eport for a meeting Monday evening, 



improvement of a few small tracts 
of land." 

4. "There should be improved fa- 
cilities for extra-curricular activities 
of students, including both indoor 
and outdoor recreation. A modern 
fieldhouse, a student union building 
and enlarged playing fields are in- 



and .tart to work Wedne.day. (Continued on la.t pas.) 



The KANSAS INDUSTRIALIST 

Established April 24, 1875 



R. I. Th AC K KB v Editor 

Jane Rockwell. Ralph Lashbrook, 

Hillikh Kkieuhuaum . . . Associate Editors 
Kknney Fobd Alumni Editor 



Published weekly during the college year by 
the Kansas State College of Agriculture and 
Applied Science, Manhattan, Kansas. 



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technical training. This insistence, 
always fully defensible on broad 
grounds of educational policy, may 
frequently prove in time of crisis (as 
in the present instance) to be of sig- 
nificant and immediate practical im- 
portance. 

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1940 



LESSON FROM LATIN AMK1HCA 

Not in fascist penetration of Latin 
America but in lack of reciprocal 
cultural understanding between the 
United States and the nations to the 
south lies the great danger to the 
Western hemisphere, says Samuel 
Guy Inman in the September number 
of the Annals of the American Acad- 
emy of Political and Social Science. 

"The Americans of the North and 
of the South approach life from dif- 
ferent angles, they are attracted by 
different rewards, they are persuaded 
by different arguments," says the 
well-known authority on Latin Amer- 
ica. 

To point his argument, Doctor in- 
man comments that Don Quixote is 
to the Latin "a hero, not a crazy fel- 
low whose antics are amusing" and 
is the greatest of all heroes precisely 
because he did such crazy things as 
attacking windmills for idealistic pur- 
poses. . , 

Dignity is the key to the under- 
standing of the Latin American, and 
"the most precious possession of 
either the prince or the peon," Pro- 
fessor Inman says. 

"No amount of road building, free 
clinics, and budget-balancing will 
ever reconcile them to being igno- 
miniously insulted by trampling on 
their national dignity. 

Commercial relations with 
people of that kind will mean some- 
thing more than a rush into their 
presence, a hurried showing of sam- 
ples, and a high-pressure argument 
for signing on the dotted line." 

To bring real understanding, North 
American participants in "cultural ex- 
change" between the peoples of the 
North and of the South must get into 
the heart of certain fundamental 
problems which as yet are little un- 
derstood in the United States, such 
as the place of democracy, the place 
of social reform and the place of for- 
eign capital in Latin America, Pro- 
fessor Inman asserts. 

Basic economic and ideological con- 
ditions in Latin American countries 
are vastly different from those in the 
crowded, poor, land-hungry states in 
which fascism has developed, he 
points out. Sparsely settled Latin 
America, with a wealth of raw mate- 
rials needs instead of fascism, liberal 
policies which will attract people 
from the outside. 

At present the United States and 
Latin America are drawn together by 
the common danger which threatens 
from abroad. They also have in com- 
mon the tradition of revolutionary 
separation from European ties, econ- 
omies which are to a great extent 
complementary and may become 
more so. and a determination to de- 
fend the American way of life from 
foreign encroachments. 

All this basis for friendship and co- 
operation will avail nothing if under- 
standing is lacking. Professor Inman 
predicts What has been done to gain 
understanding is "infinitesimal in 
view of the "challenge of what must 

be done." . 

In this tremendously important 
task the colleges are called on to play 
a major role, and the fact is of par- 
ticular significance to a techno logical 
institution such as Kansas State Col- 
SL For many years the College has 
stressed the fact that gener a cultural 
courses, of which those dealing with 
Latin American culture are an exam- 



Tfce C©ltot» HlMtory 

"History of Kansas State College of 
Agriculture and Applied Science By 
lulius Terrass Wlllard. Kansas State 
College Press. Manhattan. 1940. 

To those who know J. T. Willard 
even slightly the simple statement 
that he has written a history of Kan- 
sas State College gives a far better 
indication of the quality and value of 
the volume than any reviewer could 
possibly indicate, by however exhaus- 
tive discussion of its content. 

One can assume that most readers 
of The Industrialist will know, with- 
out being told, that Doctor Willard's 
history is thorough, accurate and fair. 
But those who have not been for- 
tunate enough to know Doctor Wil- 
lard well, may in some cases be un- 
prepared for the flavorful, interesting, 
human quality which he imparts to 
his account of the development of the 
oldest state college in Kansas. Thou- 
sands of us knew him first as "Dean 
Willard," the scrupulously just and 
equally Arm administrator whose in- 
fluence permeated the institution and 
has been of great importance in es- 
tablishing and maintaining the integ- 
rity of its courses and curricula. All 
of us respected "Dean Willard." Some 
discovered a delightful conversation- 
alist and personality, when the talk 
went beyond that stage in which duty 
required him to confine his com- 
ments to the various forms of saying 
"No." Fortunately many more have 
had that opportunity of discovery in 
recent years. 

This history reflects both Doctor 
Willard's stern refusal to compromise 
with inaccuracy and shoddiness, and 
his witty, human side. In plan, it re- 
flects the organizing ability of the 
scientist and administrator. 

The first two chapters of this 568- 
page book provide the social, eco- 
nomic and geographic background for 
the opening of the story of the his- 
tory of the College. Then comes the 
story proper, a chapter to the ad- 
ministration of each president from 
the days of Joseph Denison on, bring- 
ing the chronicle down through 1939. 
Within that section of the book a 
special chapter is devoted to the part 
played by the College in the World 
war. 

After the broad story is finished, 
Doctor Willard devotes a chapter to 
special articles on various phases of 
College history which require treat- 
ment as a unit. Major topics include 
the land purchases of the College, the 
building of Memorial Stadium, Van 
Zile hall, development of the faculty 
meeting, the Council of Deans, devel- 
opment of departments of the College, 
the early history of physical educa- 
tion and athletics, the history of the 
alumni association and a discussion 
of the sources of College history. A 
useful chronology of Kansas State 
College, a chart of enrolment and 
degrees conferred by years from the 
beginning to 1938-3 9 and both a name 
and subject matter index complete the 
volume. Liberal use of illustrations 
with the text provides a picture his- 
tory of the College and the men who 
I made it. The binding is a substantial 
gray buckram, stamped in royal pur- 
ple. 

For the beginning of this story of 
1 Kansas State College we go back to 
the great quarrel between the states 
which sent settlers flooding into Kan- 
sas in the late '50s. We learn some- 
thing of the history of Manhattan, 
because the founders of Manhattan { 
also founded Bluemont Central col- ; 
lege, whose building and equipment 
furnished the physical basis for Kan- 
sas State College, and whose last j 
president, the Rev. Joseph T. Deni- j 
son, became the first president of 
Kansas State College. 

We are reminded of the state of 
technology at the time the land-grant 
act was passed and Kansas State Col- 
lege was founded. Natural petroleum 
had been discovered in Pennsylvania 
but three years before. Steel was 
neither cheap nor abundant. A prac- 
tical electric motor and a usable elec- 
tric light were dreams to be realized 
! in the future. Engineering and ar- 
chitecture as we know them today 
' scarcely existed. Small wonder that 
the mandate of the land-grant act to 
"promote the liberal and practical 
1 education of the industrial classes in 
I the several pursuits and professions 



By R. G. KLOEFFLER 

Professor and Head, Department of 
Electrical Engineering 

The progress of civilization has 
been determined by man's ability to 
"see the unknown." This "seeing the 
unknown" has usually been confined 
to a study of things of minute size. 

The doctor owes much of his knowl- 
edge of the human body to the pic- 
ture of tissue and cell structure as 
revealed by the microscope. In a| 
similar manner, his understanding of 
disease and its treatment comes from 
studying the bacteria and microbes j 
shown by the microscope. The mod- 
ern automobile owes its durability to 
knowledge of metal structure as re- 
vealed by the microscope. 

Recently a new device, known as 
the electron microscope, has been de- 
signed by scientists and engineers 
which reveals some minute things 
previously concealed among the "un- 
known." 

Before explaining this new device 
it is well to note the limitations of 
preceding magnifying devices. The 
magnifying glass and the microscope 
are optical instruments using light 
as the medium for amplification. They 
use glass lenses which converge and 
diverge the rays of light so as to mag- 
nify the object as viewed by the hu- 
man eye. Microscopes reached the 
acme of perfection several years ago 
and it is impossible to give them any 
further resolving power. Resolving 
power is the power of discriminating 
between two minute objects that lie 
very close together and depends upon 
the wave length of light, the refrac- 
tive index of the space and the angle 
of the cone of light emanating from 
the object. The wave length of light 
limits the effective magnification by 
optical means to the range of from 
1000 to 1500 diameters. 

The present century has witnessed 
the discovery, measurement and ap- 
plication of the electron. Today mil- 
lions of devices utilize the electron 
for operating tubes in telephone, ra- 



dio and television circuits. These ap- 
plications have developed ways for 
controlling the movements of the 
electron very accurately. 

This minute particle, the electron, 
has certain wave properties like light, 
and in recent years different types of 
devices known as electron micro- 
scopes have been developed. The most 
important of these has been developed 
by Zworykin and Marton of the Radio 
Corporation of America. This device 
! consists of a metal vacuum tube 
about 12 inches in diameter and 8 
Ifeet high. At the top of the tube, 
electrons are released by a cathode 
and accelerated by an electron gun 
using potentials of from 30,000 to 
100,000 volts. These electrons move 
downward at tremendous velocities 
and are controlled by powerful elec- 
trostatic and magnetic fields. These 
fields have the ability to converge 
and diverge the path of the electrons 
like lenses control the passage of 
light. Thus the device is a huge 
microscope controlling electron move- 
ments. Part way down the large tube 
a small air-tight port permits the en- 
trance of the object to be viewed. 
Similarly a larger air-tight port at 
the bottom permits the insertion of 
a photographic plate or a fluorescent 
screen for recording the light or shad- 
ow of the enlarged image. 

Theoretically the new electron 
, microscope should have a resolving 
power sufficient to show atomic di- 
mensions. The practical device now 
developed permits enlargements 50 
times that of the best light micro- 
scope, thus permitting a magnifica- 
tion of approximately 100,000 diame- 
ters. This new device will permit a 
study of the internal structure of bac- 
teria and of filterable yiruses. In 
industry studies may be made of col- 
loid particles of any kind, fine fibers, 
pigments and so forth. 

Thus the electron microscope opens 
up a new world — a world of the in- 
finitely small, whose very existence 
could only be surmised with other in- 
struments. 



FORTY YEARS AGO 
Lucy Waters, '94, was principal of 

the Livermore, Calif., school. 

H. D. Orr, '99, was awarded a 

scholarship in the medical college of 

Northwestern university. 



FIFTY YEARS AGO 
H. B. Gilstrap and G. L. Melton, 
senior students, represented the Col- 
lege YMCA at the state meeting in 
Leavenworth. * 

J. B. Brown, '87, and E. A. Allen, T 
•87, were both employed in the signal 
service, the former at St. Louis and 
the latter at Leavenworth. 



SIXTY YEARS AGO 
Visitors of the week at the College 
were Regent E. B. Purcell, Manhat- 
tan; Joab Mulvane, Topeka; Capt. 
Henry Booth, Larned. 



KANSAS POETRY 

Robert Conover, Editor 



By Lois Thompson Paulsen 

Night and silence descending 
Exalt the outline of a tree 
With strength and beauty immutable 
Such as you are to me. 

Each tardy feathered tenant 
Knows which tree holds his nest 
And goes, like a swift sure plummet, 
To that protected rest. 

Peace for the heart, and shelter, 
The flower, the leaf, and the wood. 
Here is the symbol of homing; 
Here is the steadfast good. 

So shall my heart, flight-weary, 
Perceive the shape of a tree, 
Wheel in the sunset sky, and turn 
To you unerringly. 



Lois Thompson Paulsen is a native 
of Concordia and the wife of Clarence 
Paulsen, a lawyer. She was graduated 
from the University of Kansas and 
has had verse published in various 
anthologies and magazines. 



H. W. Davis 
PEACE-OF-MIND PLEA 
At the time, which is now, it seems 
to be a good idea to launch a new 
Week. (Yes, with a capital W.) 



! in life" was susceptible to conflicting 
interpretations which later formed 
the basis of spirited conflicts among 
those who wished to shape the des- 
tiny of this new type of institution. 

: The land grant afforded little or no 
revenue for many years— years in 
which legislatures assumed that the 
College was sufficiently endowed. 
Few men were capable of giving the 

[type of technical training called for 
by this new type of college. Small 
wonder that the struggling institu- 
tion continued largely in the classical 
tradition during the first few years 
of its existence under President Deni- 

BOB. , . 

The administration of President 
Anderson, from 1873 to 1879, broke 
sharply with the classical tradition— 
so sharply that the College was forced 
into the almost strictly vocational 
lines of "practical farming, black- 
smithing, wood-working, stone-cut- 
ting ." with ". . • little to suggest 
for the education of young women 
aside from that designed to enhance 
their qualifications for homemaking. 

There followed nearly two decades 
of development under President 
I George T. Fairchild, interrupted 
when the political tides of the late 
•90s brought discharge of the entire 
faculty, many of whom were subse- 
quently re-employed. 

Another change in political control 
of the state terminated the two-year 
administration of President T. E. 
Will, and President Ernest R. Nichols 
came in for the decade ending in 
1909. This was an eventful decade, 
in which the College and the students 
played hosts to the entire legislature 
as part of successful resistance to 
i attempts to eliminate engineering at 
the College. 

Seven and one-half years under 
I President Henry Jackson Waters saw 
abolition of entrance to the College 
directly from the elementary school, 
and recognition of elevation of its 
standards to equal those of other in- 
stitutions of collegiate rank. 

The administrations of President 
W. M. Jardine and of President F. D. 
Farrell cover the post-war period of 
steady development and growth of 
the College. 

As President Farrell points out in 
the foreword, Doctor Willard entered 
Kansas State College at the beginning 
of the Fairchild administration, in 
the fall of 1879, and has been con- 



nected with the College as student, 
teacher and administrator ever since. 
He has been so important a part of 
the College and the College of him, 
that his personality is permanently 
stamped upon it. 

Under such circumstances, it was 
obvious that his history of the Col- 
lege, to be complete, must contain his 
own comments and observations. 
Fortunately, Doctor Willard has felt 
free to discuss developments and men 
as he saw them, being careful to make 
a clear distinction between the fac- 
tual record and his own keen sum- 
ming up. Regardless of his personal 
position, he considers every important 
aspect of each situation discussed. As 
a result Doctor Willard has written 
a book which is literally invaluable 
| to those who have Kansas State Col- 
lege and its interest at heart, and im- 
portant to anyone interested in the 
development of the land-grant col- 
! lege. It is the product of a staggering 
] amount of painstaking research, of 
a warm and human personality, of a 
! lifetime devoted to the building of 
Kansas State College. No one else 
could possibly have written it. 

— Russell I. Thackrey. 



You can remember, of course, when 
we had a really terrible epidemic of 
Weeks, which climaxed its way to a 
Canned Tomato Week and then sort 
of vanished slowly, painfully and 
rightly. 



I hate to revive anything as awful 

as that epidemic was, but my concern 

for the sanity of some 130,000,000 

fellow citizens forces me to be kind to 

I my sense of patriotism and brotherly 

1 love by declaring a "Be Kind to Your 

! Peace of Mind Week." 



I do not wish to defeat my purpose 
by snatching any particular seven 
days from the calendar. You can take 
a week whenever you need it and as 
often as. 



m OLDER DAYS 
TEN YEARS AGO 

Ethel F. Trump, '24 and M. S. '30, 
was instructor in the Department of 
Institutional Economics at Michigan 
State college, East Lansing. 

Wellington Brink, '16, was in 
Washington, D. C, where he was as- 
sistant national director of public 
information for the American Red 
Cross. 



Here is how you do. 

Set aside seven consecutive days 
during which you will NOT: 

(a) Listen to any news-casts, or 
look at any news-reels. 

(b) Read any headlines except on 
the sports and funny pages. 

(c) Remain in the company of any- 
body who shows the slightest disposi- 
tion to betray the fact that he has 
(a)'d or (b)'d. 

(d) Let anybody know that you 
have even heard of any unpleasant- 
ness between nations of the Christian 
world. 

(e) Say anything about the duty of 
America, or billions for defense. 



All right, maybe it can't be done; 
but you can have fun trying and 
struggling, even if you are finally shot 
, for a hoodlum. 



TWENTY YEARS AGO 
B. R. Petrie, '20, was in charge of 
the animal husbandry and agronomy 
work in the high school at Broken 
Bow, Neb. 

L. B. Mickel, '10, manager of the 
Southwest division for the United 
Press associations, was located in 
Kansas City. 



The World's Series is still news, 
Alma Mater took a terrible shellack- 
ing last Saturday but will be up and 
at 'em again next Saturday, Willie 
either should or should not be al- 
lowed to use the car Friday night, 
pancakes should or should not be on 
the breakfast menu oftener, Hedy La- 
marr is or is not more attractive than 
Joan Bennett, the cat should or 
should not be allowed on the needle- 
; point chair. 



THIRTY YEARS AGO 
M. E. Chandler and C. A. Chandler, 
'00, formed the Elmhurst Landscape 
and Nursery company, Argentine, 
Kan. 

Ida Rigney left for St. Joseph 

where she accepted a position as die- 

i titian and lecturer on dietary subjects 

! to the nurses in Emsworth hospital. 



There are a million (I mean a bil- 
lion) other things to think and ar- 
gue about — good old-fashioned things 
that keep you positive you're right, 
and as hungry as a bear. 



Let's get our faith and our content- 
ment back for at least one week out 
of 52 — or maybe one out of four. 



AMONG THE 
ALUMNI 



i } 



D. W. Working, B. S. *88, is justice 
of the peace in Arapahoe county, Den- 
ver, Colo. President F. D. Farrell 
received this letter from him Septem- 
ber 24: 

"Yesterday Tut: Kansas Industri- 
alist came by rural delivery, especi- 
ally welcome after its vacation. I am 
moved to write by "A Saga of Pio- 
neering," being particularly interest- 
ed by the second paragraph of your 
review. I am sure I should enjoy 
reading the book. 

"My own pioneering in Kansas be- 
gan in the fall of 1877. We entered 
the state of our dreams by crossing 
the Missouri from St. Joseph on a 
steamboat ferry in real covered- 
wagon style — and then on to Logan 
in Phillips county. From that county, 
in 188 3, I was the first to enter the 
old Kansas State Agricultural College 
as a student — influenced by Tun In- 
Di stkiai.ist, which I had been read- 
ing for about a year and a half. I 
have been reading it ever since. 
Moreover, it was work in The Indub- 
tkiai.ikt print shop that enabled me 
to earn most of my College expenses. 
In that same shop I received a valued 
part of my education. 

"My own unwritten saga of pi- 
oneering began in the Big Woods of 
Scott county, Minn., where I was born 
and had my first schooling; continued 
from the spring of 1868 in Sibley 
county, where my father built a log 
house near Arlington; then, in the 
fall of 1870, we went by covered 
wagon to Great Bend in Cottonwood 
county, where my father took a prai- 
rie homestead and built a frame 
house on the site of a stockade used 
by soldiers during part of the Civil 
war period. Here we lived until the 
fall of 1876. ... All this I need not 
have written to you; and I need not 
confess to what happened in the year 
before we crossed the Missouri at old 
St. Joe. 

"I may confess my debt to Tiik IN- 
DUSTRIALIST and to old K. S. A. C." 



HOMECOMING HINTS 

1. Alumni should buy their 
football tickets from the Alum- 
ni association office. Make your 
reservations early. Price is 
$2.25 a ticket. Send 20 cents 
extra for registration and mail- 
ing. 

2. Visitors should register 
and meet friends at the Alumni 
association office. 

3. GuestB may attend the 
Homecoming alumni luncheon 
Saturday noon, October 26, up- 
stairs in Thompson hall, the 
College cafeteria. Tickets will 
be on sale at the Alumni asso- 
ciation office and College cafe- 
teria at 51 cents. 

4. K men's dinner will be in 
the College cafeteria at 6:30 p. 
m., October 26. It is sponsored 
by K fraternity. 



LOOKING AROUND 

KENNEY L. FORD 



Ford County Picnic 

Alumni and former students of 
Kansas State College living in Ford 
county held a picnic June 16, at the 
farm home of Mr. and Mrs. Martin 
Mayrath Jr., seven miles southwest 
of Dodge City. Those attending in- 
cluded John and Leah (Gibbs) 
Knobbe, f. s., Spearville; Ruth Mc- 
Cammon, '30, Fort Collins, Colo.; 
Clifford Kewley, '32, and Mrs. Kew- 
ley; Neil and Ruth (Lutz) Grantham, 
f. s.; F. D. McCammon, '3 2, and Mrs. 
McCammon; Eugene Connell, M. S. 
'29, and Ruby (Stover) Connell, '32; 
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Zimmer; William 
Matthias, '25, and Christine (Immer) 
Matthias, f. s. '25; John and Velma 
(McKee) Thomas, f. s.; Martin May- 
rath, '32, and Edith (Dobson) May- 
rath, '33, all of Dodge City. 



Charles R. Hutchings, B. S. '95, is 
mechanical engineer for the Kansas 
City Structural Steel company in Kan- 
sas City. Helen (Austin) Hutchings 
and he live at 3319 Metropolitan 
avenue in Kansas City. 

Clara Pancake, D. S. '03, is the 
head of the Home Economics depart- 
ment at the Philadelphia Normal 
school in Philadelphia, Pa. Her resi- 
dence address is 4 722 Warrington, 
Philadelphia. 

Robert A. Fulton, E. E. '05, and 
Fanny (Reynolds) Fulton, D. S. '05, 
live in Cleveland, where Mr. Fulton 
is power salesman for the Cleveland 
Electric Illuminating company. 

Nettie (Hanson) Hoss, B. S. '12, 
director of Washington county's so- 
cial welfare, lives at Washington. 
Her husband is a farmer and they 
have two children, Mary, 15, and 
Robert, 11. 

Visiting the Alumni association 
office August 19 was Edward M. Par- 
rish, Ag. '14, who teaches at the Dal- 
ton Vocational school in Dalton, Mo. 
Dr. Albert Mangelsdorf. Ag. '16, 
his wife and their son, John, were 
guests this fall of Dr. H. H. King, 
bead of the Department of Chemistry, 
and Mrs. King. They brought John 
to enroll in Kansas State College I 
early in September. Doctor Mangels- 
dorf is geneticist with the Hawaiian 
Sugar Planters association. He is in 
the United States on a six-months J 
leave to carry out investigation re-. 
garding the production of sugar in 
the United States. This will take him ; 
to Cuba and Barbados and later to 
Washington, D. C, to confer with the 
Sugar Investigation bureau of the 
United States Department of Agri- 
culture. 

A card from China Ethel (Rogers) ' 
Haskins, M. *21, says that she is a I 
home maker at 2341 East First street, 
Tucson, Ariz- Her husband, Tracy 
Haskins, is chief engineer at the Uni- | 
versity of Arizona. 

William C. Kerr, Ar. '24, is an 
agent for the Prudential Insurance 
company at Tulsa. Okla. His wife, 
Ophie (Maney) Kerr, was a student 
at Florida university, and they live at 
1629 North Main street. 

Gladwin A. Read, Ag. '25, called at j 
the Alumni association office Septem- i 
ber 27 and reported he is a sales rep- 
resentative of the Borden company, | 
Poultry Foods department. His home , 
address is 1916 Euclid avenue, Chi-j 



cago Heights, 111. 

Mary Lois Williamson, H. E. '26, 
was the out-of-state speaker for the 
Vocational Education Conference in 
Homemaking at the Hotel Jayhawk 
in Topeka the last week of August. 
She was an instructor in Manhattan 
High school at one time, and later 
taught at Iowa State college and the 
University of Kentucky. She is now 
state supervisor of home economics 
education at Frankfort, Ky. 

F. W. McDade, E. E. '27, is the 
electrical distribution superintendent 
for the Kansas Electric Power com- 
pany in Leavenworth. The McDades 
have two children, Anne, 12, and 
Donald, 8. 

Paul A. Skinner, R. C. '28, and Lu- 
cile (Rogers) Skinner, H. E. '29, are 
in Wichita. Mr. Skinner is sales man- 
ager of the Hobbs Chevrolet company. 
Arthur E. Dring, C. E. '29, is divi- 
sion traffic supervisor of the South- 
western Bell Telephone company at 
St. Joseph, Mo. He lives at 2320 
Frances street. 

Elizabeth (Annan) Hemenway, P. 
E. '30, is the wife of William S. Hem- 
enway, a former University of Kansas 
student. They live at Frankfort. 

Winston K. Grigg, C. '31, is as- 
sistant buyer for the A. L. Duckwall 
stores in Abilene. He has been with 
that firm since 1933. 

Winston K. Grigg, C. *31, is assis- 
tant buyer for the A. L. Duckwall 
stores in Abilene. He has been with 
that firm since '33. 

Lester T. Hagadorn, C. E. '32, is 
with the firm of Paulette and Wilson 
in Salina. He and Mrs. Hagadorn 
moved into a new home at 541 South 
Phillips on June 12. 

Lester T. Hagadorn, C. E. '32, is ; 
with the firm of Paulette and Wilson j 
in Salina. He and Mrs. Hagadorn 
moved into a new home at 541 South 
Phillips on June 12. 

Irving Johnson, E. E. '33, is the 
junior engineer for the Kansas Power 
and Light company at Salina. 

Nelson Reppert, I. J. '34, is pub- 
lisher of the Osawatomie Graphic 
News. He and Isabelle (Nelson) Rep- 
pert, f. s., have one child. 

Nelson Reppert, I. J. '34, is pub- 
lisher of the Osawatomie Graphic- j 
News. He and Isabelle (Nelson) 
Reppert, f. s., have one child. 

E. I. Long, D. V. M. '35, has a small 
animal hospital and general practice 
at Wellington. Becky Ann, his daugh- 
ter, is 5 years old. 

Edwin R. Lamb, Ag. '36, is sales- 
man for the Carolina Chemical com- 
pany at East St. Louis, 111. He was 
married to Maude McPherson on April 
8, 1939, and their home is at 1734 
North Twenty-Third street. 

Morgan Kreek, M. S. '3 6, and Grace 
(Justin) Kreek, I. J. *25, have two 
children, Justin, 12, and Peter, 6. 
Their home is at 531 Webster, Clay 
Center. Mr. Kreek is rural rehabili- 
tation supervisor of Clay, and Dickin- 
son counties. 

Edson Wilder, Ar. E. '37, is an en- 
gineer with the Cities Service Oil com- 
pany at Lyons. 

Barbara Carr, I. J. '38, is doing so- 
cial welfare work in Barton county. 
Her home is at Great Bend. 

Frank A. Cowell Jr., E. E. '39, is 
a junior engineer in the Philgas divi- 
sion of the Phillips Petroleum com- 
pany at Pontiac, Mich. His residence 
address is 60 Douglas, Pontiac, Mich. 
Robert Lyman Hammond, E. E. 
'40, went to Schenectady, N. Y., on 
September 16, when he began work 
for the General Electric company. 



*40; Martha Barnett, '40; Howard 
Louth and Elsie (Flinner) Louth, 
'31; R. V. Christian, '11, Anna 
(Vezie) Christian, f. s., and sons, 
Bob, David and Charles; Alice (Daw- 
son) Allan, '18; Paul C. Wilber, '35, 
and Mary (McNamee) Wilber, f. s. ; 
Marion (Crocker) Whitcomb, '33; 
Byron Swain, '34, and Mrs. Swain, 
'33; S. M. Caughron, '34; Norris 
Miller, '35, and Mary (Williams) 
Miller, '35; Loyal Davies, '29, and 
Leone (Wilson) Davies, '30; Joseph 
N. Weaver, '32, Mrs. Weaver and 
sons, Donald and Bobby. 
♦ 

MARRIAGES 



RECENT HAPPENINGS 
ON THE HILL 



Appointments for Engineers 

Dean R. A. Seaton of the Division 
of Engineering and Architecture an- 
nounced that one faculty member in 
his division and several graduates and 
other persons formerly associated 
with Kansas State College have been 
appointed to committees of the Amer- 
ican Society of Agricultural Engi- 
neers. 

Appointments were made recently 
by President E. E. Brackett of the so- 
ciety. H. E. Wichers, Ar. '24, M. S. 
'24, Prof. Deg. '30, rural architect 
in the Department of Architecture at 
Kansas State College, will head the 
committee on farm house standards 
and design. Mr. Wichers also was 
placed on the committee on farm 
structures advancement. 

Others on the committees include 
R. H. Driftmier, M. S. '26, Prof. Deg. 
'29, now head of the Department of 
Agricultural Engineering at the Uni- 
versity of Georgia, and Ellen Pennell, 
'21, who was on the staffs of Success- 
ful Farming and Country Home maga- 
zines and is now associated with the 
General Foods corporation. 



LOMAS— FRENCH 

Marjorie Lomas, G. S. '36, Topeka, 
became the bride of Freeman F. 
French, June 2, at the Methodist 
church in Topeka. 

The bride was an active member 
of Ionian Literary society, Pi Mu Ep- 
silon, Kappa Phi and was a member 
of Phi Kappa Phi at Kansas State 
College. For the past two years she 
has been engaged in teaching at Har- 
lan. She has also taught at Curtis 
Junior High school in Topeka. 

Mr. French is a teacher in Har- 
lan High school. 



Kirby Page, author and social 
evangelist, will be leader for the an- 
nual Christian affirmation week pro- 
gram October 27 to 29. The event 1b 
sponsored by Manhattan churches, 
the YWCA and the YMCA. 



The date for the annual military 
ball has been set for December 7. This 
event, sponsored by the Department 
of Military Science and Tactics, fea- 
tures the presentation of a coed as 
honorary cadet colonel and six hon- 
orary cadet majors. 



A new women's dormitory for Kan- 
sas State College is included in the 
proposed 10-year dormitory-building 
plan of the Kansas division of the 
American Association of University 
Women, which is being presented to 
the Board of Regents. 



DEATHS 



Kansas State College is the recipi- 
ent of the official seal of Bluemont 
Central College association. The seal 
was given to the College recently by 
Mrs. Loyal F. Payne, Manhattan, who 
is in charge of the property left by 
Miss Harriett Parkerson. 



Honor Former President 

Dr. W. M. Jardine, president of 



Municipal University of Wichita and 
former president of Kansas State Col- 
lege, was an honored guest at the 
annual Wichita alumni picnic in Lin- 
wood park at Wichita on June 29. 
Horseshoe pitching, shuffleboard, 
croquet, soft ball and outdoor check- 
ers provided recreation for all. A pic- 
nic supper was served by the Kings 
X, Inc. 

Officers of the Wichita Alumni as- 
sociation are president, George Har- 
kins, '27; vice-president, J. D. Mon- 
tague, '20; and secretary-treasurer,: 
Alma (Halbower) Giles, '14. In addi- 
tion to these officers and Doctor Jar- 
dine, those present included: 

Dr. F. L. Whan, '28, and Geraldean 
; (Cutler) Whan, f. s.; Edith (Payne) 
i McMillan, '12; Neva (Colville) Mc- 
Donnall, '13, and daughter, Helen; 
Mark Abildgaard, '12; Doris (Riddell) j 
! Harkins, '24, and daughter, Ann; D. | 
J. Hinman, '36, and Magdalene 
j (Wenger) Hinman, '36; Kenneth E. 
| Johnson, '38; Dean Bradley, '39; 
Louis G. Montre, '37, and Mrs. Mon- 
jtre; J. W. Haupt, '33, and Mrs. 
, Haupt; Harold S. Nay, '22, and Mrs. 
! Nay, f. s. '18; Neil McCormick, '35, 
and Mrs. McCormick; Wallace Case, 
Bessie (Cole) Case, '21, and daugh- 
ter; Herbert C. Anset, Eva (Leland) 
Anset, '22, and daughter; E. S. Ba- 
con, '20, Mrs. Bacon and daughters, 
Alice and Dorothy; J. L. Rader, f. s. 
, '24, Mrs. Rader and daughter, Penny. 
Arleen Glick, '28; Elizabeth Hul- 
linger, '29; Charles W. Halferty, '28, 
and Mrs. Halferty; John Harness, 
1 '28, and Mrs. Harness; Ella (Milt- 
ner) Parli, '15; Pearl Miltner, '19; 
O. F. Fulhage, '24, and Georgia (Dan- 
iels) Fulhage, '25; C. F. Morris, '21, 
! and Mrs. Morris; P. J. Dominick and 
Esther (Beachel) Dominick, '38; 
Miles George, '31, and Lois (Windi- 
ate) George, '33; Irene (Aspey) 
Cody, '21 and '22; C. W. Currie, '24, 
and Virginia (Carney) Currie, '26; 
Roscoe N. St. John, '20, and Estella 
(Meisner) St. John; A. E. Aufderhar, 
Mary (Tunstall) Aufderhar, '16, and 
son, David; John Bonnett; Lloyd 
Cole, f. s., and Nannie (Carnahan) 
Cole, '12; Clara (Morris) Lint, '11. 

Betty Lint, '39; Wayne Ewing, 
'32, and Ruby (Nelson) Ewing, '31; 
Beulah (Wertenberger) Swim, '20, 
and son, Bill, present student; Han- 
nah B. Murphy, '27, Theo Shuart, 
'18, Helen (Hunter) Shuart, '18, 
Helen and Bob Shuart; Frank Wolf, 



MAG ILL 
Edmund C. Magill, Ag. '12, died 
June 20 after a long illness. He was 
professor of agricultural education 
and head of the Department of Voca- 
tional Education at Virginia Poly- 
technic institute at Blacksburg, Va. 

After he received his bachelor's de- 
gree from Kansas State College in 
horticulture, he did one year's gradu- 
ate work here. He obtained an M. S. 
degree in agricultural education at 
Virginia Tech in 1924. Professor Ma- 
gill began his professional career in 
1913 as a teacher of agriculture at 
Wayzata, Minn. He stayed there for 
three years before becoming a 
managing partner of the Parkhead 
Orchard company, Big Pool, Md., and 
member of the board of directors of 
the Potomac Valley Fruit Growers, 
Cumberland, Md., from 1916 to 1918. 
In 1918 he was named garden 
specialist of the Agricultural Exten- 
sion division of Virginia Tech. He 
served in that capacity for one year 
before being named associate profes- 
sor of agriculture in 1919. He filled 
this position for four years before 
being made itinerant teacher-trainer 
for the year 1923-24. He was made 
professor and head of the Department 
of Agricultural Education in 1924, 
which position he filled until his 
death. 

In the Vocational Education de- 
partment library is a table upon 
which is a bronze tablet reading as 
follows: "At this table, in September 
1925, it was determined that boys 
studying agriculture should have 
their own organization — now the 
Future Farmers of America." Ed- 
mund C. Magill was one of the four 
men who signed this tablet. He had 
taken an active interest in the work 
of the Future Farmers of America 
and the Virginia association of that 
organization. 

The Virginia Future Farmers 
unanimously appropriated $100 to- 
\ ward the establishment of an Edmund 
C. Magill loan fund for college stu- 
dents. 

Surviving are his wife, Mildred 
(Barr) Magill, '13, two sons and one 
daughter. 



Mrs. Bessie Brooks West, head of 
the Department of Institutional Man- 
agement, and Dr. Martha Pittman, 
head of the Department of Food Eco- 
nomics and Nutrition, left today for 
New York City where they will attend 
the American Dietetic association 
meetings. 



A new type double-effect evapora- 
tor has been added recently to the 
experimental apparatus of the De- 
partment of Chemical Engineering. 
The cost of the machine, which is a 
very highly perfected dehydration ma- 
chine, will be approximately $3,000. 
It will take about a month to as- 
semble. 



Journalism majors will take a field 
trip to Kansas City November 9, it 
was- announced this week. The group 
will leave on the streamliner in the 
morning and return by the same 
route that evening. The tentative 
schedule includes visits to the Kansas 
City Star plant, WDAF and the Asso- 
ciated Press and other offices. 



BIRTHS 



An announcement from L. O. Gug- 
ler, '34, and Mrs. Gugler, tells of the 
arrival of their son, Larry Lee, on 
July 16. Mr. Gugler is vocational ag- 
riculture instructor at Reading. 



Mary Jo (Cortelyou) Rust, G. S. 
'32, and Capt. John H. Rust, D. V. M. 
'3 2, announce the birth of a son, Mil- 
bern James, born June 28. They live 
at 1938 Thirty-Fifth avenue, Seattle, 
Wash. 



Fern (Murray) Frashier, f. 8., and 
Alva L. Frashier, '32, are parents of a 
son, Kenneth Murray, born Septem- 
ber 13. Mr. Frashier is a radio engi- 
neer for station WDAF in Kansas 
City, Mo. 



Dwight I. Gillidette, '35, and 
Esther (Wright) Gillidette, '36, are 
parents of a daughter, Ann Wright, 
l)orn on May 4. Their home is at 7225 
Penn street, Kansas City, Mo. Mr. 
Gillidette is employed by the South- 
western Bell Telephone company. 



DOCTOR WILLARD'S HISTORY 

Dr Julius T. Willard's "History of Kansas State College 
of Agriculture and Applied Science" is now ready for dis- 
tribution. Return the following order blank to the Alumni 
office, Kansas State College, for your copy: 

□ I am a paid-up life member of the K. S. C. Alumni asso- 
ciation. Kindly send my free copy. 

n Enclosed find $ to complete payments on my 

life membership, which will entitle me to a free copy. 

□ Enclosed find $4 for one copy and annual membership 
in the Alumni association for 1940-41. 

□ Enclosed find $1 for one copy. My 1940-41 dues already 
have been paid. 

□ Please ask Doctor Willard to autograph my copy. 



Name 



Address 



ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL 

INCLUDES 68 STUDENTS 



LYtE W. DOWNEY ANNOUNCES 35 
TOWNS ARE REPRESENTED 




1. 

2. 

3. 

4. 

5. 

6. 

7. 

8. 

9. 
10. 
11. 
12. 
13. 
14. 

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16. 
17. 
18. 



Mnnhnttnn Lend* with 24 Residents 
While Minneapolis Has Four and Abi- 
lene Places Three* Max Martin 
In Concertmnster 

Sixty-eight students are members 
of the College orchestra personnel as 
announced last week by Lyle W. Dow- 
ney, director and associate professor 
in the Department of Music. Max 
Martin, assistant professor of music, 
is concertmaster. 

They represent 35 towns in three 
different states. Twenty-four are 
from Manhattan, four from Minne- 
apolis and three from Abilene. 

MARTIN IS CONCERTMASTER 
The following are members of the £ 
orchestra: 

Violins — Max Martin, assistant pro- 
fessor of music, concertmaster; Carol 
Stevenson, Oberlin; Edith Hanna, 
Manhattan; Jim Glenn, Amarillo, 
Texas; Nancy Donnelly, Stafford; 
Marie Brewer, Great Bend; Ruth 
Ruhlen, Madison; Leon Frey, Smith 
Center; Arthur Holman, Wichita; 
Dwaine Dunning, Wayne, Neb.; Jean 
Estep, Garden City; Clara Jo Fair, 
Topeka; Marcile Norby, Cullison; 
Allen Webb, Manhattan; Mary Cum- 
mings, Concordia; Patti Muller, Man- 
hattan; Virginia Kipp, Manhattan; 
Grace Pennington, Manhattan; Doro- 
thy Mumaw, Onaga; Virginia Estey, 
Langdon; Donald Richards, Manhat- 
tan; Rhea Holgate, Kinsley; and Roy 
Blood, Garnett. 

Violas — Richard Keith, Manhat- 
tan; Lowell Clark, Waterville; Jack 
Horner, Minneapolis; Mary Jane 
Boyd, Hutchinson; and R. H. Brown, 
Manhattan. 

Cellos — Robert Nabours, Manhat- 
tan; Keturah Kennedy, Neodesha; 
Herman Heltzel, Manhattan; Charles 
Horner, Abilene; Margaret Collins, 
Manhattan; Elnora Cooper, Stafford; 
and Elaine Rohrer, Abilene, 

SEVEN PI^AY STRING BASS 
String Bass — Aileen Ozment, Man- 
hattan; Val Gene Sherrard, Great 
Bend; Don Pricer, Hill City; Norris 
McGaw, Tojeka; Howard Johnstone, 
Wamego; Jeanne Jaccard, Manhat- 
tan; and Virginia Howenstine, Man- 
hattan. 

Flute — Margaret Massengill, Cald- 
well; Betty Lou La Plante, Minne- 
apolis; John Waring, Salina; and 
Eloise Reisner, Manhattan. 

Oboe — Louis Raburn, Manhattan, 
and Betty Brewer, Minneapolis. 

Clarinets — Keith Wallingford, 
Manhattan; Severo Cervera, Junction j 
City; Betty Jane Roe, Manhattan; 
and Lorraine Brewer, Minneapolis. 

Bassoon — E. K. Chapin, Manhat- 
tan; Donald Dimond, Manhattan; and 
Richard Willis, Sedan. 

FOUR ON TRUMPETS 
Horn — Alan Cowles, El Dorado; 
Clayton Chartier, Concordia; Wallace 
Richardson, Kingman; Edith Dawley, 
Manhattan; and Raymond Olson, 
Lindsborg. 

Trumpet — Frank Cash, Fredonia, 
N. Y.; Horner Selvidge, Manhattan; 
Carroll Mogge, Ruleton; and Beth 
Stewart, Wamego. 

Trombone — Rex Leuze, Sabetha, 
and Dale Berger, Abilene. 

Tu l, a — Don Pricer, Hill City. 
Percussion — Sanford Moats, Kan- 
sas City, and Chan Murray, Manhat- 
tan. 

Piano — Henry O'Neill, Manhattan. 
♦ 
DAIRY .JUDGING TEAM GOES 

TO HAURISBITRG CONTEST 



Recommendations for appropriations made by President Farrell in his 
38th biennial report to the State Board of Regents were as follows. 



College Proper 

Salaries and Wages 

Maintenance and Labor 

Repairs and Improvements 

President's Contingent Fund 

Laboratory Equipment 

Extension Work 

Research Work on Diseases of Livestock 

Northeastern Kansas Experiment Fields 

Southeastern Kansas Experiment Fie Ids 

South-Central Kansas Experiment Fields 

Southwestern Kansas Experiment Fields 

North-Central Kansas Experiment Fields 

Bindweed Experiment Field 

Industrial Research Fellowships 

Soil Survey 

Three Home Management Houses 

Purchase and Improvement of Orchard L,ana 

Resetting, Modernizing and Re-Walling 

Old Steam Boiler 
Purchase and Installation of Condensing Equip- 
ment in Power Plant 
Modernizing of Radio Station 



1042 

$681,000 

350,000 

70,000 

250 

30,000 

120,000 

20,000 

10,000 

5,000 

5,000 

5,000 

6,000 

5,000 

5,000 

15,000 

30,000 

10,000 



1043 

$681,000 

350,000 

70,000 

250 

30,000 

120,000 

20,000 

10,000 

5,000 

5,000 

5,000 

5,000 

5,000 

5,000 

15,000 

15,000 



10,000 
38,000 



Gridiron Oddities 



If the Kansas State College foot- 
ball squad were selecting an "ideal" 
girl, she would be a brunette, a recent 
survey showed. Blondes took second 
place. Only three players preferred 
redheads. 



Just to keep things even, Bill 
Quick, Kansas State's lanky sopho- 
more quarterback, pitches passes with 
his right hand but is a southpaw 
punter. 



Bernie Weiner, all-Big Six tackle 
last fall, is the only married man on 
the Kansas State College football 
team. He was married last summer. 



COLORADO WINS, 7 TO 6, 
IN CONTEST AT BOULDER 

EUGENE FAIR SCORES TOUCHDOWN 
BEFORE BEING HURT 



Total College Proper 



■1,307,250 



Branch Experiment Stations 
Hays 

Salaries, wages, maintenance and permanent 

improvements . 

For grass improvement and increase of seed stocKs 

For investigations of soil erosion, water 

conservation and bindweed control 

New tractor and new truck 

Additional sum for new seed house 

Machine sheds 

Grain elevator 



1942 

$25,000 
5,000 

3,000 
2,720 
7,000 



91,380,250 



1043 

$25,000 
5,000 

3,000 



6,000 
8,000 



Garden City 



Total 

Salaries, wages and maintenance 
For experimental work 

Total _ „ 

Colby 

Salaries, wages, maintenance and permanent 

improvements 
Experiments with dairy cattle 
Painting and repairing buildings 
New farm machinery and equipment 
Purchase of land 

Total _ _ 

Tribune 

Salaries, wages, maintenance and permanent 

improvements 
Repairs of buildings and new equipment 

Total 



$42,720 

$ 9,500 
3,500 

$13,000 



$ 7,000 

500 

500 

1,000 

5,000 

$14,000 



$ 4,000 
500 

$ 4,500 



$47,000 

$ 9,500 
3,500 



$13,000 



$ 7,000 

500 

500 

500 

5,000 

$13,500 



PRELIMINARY DEBATE SQUAD 
COMPOSED OF 24 STUDENTS 



Norman C. Webster, Coach, Say» That 

Team Will Be Selected from 

Thoae Already Listed 

Names of 24 students comprising 
the preliminary debate squad were 
announced Tuesday by Norman C. 
Webster, debate coach and assistant 
professor of speech. 

From this group considerable cut- 
ting will be done in order to pick a 
more selective debate team. Two va- 
cancies are yet to be filled, as several 
did not make the squad. 

New members of the debate squad 
include Clyde Harbison, Wichita; 
Jeanette Coons, Canton; Ralph Tich- 
enor, Russell; Clarence Schmutz, 
Alma; Jimmy Porter, Fredonia; Rob- 
ert Stafford, El Dorado; Frank Sey- 
mour, El Dorado; Alfred Munroe, 
Douglass; Robert Smith, Manhattan 



Wildcats Prepare for Contest Here with 

Missouri Tigers on Saturday as 

Hobbs Adams Praises 

Fighting Squad 

Kansas State College's football 
team, undismayed by its 7-6 defeat by 
the University of Colorado, is prepar- 
ing to meet the University of Missouri 
eleven in a Parents' day game next 
Saturday. The Kansas State-Missouri 
game is the only Big Six conference 
game scheduled for this week-end. 

In last Saturday's game, Kansas 
State College suffered the loss of 
Eugene Fair, Alden, quarterback. 
After making a 58-yard run for the 
Wildcats' only touchdown in the third 
quarter, Fair came back in the fourth 
quarter to lead his teammates up to 
the Colorado 33-yard line, where he 
fractured his right leg. 

BUFFALOES SCORE ON PASS 

The Buffaloes ruled the field dur- 
ing the first half of the game. The 
first quarter was marked by Colorado 
runs but it ended scoreless. In the 
second quarter, a short pass over cen- 
ter from Leo Stasica to Vern Miller 
was successful, and Miller broke 
loose for a touchdown. John Pudlick, 
Colorado end, kicked the point. 

The Wildcats turned the tables on 
the Colorado squad in the second 
half. From the 20-yard line, Fair, 
Art Kirk, Scott City, and Chris Lang- 
vardt, Alta Vista, tore through the 
Buffalo line to their own 42. From 
there Fair broke loose for the Kansas 
State touchdown. Bill Nichols, Water- 
ville, failed to kick the extra point. 
The fourth quarter started with a 



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PRESIDENT REQUESTS 

(Continued from page one) 
of students for satisfactory living and 
good citizenship." 

5. "The library building should be 
completed, the number of books 
should be greatly increased and the 
library service should be expanded in 
scope and improved in quality." 

6. "There is urgent need to expand 
and strengthen the College's research 
work, particularly in engineering, vet- 
erinary medicine and home econom- 
ics, and to improve the means of 
placing the results of research before 
the public, through the extension ser- 
vice and otherwise." 

7. "The increasing centralization 



College has enjoyed for many years, 
thanks to the sanity and practicality 
of Kansas people. If this freedom is 
preserved through the difficult years 
that lie ahead it will serve as a solid 
foundation for a constant increase in 
the usefulness of the College to the 
citizens of the state and the nation." 
— ■ — ♦ 
Name Helen Hostetter 
Miss Helen P. Hostetter, associate 
professor of journalism, Kansas State 
College, has been appointed by the 
state board of the American Associa- 
tion of University Women to repre- 
sent the Kansas division at the tenth 
annual Forum on Current Problems 



Cunningham; Charles Holtz, Manhat- 
tan; John Tasker, Caney; David 
Hurst, Kirwin; Hal Hogue, Hutchin- 
son; and Morris Van Daele, Olathe. 

Those who were on last year's 
squad and again were successful in 
tryouts are James Hoath, Anthony; 
Alma Henry, Everest; Merrill Peter- 



rado territory. Kent Duwe, Lucas, 
who replaced Fair, carried the ball 
to the Colorado 10-yard line, where 
he was finally stopped. Colorado was 
on the defensive throughout the rest 
of the game, but stopped the Wildcats 
before they could reach the goal line. 
Coach Hobbs Adams was pleased 



son, Manhattan; Frank Rickel, Man- with the showing of the Wildcat 



hattan; Mary Marjorie Willis, New 
ton; Tom Trenkle, Topeka; Ter- 
ryll Dougherty, Manhattan; William 
Hickman, Kirwin; and James Ham- 
burg, Marysville. 



squad despite the loss to the Buf 
faloes. He said that the players were 
"a great bunch of fighters and the 
ganiest of them all was Gene Fair." 
MAKE EIGHT FIRST DOWNS 

The statistics: 

cu 



Cattle Breeders to Meet 

Purebred dairy cattle breeders . y", - ^ gained rushing!!!"""!!""!l20 

from all sections of Kansas will gath- \ Yards lost rushing 27 

er at Kansas State College November PaMM attempted ••••••••■••••■■••••••• J 

8 and 9 for the sixth annual Purebred yards gained on passes 



of governmental power, resulting in j Tribune, October 23-24. Miss Hostet 
large part from increased dependence j ter is on leave of absence from her 
by the states upon the federal trea- teaching duties and is now studying 
sury, tends to increase federal con- | in New York. The forum consists of 
trol of the College's work in research j five sessions and a press conference, 
and extension. Unless this tendency j ♦ 

is checked, unless the state stops j Tq Vvcsi , nt Ijard p rogram 

shift ine its responsibilities to the fed- 

'al government, state autonomy in A program dealing *th jfto recent 
scientific and educational affairs will developments m the field I of tardjriU 
be seriously impaired if not actually ^J™^ in ,00mm o^Calvjn 

°V. "The present legally required charge of the program will be Dr. H. 



Passes intercepted by 

Punting average 4 



annual i< orum 011 uunem riuui C u.=,_ , n ,. ao A 0va ' qehnol Prof 

conducted by the New York Herald ? «T ^^^rtS^SaruneS^f $%&%S^»~S*^ U 

Dairy Husbandry has announced. The P^t^t^^^tiSi:::.-^: 20 

program will deal with breeding ana s CO ring summary — Kansas 

feeding problems of farmers raising U*™**?™-™^^^. 

purebred dairy cattle. Prof. * . W. after touc hdown— Pudlick. 

Atkeson, head of the Department of Score by quarters 

Dairy Husbandry, will be in charge 

of the school. 



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State 

Points 



Squiul Will Compete In Intercollegiate 
Contest with 35 Other Competitors 

Members of the Kansas State Col- 
lege intercollegiate dairy judging 
team and Dr. A. O. Shaw, coach, left 
Tuesday for Harrisburg, Pa., where 
they will compete with 3 5 teams in 
the Intercollegiate Dairy Cattle Judg- 
ing contest. The group will return to 
Manhattan October 17. 

Only recently the team returned 
from Waterloo, Iowa, where it placed 
11th in the National Dairy Cattle 
congress. The team was first in Brown 
Swiss and first in Jersey cattle judg- 
ing at Waterloo. 

Included on the team are Francis 

Wempe. Frankfort; Edward Reed, 

Rice; Walter Robinson, Nashville; 

and Russell Nelson, Falun. 

♦ 

Hart <<» Military Staff 

George T. Hart, I. J. '3 7, joined 
the staff of the Department of Mili- 
tary Science and Tactics last week 
when he was called up for active duty. 



method of selecting students by the 
state schools has serious defects 
which result in inefficiency and dis- 
appointment. The Board of Regents 
should be authorized to establish a 
system of selection that would ex- 
clude from degree courses students 
who clearly are not fitted to do credit- 
able work at the college level. The 
Regents should be authorized and en- 
abled to provide non-collegiate train- 
ing courses for such students." 

9. "The College should be enabled 
to expand its student-counselling ac- 
tivities so as to improve its service 
to students needing information re- 
garding vocational opportunities and 
the requirements for vocational suc- 
cess. This would require some in- 
creased faculty personnel and a re- 

| duction of the teaching loads of many 
faculty members." 

10. "The College needs to improve 
its work in liberalizing the t: 



S. Mitchell, Mrs. Beth Bailey McClean 
and F. M. Simpson, all of Swift and 
company, according to David L. Mack- 
intosh, associate professor in the De- 
partment of Animal Husbandry, who 
is in charge of meat investigations. 



Kansas State 

Colorado 



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Checking List of K-men 

The Department of Athletics and 
Physical Education is bringing its 
records of K-men up to date, accord- 
ing to Frank L. Myers, assistant di- 
rector. He asks K-men to send a 
penny post-card to him giving their 



BEAUTY QUEEN CANDIDATES 
ARE ANNOUNCED BY EDITOR 



Motion Picture Stnr Will Select Winner 

on Basis of Royal Purple 

Photographs 

Twenty-one candidates for Royal 
penny po.W«JJ _» «» •'^5,'SJ I p.rjle beauty „ueen of 1941 were 



tion. 



EVERYDAY ECONOMICS 

By W. E. GRIMES 



Abilene, Royal Purple editor. The 
queen, who will be chosen from un- 
identified pictures by a motion pic- 
ture star, will reign over the beauty 
ball November 22 in Nichols Gym- 
nasium. 

Candidates, including two from 
each sorority and three from Van Zile 
hall, are as follows: 

Rosemarie Van Diest, Prairie View; 
Elizabeth Clarke, Winfield, Alpha 



of technical students. This would re 
quire enlargement of the art and book 



"The foundation stones of democracy are personal liberty, private 
property and individual initiative and free enterprise." 

The foundation stones of demon- .m JJM. Jl- ,^-J »-*« ^*^TSS*SSE 

racy are personal liberty, private not told what they must do. ine r Ade]yn petei . son Kansa8 clty; j ea nne 

property and individual initiative and chooje. fundamentals, Jaccard, Manhattan, Kappa Kappa 

free enterprise. wnnoui iue»« i Gamma. Lillian Dumler, Gorham; 

Personal liberty includes freedom Jemocrac, would WtoflJ f £j! B^etta Fail ' DeaHng ' ZeU TaU 

of speech, freedom of the press, the fundamentals to not exist ^totim ^^ j^^ Eldson Manhat . 

tan; Dorothy Johnstone, Milford, Al- 
pha Xi Delta. 

Catherine Detrich, Chapman; Mary 

Shaver, Salina, Pi Beta Phi. Ruth 

Chanute; Jean Bishop, 



oi speecn, ireeuum ui mo p.coo, >.»*v, .,,„_ .„ 

, right of peaceful assemblage, re- ; tarian states, or if they exist, they are 
aining ligious freedom and the right to move so modified that the interes so f the 



about freely. There are restrictions on individual are wholly subservient to 
personal liberty but these restrictions the interests of the state. Ma 



SSK"»u7=^ -Ten, 'at the minimum consent nance of these »■-»-£££» j H.u.on. 
expansion of the musical, literary and with the well-being of the group of ttel to the maintenance of democracy. | w . 



dramatic instruction and of various which the individual is a member. The most potent dangers to them 
extra-curricular activities." The right of private property is come from within. People without 
11 "There should be improved fa- closely associated with dependence pi . ivat e property, young persons who 
cilities for the Student Health ser- upon individual initiative and free- flnd the door t0 opportunity closed 
vice including a modern infirmary dom to choose the productive enter- and excessive curbing of personal lib 
and dispensary, increased instruction prises in which one engages. Private „„ 



} 



Whitewater, Delta Delta Delta. Mar- 
jorie Rogers, Manhattan; Bette Bone- 
cutter, Smith Center, Chi Omega. 
June Burton, Topeka; Aline F. Shee- 
ley, Emporia, Kappa Delta. Virginia 
Hoover, Abilene; Ann Dukelow, 



-_ — clUU CALCOOI * v, v.«. "-"O ~ - l | J"lUUVei, /VIJ11C11C, .TWlll A^U«.^»W", 

rises in which one engages. P rivat< j e rty may result in the breakdown of j Hutchinson ; Mary Cawood, Wetmore, 

in health subjects and provision for property insures that the individual ^^ fundamental characteristics of j Van zi i e hall, 

psychiatric service for seriously mal- will receive any rewards due mm as democracy America should be on! M akins has asked a movie actor 
adjusted students." a result of his initiative and enter- ^ ^ ^ that thegg fundamentals I t0 judge the queens' pictures, but an- 

12. "The public interest requires prise. In America the young person democracy are maintained and nouncement of the actor's name is 

the preservation of the freedom of has opportunity to choose the busi- oi a * , withheld until hls acceptance. 

inquiry and of teaching which the ness or profession in which he or she stiengtheneu. | 



HISTORICAL SOCIETY C 

TOPEKA 

KAN. 



The Kansas Industrialist 



Volume 67 



Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, Manhattan, Wednesday, October 16, 1940 



Number 5 



PRESIDENT DISCUSSES 

DEFENSE OF CONSUMER 



One of These May Be Homecoming Queen 



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< 



I \IIIIi:i.l SAYS THAT COMMON 

SENSE IS MOST IMPORTANT 



Buyer* Should Pny Some Attention to 
Real VnlueM and Hnve Iletter Knowl- 
edge of TlilnKN Offered for 
Snle, Speaker Siijn 

Taking his theme from the nation- 
al preparedness program, President 
F. D. Farrell Friday night outlined 
a four-point program of "consumer 
defense" before delegates to the Kan- 
sas Conference on Consumer Educa- 
tion at a dinner in the College cafe- 
teria. 

The President suggested the fol- 
lowing defenses: 

(1) Better protective laws and 
regulations, especially for la- 
beling of commodities. 

RECOGNIZE REAL. VALUES 

(2) Wise consumer customs based 
on real values rather than a 
desire for expensive fads. 

(3) Better knowledge of things 
offered for sale, not only goods 
but services. 

(4) Good sense. 

"The consumer must depend chief- 
ly on himself for his defense," Presi- 
dent Farrell said. "He may make use 
of laws, customs and knowledge only 
if he possesses the good sense to 
make effective use of them." 

President Farrell said that the 
consumer was constantly being urged 
to buy through the use of advertis- 
ing, fashions, fads and crowd psy- 
chology. He said the large part of the 
things offered to the consumer were 
valuable, but added that the consum- 
er had to select the more useful, 
since he could not purchase every- 
thing. 

MISS GUNSELMAN IN CHARGE 

President Farrell was introduced 
by Miss Myrtle Gunselman, associate 
professor of household economics 
and program chairman for the con- 
ference. 

Dr. John Ise of the University of 
Kansas, whose subject was "The Na- 
tional Defense Program and Con- 
sumer Interests," told his listeners 
that if the war should end in a year 
or so, with the British victorious, 
consumers might suffer little. If Hit- 
ler wins, soon or after several years, 
Doctor Ise said Americans may face 
a lower standard of living. 

Doctor Ise predicted no serious 
shortage of foods nor of most goods 
for some time, and no dramatic rise 
in prices. He listed woolen, leather 
goods and such commodities as auto- 
mobiles, trucks, hardware and homes 
as items whose scarcity eventually 
may pinch consumers, since the 
raw materials used in them are vital 
for defense. 

DEPENDS ON WAR'S COURSE 

"There will certainly be many dis- 
locations in prices, in industries and 
in regional conditions," Doctor Ise 
concluded, "but everything depends 
on the course of the war." 

Dr. Domenico Gagliardo, who 
spoke on "The Consumer and Labor 
Problems," outlined the basic eco- 
nomic interest of the consumer — 
largest possible quantity, the best 
quality, continuity of goods and ser- ! 
vices, and low prices — and then 
evaluated the effect of current labor 
problems and legislation regarding 

them, upon these interests. 

I 
The University of Kansas professor | 

contended that while minimum wage 
and hour laws are of distinct benefit 
to laborers, they harm the consumer, 
since he must bear the burden of in- 
creased production costs, in the form 
of higher prices, lower quality or less 
satisfactory service. 




FACULTY MEMBERS HELP 
STUDENTS TO REGISTER 






PROF. CHARLES H. SI HOI I IC IS 
IN CHARGE 



Nine of the 10 candidates for Homecoming queen are pictured above. From left to right are Barbara Schmidt, 
Junction City; Jane Galbraith, Cottonwood Falls; Ruth Weigand, Topeka; Margaret McCutchan, St. George; Vir- 
ginia Lee Sheets, Topeka; Faye Lillie, Atwood; Fay Elmore, McCracken; Margaret Teel, Morland; and Evalyn 
Frick, Larned. Betty Boehm, Kansas City, Mo., is not in the picture. 



BOARD OF REGENTS INVITED 
TO ATTEND ALUMNI MEETING 



i DlnerM nt Country Club on Homecoming 

Err Will Henr Predldent Tell 

Colleiee'M NeedM 

, Members of the State Board of Re- 

j gents have been invited to join with 

the board of directors and advisory 

council of the Alumni association as 

well as 50 representative alumni from 

: all parts of the state for a dinner 

, at the Manhattan Country club on 

Friday, October 25. 

The gathering on the eve of the 
traditional Homecoming game will be 
held to acquaint the various alumni 
representatives of the needs of the 
College for the next biennium. Presi- 
dent F. D. Farrell will talk after the 
meal on what the alumni may do to 
assist the College in working toward 
satisfaction of its needs. 

Kenney L. Ford, secretary of the 
College Alumni association, said that 
if the meeting is a success this year, 
it is planned to hold similar gather- 
ings every two years. 

Mr. Ford said that requests for 
tickets for the Homecoming football 
game with the University of Kansas 
and for the alumni luncheon the same 
day were coming in as fast as usual. 

"Everything points to an excellent 
Homecoming as far as the alumni are 
concerned," Mr. Ford added. 

K men will hold a dinner in the 
evening in Thompson hall. It will be 
the first dinner at Homecoming 
sponsored by the K fraternity in 
recent years. 

♦ 

MARSHALL, TAYLOR TO TALK 
AT KANSAS MAGAZINE DINNER 



Professor Qiiinlan Speaks 

At the annual meeting of the Kan- 
sas Associated Garden clubs in Tope- 
ka, Prof. L. R. Quinlan of the De- 
partment of Horticulture gave an 
illustrated lecture on "Kansas Beau- 
tiful" this week. 

WILDCAT YEARBOOK RECEIVES 
FIFTH ALL-AMERICAN AWARD 



DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY 
GETS NATIONAL RECOGNITION 



A I II n ki iin nud Joe HoIxtInoii Head 
si a II' of Koynl Purple Winning 

National Honors 

For the fifth consecutive year, the 
Royal Purple, College yearbook, has 
won the all-American award of the 
National Scholastic Press association. 
C. J. Medlin, graduate manager of 
publications, received word of the 
honor last week. 

Al Makins, now employed by the 
Pratt Tribune, was editor of the 




j0£fo8EWS0*l 



•fl. MfihiiNS 



.A", Student Out Soon 

The first issue of the Ag Student, 
magazine published by the students 
of the Division of Agriculture, will 
appear soon after the Ag Barnwarm- 
er, October 19. The publication, 
which comes out four times during 
the school year, is edited by Glenn 
Busset, Manhattan. Stan Winter, 
Dresden, is advertising manager. 



V ail Contributor*' I)ny Will lie Held 

Sntiirilny, with Ten In Afternoon 
nud Art Exhibition 

Charles L. Marshall, president of 
the Kansas State Federation of Art, 
and Ross Taylor of the Department 
of English at the Municipal Univer- 
sity of Wichita will be the speakers at 
the annual Kansas Magazine Con- 
tributors' Day dinner Saturday. 

Mr. Marshall, who is assistant 
state architect and who has studied 
at the Corcoran Art gallery at Wash- 
ington, D. C, will talk about Kansas 
art as an architect sees it. Mr. Tay- 
lor, a novelist in his own right, will 
discuss "So You're Going to Be a 
Writer!" 

The annual editors' tea will be 
held Saturday afternoon at the home 
of Prof, and Mrs. R. I. Thackrey, 
from 3 to 5:30 p. m., with the maga- 
zine staff members and their wives 
as hosts and hostesses. 

There will be an exhibit of paint- 
ings in the galleries of the Depart- 
ment of Architecture in Engineering 
hall Saturday morning. 



honor-winning yearbook, and Joe 
Robertson, now working at a Browns- 
town, Ind., flour mill, was business 
manager. 

The Royal Purple was one of 852 
yearbooks entered in a nation-wide 
contest sponsored by the National 
Scholastic Press association. The an- 
nuals are judged for general excel- 
lence as complete units, special em- 
phasis being put on the quality of 
departmental work and of art. 

"I am particularly glad last year's 
staff won all-American honors be- 
cause I felt that their work was done 
well and efficiently," Mr. Medlin said. 

♦ 
DAIRY JUDGING TEAM TAKES 

TENTH PLACE ON SATURDAY 



Society Aimniiiic-eM College 1'hIIIMn All 

Requirements for Obtaining; 

Profemiloiinl SIhIiin 

Recognition by the American 
Chemical society was given the De- 
partment of Chemistry in an an- 
nouncement published this week, list- 
ing the colleges and universities that 
"possess facilities and offer instruc- 
tion which permit students ... to 
fulfill the requirements adopted by 
the American Chemical society for 
the professional training of chem- 
ists." 

Sixty-three other institutions were 
included in the list of colleges and 
universities that have been approved. 
The preliminary survey, conducted by 
the committee on the professional 
training of chemists, included 450 
universities and colleges. Another 
listing of approved institutions will 
be published next January. 

"We are, of course, quite happy 
that our department has been placed 
on the approved list," Dr. H. H. King, 
head of the department, said. "In 
effect, the fact that we are on the ap- 
proved list guarantees to prospective 
employers of our graduates in chem- 
istry that those graduates have had 
at least the minimum requirements 
as recommended by the American 
Chemical society," he added. 

Doctor King explained that the 
American Chemical society is striving 
to improve the profession of chemis- 
try. He said "it is fundamental to 
such a program that the training and 
experience necessary for a man who 
is to be called a chemist be recognized 
and at least in broad terms be speci- 
fied." 

Library and laboratory facilities in 
addition to course work and teaching 
staff at Kansas State College were 
considered by the committee. The 
survey of colleges and universities 
was begun in 1936. 
♦• 
DAIRY PRODUCTS STUDENTS 

WILL COMPETE IN THE EAST 



Approximately 45 Per Cent of All Men 

Enrolled In College Expected 

to Si|rn Up Todny for 

Poftslble Service 

Fifty College faculty members are 

helping with the registration today 

j of approximately 1,300 Kansas State 

I students under the provisions of the 

| Selective Service act. 

Prof. Charles H. Scholer, head of 
] the Department of Applied Mechan- 
I ics, is chief registrar for the group of 
College men between the ages of 21 
j and 3 5 who are filing their names 
and answering questions in Recrea- 
j tion Center all day. 

TO TAKE 20 MINUTES 
Forty-five per cent of the men stu- 
' dents meet the age limits provided in 
the act and are therefore required to 
| register. Approximately 20 minutes 
will be necessary to complete regis- 
tration of each individual, it is esti- 
mated. 

Faculty members between the ages 
of 21 and 35 are expected to register 
at their voting places. 

The faculty registrars, excluding 
Professor Scholer, who are assisting 
today, and their departments follow: 
THREE PROM CHEMISTRY 
H. W. Marlow, C. H. Whitnah, H. 
N. Barham, Department of Chemis- 
try; F. C. Gates, H. H. Haymaker, 
I Botany and Plant Pathology; V. D. 
Foltz, Bacteriology; G. A. Sellers, 
Shop Practice; B. B. Brainard, 
Machine Design; L. M. Jorgenson, 
Electrical Engineering; L. E. Conrad, 
Civil Engineering; H. E. Wichers, 
Architecture; D. C. Taylor, E. R. 
Dawley, Applied Mechanics; E. L. 
Barger, Agricultural Engineering; 

D. C. Warren, Poultry Husbandry; 
R. O. Pence, Milling Industry; G. A. 
Filinger, Horticulture; W. H. Martin, 
Dairy Husbandry; A. W. Weber, Ani- 
mal Husbandry. 

AGRONOMY SENDS THREE 
J. W. Zahnley, H. H. Laude, A. L. 
Clapp, Department of Agronomy; R. 
C. Hill, Harold Howe, C. R. Thomp- 
son, Economics and Sociology; B. H. 
Fleenor, A. P. Davidson, Education; 
J. M. Schall, Floyd Pattison, Home 
Study; H. Farley, Pathology; W. M. 
McLeod, Anatomy and Physiology; 

E. J. Wimmer, E. H. Herrick, Zo- 
ology; N. C. Webster, Public Speak- 
ing; L. W. Hartel, E. K. Chapin, 
Physics; Ward Haylett, L. P. Wash- 
burn, Physical Education and Ath- 
letics; Max Martin, Music; W. C. 
Janes, C. F. Lewis, Mathematics; E. 

1 T. Keith, Industrial Journalism and 
Printing; F. L. Parrish, History and 

j Government; D. A. Wilbur, Ento- 
mology; C. W. Matthews, N. W. Rock- 
ey, English; E. D. Warner, Rural En- 

I gineering; C. R. Jaccard, Division of 
College Extension. 
♦ 

MARGUERITE GILEK WINS 

IN MILKING COMPETITION 



StudeiitM Compete nt ll.-irri-.lmri; in 
IutercolleKinte Context 

The College's dairy judging team 
ranked tenth in the Intercollegiate 
Dairy Cattle Judging contest Satur- 
day at Harrisburg, Pa. 

Ratings of the team were: tenth in 
Jersey, Holstein and Guernsey judg- 
ing; eighth in Brown Swiss; fourth 
in Ayrshire. 

Individual ratings included: Wal- 
ter Robinson, Nashville, third in Ayr- 
shire; Edward Reed, Rice, second in 
Jersey, sixth in Brown Swiss. In the 
entire contest Reed ranked eighth; 
Francis Wempe, Frankfort, 23rd; 
and Robinson, 53rd. 



i;r«nip Leave* Manhnttan ThurMdny 
M it'h * for Atlantic City 

The dairy products judging team 
representing Kansas State College 
will leave Thursday evening for At- 
lantic City, N. J., where it will com- 
pete in the Student National Contest 
in Judging Dairy Products on Mon- 
day. The Kansas State team will 
compete with 20 other teams. The 
teams are required to sample and 
criticize 10 samples of butter, milk, 
cheese and ice cream. 

Members of the team include Dale 
Brown, Manhattan; Clayton David, 
Topeka; Conrad Jackson, Elsmore; 
M. W. Marcoux, Havensville. 



('iiiidldatCN for V« Ilariitvarnicr Queen 
Meet in Content While Presi- 
dent ActH as JuilKe 

Marguerite Gilek, Anthony, Van 
Zile hall's candidate for Ag Barn- 
warmer queen, milked nine-tenths of 
a pound in five minutes last Monday 
to win the milking contest held for 
all five Ag Barnwarmer princesses. 

Lois Robinson, La Crosse, a mem- 
ber of Chi Omega sorority, placed 
second with six-tenths of a pound; 
Shirley Karns, Coffeyville, of Kappa 
Kappa Gamma sorority, was third 
with four-tenths of a pound and Mary 
Shaver, Salina, representing Pi Beta 
Phi sorority, and Eunice Wheeler, 
Manhattan, independent, tied for 
fourth place with three-tenths of a 
pound each. 

Acting as official judge, President 
F. D. Farrell pinned the appropriate 
ribbons on the princesses at the end 
of the contest. 

The Ag Barnwarmer, social func- 
tion of the Division of Agriculture, 
will be held Saturday night in Nichols 
Gymnasium. The queen will be 
crowned then. 



The KANSAS INDUSTRIALIST 

Established April 24, 1875 



R. I. Thackriy Editor 

Janb Rockwell, Ralph Lashbrook, 

Hilliir Kribuhbaum . . . Associate Editors 
Kknnky Ford Alumni Editor 

Published weekly during the college year by 
the Kansas State College of Agriculture and 
Applied Science. Manhattan, Kansas. 



Except for contributions from officers of the 
college and member* of the faculty, the articles 
In The Kansas Indus ikialist are written by 
students in the Department of Industrial Jour- 
nalism and Printing, which also does the me- 
chanical work. 

The price of The Kansas Industrialist is 
t3 a year, payable in advance 



Entered at the postofflce, Manhattan, Kansas, 
as second-class matter October 27, I9ix. Act 
of July 16. 1894. 



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S. C. Alumni association. Manhattan. Sub- 
scriptions for all alumni and former students, 
$3 a year; life subscriptions. $50 cash or in instal- 
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cluded. 




WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1940 



THK COLI-BGBS AN1> NATION A I, 
DKKKNSK 

The president of Loyola university 
at New Orleans has offered the entire 
resources of that institution to the 
federal government for such use as 
may be made of them in efforts to 
strengthen the national defense. 

This dramatic gesture may have 
value as an indication of the strength 
of the spirit of national unity in time 
of crisis, but there is in it a contra- 
diction. 

The time may come again when a 
large proportion of college facilities 
will be devoted directly to training 
for military activity. That happened 
in the World war in which the Kansas 
State College campus served as a 
training ground for the Students' 
Army Training corps and hundreds of 
men were brought in from the out- 
side for specialized technical instruc- 
tion. In that war the College service 
roll included 1,223 names. 

Congress has decided to call upon 
a part of the nation's manpower for 
a year's intensive military training. 
A substantial proportion of the stu- 
dent body and several members of the 
faculty will register today in accor- , 
dance with the terms of that call. 
Many will go into training. Much of 
the training program will be handled 
by graduates of this and other land- 
grant colleges who are reserve offi- 
cers. 

Those who thus take part in the 
direct military training program ob- 
viously are assisting with preparation 
for national defense. But those who 
do not so participate will perform de- 
fense functions which are ultimately 
to be of paramount importance. 

At present the colleges of the coun- 
try can contribute most effectively 
to the national defense by performing 
their normal function of training for 
efficient and intelligent citizenship. 
They can fill the pressing "defense" 
need of the United States for men 
and women able to cope with the 
social, economic and technological 
problems of democracy in a time of 

crisis. 

No college need "turn over all its 
resources" to the national govern- 
ment in order to be of the highest 
service in a clearly-viewed defense 
program. Every college which is per- 
forming its own function adequately 
is already using its resources well for 
that purpose. 

♦ 

BOOKS 

Water Reeonr*** Derelo»me«1 Program 

"A Kansas Water Program, a Report 
Containing Basic Facts Relating to the 

State's Water Resources and Recom- 
mendations for Their Development. 
Prepared bv the Governor's Watei 
bommittee. ' Kansas State Printing 
Plant, Topeka. August, 1»4<»- 

"Report Of the Kansas State Hoard 
„f Agriculture." Kansas State Printing 
Plant, Topeka. October, 1940. 

Records indicate Kansas is going 
through a long cycle of decreasing 
rainfall and increasing temperatures 
with an attendant increase in evapo- 
ration. Water supplies for domestic 
and livestock use were so badly de- 
pleted in 1939 that thousands of 
farmers in the eastern two-thirds of 
the state were hauling water. Gov- 
ernor Payne Ratner called a con- 
ference at Topeka on December 15 
to consider the situation. The con- 
ference resulted in the appointment 



of a committee of 14 members to in- 
vestigate the water problems of the 
state and to develop a state water 
program. George S. Knapp, chief en- 
gineer, Division of Water Resources, 
State Board of Agriculture, was made 
chairman. Dean H. Umberger rep- 
resented Kansas State College on the 
committee. The committee's report ; 
was submitted to Governor Ratner 
August 2, and has recently been pub- 
lished with the title "A Kansas Water 
Program." 

Emergency measures adopted dur- 
ing the drought periods of 1934, 
193 6 and 1939 are reviewed in the 
report. Approximately 3,300 ponds 
and 1,200 wells were constructed 
with federal and state assistance to 
meet the emergencies of 1934 and 
1936. Suggestions were made for a 
procedure to be followed during any 
subsequent emergencies. The com- 
mittee recommends the digging of 
one or more extra wells on each farm, 
to be held in reserve for emergency 
use. 

Weather records showing 10-year 
average temperature and precipita- 
tion at Dodge City, Independence and 
Manhattan for the period these sta- 
tions have made observations are 
plotted in the report. The downward 
trend in precipitation and upward 
trend in temperature are particularly 
striking for the past 10 years. These 
factors being accompanied by an in- 
crease in evaporation have resulted 
in a marked decrease in runoff and 
a diminishing of the water supplies 
of the state, both in surface storage 
and ground water. 

The report recommended the con- 
tinuation of the pond-building pro- 
grams of the several agencies, such 
as the Works Progress administra- 
tion, Agricultural Adjustment admin- 
istration and the Soil Conservation 
service, that have totaled more than 
7,300 farm ponds to date. Recom- 
mendations are made for legislation 
which will further encourage pond 
building as one of the most practical 
means of avoiding the water shortage 
experienced on thousands of farms 
with each period of scanty rainfall. 

Water pollution problems are con- 
sidered in the report with special 
emphasis on the disposal of oil field 
brines. Deep subsurface disposal is , 
gaining in favor as the most practi- 
cal solution of this troublesome prob- 
lem. 

Economic losses due to floods and 
water shortages are also discussed 
briefly in the report of the committee. 
The duties of the several state and 
federal agencies having to do with the 
water problems in Kansas are re- 
viewed. The report concludes with 
a discussion of the need for a state 
plan or program for the control and 
use of the water resources of the 
state. 

The report of the Kansas State 
Board of Agriculture of October, 
1940, contains a four-year report of 
the activities of the Division of Wa- 
ter Resources and four-years' stream- 
flow data from the stream-gaging 
stations in Kansas. While prepared 
independently from the report on a 
Kansas Water Program, the State 
Board of Agriculture report is close- 
ly related and furnished much of the 
background material for the other. 
— Walter G. Ward. 



SCIENCE TODAY 



Pathology, United States Department 
of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



By FRANCIS J. SULLIVAN 

Instructor, Department of 
Machine Design 



The airplane, soaring through the 
skies, here with its cargo of travelers 
or, elsewhere, with bombs, appears to 
be the exemplification of man's crea- 
tive genius. Structurally, it is the 
product of the designer's ingenuity, 
but aerodynamically it is the result 
of countless wind-tunnel tests and in- 
finite patience. 

The first wind tunnel of signifi- 
cance was built by the Wright broth- 
ers in Dayton, Ohio. These brothers 
were much more than the glamorous 
tinkerers that popular history would 
have us believe. They were probably 
the world's first aeronautical engi- 
neers. The famous flight at Kitty 
Hawk, the culmination of their ef- 
forts, was successful only because of 
the long hours spent in experiment 
with the wind tunnel back in Dayton. 
A wind tunnel has but one purpose: 
to measure the reactions created by 
flowing air on a model. To do this 
the tunnel must provide an air 
stream, which is generated by a fan, 
and means of suspending or support- 
ing the model and measuring the 
| forces on it. Generally, the air enters 
through an orifice, which is smoothly 
'curved to preserve streamline flow, 
i into a chamber where the model is i 
I hung and measurements are made. 
! Behind this chamber is the fan which 
sucks the air out. Frequently, the 
tunnel is made with a closed circuit, 
the air after leaving the fan passing 
through honeycombs to remove the 
I turbulence and re-entering the tun- 
nel. 

Today, wind-tunnel testing is a 
standard part of aerodynamic re- 
search and development. Colleges, 
universities and aircraft manufac- 
turers all have tunnels included in 
their testing or laboratory equipment. 
However, the most noteworthy con- 
tributions have come from national 
organizations such as the D. V. L. in 
Goettingen, Germany, the B. A. R. C. 
in England and the N. A. C. A. in the 
United States. 

The National Advisory Committee 
for Aeronautics, a government-sup- 
ported agency, has its laboratories 
at Langley Field, Va. Here is con- 



ducted research along all lines of 
aerodynamic interest. The reports on 
this work are distributed in various I 
forms throughout the country. The 
activity takes many forms, from I 
small-scale testing in wind tunnels 
to actual flying of experimental mod- 
els. The focus of interest is on the 
tunnel testing. Among the equipment 
is a variable density wind tunnel, her- 
metically sealed, by which models 
are tested under different conditions 
of pressure and air density. A full- 
scale tunnel, which is of enormous 
dimensions, enables the testing of 
full-size models of airplanes. 

But why this emphasis on wind- 
tunnel testing? 

The behavior of an air stream is ex- 
ceedingly complex. Among the fac- 
tors to be considered are density, 
pressure, viscosity, Reynolds' Num- 
ber and turbulence. As yet, no com- 
pletely satisfactory rational theory 
has been developed. Hence, before 
building the first and experimental 
airplane of a new design it is neces- 
sary to test it exhaustively in model 
form. Here again a new set of varia- 
bles occurs: the shape of wing, the 
design of fuselage, the location of the 
various parts of the plane and nu- 
merous other details. 

The only airfoil, or airplane wing 
section, which was not developed by 
an empirical method is the Joukowski 
airfoil, which was derived mathe- 
matically from aerodynamic theory. 
It is an interesting note that the char- 
acteristics of this wing section are 
no better than the others that have 
been designed by a trial-and-error 
method. The Clark Y airfoil, which 
has been popular in this country, is 
the result of a series of trials by Col. 
V. E. Clark, each of which was tested 
for its aerodynamic properties. 

Aerodynamics is a young science. 
At present a vast amount of work is 
being done in the endeavor to make 
it more exact. Undoubtedly in the 
future the designer will plan an air- 
plane with the same confidence in 
which a structural engineer now de- 
signs a building. However, until that 
day comes the aircraft industry and 
air commerce will be dependent on 
the wind-tunnel test. 



SIXTY YEARS AGO 
D. A. Beckwith, editor of the Kan- 
sas Homestead, was a visitor at the 
College. 

At a regular meeting of the Web- 
ster society, G. L. Horning, H. J. 
Horning, M. H. Marckum and Charles 
F. Bailey were initiated. 

The following were initiated into 
the Alpha Beta society: Messrs. Clark, 
Clothier, Barrett, Dunn, Hutto, Mc- 
Nair, Pense and Swingle and Misses 
Allis, Brown and Peck. 

Professor Failyer, assisted by sev- 
eral students, unearthed the Elephas 
Prlmlgenius discovered by S. C. Ma- 
son. It was 34 feet under the sur- 
! face, had tusks more than 9 feet long 
i and its teeth, four of which were 
i found, were 15 inches in length and 
8 inches in depth. 



KANSAS POETRY 

Robert Conover, Editor 



By Ctriruiit Gifinner Ptarson 

In my kitchen there is magic 
As I stew or bake; 
I mix some flour and eggs and spice 
And then I have a cake. 

In my kitchen there is color 
Of rainbow hue; 
The red and green of salad bowl, 
And pots and pans of blue. 

In my kitchen I have music — 
A rhvthm sweet; 
The kettle's happy melody, 
The sizz of frying meat. 

In my kitchen there is Life 
And hope and peace. 
When sad or blue I cook awhile — 
And find release. 



Mrs. Thomas Pearson of Cunning- 
ham is the wife of a high school prin- 
cipal and the mother of two children. 
She writes a weekly column, Think- 
ing Aloud," which appears in the Cun- 
ningham Clipper and the Hutchinson 
News-Herald. 



SUNFLOWERS 

H. W. Davis 
AUTUMN IDYL 

If it were not too late, I'd begin 
all over once more again and make 
an architect of myself — just to get 
even. 



sities has been a law of nature and the 
incentive to most of man's unhuman 
traits, such as his hostility to his fel- 
low man. The great triumph of sci- 
ence and technology in organized so- 
ciety is that it can now provide 
enough of these necessities for every 
man, woman, and child. The great 
tragedy of present society is that, hav- 
ing this ability, it has not been able 
so to distribute the abundance of 
food, clothing, and shelter that every 
man has at least his minimum needs. 

, Gerald Wendt in "Science for the 

World of Tomorrow." 
♦ 

LEAVEN ON THE CAMPUS 
The college exists to teach its stu- 
dents to think — to think straight if 
possible — but to think always for 
i themselves. — Robert M. Hutchins, 
S quoted in Survey Graphic. 



superintendent of the engineering de- 
partment of the Shipley Construction 
and Supply company in New York 
City. 



THIRTY YEARS AGO 
Prof. W. A. McKeever went to Os- 
wego to address the city schools. 

John U. Higinbotham, '86, was 
treasurer of the National Biscuit com- 
pany, Chicago. 

Assistant Lamb acted as judge of 
poultry at the Dickinson county fair 
at Abilene, and Assistant Philips 
served the farmers of Pottawatomie 
county in the same capacity, at Wa- 
mego. 



My ambition would be to design 
and popularize a house with built-in 
curtain rods — built in and how. They 
would be mortised to the window 
frames, anchored to the studs and 
steel-linked to the roof and the base- 
ment floor so that removing them 
would involve demolition of the en- 
tire structure. 



I have no quarrel with women who 
want to re-curtain the house every 
time the season changes. Three 
months is enough and to spare for 
most of the curtains I've blinked at 
in my long life. But why an all-pur- 
pose curtain rod can not be devised 
by some ham fixture designer between 
supper and bed-time some rainy eve- 
ning is more than I can figure out. 



The American museum is the child 
of nineteenth century liberal thought, 
and this fact should never be forgot- 
ten. For even the very idea of the 
public museum was in its infancy 
when the colonies rebelled. The Brit- 
ish Museum was barely 20 years old, 
nor was the Louvre to be opened to 
others than academicians and a fa- 
vored few until the first Napoleon. 
The National Gallery in London 
looked upon by most Americans as 
the promised land of all art galleries, 
was formed only in 1824, although 
there had been agitation in the house 
of commons nearly half a century 
earlier. The Prado was of approxi- 
mately the same period. Curiously 
enough, the Vatican had opened its | 
collections to the populace ahead of 
any of the more liberal states of Eu- 
n)pe . — Francis Henry Taylor in the 
Atlantic Monthly. 

♦ 
THE TRIUMPH OF SCIENCE 
Most of the human race has not 
come up to these minimum possibili- 
ties because it has failed to achieve 
even the physical needs of adequate 
food, clothing, and shelter. Never in 
history, except for small privileged 
groups, has there been enough for all. 
Competition for these material neces- 



1N OLDER DAYS 
TEN YEARS AGO 

B. H. Fleenor, '19, was attending 
the University of Missouri, Columbia, 
where he was working toward his 
doctor's degree in agricultural edu- 
cation. 

Dr. J. E. Ackert began a year's 
study at Cambridge after several 
weeks with Mrs. Ackert and their 
daughter Jane on the European con- 
tinent. 

Dr. R. K. Nabours, head of the 
Department of Zoology, returned 
from Texas where he had been col- 
lecting specimens for experimentation 
in genetics. 

F. Marshall Davis, Negro former 
student in industrial journalism, was 
editor of the Gary, Ind., American. 
He was also writing copy for a Chi- 
cago advertising agency. 



FORTY YEARS AGO 

The Rev. Thomas M. Rickman, Des 
Moines, Iowa, visited his brother, 
Superintendent Rickman. 

Edith Lantz, '96, and R. K. Far- 
rar, '96, were granted state certifi- 
cates at the meeting of the State 
Board of Education. 

Edward H. Webster, '96, manager 
of the creamery at Meriden, was 
elected assistant professor of the 
Dairying department, Iowa State Ag- 
ricultural college, Ames. 

President Nichols was in Topeka 
for one day attending a meeting of 
the State Board of Education. The 
board acted upon applications for in- 
stitute conductors and instructor cer- 
tificates, state certificates and life 
diplomas. 



A second thing I can't grasp is 
why no new curtain rod you ever saw 
in your life will fit into the receiving 
and supporting thingumbobs already 
nailed, screwed, or nailed and 
screwed, into the window facing. Cur- 
tain rods have little call to be so tem- 
peramental. They are not so much. 
You can buy 'em at the dime store 
any time — and say they cost you a 
dollar if it is necessary that you make 
that sort of impression. 



>■ 



TWENTY YEARS AGO 
Glen W. Oliver, '20, was teaching 
vocational agriculture at Mound City 
High school and coaching the foot- 
ball team. 

Dean Mary P. Van Zile and Prof. 
Albert Dickens, '93, appeared on the 
program of the Sixth District Federa- 
tion of Women's Clubs at Burr Oak. 
L. A. Ramsey, '06, was general 



FIFTY YEARS AGO 
Lieut. Albert Todd, '7 2, professor 
of military science and tactics in the 
College from 1881 to 1884, was trans- 
ferred from Fort Hamilton, N. Y., 
to Fort Riley. 

Professor Failyer's services as ex- 
pert witness were in demand again 
in a liquor case at Belleville. The 
defendant, on learning that the Col- 
lege chemist had been summoned to 
testify, agreed to settle without going 
to trial. 

May Varney, a graduate of Adrian 
college in Adrian, Mich., who took 
postgraduate work in botany and 
', drawing at this College, was em- 
ployed in the Division of Vegetable 



And a third thing beyond my com- 
prehension is why the nail- or screw- 
holes in the aforementioned fixture 
thingumbobs are always so located 
that you can't secure them to the fac- 
ing without splashing flesh and blood 
all over that side of the room and 
words unfit for Sunday school all over 
the block. I have more than once 
used up as much as three meal times 
and nine years of soft arteries trying 
to get one fixture really fixed. 



The architect is to blame. He is 
paid to design a home in which man, 
wife and children can live politely and 
decently. Yet every three months 
poor Father has to install a new type 
of curtain fixture twice as impossible 
as the last. He has to stand on an 
antique chair that ought to be on re- 
lief and use language he knows his 
children should never hear. He has 
to hammer his thumb and fingers in- 
to bloody — 



But why get sordid? If it were not 
too late, I'd be an architect. 



mm 



AMONG THE 
ALUMNI 



John B. Brown, M. S. *87, writes: 
"My address is Route 2, Box 372, 
Phoenix, Ariz., in the midst of a 40- 
acre citrus grove most beautiful to 
look over toward rose-tinted desert 
d sunsets in our nearby mountains." 

Robert A. Mcllvaine, B. S. '92, 
lives at 41 East Dalton avenue, Spo- 
kane, Wash. He formerly taught at 
Newport, Wash., but is now retired. 

Word comes from California that 
Mrs. Josephine (Wilder) McCul- 
lough, B. S. '98, is president, and 
Mrs. Harriett (Nichols) Donohoo, B. 
S. '98, is secretary of the San Fer- 
nando valley branch of the American 
Association of University Women. 
Recent activities of the branch in- 
clude a contribution to the fund for . 
the British Federation of University 
Women refugees and their children, 
with a home for a refugee child 
pledged by one of the members. 

Harry L. Kent, Ag. '13, M. S. '20, 
LL. D. '31, is director of administra- 
tive research at the Texas Technologi- 
cal college, Lubbock, Texas. His resi- 
dence address is 2435 Twenty-Second 
street. 

A. E. McClymonds, Ag. '15, and 
Margaret (Bruce) McClymonds, H. 
E. '16, occasionally visit Kansas 
State College to see their daughter, 
Margaret Ann, a sophomore in jour- 
nalism. Their home is in Lincoln, 
Neb., where Mr. McClymonds is re- 
gional director of the Soil Conserva- 
a tion service. 
„™ Ethel (Strother) Mitchell, I. J. '16, 
has charge of journalism work in two 
high schools, one and a half days in 
each. Her husband, H. R. Mitchell, is 
a graduate of Northwestern univer- 
sity. They have two children, and 
live at 1070 Forest avenue, Palo 
Alto, Calif. 

M. A. Durland, E. E. '18, and 
Lorna (Boyce) Durland, f. s. '18, are 
at 1300 Fremont, Manhattan. Mr. 
Durland is assistant dean of the Divi- 
sion of Engineering and Architecture 
at the College. Their eldest daughter, 
Audrey Jean, is a sophomore in ar- 
chitectural engineering this year. 

Julia Annette Keeler, I. J. '19, is 
on the editorial staff of Review and 
Preview, educational house organ of 
the Des Moines public schools. 

J. Oscar Brown, Ag. '20, and Eva 
(Piatt) Brown, H. E. *22, are at 
Wakeeney, where Mr. Brown is teach- 
er of vocational agriculture. He ex- 
pects to receive his master's degree 
at Kansas State College next year. 
The Browns have two children, Mar- 
jorie, 13, and Darrell, 8. 

Visiting the campus July 8 was 
Ethel Hatfield, G. S. '21, who works 
at the Kansas Gas and Electric com- 
pany in Wichita. One of her brothers, 
C. R. Hatfield, C. E. '22, is with 
v > Burns McDonald Engineering cora- 
IV* pany, Kansas City, Mo., and another, 
G. C. Hatfield, C. E. '26, is working 
for the State Highway department, 
Amarillo, Texas. 

Henry W. Schmitz, Ag. '22, M. S. 
'28, writes that his address in Berke- 
ley, Calif., has been changed to 153 3 
Francisco street. He is assistant to 
the state coordinator of the Soil Con- 
servation service in California. 

Leola (Ashe) Deal, H. E. '23, is 
president of the local Parent-Teacher 
association in Monticello, Ark. Her 
husband, T. C. Deal, is a wholesale 
merchant in Monticello, where she 
was the home demonstration agent 
before her marriage. They have two 
sons, Thomas C. Jr. and Thorsen. 
They are now living in a new home 
which they planned and had built 
last year. 

Floyd L. Werhan, E. E. '24, is dis- 
trict engineer of the Central Kansas 
Power company, Hays. He is also 
manager of that company's softball 
team, and occasionally umpires base- 
ball games. The Werhans (Eunice 
Dalrymple, f. s.) have two children, 
/^Donald. 12, and Nadyne, 8. 
* Jewell K. Watt, Ag. '25, M. S. '30, 
called at the Alumni association of- 
fice in July previous to attending 
army maneuvers at Fort Ripley, 
Minn., August 1 to 27. He is captain 
of Cavalry 114, Kansas National 
guard. He is also the vice-principal 
of the Coffeyville High school. He 
and Madeline (Peterson) Watt, f. s., 
live at 1012 West Sixth street, Cof- 
feyville. 

Norman Weberg, Ag. '26, is post- 
man in Salina. His home address is 



HOMECOMING HINTS 

1. Alumni should buy their 
football tickets from the Alum- 
ni association office. Make your 
reservations early. Price is 
$2.25 a ticket. Send 20 cents 
extra for registration and mail- 
ing. 

2. Visitors should register 
and meet friends at the Alumni 
association office. 

3. Guests may attend the 
Homecoming alumni luncheon 
Saturday noon, October 26, up- 
stairs in Thompson hall, the 
College cafeteria. Tickets will 
be on sale at the Alumni asso- 
ciation office and College cafe- 
teria at 51 cents. 

4. K men's dinner will be in 
the College cafeteria at 6:30 p. 
m., October 26. It is sponsored 
by K fraternity. 



LOOKING AROUND 

KENNEY L. FORD 



1109 West Republic street, Salina. 

William H. Schindler, Ag. '27, M. 
S. '39, is superintendent of schools 
at Cullison. Jeannine, 10, and Dar- 
lene, 9, are his two daughters 



St. Louis Meeting 

H. H. Harris, '37, Graybar Elec- 
tric company, St. Louis, Mo., writes: I 

"We are planning a joint luncheon 
and afternoon meeting with the Uni- ; 
versity of Kansas Alumni association 
on October 26. We would appreciate J 
it very much if you would send us the 
names of radio stations that will 
broadcast the Kansas State-Kansas 
university game that afternoon so 
that we can see what will be neces- 
sary to insure a satisfactory radio 
reception." (KMBC, Kansas City, 
Mo., and KFH, Wichita.) 

"Our meeting will be held at the j 
Kingsway hotel, and reservations 
should be made not later than Octo- 
ber 23. Reservations can be tele- 
phoned to me at ST-4125. Eighty- 
five cents per person will be assessed 
at the door. Plans for promoting ac- 
quaintances and horse-play are in the 
making." 



Alumni Meeting at Ann Arbor 

Joe G. Lill, '09, president of the 
ind Louise i Michigan alumni group, sent the fol- 
(LaFleur) Myers, M. S. '31, have one! lowing report of the Michigan 
son, Harold, who was seven years old meeting: 

this summer, and they all live at \ "The Michigan section of the Kan- 
1622 Leavenworth, Manhattan. Mr. j sas State Alumni association held its 
Myers is associate professor of soils, I summer meeting in the Women's 
Kansas State College and Kansas Ag- Union League building at the Uni 



ricultural Experiment station. 

A page of the Newark (N. J.) Eve- 
ning News, came to the Alumni as- 
sociation office this week because it 
carried a picture of Randi Johnson, 
20 months old daughter of Francis 
Johnson, E. E. '29, and Edna (Stew- 
art) Johnson, H. E. '28. Randi has 
been modeling for advertisement 
photographs since she was 6 months 
old. Her picture appears in an ad- 
vertisement for a baby powder on \ 



versity of Michigan at Ann Arbor 
June 29, 1940. Forty-one graduates 
and former students were present. 

"J. C. Christensen, '94, business 
manager of the university, greeted 
1 the arrivals and acted as host. Dur- 
i ing the afternoon the group were 
shown through the Graduate School 
building erected by the Rackham 
foundation. Later, they enjoyed a 
most excellent dinner in the Women's 
League building. 

"Ethel McDonald, '07, told of her 



l T ge ? 2 io°/n P T n \\^ aS ^JZ iwork in Alaska and answered many 
August, 1940^ Her father teaches at lonB regarding the pe0 ple, coun- 

! Mt. Vernon, N. Y. 7 - „_*_> 

i try and climate. 

Stanley White, E. E. '30, writes -Before the meeting adjourned, it 

! from his home in Sebring, Fla.: ' [ ; was decided to hold the next meeting 
am in the radio business here and | ftt East Lansing) Mich ., November 2, 

,have a radio retail store and repair 1940 That is the day the Kansas 

I shop. I have been located here for gtate and Michigan State teams play 

j the past five years and like it fine. | ftt Bast Lansing ." 

I am married and have two daughters , 

—ages 4 y 2 and 2 years. Sebring is i Writes from China 

' in the southcentral part of the state Misg Myrtle zener received this 

[in what is known as the Ridge, a letter from Jean chen , M. S. '38, 
chain of hills and lakes. Most of the th , s summer Jean is teaching in 

i citrus fruit of the state is grown on Rwa Nan co i lege) Yenping, Fukien, 

j the Ridge and its many lakes make Cnina 
it a favorite place for tourists." , <.r) ear Friend: 

Ivan Roberson, f. s. '31, is secre- ; "I had been wanting to write a full 

I tary of the Central Kansas Free Fair | letter to you and time didn't permit 
association. His home is at Abilene, me to do so. Besides my regular 
where he is secretary of the local teaching work, every one of us be- 

: Chamber of Commerce. His son, i ongs to some kinds of committee. 

Michael Ivan, is 1 year old. Then there are students outside ac- 

Louise Davis, H. E. '32, announced tivities for which all the teachers 

! the opening of The Craft House in have to be responsible as guides or 
■a pamphlet which she sent out ex- advisers. For all these little things 
plaining her new enterprise. The I can't find a whole period of time 

! Craft House at 1714 Villa place, which I can use to write a full letter 
Nashville, Tenn., "offers to individu- to you. I feel very much ashamed of 
als and groups the opportunity to ex- \ myself, for I realize that you have 
press themselves in some creative ' been very good in writing to me. 

•crafts." Crafts include: bookmaking , know you are interested in me and 

! and decorative papers, hand puppets, i in my work. Every time when I re- 
linoleum blockprinting and pottery ceive your letter I deeply appreciate 

i for beginners. Groups meet weekly it. Let me thank you for your letters 

j for two-hour periods; the two terms and Christmas greetings and the mes- 
per year are: October 1 to January sages which were in the letters. 
31, and February 1 to May 31. She "The very first news I want to let 
has formerly been a crafts teacher you know is that I have been well 
for the YWCA at Boston. except I was attacked by malaria 

_ ., „ „ ,„„ . „ „„,, three times since I came back. We 

' a PUb ' are very grateful, for our alumnae 
who are in Singapore sent us quinine. 
Otherwise we shall be like other peo- 



dren also help. We certainly need 
more teachers for our department. 
For the Music department there are 
more teachers, one American and two 
returned students. One of the teach- 
ers has gone to Shanghai to buy more 
music instruments. She now is on her 
way home to us. 

"We are very grateful that we can 
carry on our work as usual. Even 
though we haven't plenty of room but 
we are quite comfortable compared 
with others. We are expecting to 
have three more buildings con- 
structed, Home Economics, Music 
and Library. Last semester we had 
our new dining room built. It is 
built of wood. 

"We had three weeks for winter 
vacation. On account of the difficult 
transportation I didn't go home. My 
folk asked me not to go home for 
all the way many stops have to be 
made and there were air raids every- 
where. It was not safe to travel. So 
I didn't get to see my folk. I hope 
to see them this summer. Besides a 
few students whose homes are near, 
the rest of them all stayed here over 
vacation. While we were here we 
made some kinds of propaganda work 
for our country. It was very cold 
during winter vacation and it was 
hard for us to work. 

"The new semester's work started 
on February 12. At present every- 
thing goes on very smoothly, except 
we are in fear of not having enough 
rice to eat. You see on account of 
the war communication had been 
very difficult so the price of every- 
thing has been raised unusually high. 
But there are other things to be joy- 
ful about. That is, even though con- 
ditions are so very difficult every- 
where there are new buildings, new 
establishments, new roads con- 
structed and new sense for the love 
of country and this last thing is the 
most precious of all. There is a feel- 
ing of unity everywhere you go. We 
know we are under very serious con- 
dition but we are very hopeful for 
our future. We have very great hope 
for China's future. I now must stop 
for time does not permit me to write 
any longer. I shall try to write again 
when I find time." 
♦ 

MARRIAGES 



RECENT HAPPENINGS 
ON THE HILL 



The Women's Panhellenic council 
met last Thursday at the Zeta Tau 
Alpha sorority for the first meeting 
of the semester. 



Forty-four seniors in mechanical 
engineering will leave Sunday morn- 
ing for their annual inspection trip 
to Chicago. They will be gone until 
Friday evening. 



An open meeting of Democracy's 
Volunteers, an organization begun by 
two Kansas State College students, 
will be held in Recreation Center 
Thursday to discuss starting a local 
chapter. 



Dr. J. C. Peterson, head of the De- 
partment of Psychology, has an- 
nounced that the scores of the fresh- 
man aptitude tests now are ready for 
distribution in Education hall. The 
scores are kept in strict confidence 
and each student must get his own. 



Twenty essays written by Kansas 
State College students have been sub- 
mitted in a national contest spon- 
sored by the Saddle and Sirloin club, 
an organization of students in animal 
husbandry- This year's topic was 
"The Economic Significance of Grass 
in American Agriculture." 



Thomas Trenkle, Topeka, has been 
selected to play the part of Henry 
Aldrich, central figure in "What a 
Life," the first Manhattan Theatre 
production, which will be given No- 
vember 1 and 2. He was selected 
from a squad of 60 students who tried 
out for parts in the comedy by Clif- 
ford Goldsmith. 



TOY — ZOELLER 

The marriage of Marguerite Toy to 
Mark J. Zoeller, C. '34, took place 
June 3. The bride was graduated 
from the Sabred Heart academy and 
from the Park View Nursing school 
in Manhattan. Mr. Zoeller is a gradu- 
ate of St. George High school and 
Kansas State College. He is now em- 
ployed by the Farmers Co-op Oil as- 
sociation. He and his bride are at 
home at 412 North Eleventh street, 
Manhattan. 



William Hickman, Kirwin, presi- 
dent of the Student Council, an- 
nounced last week that the Fiske Ju- 
bilee Singers would open this year's 
celebrity series when they appear on 
the campus November 21. Other fea- 
tures include the piano team of Fray 
and Braggiotti, the Graff Balle, Tony 
Sarg's marionettes and John Mulhol- 
land, a magician. 



SHIPMAN— KRABBENHOFT 
The marriage of Vernice Shipman, 
H. E. '38, of Kansas City and Clifford 
R. Krabbenhoft, C. E. '38, of Chicago 
took place June 1 at the Western 
Highlands Presbyterian church in 
Kansas City. 

Since graduating from Kansas 
State College, where she was a mem- 
ber of Chi Omega sorority, she taught 
one year in Ellsworth High school 
and worked for the Kansas City Gas 
company, Kansas City, Mo., until the 
time of her marriage. Mr. Krabben- 
hoft is a member of Phi Delta Theta 
and is now with the Portland Cement 
company in Chicago. 

The couple live at home at 1420 
Farwell avenue, Chicago. 



Students are circulating petitions 
for a campus-wide voting on the 
question of whether students should 
be allowed to attend dances which 
have not been approved in advance 
by the Student Council. The pro- 
posed amendment to the Student 
Governing association's constitution 
would read: "Students shall be re- 
sponsible to the Student Council for 
any violation of conduct while at- 
tending other than approved dances." 
-*- 

BIRTHS 



John F. Huff, E. E. '28, and Emma 
(Schull) Huff, H. E. '27, are the par- 
ents of a son, Robert James, born 
July 1. Their home is 4325 Lewis, 
Wichita. Mr. Huff is employed by the 
Southwestern Bell Telephone com- 
pany. 



A blue and white announcement 
from Alvin J. Mistier, G. S. '3 6, and 
Mrs. (Geraldine Cook, H. E. '37) 
Mistier, tells of the birth of their 
son, Richard Earl, August 20. They 
live at 219 Harahan boulevard, Pa- 
ducah, Ky. Mr. Mistier is an assis- 
tant geologist for the Tennessee Val- 
ley authority. 



lie accountant in Wichita. He is 

working with the firm of Moberly and 

West, certified public "^MltS, , dreadfully because of 

offices in the Wheeler-Kelly-Hagny { iukof(iujnine Now ! am very well 



building 

Paul E. Blackwood, G. S. '35, 
writes: "I have been at Teachers col- 



and I enjoy my work here. 

"This semester I am teaching three 
courses, physiological chemistry, nu- 



lege of Columbia university this year t ,. ition and textiles. My work is 

working on my Ph. D. During this ratner full for every course there is 

time I have been an assistant in the la))o ,. at01 . y work j am ]u( . ky to have 

Teaching of Natural Science depart- Qne Qf thft seniors who neIps me with 



ment and instructed in a science field 
course in June. I plan to be at Teach- 
ers college again this fall at which 



one afternoon laboratory which is 
nutrition. A small college like ours 
can't afford to engage regular assis- 



time I shall try to complete my Ph. D. | Unts who can he]p regularly un i ess 
Fortunately, in addition to my assis- j8 , 8 absolutely necessary. So we do 
tantship, I have also received another mQgt Qf QU1 . own W0) . k Tnat js why 
scholarship." j we are so | )Usy . You see even on Sun- 

Francis L. Blaesi, Ag. '38, 1020 day we have to teach Bible study. 
Clay street, Cedar Falls, Iowa, is field j vve are glad we have work to do and 
representative for the Equitable Life ' we are niore than glad that we can 
Assurance society. He is in charge WO rk in free China region. We feel 
of supervision and management of deeply sorry for those who have to 
about 150 farms owned by the so- wolk under control. 



ciety. 

Dorothy Warner, H. E. and N. '40, 
is doing nursing in the Colorado Gen- 



"Home economics and music are 
going to be our outstanding work 
in our college. In home economics, 



eral hospital, Denver. Her address [ there are Mae Ding and I. Then some 
in Denver is 4900 East Ninth avenue. | teachers who are interested in chil- 



DOCTOR WILLARD'S HISTORY 

Dr. Julius T. Willard's "History of Kansas State College 
of Agriculture and Applied Science" is now ready for dis- 
tribution. Return the following order blank to the Alumni 
office, Kansas State College, for your copy: 

□ I am a paid-up life member of the K. S. C. Alumni asso- 
ciation. Kindly send my free copy. 

Enclosed find $ to complete payments on my 

life membership, which will entitle me to a free copy. 

Enclosed find $4 for one copy and annual membership 

in the Alumni association for 1940-41. 

Enclosed find $1 for one copy. My 1940-41 dues already 

have been paid. 

Please ask Doctor Willard to autograph my copy. 



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Name 



Address 



R.O.T.C. CADET OFFICERS 
ANNOUNCED LAST WEEK 

INFANTRY APPOINTMENTS JiUM- 
II 1411 104, ARTILLERY, 118 



Ranking MaJOM Inelude Robert H. 

WellH, Wullnee A. Swansnii, Nenl M. 

Jenkins, Frimk nates, fiarold 

■I. Way nnd Fred Eyestone 

Two hundred twenty-two cadet of- 
ficers have heen assigned to their : 
posts in the Kansas State College 
Reserve Officers' Training corps, ac- 
cording to orders made effective last 
week. With the consent of President j 
F. D. Farrell, 104 cadet appointments 
were made in the infantry and 118 
in the coast artillery corps. 

Majors in the first, second and 
third infantry battalions, respective- 
ly, are Robert B. Wells, Manhattan; 
Wallace A. Swanson, Sharon Springs; 
and Neal M. Jenkins, Manhattan. 
THREE BATTALION ADJUTANTS 
The first lieutenants designated 
battalion adjutants are Wilbur D. 
Van Aken, Lyons; Charles W. Staf- 
ford, Republic; and Richard W. Cope, 
Holton. 

Capts. Boyd H. McCune, Stafford; 
George H. Peircey, Waterbury, Conn; 
Lewis M. Turner, El Dorado; Donald 
H. Merten, Morganville; Kenneth B. 
Middleton, Manhattan; Joseph B. 
Skaggs, Leavenworth; Kenneth H. 
Graham, Framingham, Mass.; John 
T. Muir, Norton; and C. Paul Schafer, 
Vermillion, were appointed com- 
manders of the nine infantry com- 
panies. 

First lieutenants in infantry are 
Charles E. Fairman, Manhattan; 
Walter M. Keith, Manhattan; Paul j 
L Brown, Sylvan Grove; Leslie A. 
Droge, Seneca; Milton L. Manuel, j 
Havensville; H. Albert Praeger, Claf- 
lin; Gerald Geiger, Belvidere, N. J.; 
Frank R. Lonberger, Manhattan; 
Fred L. Rumsey, Kinsley; R. V. Tye, 
Hanover; Dean McCandless, St. John; 
Louis F. Akers, Atchison; Augustus 
Douthitt, Winfleld; Robert H. Blair, 
Ottawa; Elbridge G. Fish, Salina; 
Frank Miller, Milford; Claude Shen- 
kel, Lyons; L. Robert Ray, Wilsey; 
Wellington J. Dunn, Tescott; Richard 
J Powell, Kansas City, Mo.; John N. 
Haymaker, Manhattan; Theron L. , 
King, Manhattan; Lester E. Brown, 
Circleville; Orval A. Harold, Oberhn; | 
Kenneth M. Yoon, Hawaii; Nolan 
MeKenzie, Solomon; Glen E. Mueller, 
Anthony; Donald L. Munzer, Hering- 
ton- William J. Ratliff, Manhattan; 
Robert D. Manly, Manhattan; Keith 
M Schmedemann, Junction City; 
Robert V. Swanson, Waterbury, 
Conn ; Robert R. Rogers, Manhat- 
tan; and Cecil M. Wenkheimer, 
Hutchinson. 

LIST SECOND LIEUTENANTS 
The second lieutenants are Wilbur 
E Ashton, Manhattan; Donald W. 
Brown, Paradise; Francis H. Brown, 
MaXttan; Jame* R. Foster Effing- 
ham; Donald M. Hunt, Manhattan, 
HeWchel R. Larkin, Manhattan; 
Ethan Potter, Peabody; Kemp - O. - 
Stiles Topeka; William J. Wert*, 
S2S Center; Pierce U. Wheatley, 
GvDBum- George Bradbury, Minne- 
apolis Frank P. Campbell, Wichita; 
Lyle P. Carmony, Manhattan; Wil- 
„am E. Charlson, Manhattan; Galen 
F . Davidson, Parsons; *»«"»• B ; 
Dickson, Admire; Dale H. Dyer, 
Clearwater; Perry C. »»»«": 
Lenora; Charles J. Glotzbach, Paxico, 
Corby L. Hart, Wichita; Robert H. 
Hellener, Wichita; W. Fred Jones, 
Wichita; Verle O. MeClellan, Wichi- 
ta; Robert B. Mclntire, Manhattan 
Ben R. Bryant, Garnett; John W. 
Prager, Irvington, N. J.; Clarence L. 
Ryser, Haddam; James T. Smith Ax- 
tell' F Robert Snyder, Junction City ; 
Max E. Timmons, Fredonia; Arlm B. 
Ward, Manhattan; Thaine R. High, 
Abilene; Harry P. Bouck, Manhat- 
tan; James H. Cowie, Herington; 
Wlliiam P. Deam, Manhattan ; John 
V Drum, Leslie, Mich.; H. Leslie 
Eddy , Topeka; Harold E. Peterson 

SS& VaSln H. Howard, 
Washington, D. C; John H. Hancock 
St Francis; Wilburt G. Nixon, Virgil, 
Roger N. Phillips, Manhattan; Ray- 
mond R. Rokey, Sabetha; Harold W. 
Grote, Manhattan; Clarence W. 
Schmitz. Alma; Reed C. Sparks, Great 
Bend; Kenneth P. Storey, Manhat 
tan; Robert G. Nelson, Chicago, 
Glen J. Thomas, Riley; Chester E. 
Van Voorhis, Bucklin; Howard D. 
Van Cleave, Kansas City; Clarence 
W. Schulze, Blue Springs; and Rob- 
ert G Waters, Junction City. 
' Majors in the first, second and 
third battalions of the coast artillery 
corps are Frank A. Bates, Topeka; 



Garold B. Way, Wichita; and S. 
Frederick Eyestone, Wichita. 

The first coast artillery lieutenants 
designated battalion adjutants are 
Victor G. Mellquist, Leavenworth; 
William M. Horton, Wichita; and 
Lacy Hightower, Centralia. 
NINE COMMANDERS 

Appointed commanders of the nine 
batteries are Capts. Charles W. Ad- 
cock, Washington, D. C; Richard J. 
Cech, Kansas City; Robert V. Huff- 
man, Kansas City, Mo.; David F. 
Crews, Manhattan; William B. Geery, 
Burrton; W. T. Singleton, Kansas 
City; Gordon O'Neill, Ransom; Rich- 
ard V. Smith, Salina; and Hobart 
Tipton, Paola. 

First lieutenants include Wilfred 
Anderson, Clay Center; John H. 
Babcock, Manhattan; Arthur C. 
Barney, South Haven; Carl T. Besse, 
Clay Center; Norman T. Cook, Monu- 
ment; Mahlon H. Giffln, Sedgwick; 
J Wyeth Green, Mound City; Eugene 

E. Haun, Larned; William R. Ford, 
Frankfort; Bernard L. Schmitt, Pow- 
hattan; Laurence O. Slief, Greens-, 
burg; Gerald W. Walrafen, Topeka; 
Guy E. Warner, Bucklin; Duane R. 
Davis, Beloit; Virgil O. Dilsaver, 
Athol; Melvin E. Estey, Langdon; 
Clair E. Ewing, Blue Rapids; Philip 

F. Bennett, Eskridge; Merle E. Fo- 
land, Almena; Harry E. House, Chey- 
enne, Wyo.; William G. King, Fort 
Dodge; Shelby H. Lane, Bucklin; 
Carl F. Beyer, Glen Elder; George A. 
Mellard, Russell; Dennis E. Murphy, 
Little River; Keith P. Pendergraft, 
Emporia; Donald L. Rousey, Horton; 
Ray Bukaty, Kansas City; Robert C. 
Colburn, Spearville; Durward C. Dan- 
ielson, Clyde; John F. Stoskopf, Hois- 
ington; Jack W. Warner, Clay Cen- 
ter; Charles F. Burket, Elkhart; 
Alan D. Kinney, Hainesburg, N. J.; 
Bernard C. Nash, Lakin; Frank G. 
Paulson, Whitewater; Wallace E. 
Rankin, Manhattan; Charles W. Rin- 
dom, Liberal; Ivan W. Salts, Mayet- 
ta; Jack Sheets, Cozad, Neb.; Allen 
E. Smoll, Wichita; O. Rex Wells, 
Marysville; and Thomas R. Woods, 
Burden. 

SECOND LIEUTENANTS 
Second lieutenants in artillery are 
Robert H. Behrent, Selden; William 
R. Bixler, Emporia; Joe L. Blattner, ; 
Rozel; Robert Brown, Natoma; 
Harry H. Converse. Eskridge; 
William Fitzsimmons, Macksville; I 
Charles C. Hunter, Ottawa; Ralph 
Jennings, Arnold; Melvin L. John- 
son, Quinter; Willard A. Monahan, 
Leavenworth; Donald G. Moss, Mil- 1 
tonvale; Donald O. Neubauer, Man- 
hattan; Glenn O. Schwab, Gridley; 
Daniel R. Scott, Manhattan; Charles 
E Springer, Stockdale; M. Kenneth 
Todd, Kansas City; W. Dick Turner, 
Manhattan; Howard R. Turtle, Quin- 
ter; Ben S. Baldwin, Anthony; James 
M. Bowyer, Courtland; Max R. Col- 
well, Emporia; James F. Eagan, Ax- 
tell; Ray D. Freeman, Paola; Harold 
J. Hamilton, Corning; Wilber G. 
Hole, Topeka; Glenn Revell, Chase; 
Eugene E. Ruff, Russell; LeRoy F. 
I Sanderson, Hamilton; Claredon H. 
Sigley, Canton; Veryle E. Snyder, 
Mayetta; Robert E. Turkleson, Troy; 
Ray F. Wilkie, Topeka; Loren E. 
Amerine. Great Bend; Jack S. Austin, 
Wilmore; John D. Bender, Washing- 
ton, D. C; John C. Campbell, Wilsey; 
Robert M. Dunlap, Liberal; Donald 
K. Duwe, Lucas; Leonard R. Hoover, 
Manhattan; Cecil L. Johnson, Wa- 
mego; Raymond O. Keltner, Hoising- 
ton; Burt R. MacKirdy, Manhattan; 
John G. McEntyre, Topeka; Ben E. 
Olson, Manhattan; Richard L. Peters, 
Valley Falls; George J. Fetters, Man- 
hattan; Warren L. Gibbs, Kansas 
City; Robert L. Higginbottom, Fre- 
donia; Archie R. Hyle, Madison; 
Rector P. Louthan, Simpson; Hal A. 
Lund, Manhattan; Audwin J. Martin, 
Norwich ; Robert G. Miller, Junction 
Icity; Marion A. Miller, Topeka; 
George N. Olson, Wichita; Auhrey G. 
Park, Oakley; John H. Rickenbacker, 
Turlock, Calif.; and Lawrence E. 
Spear, Kansas City, Mo. 



QUEST FOR MORE EFFICIENT COLLOIDAL FUEL 

MAY END THROUGH COLLEGES COAL RESEARCH 



MISSOURI TIGERS BEAT 

'CATS BY 24-13 SCORE 



After three years of research, ad- 
vanced students in chemical engi- 
neering under the direction of Dr. J. 
B. Hedrick, instructor in chemical 
engineering, believe they are near 
success in their search for a more ef- 
ficient colloidal fuel. 

The experiments, which are seek- 
ing to find a better way to keep fine 
coal particles in suspension in oil, 
may bring widespread changes in 
fuel consumption throughout the 
world. The research is of special sig- 
nificance to the state's coal industry 
because it promises to create wide- 
spread new markets and to utilize 
a waste product of the southeastern 1 ! 
Kansas industry- 

During recent months, word of the 
College's research has spread through 
industry, academic circles and even 
to foreign scientific workers. A syn- 
dicate of coal operators in England 
has inquired about the work. 

In this country, the Santa Fe rail- 
road is lending necessary aid. In the 
basement of Chemical Engineering 
hall, a locomotive fuel system is be- 
ing used for combustion tests. The 
Santa Fe has promised the use of a 
railway engine in testing the fuel. 
Coal companies at Pittsburg are co- 
operating, providing material for the 
experiment. 

Doctor Hedrick started the experi- 
ment because he is interested in coal. 
His boyhood days were spent in the 
coal fields near Taylorsville, 111., and 
later he moved to the Iowa coal dis- 
trict. Under the encouragement of 
Dr. H. H. King, head of the Depart- 
ment of Chemistry, Doctor Hedrick 
conferred with southeastern Kansas 
coal men. They told him of their 
problem in trying to find use for the 
large volume of slack from coal 
washings. 

The chemical engineering instruc- 
tor sought to discover some method 
of mixing the fine coal, which pos- 
sesses high combustion qualities, with 
oil so that it could be transported 
through pipes, thereby making it 
more easily handled. 

Two problems faced the research 
! workers. Some method had to be 



devised to keep the coal from set- 1 
tling out and a system of grinding it j 
fine enough at a small cost had to be ! 
devised. 

Months went by before proper ! 
stabilizing solutions were finally 
discovered. A grinder was devised 
which seemed to answer the economy 
| problem. The colloidal fuel in a more 
' or less finished state is now to be seen 
j in the laboratory. Mixed last De- 
I cember, it is still stable and has not 
J settled out. Of course, the experi- 
ments are far from complete as work 
of testing reaction to actual use pro- 
\ ceeds. It may be two or three years 
! before the fuel is placed in commer- 
I cial use. 

Doctor Hedrick claims several ad- 
vantages for the new fuel. It is 
I cheaper than oil and it has a much 
higher heat value, he declares. It is 
easier to handle than coal alone since 
it can be piped. Its higher heat value 
will make it necessary for mobile 
engines to carry a smaller supply for 
the same amount of travel. 

The mixture contains from 40 to J 
50 per cent coal, thereby promising I 
to provide a wide market for the 
waste coal product. Doctor Hedrick 
does not believe it will compete seri- ; 
ously with the oil industry because 
refining plants are perfecting process- 
es for extracting larger amounts of 
gasoline from each barrel of crude 
oil, thus leaving a smaller amount of 
i fuel oil for marketing. 

Kansas has recognized the experi- 

j ment as so vital to the state's indus- 

I try that an industrial fellowship is 

j being provided each year, with a 

j graduate student working on the 

project. In this connection, $1,000 

yearly is paid by the state to offset 

expenses. 

F. J. Gradishar of Minneapolis, 
Minn., is the graduate fellowship 
student this year. W. T. "Bill" 
Keogh of New York City has also 
selected the experiment for work 
toward his master's degree. Four 
students, Joe Sachen, Kansas City; 
Charles O'Brien, Iola; John Romig, 
Bethany; and Jean De Vault, Kansas 
City, are assisting in the project. 



CONTEST HAS ENOUGH GLORY TO 
STIR AIL 12,000 FANS 






NINE CHANGES IN FACULTY 

ANNOUNCED BY PRESIDENT 



Four Resignations nnd Five Appoint 

incuts Are Included on 1,1st 

Released Tuesday 

Four resignations and five appoint- , 
ments are included in Kansas State 
College faculty changes, approved by 
the State Board of Regents and an- 
nounced Tuesday by President F. D. 
Farrell. 

The changes include: 

Glenn Klingman, graduate assis- 
tant in agronomy, resigned Septem- 
ber 30; Horace C. Traulsen appointed 
to succeed Mr. Klingman on Octo- 
ber 1- ,„ .« 

Effective October 1, James W. Mar- 
tin appointed instructor in agricul- 
tural engineering to succeed June 
Roberts, resigned. 

George R. McCaulley, assistant pro- 
fessor in architecture, resigned effec- 
, tive October 6; Rudard A. Jones ap- 
pointed assistant professor in archi- 
tecture to succeed Mr. McCaulley. 

Effective September 28, Albert W. 
Hawkins appointed instructor in 
! chemical engineering. 

John R. Brainard Jr., assistant 



county agricultural agent in exten- 
sion, resigned September 24; E. Clif- 
ford Manry appointed assistant coun- 
ty agricultural agent in extension to 
succeed Mr. Brainard. 

Lawrence D. Morgan, county agri- 
cultural agent in Sherman county, re- 
signed effective October 31. 

♦ 
DEAN VAN ZELE'S PORTRAIT 

TO BE DISPLAYED THURSDAY 



After Private Showing, Picture Will Be 
Huns In Music Room 

The oil portrait of Mrs. Mary 
Pierce Van Zile, dean emeritus, 
which was made possible by volun- 
tary contributions of students, facul- 
ty members, alumni and friends, will 
be seen by the contributors at a pri- 
vate showing Thursday evening in 
Van Zile hall. The portrait of the 
former dean of women at Kansas 
State College was brought to Man- 
hattan last week. 

The painting was made by Keith 
Martin, director of the Kansas City 
Art institute. 

After the private showing, the por- 
trait will hang in the music room at 
Van Zile hall. 



Paul Clirlstman's Passes Permit Visi- 
tors to Run Vp Sensational Plays 
as Kansas State Shows 
Improved Style 

By H. W. DAVIS m 

Head, Department of English * 

The under-dog Kansas State team 
succumbed to the powerful Missouri 
Tigers last Saturday afternoon, 24 to 
13, or about as the dopesters had it. 
But it did not succumb without a 
struggle, a struggle packing enough 
glory to raise hopes in the hearts of 
I 12,000 fans howling in the Memorial 
Stadium. 

It was Chris Langvardt and a click- 
! ing reverse play perfectly executed 
that turned what looked to be a dull 
first half into a real football game — 
! real football until the final gun 
1 cracked. About the middle of the sec- 
ond quarter Chris took the oval on 
his own 20-yard line, swung in be- 
hind what looked like a regiment of 
' fast interference, swept round Mis- 
1 souri's right end and aided by the 
I best down-field blocking yet seen on 
Ahearn field tore off an 80-yard elec- 
trifying run for a touchdown. Nichols' 
1 converting kick shot the Staters 
ahead one point — 7 to 6 — for the only 
lead they enjoyed during the after- 
noon. 

CHRISTMAN'S PASSES CLICK 

From then on, it was a game of 
possibilities as numerous as plays. 
Paul Christman, cool, relaxed passer 
par excellence, mixed rainbow and 
bullet passes to high-speed receivers 
streaking far down the field. A 
mighty tough line, heretofore unher- 
alded, gave him time. A bunch of 
scatting receivers gave him targets. 
Though he showed a tendency to over- 
shoot occasionally, he was still good 
I enough to give anybody's pass defense 
i fits. 

But the Wildcats were ever on the 

: alert, at least 200 per cent improved 

i in two weeks, and they fought back 

like the R. A. F. Indeed, they scored 

again on their own hook in a neat flip 

] from sophomore Quick to veteran 

Swanson. And they piled up 179 

yards from rushing, which is not to 

be sneezed at by anybody who has 

looked at the Missouri line for long. 

Steuber, Starmer, Ice, Cunningham 
and Carter were Passing Paul's chief 
accomplices, and left-tackle Wake- 
man did a sweet and thorough job of 
piling up his opponent's plays. (The 
newshawks shouldn't overlook him 
the way they do.) 

LANGVARDT, QUICK, STAR 
For Kansas State, Langvardt was 
the outstanding offensive ace. Quick 
was not far behind, Swanson's work 
at end was mighty pleasing and Duwe 
seemed«to be rapidly coming out of 
his injury handicap. In the line 
Weiner, Fairman, Bamhart, Ham- 
lin and Wolgast shone to advantage. 
In brief, Kansas State begins to 
look like a ball club that will pay 
customers big interest on their money 
when K. U. comes up for Homecoming 
and Iowa State comes down to give 
the Wildcat a chance to get even for 
a good deal of recent humiliation. 
The squad plays Oklahoma at Nor- 
man Saturday. 

Here are the statistics of the Mis- 
souri fray: 

KS 

First downs total 7 

Net yards rushing L '£ 






EVERYDAY ECONOMICS 

By W. E. GRIMES; 



Two-Mile Team Wins 

Kansas State's two-mile team, de- 
fending champions of the Big Six 
conference, opened the fall track sea- 
son last Saturday with a 20-15 vic- 
tory over the Missouri team between 
the halves of the Missouri-Kansas 
State football game. Thaine High, 
Abilene, captain of the Wildcat team, 
took an early lead and held it for the 
full distance. Bill Lane of the Tigers 
and his teammate, Ray Rayle, fin- 
ished second and third, respectively. 
Verle MeClellan, Wichita; Larry Kel- 
ley, Chapman; and Don Borthwick, 
Beeler, finished fourth, fifth and 
sixth. 



"The right to choose is fundamental 
taining it is a part of the^problem 

The right to choose is a fundamen- 
tal part of democracy. It is one of 
the group of rights included in per- 
sonal liberty. Choice of occupation, 
choice of residence, choice of religi- 
ous belief and religious affiliation, 
choice of political party, choice of 
companions, choice of this in prefer- 
ence to that, all are a part of the 
American way. 

In most cases the buyer chooses to 
buy or not to buy and the seller 
chooses to sell or not to sell. The fact 
that we can choose the course of ac- 
tion to follow is fundamental in the 
American way of doing business. Our 
political system is based upon the 
right of the voter to choose the can- 
didates for whom he votes. The im- 
portance of the right to choose is 



to American democracy, and main- 
of maintaining personal liberty." 

brought forcibly to mind in these 
days when the peoples of a large part 
of the world have lost the right to 

choose. 

Americans have the right to choose 
in many ways that are not open to 
the peoples of other lands. It is a 
priceless right and one to be pre- 
served and defended. There are limi- 
tations on the rights of Americans to 
choose but, for the most part, the 
limitations are those which prevent 
the individual from encroaching un- 
duly upon the rights of his fellow 
men in their exercise of the right to 
choose. The right to choose is fun- 
damental to American democracy, 
and maintaining it is a part of the 
problem of maintaining personal lib- 
erty. 



Net yards forwards $■> 

Forwards attempted i' 

Forwards completed » 

Intercepted by • 1 

Yards interceptions returns.... s> 

Punts, number ■ i£ 

Punts, average *>'•" 

Kickoffs, number r s 

Kickoffs, average •>* 

Yards kicks returned *•> 

Fumbles i 

Penalties .... » 

Yards lost on penalties oi 

Hall lost on downs i 

Hall lost on penalty " 

Score by periods: 

Kansas State ° 7 6 

Missouri b b ■ 

Scoring: 

Kansas State: Langvardt, Swanson. 

Missouri: Steuber (2), Carter, Cun- 
ningham. 

Point after touchdown, Kansas State, 
Nichols. 



MU 

11 

149 

147 

25 

10 

2 

32 

9 

41.2 

5 

40 

112 

5 

6 

46 

1 





0—13 
6—24 



Four at Columbia Session 

Dr. W. E. Grimes and Prof. Harold 
Howe of the Department of Econom- 
ics and Sociology and Prof. R. I. 
Throckmorton and W. H. Metzger, 
associate professor, of the Depart- 
ment of Agronomy were in Columbia, 
Mo., Thursday, Friday and Saturday 
attending a National Conference on 
Land Classification at the University 
of Missouri. 



HISTORICAL SOCIETY C 

TOPEKA 

KAN. 



The Kansas Industrialist 



Volume 67 



^aTst.te CoTiege^gric^nT^l Applied'selenee^T.nhatt.n, Wed.e»day, Oct,.,e.- 28, IMP 



Number 6 



CONVENTIONS WILL HEAR 
SEVEN FACULTY MEMBERS 

APPHOXIMATELY S5 OTHERS EY- 
PECT TO ATTEND SESSIONS 



\<' 



Aniiiuil Meetlnuw of Kantian State 

Teachern to ne Held Next Week In 

Topeka, Snllnn, Wichita. Hiijk. 

PnrHoiiN, Marilen City 

Seven members of the Kansas 
State College faculty will speak on 
the three-day program of the 77 th 
annual meetings of the Kansas State 
Teachers association October 31, No- 
vember 1 and 2. Approximately 35 
other faculty members are expected 
to attend these sessions in Topeka, 
Salina, Wichita, Hays, Parsons and 
Garden City. 

Dr. Margaret M. Justin, dean of the 
Division of Home Economics, is a 
director of the association and is a 
candidate for re-election for a two- 
year term. Dean Justin is also presi- 
dent of the Kansas Dinner club, pres- 
ident of the American Home Econom- 
ics association and a sectional direc- 
tor in the American Association of 
University Women. She will attend 
the Topeka meeting. 

TWO ON TOPEKA PROGRAM 
On the Topeka program, Mrs. Lu- 
cile Rust, professor of home econom- 
ics education, will discuss "The Use 
of Films in Teaching Family Rela- 
tions," and Miss Florence McKinney, 
assistant professor of household eco- 
nomics, will speak on the subject, 
"The Advantages of Belongingto the 
Home Economics Association." 

At Salina, Miss Margaret Rafflng- 
ton, assistant professor of child wel- 
fare and euthenics, will discuss 
"Present-day Home Economics. 

Miss Eva McMillan, assistant pro- 
fessor of food economics and nutri- 
tion, will appear on the Parsons pro- 
gram with the subject, "Present-day 
Home Economics." 

THREE SPEAK AT WICHITA 
Three faculty members wil' speak 
at Wichita. Miss Alpha Latzke, head 
of the Department of Clothing and 
Textiles, will discuss "The Clothing 
Course in High School;" Miss Lor- 
raine Maytum, assistant professor in 
physical education for women. The 
State Physical Education Curriculum 
for Junior and Senior High School 
Girls;" and L. P. Washburn, profes- 
sor of physical education for men, A 
Statewide Program of Physical Edu- 
cation for Kansas." 

College alumni will have reunions 
October 31 at Salina and Hays. 
William Doyle is arranging the Salina 
dinner at the Old English grill and 
L. C. Aicher is in charge of the Hays 
dinner at the Lamar hotel. 



Coed May Be "Miss Manhattan" 

Kansas State College coeds may 
enter competition for the title of 
"Miss Manhattan" in a local contest 
sponsored by the Manhattan Mercury- 
Chronicle and Wareham theater to 
select a candidate for queen of the 
1940 American Royal in Kansas City. 



ACADEMY OF SCIENCE 

WILL MEET APRIL 3-5 

ANNl'AL SESSIONS TO BE ON CAM- 
PUS NEXT SPRING 



ROSS TAYLOR SAYS WRITERS 
FAIL TO ACHIEVE 'PROMISE' 



Mayneld at Hutchinson 

William A. Mayfleld, '3 8, is with 
the Dowzer Construction company, 
Hutchinson, as an industrial engi- 
neer. Since his graduation, Mr. May- 
field has been with the Dowzer com- 
pany as an engineer in the electri- 
fication of oil fields, with headquar- 
ters in Salem. 111. 



KiniNiiiiN Hiive Not Lived In to Expec- 

tutloiiH Set 1» Good Work of 

Stnte'n Earlier Author* 

Kansas writers have failed, in the 
main, to realize the promise which 
earlier authors' achievements indi- 
cated was in the offing, Prof. Ross 
Taylor of the Municipal University of 
Wichita told guests at the annual 
Kansas Magazine Contributors' day 
dinner Saturday night in Thompson 
hall. Toastmaster at the dinner was 
Prof. Robert Conover of the Depart- 
ment of English, associate editor of 
the magazine. 

Professor Taylor and Charles U. 
Marshall, assistant state architect, 
Topeka, were the speakers at the din- 
ner which is held each fall for writers 
and artists whose work is published 
by The Kansas Magazine. The Kan- 
sas Magazine is published each 
December by the Kansas State Col- 
lege press and is edited this year by 
Prof R. I. Thackrey, head of the De- 
partment of Industrial Journalism 
and Printing. 

Professor Taylor said that contem- 
porary writers of the high plains 
country, including Kansas, were fall- 
ing behind in the literary race for 
fame. He blamed a tendency to put 
off writing an article until "tomor- 
row," which he said never comes. He 
asked those in his audience, and 
others that they might influence, to 
strive for literary accomplishment at 
the present time. 

Mr. Marshall, president of the Kan- 
sas State Federation of Art, discussed 
Kansas art as seen by an architect. 
He praised John Steuart Curry's 
mural of John Brown as a master- 
piece that sent real chills up the spine 
of the spectator. He said that too 
many Kansas artists were not appre- 
ciated in their native state and told 
several stories about criticism of the 
Curry murals in the state house. 

Staff members of the magazine and 

their wives acted as hosts and host- 

j esses at the annual editors' tea, held 

i at the home of Professor and Mrs. 

1 Thackrey. 

An exhibit of water-color paint- 
ings was on display in the Depart- 
ment of Architecture galleries in En- 
gineering hall, with Prof. John F. 
Helm, Jr., art editor of the magazine, 
in charge. A Dutch Treat luncheon 
was held Saturday noon in Thompson 

hall. . t . 

Writers of the Fourth district of 
the Kansas Authors club met Satur- 
day morning, with Mrs. May Williams 
Ward, Wellington, state president, 
attending. The Kansas Poetry society 
held an informal meeting in the after- 
noon. 



1<H7 GRADUATE HAS TRAVELED 514,000 MILES 

AS REPRESENTATIVE OF GRAIN ORGANIZATION 



A dream job that has sent him the 
equivalent of 20 times around the 
world during the past three years 
has been the experience of Robert 15. 
Jaccard, '37. 

Flights to Australia, Hawaii, Ar- 
gentina, four transcontinental plane 
trips, travel in all 4 8 states, Canada 
and Mexico have been on Mr. Jac- 
card's itinerary as Held representative 
of the Cargill Grain company, Minne- 
' apolis, Minn. 

"It was luck and hard work that 
K ot me the job," the Kansas State Col- 
lege agronomy graduate declared, 
on a visit this week to Manhattan. 

Ater a short breaking-in period be- 
ginning December, 1937, Mr. Jaccard 
has hardly been in the same hotel 
room two nights in succession. He 
recently figured he has traveled 514,- 
000 miles over the globe, nearly half 
of that distance by plane. 

"One of the fastest flights, Mr. 



Jaccard said, "was a recent hop to 
Australia. I was back in Minneapolis 
1 1 days after throwing my clothes in 
a suitcase." 

Jaccard is on the campus this week- 
end for Homecoming. Here Tuesday, 
he was in Omaha today before a flight 
to Philadelphia. He expects to return 
| in time for the K. U.-Kansas State 
football game. 

On the job, Mr. Jaccard seeks tech- 
nical information from grain men 
and government officials that will be 
of interest to his firm. He will fly 
from Miami, Fla., November 14, ar- 
riving in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 
November 16 for a quick look at grain 
crops there. 

"It is fun and you meet a lot of in- 
teresting people," Jaccard admitted. 
"But I do get lonesome sometimes 
for people my own age." 

Mr. Jaccard is single. He is the son 
of C. R. Jaccard, extension assistant 
professor of agricultural economics. 



Sectional Meeting Scheduled for Bnt- 

nny. Entomology. Phynlcnl Selenee, 

Chemintry, Pnychnloisy, Zooloity, 

liloloKy Teaehern 

The 73 rd annual meeting of the 
Kansas Academy of Science will be 
at Manhattan on April 3, 4, 5, accord- 
ing to Dr. Roger C. Smith, academy 
secretary. 

The local committee in charge of 
making arrangements for the meeting 
include: Dr. L. D. Bushnell, head of 
the Department of Bacteriology, 
chairman; Dr. Frank Byrne, Depart- 
ment of Geology; Dr. Allen Olsen. 
Department of Chemistry; Dr. J. C. 
Frasier, Department of Plant Physi- 
ology; Dr. E. H. Herrick, Department 
of Zoology; Prof. L. E. Hudiburg, 
Department of Physics; and Ralph 
Rogers, science instructor at Manhat- 
tan high school, who with Donald 
Parrish will make the plans for the 
! meetings of the junior academy. 
EIGHT SECTIONS 
Sectional programs will again be 
prepared by the chairmen of the sec- 
tions. Programs will be prepared for 
sections of botany, entomology, chem- 
, istry, psychology, zoology, geology, 
physical science and biology teachers. 
The Kansas section of the Mathe- 
matical Association of America and 
the Kansas section of the American 
Association of University Professors 
will have meetings in cooperation 
with the academy on Saturday, 
I April 5. 

The Kansas Entomological society, 
which is affiliated with the academy, 
will meet Saturday, April 5, at a sec- 
tion of the academy. The weather- 
crops seminar, also oflliated with the 
academy, will meet November 2 and 
will not have a program during the j 
academy meetings. 

WILL DISTRIBUTE TRANSACTIONS j 
Attendance at recent meetings has 
been between 300 and 400 at the se- 
nior academy sessions, and from 300 , 
to 500 at the junior academy meet- i 
ings. The membership of the senior 
academy is 571. Local officers in- 
clude Dr. F. C. Gates, president-elect 
and editor of the Transactions, the 
annual publication of the academy; 
Dr. A. B. Cardwell, associate editor; 
i Dr. D. J. Ameel, associate editor and 
librarian ; Dr. R. L. Parker, president 
of the Entomological society; A. N. 
'Gentry, formerly of Manhattan high 
school, chairman of the biological 
science teachers; Prof. R. J. Barnett, 
chairman of the handbook commit- 
tee; Dr. L. D. Bushnell, chairman of 
the necrology committee and chair- 
man of the committee on arrange- 
ments; Dr. H. H. Laude, secretary of 
the weather-crops seminar; Prof. 
Robert Conover of the Kansas chap- 
ter of the American Association of 
University Professors; and Dr. Roger 
C. Smith, secretary of the academy. 

Volume 43 of the Transactions is 
in print and it is expected that the 
volumes will be ready for distribution 
to the membership and cooperating 
libraries sometime during the early 
fall. Handbook No. 1 entitled "Win- 
ter Twigs," by Doctor Gates, also is 
in print and it is expected that copies 
will lie available in the near future. 



HOMECOMING HINTS 

1. Visitors should register 
and meet friends at the Alumni 
association office. 

2. Guests may attend the 
Homecoming alumni luncheon 
Saturday noon, October 26, up- 
stairs in Thompson hall, the 
College cafeteria. Tickets will 
be on sale at the Alumni asso- 
ciation office and College cafe- 
teria at 51 cents. 

3. K men's dinner will be in 
the College cafeteria at 6:30 p. 
m., October 26. It is sponsored 
by K fraternity. 



APPROXIMATELY 15,000 
TO ATTEND HOMECOMING 

GAME WITH K. V. WILL BE CLIMAX 
OF FESTIVE WEEK-EM) 



KIRBY PAGE WILL APPEAR 
AT CHRISTIAN AFFIRMATION 



Annul Affair SpoiiHored hy RcIIkIouh 
Federation Will Be Held 
October 27-2JI 

Kirby Page, author, speaker and 
evangelist, will appear as the princi- 
pal speaker during Christian Affirma- 
tion week, which is to be held on the 
campus October 27, 28 and 29. 

Mr. Page has written 19 books and 
16 pamphlets, which have been trans- 
'lated into 100 languages. His latest 
book, "Living Prayerfully," is not yet 
off the press. He has spoken in more 
than 300 colleges and universities and 
:in many of the largest churches in 
i the country. He has crossed the ocean 
| 20 times and has traveled in 35 for- 
eign countries. He usually speaks on 
the meaning of the Christian doc- 
trine as it applies to present inter-; 
national, racial, political and econom- \ 
ic affairs. 

Christian Affirmation week is an, 
annual affair, made possible by the 
Kansas State College Rehgious fed-' 
eration. It includes conferences, fo- 
rums and mass meetings. It is being 
: planned and handled entirely by Col- , 
i lege students. 

Chairmen of the various commit- 1 
tees are Garland Childers, Augusta, 
! program committee; Alma Deane 
Fuller, Courtland, publicity; Celester 
1 Crofton, Kansas City, finance; and 
Martha Wreath, Manhattan, hospi- 
tality. 



Alumni Aaaoelntlon pijuim Friday Klgkt 

Dinner mid Luncheon Saturday 

■in ItM Slinre of 

Pr o gr a m 

A near-capacity crowd of some 
15,000 persons is expected in the 
Memorial Stadium Saturday after- 
noon for the opening whistle of the 
Wildcats' Homecoming football game 
against the University of Kansas at 
2 p. m. 

The game will be the climax of a 
festive week-end for students, par- 
ents, returning alumni and visitors. 
Fraternity and sorority houses will be 
decorated in the colorful, traditional 
designs of "Beat K. U." and other 
slogans bearing on the game. 

DINNER FRIDAY NIGHT 

On the eve of the Homecoming 
game, students and visitors will at- 
tend the traditional pep rally, while 
the directors and advisory council of 
the College Alumni association meet 
at the Country club with members of 
the State Board of Regents and ap- 
proximately 50 representative alum- 
ni. Kenney L. Ford, Alumni associ- 
ation secretary, said that approxi- 
mately 75 persons were expected to 
be at the meeting which will be ad- 
dressed by Pres. F. D. Farrell. 

President Farrell will discuss the 
needs of the College, especially his 
recommendations to the State Board 
of Regents regarding the institution's 
requirements for the next two years. 

Graduates and former students will 
register at the Alumni association of- 
fice Saturday morning and then at- 
tend the traditional alumni luncheon 
; at noon in Thompson hall. 

K. U. VISITORS AS GUESTS 

Gaylord Munson, '33, Junction 
City, will be toastmaster at the lunch- 
eon. President Farrell will introduce 
guests, but there will be no speeches. 
Among the luncheon guests will be 
Lieut.-Gov. and Mrs. Carl E. Friend 
of Lawrence, members of the State 
Board of Regents, officers and di- 
rectors of the University of Kansas 
Alumni association. Approximately 
200 persons are expected, Mr. Ford 
said. 

(Continued on page three) 



RESEARCH WORKERS DISCOVER ASSASSIN BUG 

MAY CAUSE SLEEPING SICKNESS IN HORSES 



Former Student Wins $15 

Mrs. Marjorie Higgins Matthaei, 
Boston, Mass., formerly of Linn, 
Kan., has been awarded a $15 cash 
prize by the Vocational Agriculture 
Teachers Association of Kansas for 
her feature article on vocational ag- 
riculture in Kansas. Mrs. Matthaei 
was graduated from Kansas State 
College last spring with a degree in 
agriculture and journalism. An- 
nouncement of the award was made 
by H. L. Kugler, secretary of the as- 
sociation which sponsored the con- 
test last spring. Mrs. Matthaei's arti- 
cle, "Build Future Farmers by 
Learning to Do," described experi- 
ences in the field of vocational agri- 
culture. The article also outlined the 
organization of Future Farmers of 
America. 



Because of its peculiar habits, the 

assassin bug has been called the 

i "kissing bug," but if it kisses a horse, 

j the animal may die of sleeping sick- 

• ness. 

Research workers at Kansas State 
1 College have found that the assassin 
bug carries sleeping-sickness disease 
! virus This disease has caused the 
loss of many horses in the Midwest in 
recent years, and, although effective 
I preventive measures have been de- 
veloped, it was not known how the 
disease was spread. 

When they observed that cases 
i ceased abruptly with the first killing 
frost, Dr. C. H. Kitselman of the Divi- 
! sion of Veterinary Medicine and Dr. 
Roger C. Smith of the Department of 
i Entomology at Kansas State College 
1 suspected an insect, particularly some 
' blood-sucking insect, as the carrier. 
Preliminary work had revealed some 
species of mosquitoes as possible car- 
i riers, but no correlation could be 
established between hordes of mos- 
quitoes and outbreaks of the disease. 
The disease occurred where few mos- 
quitoes were evident, and sometimes 
few horses would be infected al- 
though great numbers of mosquitoes 
were present. 

Doctor Kitselman and A. W. Grund- 
mann, research graduate assistant in 
the Department of Entomology, de- 
cided some other blood-sucking insect 
must be the carrier. They determined 
to examine assassin bugs, voracious 
blood suckers which feed on animals 
by night and hide by day. Results 
were positive. Of a collection of as- 
sassin bugs taken from a pasture 
where horses had become infected 
with the disease, 50 per cent were 



carriers of the sleeping-sickness virus. 
Horses susceptible to the disease 
probably would be infected if bitten 
by these carriers. This discovery may 
answer the question as to why only 
' one or two horses out of 10 or 20 un- 
! der identical conditions come down 
with the disease. Also it may clear up 
the reason the disease seems to die off 
at the appearance of frost when the 
insects become inactive. 

"It is the most encouraging lead 
toward the solution of the disease yet 
discovered," Doctor Kitselman says, 
"although we do not know whether 
the assassin bug is the true carrier 
or a vector of the disease." 

He says that the assassin bug may 
not be the sole carrier or even the 
most serious carrier of the virus, but 
is the most serious now known. 

Prevention includes the use of an 
effective vaccine, which, if used in 
time, is nearly 100 per cent successful. 
The vaccination is effective only a 
year and should be repeated each sea- 
son. 

Sleeping sickness appeared in Kan- 
sas in 1912, along the Arkansas river 
valley. The disease was then known 
as Kansas horse sickness, and has 
been known by several other names, 
such as brain fever, forage poisoning, 
| blind staggers and Kansas-Nebraska 
horse plague. Since 1934 the out- 
breaks of the disease have been 
severe and the losses great. In 1937 
the disease was especially severe in 
Kansas. Many cases have been 
brought to the veterinary hospital at 
Manhattan, and outbreaks of the dis- 
ease have been reported in nearly all 
the counties of the state. 



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Kstabllshed April 24, 187B 



R. I. Thackbiy Editor 

Jane Rockwell.. Ralph Lasbbbook, 

Hili.iih Krieuhbaum . . . Associate Editors 

Kbnnkv Ford Alumni Editor 



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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1940 



AMERICAN COIXKGKS AND SOUTH 
AMERICA 

Much has been said and written of 
late on the threat of Nazi cultural 

of South 



perhaps to announce it over the air. 
Reporting is fundamental, and its 
basic techniques and requirements do 
not change greatly; but methods of 
presentation of news and other infor- 
mation, and of material calculated 
to entertain, are changing rapidly — 
as witness the newsmagazine, the de- 
partmentalized newspaper, the pic- 
ture newspaper, the "newspaper of 
the air." 

Young people looking for employ- 
ment must know techniques, just as 
they must in any profession, so new 
techniques courses have been intro- 
duced into the colleges and univer- 
sities. The introduction of these new 
techniques courses (such as news 
photography, radio newswriting) calls 
for re-examination of the list of those 
techniques courses previously re- 
quired, in order to keep the total 
amount of technical training within 
proper limits. There is no sadder 
spectacle, or one more dangerous, 
than that of the person fitted out with 
a complete array of the latest tech- 
nical slick-tricks, and with no back- 
ground of knowledge and understand- 
ing of the contemporary world or of 
the role of his profession in it. 

Journalism education is profes- 
sional education. Of this there can 
be no question. Techniques must be 
taught and learned, as they are in 
medicine and law, but there must be 
a superstructure of professional edu- 
cation above the technical level: 
training which furnishes a historical 
and an ethical background in the pro- 
fession; which relates the knowledge 



SCIENCE TODAY 



and economic invasion «- fession; wnicn relates me miu«icu 6 c 

America. The federal government is , rf thg applied 8C i e ntist and the social 

_i..j iv.„ ,,,.,Hov apriona thought. . ... ._ ., ui„„,„ n t tVia nnk. 



; the matter serious thought 
So are most thoughtful Americans. 

Just what can we do? 

A partial answer to the question 
has been outlined in a recent memo- 
randum forwarded to Dr. S. A. Nock, 
College vice-president, by Dr. Donald 
Pierson of the Escola Livre de Soci- 
ologia e Politica, Largo de Sao Fran- 
cisco, Sao Paulo, Brazil. The school, 
as Doctor Pierson points out, is the 
only Brazilian institution dedicating 
itself entirely to the social sciences. 
It was founded after the unsuccessful 
"constitutional" revolution in Brazil 
eight years ago by a group of men 
who believed, as Doctor Pierson said, 
"that the training of personnel was 
an indispensable part of any success- 
ful attempt to improve the govern- 
ment." 

Doctor Pierson said that united 
States' intellectuals could help if they 
would: 

(1) Aid in purchasing books pub- ( 
lished in the United States in the field j Foui . tn Estate 
of social sciences. 

(2) Obtain a larger number of 
scholarships for South American 
graduate students in major universi- 
ties in the United States. 

(3) Keep those American profes- 



scientist to the problems of the pub 
licist in a democracy. It is of funda- 
mental and probably of mortal im- 
portance to journalism as we know 
it that leaders in the field have pro- 
fessional training and a professional 
attitude toward and knowledge of 
their responsibilities. 

There is no lack of opportunity in 
the field of journalism, if the term 
be used in its broad sense. It is an 
interesting, vital field, and there are 
plenty of rewards for those who are 
willing and able to adapt themselves 
to the changing needs of the public 
they serve, and to a changing tech- 
nology. It is not a "game" but it is 
far more interesting and important 
than a "game." 

Kansas State College has a long 
and honorable tradition in training 
for it, and it is the sincere hope and 
intention of the present staff that this 
tradition will be maintained to the 
fullest. — Russell I. Thackrey in The 



By J. W. GREENE 

Assistant Professor, Department of 
Chemical Engineering 

In its present usage, chemurgy sig- 
nifies the industrial non-food utiliza- 
tion of agricultural products. The 
recent impetus to chemurgic investi- 
j gation has been given by the avail- 
■ ability of large surpluses of various 
! crops and by concern about our na- 
tional welfare. 

When our country was less inten- 
; sively industrialized, 80 per cent of 
our goods were produced on farms or 
i manufactured from farm products. 
This has now decreased to 30 per 
I cent, with a proportionate reduction 
j'in percentage of the national income 
! going to the farmer. Numerous econ- 
'. omists have shown the remarkable 
1 correlation between farm income and 
'factory payrolls. The various che- 
murgic programs have been initiated 
for the purpose of reversing this trend 
and aiding both agriculture and in- 
dustry. 

To be truly effective any chemurgic 
development must be economically 
practical. It must be able to meet 
competition, to pay a profit to the 
farmer and the industrialist as well. 
Any development that cannot meet 
this test, without artificial aid, cannot 
be regarded as a success. 

A number of industries are using 
agricultural products as raw materi- 
als. Millions of bushels of corn are 
utilized annually for the manufacture 
of solvents which are an essential in- 
gredient of lacquers for automobile 
finishes. Corn is the source of a num- 
ber of organic acids which are widely 
used to modify the properties of plas- 
tics. Zein, one of the proteins in corn, 
is separated, purified and made into a 
textile fiber and into valuable light- 
colored plastic materials. From oat- 
hulls, furfural is manufactured in 



large quantities for use as a lubricat- 
ing oil refining agent. Approximately 
50,000,000 bushels of soybeans are 
being grown annually for non-food 
uses. Soybean oil is in great demand 
for use in paint and in varnish resins. 
These comprise a few of many such 
developments. 

Although many industries are pro- 
ducing finished materials from farm 
products, new uses must be found in 
order to reduce our agricultural sur- 
pluses. 

The chemurgic research program 
at Kansas State College is being con- 
ducted as a joint project between the 
Agricultural and Engineering Experi- 
ment stations, with men in the De- 
partments of Chemistry and Chemical 
Engineering cooperating in the work. 
A study is being made of possible in- 
dustrial uses of sorghum grains. 
These grains are well adapted to the 
agriculture of our state because they 
have great resistance to drought and 
high temperatures. Since they are 
planted after the worst wind storms 
of the spring have passed, no cultiva- 
tion is necessary until the greatest 
danger of wind erosion has passed, 
and the stubble can be left in the 
fields to hold the soil during the fall. 
An industrial outlet for this crop, 
which is at present grown only for 
feed, would improve agricultural con- 
ditions in this state. 

The chemical phase of the problem 
is being devoted to a study of new 
products which can be made from the 
starch and oils in the sorghum grains. 
The engineering work is focused on 
the development of a commercial 
process for the separation of starch 
from the protein and fiber. The ulti- 
mate objective is the local industrial 
utilization of these grains for the 
manufacture of valuable chemical 
products. 



Haney visited the Hereford-Short- 
horn exhibition in Kansas City. 

The Manhattan grange met at Pro- 
fessor Cottrell's residence. Mr. and 
Mrs. Clothier and Mr. Haney were 
initiated. 

E. M. Amos, student, was the au- 
thor of a weekly series of items about 
the College appearing in the Manhat- 
tan Republic under the heading, 
"Kampus Klatter." 



FIFTY YEARS AGO 
Julia R. Pearce, '90, was employed 

as stenographer and typist in the 

President's office. 

Secretary Graham lectured before 

the student and faculty bodies on his 

summer's vacation in Colorado. 



r 



SIXTY YEARS AGO 
Emma Hoyt, graduate of this Col- 
lege, was engaged as an operator at 
the city office in Junction City. 

W. Marlatt, George S. Gunn and 
L. R. Elliott were appointed a com- 
mittee to prepare a history of the 
Methodist church of Manhattan. 

C. W. Brooks left for Buena Vista, 
Colo., to be absent from Manhattan 
for a year. While there he was to be 
in charge of the branch house of 
Blood, Brooks and company. 



KANSAS POETRY 

Robert Conover, Editor 



FOR ONE UNYIELDING 

By habelle Bryans Longfellow 

hard and merciless as rock 
That stands unmoving on the hill: 
You will come down from your hard 

height; 
You will crumble before my will. 

Sledges may fail, and beating hammers, 
And smoking powder to follow after. 

1 shall be patient; you will hear only 
The trickling water of my laughter. 



THE CENSOR'S COMMANDMENTS 

1. Thou shalt honor thy dear cen- 
sor, that thou may continue to write. 

2. Thou shalt always obey his or- 
I) Keep cm *J™« £££ ders , howeV er inept they may appear. 

sors and research men who aie now in , cult i V ate common- 

IZ'lTo^^ZtLr^rjl p.aces to fiatter his gifts of compre- 
* j !,«-« hension. 

fl 1fTt°istrue (and there is every rea- 4. Thou shalt soften the truth, 
" * -lieve that it is) "ttSofrSTS any 
^tm '"cirer^oo 1 ; ra mf wT Unit Id opinion with which he does not agree 
States institutions and intellectuals, 6. Thou shalt avoid protesting oo 
f Doc" Pierson says, then this loudly thy attachment to the republic 
con. Ty' colleges and educators have 7. Morning and evening thou shalt 
a definite role to play in South Ameri- raise voice and sing in praise of the 
ca which may be eventually of great government. ,.,.... 

ntstoHc importance. 8. Obediently thou shalt dispute 

in one direction only. 

* 9. To slander thou shalt restrain 

CHANGING TRENDS EN JOURNAL- ; from answer ing, and keep thy trap 

HSMI EDUCATION closed. 

Schools and departments of jour- 10. And patiently thou shalt rely 

n-ilism are rapidly broadening their on hope to avert garbling of thy copy. 



concept of function, which is not to 
train solely for work on periodicals, 
but for the production (and manage- 
ment) phases of the communications 
industry, in whatever aspects it may 
exist. It is important that we ac- 
quaint our students with techniques 
currently used in the periodical (and 
broadcasting) fields, but it is even 
more important in the long run that 
we train people who are interested 
in keeping abreast of a changing 
world, who are themselves willing to 
innovate and who have some under 



-From Lumiere, Paris. 
♦ 
POWER OF THE PRESS 
What the editor says on the edi- 
torial page is not so important as it 
once was, and much has been made 
of this by critics of our newspapers. 
In this they are right, but they are 
completely wrong when they deduce 
from this, as many do, that the power 
of the press is waning. On the con- 
trary, it is stronger than ever. 

The fact is that the decline in the 
influence of the editorial page has 



innovate »uu wuu i.u..~ ~« - ---- influence oi me euitui-iai page "«.° 

standing of the society in which they eo}ncided wlt h the development of 

live and of the tremendously mipor- neW£J coverage . when news coverage 

tant function and responsibility of wag gcanty and partisan, readers 

the communications industries in it. looked t0 the comm ent of the editor, 

The field of periodical publication of men sucn as Greeley, for guidance; 
is contracting in some of its phases, 



expanding In others. The conimunica 
tions industry as a whole is definitely 

expanding. 

There is no lack of opportunity for 
those who are not handcuffed to tra- 
ditional forms. "Journalism" gradu- 
ates today are being called upon to 
handle cameras on assignments, to 
conduct reader-interest surveys, to 
process news written to be printed 
into news suitable for the radio, and 



now with complete and objective news 
coverage they digest the front page 
and the full texts of speeches and 
documents inside and form their own 
opinions. — Neil MacNeil in "Without 
Fear or Favor." 

GERMAN SOULS 
It is our desire that every German 
should have two souls. One may be 
his most personal one, with very per- 



sonal wishes and dear habits. The 
other one does not belong to him, it 
belongs to the Fuehrer. It may be 
small or great, weak or strong, but it 
must be filled by one idea alone. 

With such a nation, it is possible 
to turn the world upside down, or, if 
need be, to steal horses — it all de- 
pends on you. 

In 1938, we turned the world of 
Versailles upside down, and also the 
world of the democracies. We have 
also stolen horses. This was the case 
when all of us, to the very last man, 
i played the game according to the 
rules of diplomacy without turning 
a hair. — From Das Schwarze Korps, 

Berlin. 

— •#■— 

MOTHER WALKS MOST 
Averages prepared by statisticians 
of the American Association of Chi- 
ropodists indicate that mothers, busy 
with the housework and children, 
take more steps each day than any 
! other group of women. The average 
mother takes no less than 12,000 
steps daily. The athletic girl who 
' works all day and then goes to the 
' gym in the evening takes about 
10,000 steps each day, while the av- 
erage girl who clatters around day 
I and night in her high heels averages 
' 8.000. Professional women take 
some 9,000 steps daily; society wo- 
men 6,000; and the hard-working 
nurses "pound their dogs" for 10,000 
steps each day. — The Commentator. 
♦ 
JOURNALISTIC RESPONSIBILITY 
The American press is the one in- 
dustry with a constitutional guaran- 
tee. It is not favored above all other 
industries just to make profits for in- 
vested capital. The ownership of a 
newspaper carries a responsibility be- 
yond the ordinary conduct of busi- 
ness. It is charged with the national 
duty of providing full and accurate 
information to the American people, 
a duty that should be fulfilled without 
fear or favor and without considera- 
tion for its own profits. Many of its 
publishers and thousands of its edi- 
torial workers take this responsibil- 
ity seriously. There are some who do 
not; they should be digging sewers 
or selling neckties. — Neil MacNeil in 
"Without Fear or Favor." 



face," to which he replied: "And a 
very good place for it to be." It is 
this sweet surface politeness, costing 
so little, counting for so much, which 
smooths the roughness out of life. — 
Agnes Repplier in "Americans and 
Others." 



Isabelle Bryans Longfellow of 
Wichita is a former teacher of speech 
in Denver university, her alma mater. 
Her poems have been published in the 
New York Times, the Saturday Eve- 
ning Post and many other publica- 
tions. 



H. W. Davis 
DISCRIMINATION 
I have a question to ask. 



TEN YEARS AGO 

Margaret E. Raffington, '24 and M. 
S. '28, was associate professor of 
foods and nutrition at Michigan State 
Normal, Ypsilanti. 

Pies. F. D. Farrell addressed a con- 
ference of bankers of the Eighth Fed- 
eral Reserve district at Nashville, 
Tenn. President Farrell's address 
was on "The Bankers' Place in Agri- 
cultural Improvement." 

Prof. J. P. Calderwood of the De- 
partment of Mechanical Engineering 
attended the Kansas City chapter 
meeting of the American Society of 
Heating and Ventilating Engineers 
who held a joint meeting with the 
Kansas City sections of a number of 
other engineering societies. 



TWENTY YEARS AGO 
Dr. H. A. Hoffman, '17, was se- 
lected to fill the chair of specialist in 
sheep diseases in the New York State 
Veterinary college at Cornell univer- 
sity. 

Lorena Bell Taylor, '14, was ap- 
pointed assistant literary editor of 
the Osteoblast, the yearbook of the 
American School of Osteopathy at 
Kirksville, Mo. 

A. E. Oman, '00, went to Montana 
as biological assistant in the Bureau 
of Biological Survey. He was assigned 
to take charge of state work in co- 
operation with the State College of 
Agriculture and its extension service. 



Why is it a woman can buy any 
kind of hat with anything on it, wear 
it at any angle on any part of her 
head and not have her constitutional 
rights interfered with, while a man 
cannot waver from the conventional 
in hats the least tiny bit without hav- 
ing his best friends go into a huddle 
of hopeless dismay and sick the FBI 
on him for subversive leanings? 

Last August while seeing Colorado 
I unwittingly and unintentionally 
left my perfectly normal hot-weather 
fedora at an eating house. On my 
way back home I purchased a blue 
"rag" hat for the modest sum of $1 
at a Denver shoppe, mainly to help 
keep the sun-glare out of my eyes 
while driving. I thought my one- 
buck sky-piece was modest enough in 
material, form and coloration; but 
I must have been badly mistaken. 

For look you what has come about. 

The blueness of my rag hat has 
apparently actually staggered college 
students, students who have not worn 
hats since babyhood days and know 
nothing whatever about them. One 
of my best friends has been ap- 
proached by a confessed well-wisher 
of mine and asked to do his all to 
get me out from under my blue bon- 
net and save me from some kind of 
onrushing deterioration or maybe dis- 
integration. Dozens of people have 
frantically offered to buy it off me 
at cost. 



IS 

To be civilized is to be incapable 
of giving unnecessary offense, to have , 
some quality of consideration for all , 
who cross our path. An English- 
woman once said to the artist, James 
McNeill Whistler, that the politeness | 
of the French was "all on the sur- 



THIRTY YEARS AGO 
Dr. George L. Melton, '93, was 
elected to the chair of history in the 
University of Redlands, Redlands, 
Calif. He was also to serve as li- 
brarian. 

Prof. J. C. Kendall, Dean Edward 
H. Webster, Assistant Tomi Miya- 
waki and Ray Johnson, student, went 
to Milwaukee, Wis., to attend the 
National Dairy show. 

At a meeting of the Manhattan 
Poultry association the following 
officers were elected: Prof. G. C. 
Wheeler, president; Prof. Theodore, 
Scheffer, vice-president and secre- 
tary; L. E. Drown, superintendent; 
and G. E. Hulse, assistant superin 
tendent. 



The furore aroused has led me to 
examine my hat very carefully for 
blueness and other subversive symp- 
toms. I can find little that looks 
ominous except that the blue is a 
trifle light and slightly inclined to- 
ward the purple, I think. I assure 
all my friends — as I assured myself 
— that there is nothing about my hat 
far enough from normal to swing me 
any perceptible distance out of my 
orbit. 



FORTY YEARS AGO 
Professor Cottrell and Assistant 



What gets me, as I intimated in 
the beginning, is that if I had been 
a woman and had stuck enough cans, 
feathers, fruit and vegetables over 
the blue, everybody would have 
gushed up and congratulated me on 
my cleverness, taste, resourcefulness 
and artistic originality. What a life 
a mere man leads! 



AMONG THE 
ALUMNI 



s* 



M. A. Limbocker, B. S. '95, presi- 
dent of the Citizens National bank at 
Emporia, is a new member of the 
board of directors of the Kansas City 
Federal Reserve bank. All banks en- 
titled to make nominations named 
Limbocker to succeed the late Frank 
W. Sponable of Paola. 

Abner Davis Whipple, B. S. '98, 
writes from 3443 Northeast Thirty- 
Fifth avenue, Portland, Ore., that he 
is now retired from his position as 
deputy manager of Bell telephone 
manufacturing in Antwerp, Belgium. 
The Whipples have three children, 
Helen, 20; Frederic, 18; and Fran- 
cis, 15. 

F. W. Christensen, B. S. '00, is pro- 
fessor of animal nutrition at the 
North Dakota Agricultural college in 
Fargo, N. D. He is also chairman of 
the animal and human nutrition de- 
partment at the experiment station. 
He and Mrs. (Alma Johnson) Chris- 
tensen have three children, Charles 
Frederick, Arthur George, and Paul 
Edward. 

John F. Ross, Ag. '02, is a federal I 
grain inspector. His home is in Ama- 
rillo, Texas, where he operates apart- 1 
ment houses. 

T. W. Buell, Ag. '04, called at the 
Alumni association office September 
19 He is a wholesale dairyman at 
Denton, Texas. Visiting the campus 
with him was his wife, Marian (Al- 
len) Buell, B. S. '04. 

Robert A. Fulton, E. E. '0 5, and; 
Fanny E. (Reynolds) Fulton, D. S. 
•05 are at 3386 Bradford road, 
Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Mr. Fulton 
is power salesman for the Cleveland 
Electric Illuminating company. 

Marcia (Pierce) Hay, D. S. '08, is 
a home maker in Holly, Colo. She is 
the wife of Philip Hay, f. B. '91, and 
they have no children. 

Harry E. Totten, Ag. '10, and Car- 
rie (Harris) Totten, D. S. '10 are 
living on their farm at Clifton. Then- 
children are Harold A. Totten 34; 
Richard E. Totten, '39; Betty Tot- 
ten) Drake, f. s. '39; and David E. 
Totten, a freshman at Kansas State 
College. 

Lulu (Stallman) Randies, B. S. 
'12, is a housewife at Nickerson. 

James Howard Young, M. E. '14, 
is vice-president and general manager 
of the H H. Robertson Steel com- 
pany, Pittsburgh, Pa. His wife, Mil- 
dred (Morse) Young, f. s. '12, and 
he have four children, James Donald, 
22; Virginia Morse, 19; David Hall, 
18; and Richard Aldrich, 14. 

Katherine (Laing) Scarborough, 
H E '15, is doing part-time work as 
comparative shopper for a depart- 
ment store in Indianapolis. She also 
does some free lance writing of house- 
hold articles and some fiction writ- 
ing Her husband is Sidney Scar- 
, borough, U. C. L. A. '15, and they 
have no children. 

Mary (Poison) Charlton, H. E. 
•16 writes, "Being a college profes- 
sor' some 1,200 miles from ones 
alma mater has its disadvantages 
when these tempting notices of Home- 
coming and next spring's alumni re- 
unions come along. I'll bet the class 
of '16 will run them all a merry race > 
next spring. But these school teach- 
era have a hard time getting away 
from their job, so I can't figure a way I 
to get to any of the reunions, much as 

I would like to." Mrs. Charlton is 
head of the Art department at the 
University of Tennessee. 

George A. Miller, M. E. '19, and 
Dora (Grogger) Miller, H. E. '20 
are at 612 North Main, Bel Air, Md. 
Their children are Max, 15; Eileen, 

II • and Dean, 10. Mr. Miller is chief, 
design department, Chemical War- 
faro service, Edgewood arsenal, 
Maryland. 

Oscar Steanson, Ag. '20, writes 
from Athens, Ga., to the Alumni as- 
sociation office: "I am now the state 
representative of the Bureau of Ag- 
ricultural Economics for Georgia in 
its land-use planning program. I 
guess some 'vital statistics' in con- 
nection with my domestic situation 
have not been reported to your office. 
I was married on December 4, 1938, 
to Miss Leontine Elizabeth Britt of 
Andalusia and Auburn, Ala. We now 
have a daughter, Julia Britt, who is 
doing her best to make Dad feel 
young." 

Ercile (Clark) Griffin, G. S. '21, 
is a home maker for her husband, R. 
C Griffin, at 3103 Avenue C, Corpus 



Christi, Texas. 

William H. Teas, Ag. '24, soil con- 
servationist, is working at Emporia 
as district conservationist. 

Merle (Grinstead) Barnard, H. E. 
'26, is printer's assistant for the Bu- 
reau of Engraving and Printing, 
Treasury department, Washington, 
D. C. Her husband, B. L. Barnard, is 
junior occupational analyst with the 
United States Employment service of 
the Social Security board. They have 
one daughter, Joan Louise, 10. 

Myron W. Reed, G. S. '27, is junior 
interviewer in charge of office of 
Kansas State Employment service, 
Ellsworth. The Reeds (Carolyn 
Vance, '27) have one son, Ronald, 7. 
Iva Larson, M. S. '29, writes that 
she is "still at the Woman's exchange 
in Detroit, Mich., as manager of the 
tea room and supervisor of food pro- 
duction in our catering department." 
Edward C. McBurney, C. E. '30, is 
camp superintendent, Civilian Con- 
servation corps camp at Concordia. 
He was married in 1931 to Virginia 
Vaughan, graduate of Emporia State 
Teachers college. 

Lillian H. Johnson, M. S. '31, is 
home economist, Safeway Stores 
Homemakers bureau, as assistant to j 
"Julia Lee Wright." Her home is at 
1481 Jackson street, Oakland, Calif.; 
Edmond R. Dailey, G. S. '32, 
teaches mathematics in the Junction 
: City Junior-Senior high school. His 
i children are Beverly Josephine, 8, 
and Donald Edmond, 3. 

Truman B. Drury. E. E. '33, installs 
and repairs telephones for the South- 
western Bell Telephone company in 
] El Dorado. His address is 229 North 
; Washington. 

Shirley Campbell, E. E. '3 4, is de- 

i sign engineer for the Coleman Lamp 

company at Wichita. He formerly 

held the position of draftsman with 

the same company. 

L. R. Wempe, D. V. M. '35, and 
Hazel (McKibben) Wempe, H. E. '3 6, 
are at Hollywood, Fla. Mr. Wempe 
writes: "We are making our home 
at Hollywood, a town of about 6,500 
in the summer and about 18,000 dur- 
ing the winter. Being really only a 
suburb of greater Miami, Hollywood 
is located about 16 miles from down- 
town Miami. I am still doing bureau 
work in tuberculosis eradication and 
Bang's disease control." 

E. L. Walker, Ag. E. '36, is assis- 
tant county engineer at Abilene. His 
daughter, Maxine Kay, is 11 months 
old. 

Clare Harris, G. S. '37, is sales 
manager for the Harris Motor com- 
pany, Pratt. 

Alma (Karns) Scott, H. E. '38, was 

married in March to Robert Scott. 

They are living at Jennings, where 

\ Mr. Scott is a farmer. Mrs. Scott for- 

i merly taught at Hoxie and Walla 

Walla, Wash. 

Ruby Randall, H. E. '39, teaches 
i clothing in the Neodesha high school. 
Her address now is 701 Iowa street, 
; Neodesha. 

Robert J. Tindall, B. A.- '40, is an 
[accountant for the Texaco company 
j at Denver. As a senior he was presi- 
dent of Alpha Kappa Psi and the Stu- 
dent Commerce association. 



LOOKING AROUND 

KENNEY L. FORD 



June 4. She has been named Judith 
Irene. 



Writes About Alumni 

Lucy (Piatt) Stants, '12, includes 
information about several alumni in 
her letter received by the Alumni 
association office. The letter is writ- 
ten on the stationery of the Kansas 
Commonwealth club, the heading 
showing that Mrs. Frank Boyd, '02; 
T. W. Morse, '95; and Mrs. Stants 
are directors of the club. This is her 

letter: 

"I received a letter from Fern 
(Jessup) Taylor, '11, 5324 South- j 
east Boise street, Portland, Ore. She 
lost her husband the first of July. 
She is very lonely — have some of the 
'11 write her. 

"Edith Payne McMillen, '12, of 435 
I North Bluff, Wichita, lost her hus- 
' band August 16 as the result of a 
heart attack. 

"Mr. Charles Stants, '07, is with 
the Coleman Lamp company. 

"Beverly Piatt, a student in '08, 
looks after her mother, who is 82 
and one of the oldest Kansas-born 
ladies now living. Their home is at 
43 85 Grove, Wichita. 

"I am housemother to about 20 
girls. I see now what Mr. Sherwood 
went through with all us girls at his 
house with the two Sherwood twins, 
Etta and Virgie. 

"Best to all you alumni." 



Margaret Ann is the name that 
Minnie (Hahn) Schierling, '30, and 
Ben Schierling have given to their 
daughter born October 13. Their 
home is on a farm near Inman. 



Esther (Dorgan) Casey, '33, and 
Ralph M. Casey, Council Grove, sent 
notice to the Alumni association of- 
fice of the birth of a son, Ralph 
Michael II, last April 26. 



RECENT HAPPENINGS 
ON THE HILL 



Harold E. Trekell, '31, writes, 
i "Mrs. Trekell (Mabel Roepke, '31) 
! and I wish to announce the birth of 
ja son, David Allen, born October 6. 

We have one other child, Barbara 
i Joan, now three years old." Their 
j home is at 34 Essex avenue, Swamp- 
| scott, Mass. Mr. Trekell is with the 

General Electric company. 



Elmer Hackney, star fullback and 
shotputter who graduated last spring, 
is held in high regard by his former 
teammates. Six members of the grid 
squad rank Hackney as their favorite 
athlete. 



Last week Mortar and Ball and 
Scabbard and Blade initiates suffered 
the trials of "hell week." This week 
Purple Pepster initiates are wearing 
purple ribbons in their hair, long 
black cotton hose and roller skates. 



DEATHS 



"Freeze your teeth and give your 
tongue a sleigh ride," a sign on a 
dairy industry initiate's back, gave 
students a chuckle this week. He was 
one of the many white-overalled 
youths advertising the fact that he's 
an ag student. 



Reports on Boulder Meeting, 

Walter J. Ott, president of the 
Colorado Alumni association, reports 
the alumni meeting for a luncheon 
and the University of Colorado-Kan- 
sas State football game October 5. 

A large number who were not able 
to reach Boulder in time for the 
luncheon attended the game and 
many of them made their acquain- 
tance with alumni as opportunity per- 
' mitted following the game. Several 
met the new coach, Hobbs Adams, 
and expressed favorable opinions of 
him. 

Those who were present were: 
Grace L. Craven, Bly (Ewalt) Cur- 
tis, Boulder; William F. Droge, '10, 
'and Helen (Myers) Droge, '13, R. 
W. Schafer, '14, and Ethel (Boyce) 
Schafer, '14. Ruth McCammon, '30, 
Martha Jane Ulrich, M. S. '38, all of 
Fort Collins; Paul E. Brookover, '31, 
and Mrs. Brookover, Lafayette; S. 
E. Morlan and Mrs. Morlan, Gunni- 
son; C. J. Rodewald, Brighton; Wal- 
ter J. Ott, '16, and Millie (William- 
son) Ott, f. s. '16, Fort Morgan; and 
' H J Helmkamp, '18, Louise (Chued) 
Spruce, f. s. '30, H. A. Burt, '05, and 
Mary (Strite) Burt, '05, of Denver. 
Guests from Denver were Mr. and 
Mrs. James W. Acton, Mr. and Mrs. 
Fred Henkel and Mr. and Mrs. Frank 
O. Brown. Kenney L. Ford, '24, 
alumni secretary from Manhattan, 
also attended the meeting. 



TURNER 

Harry Castle Turner, B. S. '01, died 
July 5 after a brief illness. 

Mr. Turner joined the United 
States Forest service in 1907, and 
was stationed at Fort Bayard, N. M. 
From 1917 until 1924 he was at Hal- 
sey, Neb. Since 1924, he had been 
nurseryman of the Beal nursery, 
Huron National forest at East Tawas, 
Mich. During his career with the 
Forestry service he invented several 
mechanical instruments to facilitate 
nursery operations. Among these 
were a seeder and a transplanter for 
young evergreen trees. 

Surviving him are his wife and two 
children, Gifford Turner and Helen 
(Turner) Haglund; a sister, Marcia 

E. Turner, '06, and a brother, Chester 

F. Turner, '12. Other members of 
his family included among Kansas 
State College graduates are two 
nieces, Vera (Clothier) Keister, '28, 
and lone (Clothier) McNay, '36. His 
sister, Phoebe (Turner) Clothier, '94, 
died in 1918, and a brother, Will 
Turner, f. s. '02, in 1939. 



It may be food for the natives in 
Mexico but the tiger salamander is 
merely a museum piece at Kansas 
State College. A specimen of this ani- 
mal, known as an axolotl when in the 
tadpole stage, is now in the museum 
aquarium in Fairchild hall. 



The distinction of being the short- 
est member of the Kansas State Col- 
lege football team belongs to Francis 
Gwin, Leoti, 145-pound sophomore 
quarterback. He stands at 5 feet, 5 % 
inches and wins by one-half inch over 
Bill Nichols, 5-foot, 6-inch senior 
guard. 



Kansas State College students who 
will be 21 years old before November 
5 may vote in the former post office 
building on Moro street on election 
day. All students who plan to vote 
must register before Friday night if 
j they are not registered elsewhere, the 
county clerk said recently. 



ELECTION ON DANCE RULES 

POSTPONED INDEFINITELY 



MARRIAGES 



APPROXIMATELY 15,000 



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(Continued from page one) 
Invitations have been sent out by 
the Departments of Physical Educa- 
tion and Athletics and of Industrial 
Journalism and Printing asking ap- 
proximately 500 editors of the state 
to be their guests for Homecoming. 
A luncheon will be given the visiting 
editors by the Kansas State Collegian, 
semiweekly newspaper, in Kedzie hall 
on Saturday noon. 

At the football game, members of 
the 1930 football squad will sit in a 
special section as honored guests of 
the Athletics department. Several 
years ago the department inaugurat- 
ed the policy of asking players of 10 
years ago to return as special guests 
for Homecoming. 

After the game, the winning 
school's representatives will receive 
the new so-called "peace" trophy. 
Student governing groups of both 
Kansas State College and the Univer- 
sity of Kansas worked out plans for 
the trophy after years of repeated 
contests for the goal posts if the visit- 
ing team won the football game. 

The K fraternity will hold a dinner 
1 in Thompson hall for K men back on 
the campus for Homecoming. This 
will be the first year in recent times 
I that such a dinner has been planned. 
| Upwards of 100 reservations have 
I been made for the party. 



KREHBIEL— PREY 
"Elberta Krehbiel, f. s., Detroit, 

!and Leland S. Frey, Ag. '40, were 
married May 31. They are now op- 
erating a dairy ranch in the old gold 

' mining country at Rough and Ready, 
Calif.," write Louisa (Dyer) Frey 
•14, and Jesse J. Frey, '14. In their 
note to the Alumni association office, 
they also enclosed an announcement 
of the marriage of their daughter, 
Jean, to Harry G. Arend Jr., Septem- 
ber 13. 



Student Council Sets Date for BnllotlnK 
and Then CnlU Off Affair 

A special election on the dance law 
preventing students from attending 
unauthorized dances was postponed 
Monday by united action of the Stu- 
dent Council and the Faculty Council 
Ion Student Affairs. No future date 
has yet been set for the election. 

Designation of the election date 
1 was made by the Student Council last 
week after it received petitions from 
the required number of students. Ten 
per cent of the student body is suf- 
ficient to request an election, accord- 
ing to the constitution of the Student 
Governing association. Approval of 
\ the election date by the Faculty Coun- 
l cil, as required by the constitution, 
had not been obtained. 

Miss Helen Moore, dean of women, 
said the election was called off be- 
cause the two councils might reach 
an amicable decision on the matter 
before the election is held. 



Art Farrell, f. s., with the reserva- 
tions department of Transcontinental 
and Western airlines at St. Louis, was 

; visiting on the campus this week. 
With the company a year, Farrell has 

' been in public relations and sales de- 

! partments before his present position. 

I He formerly resided in Manhattan. 



Will Discuss Moisture Use 

The KSAC Farm Hour program 
next Tuesday will include a panel 
discussion led by district agents in 
the extension service of Kansas State 
College on the subject of "Using 
Moisture in Western Kansas." 



Ed Huff, 202-pound guard on the 
I College football team, believes action 
[speaks louder than words. A short 
j grunt is about the extent of his con- 
versation. But on the gridiron he 
| performs so well observers consider 
| him a strong contender for all-Big 
Six honors. He is a junior from 
Marysville. 

Dean R. A. Seaton of the Division 

i of Engineering and Architecture left 
last night to attend a meeting of the 
Engineers' Council for Professional 
Development at Pittsburgh, Pa. Dean 

; Seaton attends the meeting as a mem- 
ber of the council representing the 

! Society for the Promotion of Engi- 

1 neering Education. 

Fourteen seniors in architecture 
are in Chicago this week on the annu- 
al inspection tour sponsored by the 
Department of Architecture. They 
will return to Manhattan Friday after 
visiting the planetarium, the Shedd 
aquarium, University of Chicago 
chapel, Oriental institute and the Mu- 
seum of Science and Industry among 
other points in Chicago. 



LISTER— HANSING 
Sarah Jo Lister, M. S. '38, became 
the bride of Earl D. Hansing, M. S. 
•37, and the sister of the bride, Edna 
Lister, became the bride of Lawrence 
Worth of Chicago, at a double cere- 
mony at the home of the bride's par- 
ents in Wamego, May 24. 

Miss Hilda Grossmann, accom- 
panied by Miss Clarice Painter, both 
of the College Department of Music, 
sang "Because" by d'Hardelot. Miss 
! Painter played Mendelssohn's wed- 
ding inarch. 

Mr. and Mrs. Worth are studying 
in Chicago. Mr. Hansing is working 
on his Ph. D. in botany at Kansas 
1 State College. Mrs. Hansing has been 
connected with the nursery school at 
Kansas State College. 
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BIRTHS 



DOCTOR WILLARD'S HISTORY 

Dr Julius T. Willard's "History of Kansas State College 
of Agriculture and Applied Science" is now ready for dis- 
?ribudon Return the following order blank to the Alumni 
office, Kansas State College, for your copy: 



Roy D. Crist, Ag. E. '3 5, and Leona 
(Woodward) Crist, f. s., Wellington, 
announce the birth of a daughter on 



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I am a paid-up life member of the K. S. C. Alumni asso- 
ciation. Kindly send my free copy. 

Enclosed find $ to complete payments on my 

fiL membership, which will entitle me to a free copy. 

Enclosed find $4 for one copy and annual membership 

in the Alumni association for 1940-41. 

Enclosed find $1 for one copy. My 1940-41 dues already 

have been paid. 

Please ask Doctor Willard to autograph my copy. 



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1,074 STUDENTS SIGN UP 
FOR SELECTIVE SERVICE 

FACl'LTY MEMBKBS HEL.P MEN 
COMPIiY WITH DRAFT I, AW 



^PRESIDENT FARRELL OUTLINES RESEARCH WORK 

IN BIENNIAL REPORT SUBMITTED TO REGENTS 

The following article on Te^rch | farm power and other important sub- 
w<Trk e do f ne alKa^nsas State College dur- jectg _ 



llt-KiMinilloii CnrdN Have Been Seat to 

Comity lloariln ho Thnt They Mny 

He Included for Shuffling 

anil No inhering 

One thousand seventy-four stu- 
dents at Kansas State College regis- 
tered in Recreation Center last 
Wednesday under the provisions of 
the Selective Service act. 

The registration cards, containing 
answers made to 11 questions, have 
been sent to the registrants' respec- 
tive counties, according to Prof. 
Charles H. Scholer, chief registrar 
for the College. 

FACULTY MEMBERS ASSIST 
Students from the ages of 21 to 36 
told Professor Scholer or the 50 Col- 
lege faculty assistants the answers to 
11 questions concerning the regis- 
trant's name, address, telephone num- 
ber, age, place of birth, country of 
citizenship, the name of a person 



Research in home economics. — Al- 
though handicapped by inadequate 
financial support, the members of the 
home economics staff manage to con 



tag the past two years J?J.f ^J™,™ 
Fres. F. D. Farrell's repoi t rece nuy 
Submitted to the State Board of Re- 
vents. 

By F. D. FARRELL. 

President Kansas State C,.l.ege ---- — "^j, re8earch work . 

Although the College was lounoea j investigation include 

in 1863, it was not until several years Subjects un *„ , lnV e g 
later that it began to '^jUon effl «££« ^^^ ch ildren, the 
ciently in accordance with the fedeiai ( stua » textiles, the ef- 

and state laws authorizing its estab- se i vice qua. ties o 
lishment. The delay was due largely j fects of light and heat oiu iy^ ^ 
to the lack of adequate results of re- 
search upon which must be based the 
'distinctive type of educational work 
for which the College was established. 
! With the founding of the Agricultur- 
al Experiment station in 1887 the 
College began to make rapid progress 
i in the fulfillment of its mission. Since 
that time the increased public use- 
fulness of the institution has corre- 
sponded closely with the increase of 
J scientific research sponsored by the 
College. 

In the conduct of scientific research 



s, the use of the vacuum oven, the 
use of dried milk in cooking and 
various other subjects. Results of 
this research work were published 



Economists to Meet October 25 
The 15th annual meeting of in- 
structors in economics and business 
in Kansas colleges and universities 
will be held in Manhattan October 25 
and 26. The general topics of the 
flrrt day's session will be national de- 
fense, the European war and the 
future well-being of the people of 
Kansas. Friday evening the dele- 
gates will be guests at a banquet. A 
discussion of "Economic and Politi- 
cal Trends and the Effect on Begin- 
ning Courses in Economics and Busi- 
! ness and Accounting" will conclude 
i the conference Saturday morning. 
♦ 

ANNUAL POULTRY MEETING 

WILL BE HELD TOMORROW 



WILDCATS ARE DEFEATED 
BY OKLAHOMA, 14 TO 

SUl \l» POINTS FOR HOMECOMING 
CLASH AGAINST K. U. 



Sooner* Store In Second and Fourth 
Period* After Kent DtlW« and Bill 
Qnlek Star In Inltlnl Quar- 
ter nt Norman 

Although a brawny University of 
Oklahoma team defeated them 14-0, 
the Wildcat football squad members 
are pointing toward the traditional 
Homecoming clash with the Univer- 
sity of Kansas here next Saturday. 

The Sooners, sparked by the sen- 
sational Indian halfback, Jack Jacobs, 
were able to score two touchdowns. 
A 20-yard pass from Jacobs to Sharpe 
brought the first Oklahoma tally in 
the second quarter. The second 
touchdown came late in the game 
after a passing attack by Jacobs took 
the ball to Kansas State's 15-yard 
line. From there, Jacobs and Martin 



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CltlZensnip, uie uomo «•■ - *- m liic w.w. — 

who will always know address, rela- , the college utilizes four units or us 
tionship and address of the latter, organization: 



employer's name and place of em- 
ployment. Answers to these questions 
make it possible for the draft board 
to obtain more detailed information 
in the near future on men in the 
draft age limit. 

The cards, which have been sent to 
the various counties, will be shuffled 
and numbered by the county draft 
boards. When numbered capsules are 
drawn In Washington October 29, that 
number will represent a card in every 
county. Men whose numbers ar « | search work 
drawn will be eligible in the order of 
the numbers drawn. 
STUDENTS IN DEFERRED STATUS 
A special ruling for college stu- 
dents states that anyone who is ma- 
triculated by December 31 may have 
deferred status until July 1, 19 41. It 

eliminates those registering here 

from going into immediate service 

this school year. 

The actual number of students 

signing under the Selective Service 

act was several hundred under the 

estimate made earlier by Professor 

Scholer on the basis of a sample count 

of some 900 registration cards. 



PIONEER CEREAL CHEMISTS 
TO MEET HERE OCTOBER 26 



(1) The Agricultural Experiment 
station founded in 1887; 

(2) the Engineering Experiment 
station founded in 1910; 

(3) the Bureau of Research in 
Home Economics founded in 19 22; 

(4) the various scientific depart- 
ments in the Division of General Sci- 
ence that informally conduct research 
in the basic sciences. 

In the present report it is practi- j 
cable only to refer briefly to the re- 
Detailed statements are 
published frequently in the form of j 
reports, bulletins, circulars, radio 
talks and articles in the press. 

Agricultural Experiment station. — | 
The scientific staff of the Agricul- 
tural Experiment station numbers 
14 5. The work of the staff includes 
84 major research projects and a 
large number of minor projects re- 
lating to the physical, biological, eco- 
nomic and social problems of agricul- 
ture and rural life. The results of 
I the work were made available to the 
' public during the biennium through 
1 the issuance of 26 bulletins and cir- 
i culars, 230 articles in technical jour- 
nals and 3,536 popular articles in 
the farm press and the newspapers, 
through addresses given at about 
,1,600 public meetings and through 
' the broadcasting of 1,141 radio talks. 

of the station 



tins researcn ivum "'^ «•-- | 

during the biennium in a number of Two out-of-state sneake™ to Dlsenaa 
technical bulletins, in newspaper ar- 1 Semlon's General Theme of 

tides and in lectures and radio talks. [ Marketing 

Research in pure science.— In sev- 1 Poultry packers, shippers, hatch- 
er" departments staff members con- ! erymen and producers throughout 

duct research in pure science in addi- the state are cooperating in P™ Ben £ j took turns plunging, with Martin 
tion to the research work conducted i„g the fourth annual X***** 'JJ™ shoving across with the last score, 
under the auspices of the regular re- convention which will be on the cam- ^^ fqr two poINTS 

search units previously mentioned, pus tomorrow Haberlein, Oklahoma's place- 

These studies during the biennium The general the„ e of this »»«■ speciallst> converted after both 

involved such subjects as surface and program is market P™"^- ^ touchdowns, 
physical chemistry, soil minerals, pe- , siderat.ons from * ™ mbei ol J°££ I t.pH hv Kc 
troleum derivatives, animal learning, of view will be presented as they 

apply to Kansas 



Flndley, Graduate of College Now j r„ addition, members 

'staff wrote 202,472 letters in re- 
sponse to inquiries from individual 
citizens. 

A few of the specific major results 
of station work that reached fruition 
during the biennium are: A new va- 
riety of oats called Fulton and dis- 
tinguished by its high resistance to 
oats smut and its high yield, not only 
in Kansas but at other points dis- 



wlth Morten MllllaK Company at I»al- 
l„a. Will Talk on Vitamin 11-1 

The Pioneer section of the Ameri 

can Association of 



Cereal Chemists 
wil'l havTitBteli meeting on the cam- 
pus October 26, according to Dr. E. 
G Bayfield, head of the Department 
of Milling Industry. The meeting 
will be attended by cereal chemists 
.■ , aoihia Wichita, Hutchinson, , 

^irnanrl 'other milling centers in tributed from Colorado to Virginia ; agricultural 
Topeka and othei ^ ^^ gelectio „ Q f Madrid Yellow „ ,. tM a 

this area. sweet clover that is important be- 

Nutritional problems ijlated to the sweet co ^ ^ 

and baking industries ^ | ^ and long grazing season; a 



differential equations, electronic phe- 
nomena and the reactions of radio 
listeners. Results of this work are 
published from time to time in sci- 
entific journals and trade papers. 
These research activities are extreme- 
ly valuable, both in revealing new 
knowledge and in helping to explain 
and to improve the results of research 
in applied science. 

Industrial research fellowship proj- 
ects, The Legislature of 1939 ap- 
propriated to the College $5,000 a 
year for each year of the biennium 
beginning July 1, 1939, for the sup- 
i port of industrial research fellow- 
ships. The College committee on 
Intranstate research relationships con- 
sulted a corresponding committee at 
the University of Kansas, to which 
a similar appropriation had been 
made, and the director of the Kansas 
Industrial Development commission, 
which had been appointed as author- 
ized by the Legislature of 1939, for 
the purpose of determining what in- 
dustrial research projects should be 
established at the College. Since July 
1, 193 9, the following have been 
established: 

(1) Economics of starch produc- 
tion from Kansas farm products. 

( 2 ) Chemical problems in the pro- 
duction of starch from Kansas farm 
products. 

(3) The manufacture of colloidal 
fuel from Kansas coal. 

(4) New sources of highway mate- 
| rials to be used in concrete aggre- 
gates. 

(5) Economics of the Kansas meat- 
packing industry. 

(6) Manufacturing problems in the 
1 production of starch from Kansas 

aw materials. 



Two prominent out-of-state speak- 
ers have been scheduled by various 
poultry organizations. Prof. R. B. 
Thompson, head of the Department of 
Poultry Husbandry at Oklahoma A. 
and M. college, Stillwater, Okla., will 
discuss "Correlation of a Progressive 
Poultry Program Among Midwestern 
States." The other out-of-state speak- 
er is Dr. R. G. Japp, poultry geneti- 
Cist of the same institution. 

E. D. Edquist, manager of the Con- 
cordia creamery of Concordia, will 
discuss, "What Can the Poultry Pack- 
er Do to Improve the Quantity and 
Quality of Market Poultry?" 

Others appearing on the program 
include Dean L. E. Call of the Divi- 
sion of Agriculture; C. A. McPherson, 
manager of Swift and Company Pack- 
ing plant at Salina; Prof. L. F. 
Payne, head of the Department of 
Poultry Husbandry; R. A. Clymer, 
director of the Kansas Industrial 
Development commission, Topeka; 
Dr. L. D. Bushnell, head of the De- 
partment of Bacteriology; Dr. D. C. 
Warren, poultry geneticist; Peairs 
Wilson, instructor in the Department 
of Agricultural Economics; and C. E. 
Dominy, extension poultry marketing 

specialist. 

♦ 

LIBRARY ALLOTMENT TOTALS 

$16,100 THIS SCHOOL YEAR 



Led by Kent Duwe, Lucas, and Bill 
Quick, sophomore star from Beloit, 
the Wildcats were able to keep the 
ball in Oklahoma territory most of 
the first quarter. In the second peri- 
od, however, a brilliant Sooner air 
attack put across the first score of the 
game. 

In the first period of the second 
half, the Oklahomans found them- 
selves next to their own goal line 
again. After both teams had lost the 
ball several times on downs, Kansas 
State began a drive which took them 
from their own 39-yard line to the 
Oklahoma 30. Mathews, Sooner half- 
back, then intercepted a pass intend- 
ed for Wally Swanson, and ran 70 
yards for a touchdown, but the ball 
was called back because of inter- 
ference. 

WEAR WILDCATS DOWN 
In the fourth quarter, the Norman 
I eleven began to use a ground strategy 
! on the tiring Wildcats, finally ending 
with Martin's scoring plunge. 
Statistics: 



KS 
. 6 
. f>l 
. 48 
. 25 



A. 



First downs 

Net yards rushing 

Net yards forward passes 

Forwards attempted 

Forwards intercepted by 6 

Yards Interceptions returned 41 

Punts, number \ 

Punts, average *" 

Yards punts returned A* 

Punts blocked by <J 

Fumbles " 

Penalties g 

Yards lost on penalties »» 

Score by periods: 

Kansas State « 

Oklahoma V " < 



OU 

14 

141 

142 

21 

3 

2. r , 

10 

45.8 

!)2 

1 

5 

8 



Scoring: Oklahoma, Sharpe and Mar- 
tin. 

Points after touchdowns: Haber- 
, lein 2. 



B. Smith Releases Breakdown or 
Funds Available for Purelinses 

The report of distribution of Kan- 
sas State College library funds for the 

fiscal year 1940-41, as released by i — 

Librarian A. B. Smith and appor- SWINE FEEDERS' DAY DRAWS 
tioned by the Library Council, shows RECORD CROWD TO CAMPUS 

a total of $16,100 available for 11- 

brary use. Of this total amount 



1 $5 556 will go toward administration, 
It is too early to expect final results ^ thg remaining $10,544 will be 



milling i 

be the general subject discussed at 
the meeting. G. B. Findley, chief 
chemist for the Morten Milling com- 
pany of Dallas, Texas, will demon- 
strate how to determine the vitamin 
B-l content of foods by the fermenta- 1 
tion process. Findley is an alumnus 
of Kansas State College. Charles N. 
Fray of the Fleischmann laboratories 
of New York City will discuss meth- 
ods for improving the nutritive quail- ; 
ties of bread. 

The program was arranged by R. 
G Clark, formerly on the faculty of 
the Department of Milling Industry, 
now with the Bhellabarger Milling 
company. Salina. 

The group will see the Kansas 
university-Kansas State football 
game in the afternoon. 

♦ 
MARGUERITE GILEK, ANTHONY, 
CHOSEN BABNWABMER QUEEN 



Winner of Milking < ontest Is Sele.Ud 
to Belgn at Annual nance 

Marguerite Gilek, Anthony, winner 
of the milking contest sponsored by 
the agricultural students for their 
Barnwarmer princesses, was crowned 
nueen of the annual Ag Barnwarme. 
Saturday night. Her princesses were 
Lois Robinson, La Crosse May 
Shaver, Salina; Eunice Wheeler Man- 
hattan; and Shirley Karns, Coffey- 

ville. 

Decorations of huge branches cov- 
ered the ceiling of Nichols Gymnasi- 
um and booths representing work 
done by the different agricultural or- 
ganizations lined the 



selection of winter barley called Reno 
and valuable for its resistance to win- 
ter killing and its high yield; a bak- ■ 
ing formula that facilitates prompt 
and accurate determination of baking 
quality in wheat; and a reliable: 
method for identifying 4 8 species of j 
grasshoppers by means of the mark- ; 
ings on the eggs. These are only a 
few instances that might be cited. 

Engineering Experiment station.— 
Since its establishment in 1910 the 
Engineering Experiment station has 
performed useful service despite se- 
vere handicaps in the forms of the 
heavy teaching loads of its staff mem- 
bers and inadequate financial sup- 
port During the past biennium the 
publications of the station included 
bulletins on tractor fuels, low cost 
homes, and rural electrification sur- 
veys and a huge number of popular 
articles published in newspapers. Ac- 
tive research projects include studies 
of pise de terre construction, durabil- 
ity of concrete, the processing and 
handling of grain and forage, deteno 



from any of these research projects. 
Satisfactory progress is being made 
and valuable results may be expected 
in due course. 



Meat Judges Win First Place 

The home economics meat identifi- 
cation and judging team of Kansas 
State College won first place in the 
Midwest Meat Identification and 
Judging contest held in connection 
with the National Fat Stock show in 
Wichita last week. This is the sev- 
enth consecutive year that a Kansas 
State College team has placed first in 
the contest. 



used to purchase books and periodi- j 
cflls 

The largest item of expense in the 
latter division is $4,500, to be spent 
for current periodicals. Other ex- 
penditures include reference and bib- 
liography, important works and sets, 
special grant for architecture, brows- 
ing-room additions, extension work- 
duplicates, freight and express. The 
balance will be distributed among the 
departments. 

A list of funds for purchases by 
departments and divisions of study 
showed English and history received 
the largest allocations. 




EVERYDAY ECONOMICS 

By W. E. GRIMES 



'A large propertyless class is the gravest danger to American democ- 

racy today." 



America is "fifth-column" con- 
scious today. Safeguards are taken 
to avoid the influence of ideas or 



handling of grain ana torage ««..«. .»- , ;""'-"-. from so urces that might 
Pat lo n of concrete in silos, "torage of propaganda fro^m sou, e ^ 



D crops, farm refrigeration, wind 
pressure on farm buildings, control 
of school shops, television apparatus, 
electrical grounds, wind electric 
plants, depreciation of farm machin- 
ery, cutting edges of tillage imple 



prove detrimental to American 



mentals will tend to break down the 
others. 

tinder the stress of distressed eco- 
nomic conditions many Americans 
have seen their hold on their limited 



More Than 400 Hear Dlacuaaioiia of Hog 

Production and fiew Marketing 

BeconimenilatloiiM 

A record crowd of more than 400 
persons attended the Swine Feeders' 
day here Saturday to hear discussions 
of hog production and the marketing 
of pork and pork products. Dr. C. E. 
Aubel, swine specialist of the Kansas 
Agricultural Experiment station, was 
in charge. 

The program differed from those In 
the past in that the morning program 
was devoted to demonstrations. They 
were in connection with sow and lit- 
! ter self-feeding, castration and veter- 
inary demonstrations by the veteri- 
nary staff. One hundred experimental 
pigs were displayed as well as breed- 
ing hogs and 5 head of show barrows 
being fitted for the American Royal. 
The afternoon session included re- 
ports on experimental feeding, the 
hog outlook for the coming year and 
two speakers from Chicago. Delmar 
LaVoi of the National Livestock and 
Meat board and Frank Mahan, mer- 
chandising specialist of the Institute 
of American Meat Packers, came es- 
pecially to present the program of the 
j Institute in behalf of the meat con- 
sumer. 

A discussion of corn substitutes for 
1 swine production and the question 



mocracy. 

these dangers are of foreign origin 

There is danger, in looking for sub- 
versive influences, that the most seri- 
- ous of them will be overlooked simply 
.nents, residence cooling, residential because t h ey are so close to all of u. 
construction units, ductility of welded and 1 ave bee > esen ag 

joints, cutting tool performance, rub- ^he ^ndamentaw ^ 

bar tires for tractors and fan, , imple- ™ know ^ » ^mm ^^ 

ments, farm fencing, oxidation of be ity, pi vate prop y e _ 

petroleum derivatives, the utilization ual tive 



rimeiltal to Aiuciiuau uv. nave bccm ni^,. ..«.— o,.w»~ r . 

As a rule it is assumed that pi . ivat e property slip away until now box by Dr. C. W. McCampbell head of 
A sd iu.c, „„:„;„ f. . __. T * t„ v,o,.^ t n <r«,t an th Q ivnartnisnt. of Animal Husband- 



walls. 



of Kansas coal, alcohol blends for 



The loss of any one of these funda- 



they have none. It is hard to get an 
individual excited about protecting a 
thing that he does not have. A large 
propertyless class is the gravest dan- 
ger to American democracy today. 
This danger is within and is deserving 
of careful watching and constructive 
action, or it may be more serious than 
all the so-called "fifth-columns" of 
foreign origin. 



the Department of Animal Husband- 
ry, concluded the afternoon program. 
♦ 
Santa Fe Employs Grads 
Carroll Blanden and Donald Beat- 
son, both graduates last spring, are 
employed by the Santa Fe railway 
system in the electrical application 
and test department at the shops in 
Topeka. 



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HISTORICAL SOCIETY Q 

TOPEKA 

KAN. 



The Kansas Industrialist 



Volume 67 



Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, Manhattan, Wednesday, October 30, 1940 



Number 7 



4 300 AGENTS CONSIDER 

EXTENSION'S PROGRAM 

KANSAS' EIM T <ATIO\AI< ACTIVITIES 
IS THEME AT SESSIO.XS 



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President F. II. Farrell Opens IMeetliiK 
Monilny with Tnlk on "The College's 

j»i>i" iiniKnift on Friday win 

< 'onclude Gathering' 

An educational program for Kan- 
sas agriculture during 1941, in which 
rural people have a prominent part 
in its formulation and in which Kan- 
sas State College extension workers 
will participate, is being studied this 
week by more than 3 00 county agri- 
cultural agents, home demonstration 
agents, 4-H club agents and field 
workers of the Division of College Ex- 
tension. 

Representatives of the extension 
service and the College's teaching 
and research staffs in agriculture, 
home economics and allied subjects 
are conferring on the needs of Kansas 
farm folk at the annual conference of 
these extension workers. Out-of-state 
agricultural and home economics ex- 
perts who are now engaged in similar 
work at other institutions are assist- 
ing in the gathering. 

FARRELL GIVES FIRST TALK 

Dr. F. D. Farrell, President of Kan- 
sas State College, spoke at the open- 
ing session Monday on "The College's 
Job." F. A. Anderson, director, Ex- 
tension service, College of Agricul- 
ture, Fort Collins, Colo., discussed 
extension coordination. Dean H. Um- 
berger told how extension work is be- 
ing done, on the first day's general 
program. 

Elective 4-H club leadership was 
the topic assigned to T. A. Erickson, 
public relations consultant, General 
mills, Minneapolis, Minn., for Tues- 
day morning. He was followed by a 
discussion on 4-H leadership study 
by M. H. Coe, state 4-H club leader 
of the College. 

Conference speakers at today's 
general session include Miss Georgi- 
ana Smurthwaite, state home demon- 
stration leader, whose subject is "In- 
tegrating Social Phases into Land-Use 
Planning." She will be followed by 
Mrs. Sarah Porter Ellis, state home 
demonstration agent leader of the 
Iowa State College Extension service, 
Ames, Iowa. T. A. Erickson will 
again appear on the program to re- 
late impressions that would be 
gleaned from the subject, "If I Were 
State Club Leader for Another 28 
Years." 

MERRIFIBLD TALKS THURSDAY 

Fred R. Merrifield, general agent, 
Farm Credit administration, Wichita, 
will open Thursday's general session. 
Other speakers on the same program 
include Ralph Snyder, president, 
Wichita Bank for Cooperatives, 
Wichita; Roy S. Johnson, president, 
Federal Land bank, Wichita; D. L. 
Mullendore, president, Production 
Credit Corporation of Wichita, Wichi- 
ta; and Frank M. Butcher, president, 
Federal Intermediate Credit bank, 
Wichita. 

The general session on Friday will 
be devoted to reports on subjects vital 
to conducting an efficient educational 
program. These will be given by L. 
C. Williams, assistant dean and direc- 
tor of the Kansas Slate College Ex- 
tension service; Mrs. Laura I. Winter, 
district home demonstration agent 
leader; Mary Elsie Border, assistant 
4-H club leader of the Extension 
service; Walter G. Ward, in charge, 
Extension Engineering, Kansas State 
College; and J. W. Scheel, extension 
editor. Director Umberger will con- 
clude the general session with a sum- 
marization of the conference. 

MANY BUSINESS SESSIONS 

Each afternoon and the morning 
r nt November 2 are being devoted to 
business sessions. 

Throughout the week, several so- 
cial gatherings have been arranged 
as announced by Chairman John V. 
Hepler, district agent of the Exten- 
sion service. A reception was held in 
Nichols Gymnasium for the group 
Monday evening. On Tuesday eve- 
ning, the county agricultural agents 
held a mixer. Home demonstration 
agents also have scheduled a social 
meeting. A general banquet will be 
held for all representatives Friday. 



Dean Ackert to Speak 

Dean J. E. Ackert of the Division 
of Graduate Study and the Depart- 
ment of Zoology will address the Sig- 

i ma Xi club of Kansas City Wednes- 
day night. Dean Ackert will report 

1 upon the recent studies by himself, 
S. A. Edgar and L. P. Frick on the 
resistance of older individuals to in- 
vading organisms, a project of the 
Kansas Agricultural Experiment sta- 
tion. 



CHANCE OF INVASION SMALL, 
ACCORDING TO KIRBY PAGE 



The College: Its Work and Its Needs 



Christian \llirmntioii Week Spenker 

Says War Is Not Christ's Method 

of Dealing with Evil 

The chance that this country will 
be subject to military invasion within 
the next decade or two is not one in 
100, Kirby Page, internationally 
known author and evangelist, told a 
Christian Affirmation week mass 
meeting Monday night. 

His subject was "How Can We De- 
fend American Democracy?" His talk 
was a highlight of the three-day pro- 
' gram of religious activities sponsored 
on the campus each year by the Col- 
lege Religious federation. 

"Religion's Answer to Totalitari- 
anism" and "Practicing the Presence 
of God" were the titles of two 
speeches given yesterday by Mr. 
Page. 

Admitting that Hitlerism is a ter- 
rible evil in the world of today, Mr. 
Page declared that war was not the 
answer, that war is not Christ's way 
of dealing with evil. 

In the intervening 10 or 20 years, 
before which time it, in his opinion, 
is not even remotely possible that 
this nation will be attacked by a for- 
eign aggressor, the minister believes 
that there are three salient steps 
which this country should take. They 
are: 

1. Keep out of this war against 
totalitarian powers. 

2. Help diminish war hysteria. 

3. Help maintain friendly relations 
with all other nations. 

It was war hysteria which 
prompted the $15,000,000,000 appro- 
priation for armaments made by Con- 
gress and the passage of the con- 
scription bill, Mr. Page said. 

Several of the things which make 
this country practically immune to 
attack, at least for some time, were 
described by the speaker. Even if 
she wins, Germany will have her 
hands full after her present war try- 
ing to rule 10, 12 or 15 different peo- 
ples on the European continent, a 
situation which he described as pre- 
senting "a titanic economic condi- 
tion," he said. 

Presuming that the United States 
could be attacked, her best method 
of evading it, according to the re- 
ligious worker, is to set out upon a 
benevolent campaign of assisting the 
stricken nations and peoples of Eu- 
rope. 

"If America had wisdom enough 
to stay out of war and goodness 
enough to share her resources with 

■ these people, it could talk a lan- 
guage that would be understood by 
everybody, including Hitler," Mr. 
Page said. 

In expanding its activities, Amer- 
ica should share not only its material 
and physical resources but should 
also begin to shoulder some responsi- 
bility for the solution of the common 
world-wide problem, helping to cre- 

■ ate and use international agencies of 
justice, the speaker said. 

FORMER FACULTY MEMBER 

NAMED BUREAU DIRECTOR 



The following is a summary of a talk 
by Pres. F. D. Farrell at a dinner of the 
Alumni Board of Directors, Advisory 
council and representative alumni at 
the Manhattan Country club last Fri- 
day night. 

By F. D. FARRELL 
President, Kansas State College 

Your Alma Mater has made signifi- 
cant progress in the past two years. 

The completion and occupancy of 
Willard hall a year ago marked a dis- 
tinct improvement in the facilities for 
teaching and research in physics and 
chemistry and in the quality of work 
in those two important fields. There 
were 1,8 72 more students enrolled 
at the College last year than there 
were the year preceding the destruc- 
tion of Denison hall. The result was 




F.D.FAnfiELL 



w 



A. Murphy Appointed to Post with 
Rnilrond Retirement Iloiird 

W. A. Murphy, former member of 
the staff of the Department of Eco- 
nomics and Sociology, has been ap- 
pointed director of the Bureau of 
Employment and Claims of the Rail- 
road Retirement board in Washing- 
ton, D. C. 

While at Kansas State College, Mr. 
Murphy had charge of the personnel 
work in business administration. He 
left the department in 1937 to become 
the first director of the Kansas Un- 
employment Compensation division. 



that when the first semester enrol- 
ment was completed in 1939, there 
were only 30 unused chemistry lock- 
ers in Willard hall. 

The Department of Mathematics 
now has a building of its own: old 
Chemistry Annex No. 1. The addition 
of several young, well-trained men to 
the staffs of mathematics and physics 
has strengthened significantly the 
work in those two fields. 

ORGANIZE NEW DEPARTMENT 

A Department of Chemical Engi- 
neering has been organized. The new 
department occupies a building of its 
own: old Chemistry Annex No. 2, 
originally the Dairy building. The 
enrolment in the curriculum in chem- 
ical engineering is approaching 200. 

For the sixth successive year, stu- 
dent enrolment in the College is an 
all-time record for the first semester 
— 4,090 on September 30, 1940. 

These are only a few items of prog- 
ress. They have been achieved in the 
face of severe handicaps. It is of 
these handicaps chiefly that I wish 
to speak. There is time to discuss 
only a few. 

Since 1931-'3 2, state appropria- 
tions for operating expenses have 
declined 14 per cent, while student 
enrolment has Increased 2 5 per cent. 

LOSE FACULTY PERSONNEL 
We are losing valuable faculty per- 
sonnel at a time when we need to be 
preparing such personnel to replace 
faculty members who are Hearing 
superannuation. We have 59 faculty 
members who are past 60 years of 
age, and 21 who are past 65 years of 
age. In the past four years, we have 
lost faculty members, by resignation, 
at the rate of one faculty member 
every 12 days. Virtually all these are 
young. Most of them left to accept 
appointments at higher salaries at 
competing institutions. Our average 
salary is only $2,332 a year, or $193 
less than it was 10 years ago. The 
salaries of 56 per cent of our faculty 
members are less than $2,500 a year, 
and only 7 per cent are above $4,000 
a year. Unless this situation is sub- 
stantially improved, the quality and 
value of the College's work are cer- 
tain to be seriously impaired. 

If the College is to continue to 
make progress, there must be provi- 
sion for attracting and holding com- 



petent faculty personnel. This re- 
quires better salaries and a faculty 
retirement policy. 

BUILDING SITUATION ACUTE 
The building situation is acute. 
Except for Willard hall, which is a 
replacement, the state has not made 
an appropriation for a single major 
building at any of the state schools 
since 1927, practically 14 years ago. 
During this long building holiday, 
our needs both for new buildings and 
for remodeling of old buildings have 
piled up. A few of many examples 
that might be cited: 

Since Nichols Gymnasium was 
built 30 years ago, student enrol- 
ment has increased by 2,500 and the 
need for facilities for physical edu- 
cation and athletics has increased 
several fold. We need a new gymna- 
sium and field house. 

Since the Auditorium was built 37 
years ago, student enrolment has in- 
creased by 3,300. The present build- 

, ing will seat less than half the stu- 
dent body. We need a new audito- 
rium seating at least 5,000 and the 
present building should be remodeled 

i as a music and dramatics building. 

Since the latest addition to the En- 
gineering building was constructed 

< 20 years ago, engineering enrolment 
has more than doubled. The Engi- 
neering building should be completed 

! as originally planned. 

NEED HEALTH BUILDING 
Since Thompson hall, the newest 
building for home economics, was 

: built 18 years ago, home economics 

enrolment has almost doubled. We 

need a new home economics building. 

Since the west wing of Waters hall 

, was built 18 years ago, agricultural 
enrolment has increased more than 
50 per cent. Waters hall should be 
completed. 

Twenty years ago, when the stu- 
dent health department had one full- 
time and one part-time physician, the 
present temporary makeshift ar- 
rangement was made. It involves the 
use of three buildings, with the dis- 
pensary In Anderson hall, which is 
more than a block away from the hos- 
pital. The latter is a building con- 
structed in 1866 and remodeled in 
1920. Now we have 1,700 more stu- 
dents than we had in 1920, and the 
health staff includes five full-time 
physicians and a corps of nurses. We 
need a student health building, in- 
cluding a hospital, a dispensary and 
consulting rooms. 

We need a student union building. 
If the Legislature will permit them 
to do so, the students will pay for it 
without using a cent of tax money. 
NEW WOMEN'S DORMITORY 
When College opened last month, 
Van Zile hall, with a capacity of 130 
girls, was filled and there were 160 
disappointed applicants for admis- 
sion. We need a new residence hall 
for women. If the Legislature will 
permit, it will be built without using 



GRADS AND STUDENTS 

WELCOME HOMECOMING 



PRES. P. D. FARRELL OUTLINES 
NEEDS OP COLLEGE 



Queen Fay Elmore Presents "Pence" 

Trophy to Wildcut Cnptnln as 

Symbol of Victory Over 

Jnyhnwkn 

Smiles were frequent over the 
week-end as Kansas State's football 
squad defeated the University of Kan- 
sas team in the first Homecoming vic- 
tory here in a college generation. 

Graduates and students alike were 
enthusiastic as they chanted the 20 
points of victory in the Memorial Sta- 
dium. Spectators were pleased as the 
Homecoming queen, Fay Elmore, Mc- 
Cracken, freshman in home econom- 
ics and a member of Chi Omega 
sorority, presented the new "peace" 
trophy to the Wildcat football cap- 
tain at the conclusion of the game. 
Students also smiled as they cele- 
brated at a Victory varsity sponsored 
by the Student Council for the Mon- 
day holiday. 

FARRELL ADDRESSES ALUMNI 

Approximately 14,000 persons at- 
tended the game and saw the Wild- 
cats rule the gridiron for their first 
Big Six victory of the season. 

Pres. F. D. Farrell outlined the 
needs of the College to directors of 
the College Alumni association, the 
Advisory board and representative 
graduates at the Manhattan Country 
club Friday night. 

Several hundred alumni attended 
the traditional luncheon Saturday 
afternoon and approximately 100 K 
men attended the first Homecoming 
dinner sponsored by K fraternity. 

Beta Theta PI fraternity won the 
annual decorations competition by 
depicting a King Cole theme. Sigma 
Phi Epsilon was second and Sigma 
Alpha Epsilon was third. 

EDITORS ARE GUESTS 

Several hundred Kansas editors 
were guests of the Department of 
Physical Education and Athletics, 
The Kansas State Collegian and the 
Department of Industrial Journalism 
and Printing. Tickets for the foot- 
ball game were distributed by cour- 
tesy of the Athletics department, 
while the Journalism students served 
luncheon in Kedzie hall to the visi- 
tors. 

The fourth district editors held a 
meeting to discuss editorial and busi- 
ness problems. 

FIVE CHANGES IN FACULTY 

ANNOUNCED BY PRESIDENT 



a cent of tax money. 

These are only a part of the acute 
build ing needs. 

We have recommended two meth- 
ods of improving this situation: 

1. A mill tax for a long-time build- 
ing program. In the 10 years ended 
with 1927, the Legislature appropri- 
ated an average of about $600,000 a 
year for buildings at the state schools. 
A tax of 0.25 mill would raise about 
that sum each year. Such a mill tax 
is authorized in an amendment to the 
state constitution adopted in 1918 and 
never used. It is Section 10 of Arti- 
cle 6. 

APPROACHING CRISIS 

Iii 193 7 the state of Colorado 
adopted a 10-year building program 
for her state schools. For the first 
five years the rate is 0.3762 mill. 
For the second five the rate is 0.6820 
mill. 

2. Legislative authorization to is- 
sue bonds to finance new residence 
halls and a student union building as 
self-liquidating projects. Each new 
residence hall would be paid for out 
of net operating revenues of itself and 

(Continued on last page) 



Dr. E. E. Leasnre. Physiology Professor, 

Is Granted Sabbatical Leave 

of Absence 

Three resignations, one sabbatical 
leave of absence and one appointment 
are included in the faculty changes 
at Kansas State College. They have 
been approved by the State Board of 
Regents and announced Tuesday by 
Pres. F. D. Farrell. 

Dr. E. E. Leasure, professor of 
physiology in the Division of Veteri- 
nary Medicine, has been granted sab- 
batical leave of absence from Novem- 
ber 1 to June 30, 1941. 

C. K. Otis, instructor in agricul- 
tural engineering, resigned October 
19. 

Dr. E. D. Fisher, instructor in the 
Department of Chemistry, resigned 
October 10. Donald Fort was ap- 
pointed instructor in the Department 
of Chemistry, effective October 11, to 
succeed Doctor Fisher. 

Miss Nora E. Bare, instructor in 
home economics education, resigned 
effective October 24. 
♦ 
Dean Marlatt Visits Campus 

Dr. Abby Marlatt, former dean 
of home economics at the University 
of Wisconsin and now professor 
emeritus there, visited the campus 
last week. Doctor Marlatt, who re- 
ceived her master's and doctor's de- 
grees from Kansas State in 1890 and 
1925, and her brother recently gave 
the Top of World to the College as 
a picnic place for students. 



■MM 



The KANSAS INDUSTRIALIST 

Established April 24, 1875 



R. I. Th a<; k kb v Editor 

JANB ItOCKWBLL. RALPH L.A9BBROOK, 

Hill.hr Kribuhbauh . . . Associate Editors 
Ken sky Ford Alumni Editor 



Published weekly during the college year by 
the Kansas State College of Agriculture and 
Applied Science. Munhattan, Kansas. 



Except for contributions from officers of the 
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In The Kansas Indusi kialist are written by 
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chanical work. 

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as second-class matter October 27, 1918. Act 
of July IB. 1804. 



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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1940 



THKY BURIIOH THK MINX' IN 1024 

The fact that traditions persist 
long after their significance is gone 
was emphasized again last week-end 
by the fact that the Student Council 
of the College chose the occasion of 
a football victory over the University 
of Kansas to declare one of the two 
holidays it is privileged to announce 
each year.. 

There was real occasion for a holi- 
day in the fall of 19 24, when Don 
Meek's 67-yard, fourth-quarter run 
with a fumbled ball broke a scoreless 
tie and the 17-year-old "K. U. Jinx." 
Even those Kansas State followers 
whose interest in athletics is minor 
felt a certain sense of relief that a 
defiance of the laws of probability 
which had persisted well into the sec- 
ond decade had at last been shown to 
be the result of coincidence and not 
of some occult power possessed by 
those wearing the crimson and blue 
of the university. 

But that victory occurred before 
most of the present generation of stu- 
dents was old enough to start its for- 
mal education. The "Jinx" which 
flourished for 17 long years has been 
dead for more than 16. 

Close friendships have always pro- 
duced keen rivalries, and that of the 
College and the university in the field 
of athletics is no exception. But there 
is a growing feeling, among alumni 



medicinal properties, and in parts of 
Europe certain beetles are still used 
in making blister plasters. In modern 
medicine fly maggots are used in per- 
sistent wounds or bone sores to 
hasten healing. Primitive races to 
some extent even use certain insects 
as foods, and seem to find them 
thoroughly palatable. And, of course, 
many animals useful to man feed on 
insects. 

The maggots of certain flies and 
carrion beetles aid as cleaners in re- 
moving objectionable or decompos- 
ing matter. Thus, right in Field Mu- 
seum, the larvae of certain beetles 
known as dermestids are used in 
cleaning many of the bones of mam- 
mals and birds brought in for the ex- 
hibits and study collections of the 
Division of Anatomy and Osteology. 

Paradoxically, the usefulness of 
certain insects derives from their de- 
structive habits — that is, they eat 
other insects which are injurious to 
crops, and thus 
insect-pest situation. Thus is main- 
tained the balance of nature under 
the old basic rule of the survival of 
the Attest. — From Field Museum 
News. 

GEOGRAPHY OF AMERICA 
Its northern limits stretched into 
the frozen sea of Arctic ice. Its east- 
ern and western shores were washed 
by limitless seas. Lying like a vast 
triangle with its base at the north, its 



SCIENCE TODAY 



By C. O. SWANSON 
Professor of Milling Industry- 
One of the demands made on wheat 
flour by the consumer is that it shall 
be white. Any specks which may be 
seen are associated with dirt. How- 
ever, if such specks in lower grades 
; of flour are examined through a mag- 
! nifler, they will be found to consist 
! of very small but clean particles of 
bran. The color of the bran of most 



While wheat which comes from the 
modern thresher looks fairly clean 
and is clean compared with wheat 
threshed by ancient methods, it is 
far from clean enough to be milled 
into modern flour. Wheat will meet 
this requirement only when it is clean 
enough to eat. 

The principal impurities which 
must be removed from wheat before 
It is fit to mill are: seeds of other < 
grains, chaff, dust, weed seeds and 
a nondescript variety of other mate- 



pany in both departmental and divi- 
sional competitions. 

SIXTY YEARS AGO 
Cora Long was initiated into the 
Alpha Beta society at its regular 
meeting. 

At the November meeting of the 
Scientific club I. D. Graham present- 
ed a paper on the telephone, tracing 
its growth by successive discoveries. 
President Fairchild went to Tope- 
ka to lecture before the State Scien- 
tific association. Professors Failyer 
and Popenoe each read papers before 



wheats is called red or brown. When 
enough such clean bran particles are . 

present in flour, it looks gray and ! rial which were left by the thresher 
this grayness is thought by many ' or accumulated in transit from the I 
people to be due to the presence of farm to the mill. The loose material 
d j,. t . is removed by sieves and air suction. 

The impression that wheat contains | Some wheat contains materials which 
dirt may be obtained from any thresh- can only be removed by washing in 

itch are injurious xo ^ Qi . & combine in operation, water. The wheat is first soused in 

aid in control of the • ♦ !, ,.„„!,„,. „,. th* »nmMn«. 



KANSAS POETRY 

Robert Conover, Editor 



RELATIVITY 

By Mary Haymaker 

The moon sailed clear in a sparkling 

"How big does it look to you?" said I. 



The modern thresher or the combine- a stream of water Then rapidly ro 

.„,„„,„,.,. „„j thi-PBhPi- is a marvel tating vanes dash the wheat drip uuco ,„„„. fcw , „„ 

harvestei and thieshei is a marvel against perforated screens. "About as big as a plate," you said, 

of efficiency in separating the grain , P»ng w et againsi penoiaieu 8Lle «" B , But late that night, when I went to bed 

from the chaff and straw as compared This removes the surplus watei , and The n was poised on the mountain', 

with ancient methods. In past ages scours off a large amount of loosened rim, 

when separation of grain was brought dirt. This may be designated as the 

about by having animals drag heavy wet scouring. 

planks over the grain spread on the The dry scouring is always used 

flat ground there was plenty of whether the wet scouring is used. 



Just where a pine tree, straight and 

slim, 
Stood out alone against the sky, 
And the disk of the moon was just as 

high. 

tree standing in lonely 



Rut the pine 

eic y»»d i^.c.i^j v... state 

chance to have the grain contami- The scourer is essentially a large Seemed very much larger than any 
nated with obnoxious dirt. drum made of perforated iron, inside 



Then the only method available °' which ranee revolve rapidly, 

triangle with its base at the north, its ate tne g ,. ain from the chaff, throwing and rubbing the wheat 

apex rested upon the base of another > to ^^ X? dirt was to throw against perforated Iron The loosened 

vast triangle at the south— its sister JJJJ mMjg ^^ the wiud which impurities are drawn off with air suc- 

continent, whose apex in turn pointed wou]d blQW away the chaff and other tion. 

dirt This was the usual condition of Such cleaned wheat is then ready 
cleanness before the grain was for the milling process whose pur- 
ground into meal, as further methods pose is to separate the red or brown 
of cleaning were as poorly developed bran coat from the germ and endo- 
as the methods of threshing and mill- sperm and convert the latter into the 
j n „ well-known white flour. 



Mary Haymaker is a member of the 
teaching staff of the Municipal Uni- 
versity of Wichita. She has written 
poems, articles and stories for a num- 
ber of different publications. 



to the southern pole. 

Its structure was simple as its ex- 
tent was vast. Within the limits of 
our own land, which was in time to 
stretch across it in its more temperate 
zone like a colossal band, there is a 
comparatively narrow coastal plain, 
flanked on the west by the rampart 



of the Appalachian range of moun- so callous or so tenacious to the 4-H club from L™ county ana = S5m3«SSSft.ta 
foi«« ttpvnnH that is the gigantic creed of advertisements, that you cal selections sung by tne extension *#■♦.... «.i-.— «# a«.— 



Beyond that is the gigantic creed of advertisements 
valley drained by the Mississippi, don't know the truth about that in 
flanked in its turn by the successive yourself, next time you take the sub- 
ranges of the Cordilleras. Westward way take a look at the faces of your 
once more is the slope to the Pacific, brothers and sisters. As to the bare 
Of the three thousand miles from "right to life" which premised the 



4-H club from Lane county and musi- 



division quartet. 



TWENTY YEARS AGO 
Waldo P. Heppe, '17, was appoint- 
ed director of marketing work in Col- 



mediate and future welfare of Amer- 
ica, and become eagerly content to 
argue, snarl and snap about standard 
home and neighborhood issues. 



ar-wsTLrs-K ^*»»~ri: -*. ir-" ■— — B » 



is occupied by the great central val- the rising life rate, the 1914-1918 
ley, the most spacious habitation for phase of the present "Thirty Years 
human life to be found in the War" alone killed more men than all 
wor]( j the previous wars of history put to- 

The varied surface of the land was gether; and today Europe and Asia 
modeled by a giant hand. In the | shudder beneath the shadow of a still 
north a group of great lakes, cover- 1 huger slaughter. 



ing nearly a hundred thousand 
square miles, held half the fresh 
water of the entire world. The falls 
where these waters from the first 
four tumbled into the last of the lakes 
were over a mile wide. In the great 
central valley of the Mississippi, 



at least that holidays of celebration drained by a river system 4,000 miles 

should 'be reserved for the accom- long, one could travel in a straight 

pllshment of the unusual and the im- line for a couple of thorn 
probable. 



To summarize: the meager securi- 
ty of agrarian serfdom, in which men 
could at least not be driven (like the 
Joads) from their homes, and were 
within the theoretical care of their 
masters, has been taken away, and 
no better provided. Even among the 
rich, well-being does not exist. By 
our own standard we damn the Mid- 
dle Ages because they knew plague, master. 



reau of Markets 

E. L. Westover, '11, resigned his 
position as dairy specialist in the Ore- 
gon Agricultural college to become 
field representative of the American 
Guernsey Cattle club. He was to 
cover the Rocky Mountain and Pa- 
cific Coast states. 



CIVILIZATION NEEDS INSECTS 

Without insects, human society and 
civilization as we know it might per- 
ish, or at least be greatly changed, 
scientists say. Many kinds of fruit 
and vegetables would disappear from 
the world's dietary, because they 
grow on trees and other plants the re- 
production of which depends upon 
the cross-fertilization accomplished 
by bees and other insects. 

Although most insects are pestifer- 
0U8 — and some injurious ones become 
so numerous and widespread, and so 
well fitted to live in different environ- 
ments that a constant warfare must 
be conducted against them lest they 
destroy entirely certain crops nad 
other products of nature and of man's 
labor — nevertheless a surprisingly 
large number of insects are highly 
useful and practically indispensable. 

Immediately there come to mind 
such directly beneficial creatures as 
the honey-bee and the silkworm. In 
the United States, in one year, honey- 
bees produce 400,000,000 pounds of 
honey and 12,000,000 pounds of bees 



across rolling prairies and plains, famine, serfdom. But we know the 
from the heat of the great Gulf to 
the cold of the north. The whole val- 
ley slowly rises from east to west like 
a tilted floor until in the Par West 
the level ground is 5,000 feet above 
the sea. It is there closed in on the 
west by range after range of one of 
the great mountain systems of the 
earth, rising to heights of over 14,000 
feet and traversable by man at only a Rhesus monkeys, most useful of all 
few points. On the western side of animals to medical research workers 
the watershed, the Colorado river in the study of such diseases as in- j 
tears its way to the narrow Gulf of fantile paralysis, tuberculosis and 
California at the bottom of canyons leprosy, proved last year to be good 
of which one is 20 miles wide, 300 ; pioneers. In an effort to obtain the 
miles long and averages over a mile animals more cheaply for research 
in depth, forming what has been in America, a number of these "jun- 
called by scientists the "grandest gle folk" were taken from their 
natural geological section known." native India to Santiago island, a half 
In places on the Pacific slope trees mile off San Juan, Puerto Rico. With- 
grew to a height of far over 200 feet, in less than a year nearly 100 mon- 
and one, still standing, with a girth keys have been born in the colony. — 
of 93 feet, is estimated to be 4,000 From a National Geographic Society 
years old, perhaps the oldest living bulletin, 
creature in the world. — James Trus- ♦ 

low Adams in "The Epic of America." 



^IllCttgU Id/ic 111 liyitmuvi. ~ - 

_-.„-,, • t „„t Q „t«mni eleventh time that Mrs. Willoughby 

John B. Parker, assistant entomol- ^ 

ogist accepted the chair of biology In 

the Catholic University °f America sun and eating Me lba toast and horse 
at Washington D. C He planned to ^.^ Qr ^ m . £ht ]ike tQ gtev 
work on his doctor s degree during 



* 



H. W. Davis 
RACK TO NORMAL 
In the interest of peace and sweet- ' 
ness at home and over the back-yard 
trellis it will be better, from now until 
the polls close next Tuesday night, for 
every man, woman and child to keep 



I fear me the presidential campaign 
has reached an intensity that makes 
politics practically homicidal as a 
subject of domestic or neighborhood 
chatter. 



Let us remember that there are 

countless old things we can take from 

the shelf and get almost as vexed 

about as we can about a third term or 

Pres. W. M. Jardine was the princi- slurred syllables, which seem to be 

pal speaker at the alumni dinner the two main issues. 

given at the annual conference of the 

Kansas State Teachers association at For instance, there's the way your 
Topeka by the Shawnee County wife messed up that little slam she 
Alumni association. George C. Wheel- should have made over at the Greg- 
er, '95, president of the Shawnee ory dinner-bridge a week ago last 
County association, presided as toast- Friday night, and there's the way 



your husband has of wanting to find 
a newscast at the only quarter hour 
wholesale ca: ige, the 1 THIRTY YEARS AGO you can get the Velveteen Flakes pro- 

threat of constant want, the strain of i R. J. Kinzer, professor of animal gram about the adventure of frantic 
economic worry and enslavement on husbandry, was elected as a judge in Phoebe, 
a greater scale than the medieval j the Galloway section of the Interna- — 

peasant ever dreamed of.— Waldo j tional Livestock exposition to be held Or maybe you might enjoy froth- 
Frank in "Chart for Rough Water." ' in Chicago late in November. ! ing inwardly while you hear for the 



the summer at Johns Hopkins uni 
versity. 

Mamie Hassebroek, '04, was placed 
in charge of the domestic science de- 
partment of the State Agricultural 
school at Monticello, Ark. This was 
a new institution and Miss Hasse- 
broek was permitted to equip her de- 
partment in accordance with modern 
ideas. 



radish. Or you might like to stew 
while John recites, with practically 
the same variations, how he once 
would have had a hole-in-one on No. 
16 if his ball had not stopped a yard 
short of the cup. 



The allocation of the family car 
for the evening and the ensuing day 
is always good table talk, particu- 
larly if father is going to have to de- 
ring his key because mother, daugh- 
ter and son Bill can remember no 
less than seven places each they are 
sure they put the home-and-family 



From the Files of The Industrialist 

TEN YEARS AGO 
Dean R. A. Seaton of the Division 



MEASURE OF OUR MODERN WORLD 
By the measure of this goal, its 
wax An essential part of the whole own, what do we find in our modern ()f Engineering and C. H. Scholer, , amenran <"-«^j "<■ «*«w 
economy of Japan has been based world? Nowhere are men equal, no- head f the Department of Applied sas, to be held at Marysville 

..c *i.„ „;iir..,r.«m where are men free. It is true, 1 Mociinnina nttpnded a meeting of the Professor Popenoe went to Colum- 
bus to inspect nursery stock previous 



FORTY YEARS AGO 

J. B. Norton, '97, returned to the , 

College to take the position of assis- copy. Why neighbor Gray on the east 

tant entomologist in the experiment doesn't keep his lawn and alley neat 

station. and parlor-pure is something else to 

Prof. J. D. Walters was invited to speak about at whatever temperature 

address the meeting of the Swiss- you like. 
American Society of Northern Kan- 



Lois Holderman, "25, was in Pull- 
man, Wash., where she was clothing 
specialist at Washington State col- 
lege. Miss Holderman was formerly 



"the product of the silkworm, where are men free. It is true, I Mechanics, attended a meeting of the 

This fad has been emphasized in re- know, that the newspapers, and other Kansas Engineering society at To 

cent times by the production of syn- agents for the sale of goods, dispute peka . 

tneticsTkB or silk substitutes, bring- this. They will offer statistics to , Lo , 

1 immediate danger to one of prove that the standard of living has 

lanan's largest industries, and po- risen; they will point to electricity, 

tential damage to that industry far refrigeration, steam heat, motorcars 

exceeding what has already occurred, and the rising span of life as an index 

In India a scale insect called the of modem man's well-being. Any cat 

••lac" produces annually 40,000,000 knows better. 

pounds of material collected for mak- Well-being, to begin with, is not 

?ng "he shellac used in varnishes and mere survival. It is the resultant 

•i lied products. Cochineal, an im- while we live, of inner physical and 

nortant dyestuff. is made of the dried nervous harmonies. All the ice cubes 

and crushed bodies of a certain fe- and fur coats in the world cant 

male scale insect In Mexico. The ! make a man feel good, when the inner 

Chinese credit some insects with harmony is lacking. And if you are 



to its shipment into states quaran- 
tined against the San Jose scale. 



FIFTY YEARS AGO 

J. W. Bayles, '89, was teaching at 
Shawnee county home demonstration the Mount Pleasant school, 
ngent, with offices in Topeka. Professors Failyer, Popenoe, Kel- 



There are dozens of other things, 
too: the algebra teacher in high 
school who wants daughter Phyllis to 
reason things out — fancy that, the 
rising cost and diminishing return of 
a second generation, how long a hus- 
band should be confined in the dog- 
house for forgetting to change to 
black sox when he dons his tuxedo, 
how many card and culture clubs a 
home-loving wife should belong to; 



ageui, wiuii uiiiv.co ... iwi.~»... nurasuia ''»"j«i *«!»..»..#«, *.»~. ; nome-ioving wire snouia neiong 10; 

Pres. F. D. Farrell spoke at the lerman, Secretary Graham and Assis- tne hudget, the biscuits — if any, Ann 
general assembly on "The Growth of tant Breese attended the meeting of Sheridan, Tyrone Power, high-heeled 
an irioo " Thu nrnirram was a feature ' the Kansas Academy of Science at numD8 f r seventh-grade Marvbelle. 



g 

i an Idea 

of the College extension workers' Lawrence. 

conference in session at the College I J. G. Harbord, '86, received sever-] See how easy it is to forget an elec- 
and other numbers were a skit, "The | al medals as a sharpshooter, having j tion and concentrate on issues you 
Idea" presented by members of a been detailed to represent his com- 1 know how to handle? 



p 



AMONG THE 
ALUMNI 



John E. Thackrey, B. S. '93, is pas- 
tor of the Methodist church at Busla 
ton. Mrs. Thackrey (Elva Palmer, 
'96) and he are the parents of one 
son and three daughters. Their 
youngest daughter is Vera (Thack- 
rey) Faulconer, G. S. '31, the wife 
of John V. Faulconer, *30. 

F. E. Balmer, Agron. '05, is direc- 
tor of extension service at Washing- 
ton State college in Pullman. 

H. A. Ireland, Ag. '07, and Clara 
(Kahl) Ireland, D. S. '07, are living 
at Sacaton, Ariz. Mr. Ireland is ag- 
ricultural extension agent with the 
United States Indian service in Ari- 
zona. 



company, organize and produce three- 
act musical comedies, sell advertising 
and sponsor popularity contests. So 
far I have produced shows in Illinois 
and Ohio. At present I am in Barnes- 
ville, Ohio." 

Howard J. Winters, E. E. '28, and 
Evelyne (Massa) Winters, f. s. '27, 



LOOKING AROUND 

KENNEY L. FORD 



T. N. Hill, B. S. '09, writes to the 
Alumni association office: 

"The world is changing too rapidly 



California Alumni Meeting 

George R. Hewey, Ag. '21, writes: 
of 1024 North Fifth street, Indepen- j "Please announce Kansas State alum- 
dence, have a daughter, Meredith | ni meeting in California at the Ana- 



heim City park, November 3, 1 p. m 
for a picnic lunch. After we eat, we 
expect to raid some of the adjacent 
orange groves. We will practice 
throwing a few, so we'll be in shape 
to handle a few grenades if the occa- 
sion demands." 



Ann, 2. Mr. Winters is rural sales 
engineer for the Kansas Gas and 
Electric company in Independence. 
His work consists of selling electrical 
appliances, promoting rural exten- 
sion, buying right-of-way, and in gen- 
eral looking after all rural and farm 
customers. 

J. J. Curtis, Ag. '30, writes: 
"Please send my copy of The Indus- 
thiai.ist to 500 Archer avenue, Pe- , ( 
oria, 111. I moved here August 1, and j Ford ig as f n ws 
am working at the Northern Region- 
al Research laboratory.^ This lab ora- , ^ dinner at 6:30 p . m . at the 
tory is operated by the United States | gtudent Un , on building . Joe Lill is 



Department of Agriculture." 

Marion A. Cowles Jr., E. E. '31, 



: in charge. At Akron, Ohio, Novem- 
j ber 4, dinner meeting at 5:30 p. m. 
these days for a missionary to predict . is p or d dealer at Sharon Springs. His win be at tne university club. The 
his future with accuracy, but we are j w j Ie is Helen J. (Cook) Cowles, H. chairman ma king arrangements is C. 
planning to return to India in the I E -32, and they have one son, Marion 



fall of 1941. Meanwhile we are set 
tied for the winter at 605 West Main, 
Richmond, Ind., where our oldest 
daughter is a junior in Earlham col 



W. Carlton Hall, Coffeyville; Earle 
W. Frost, Kansas City, Mo. 

1921 — Clay F. Laude, Spokane, 
Wash.; Robert F. Copple, Salt Lake 
City. 

1922 — James H. Albright, Win- 
field; Harry H. Connell, Salina; G. M. 
Glendening, Kansas City, Mo.; A. D. 
Weber, Manhattan; G. E. Findley and 
Ruth (Kittell) Findley, f. s., Dallas, 
Texas. 

1923 — J. W. Skinner, Manhattan. 

1924 — Marvel R. Baker and Mrs. 
Baker, f. s., North Platte, Neb.; Ira 
D. Kelly and Mildred (Churchill) 
Kelly, f. s., Topeka; Kenney L. Ford, 
Manhattan. 

1925 — D. C. McMillen, Lamar, 

Kenney Ford's Trip Colo.; Eleanor (Wanamaker) Seaton, 

m u„j„i» n r n,o Ai„ m ni I Manhattan; R. L. Dennen, Colby; 

Tentative schedule of the Alumni ■,-,.-,,. 

" Mrs. Lucile Rust, Manhattan, 

association secretary, Kenney L,. ,--•-,„„ «r-_* w»i„ 

1926 — R. M. Karns, Newton; Eric 

■ L. Tebow and Mrs. Tebow, Harper. 
East Lansing, Mich., November i 9 27— Bernard I. Melia, Ford; 

Geraldine (Reboul) Garrett, Cawker 
City. 

1928 — Mildred (Loveless) Skin- 
ner, Fort Scott; Elizabeth (Allen) 
Heinz, Manhattan; F. L. Whan and 
Jerry (Cutler) Whan, f. s. ( Wichita. 
1929 — R. W. Frank and Helen 



RECENT HAPPENINGS 
ON THE HILL 



Kansas State College men and 
women will share expenses Friday 
night at the annual Dutch Treat var- 
sity, sponsored by Theta Sigma Phi, 
national honorary society for women 
in journalism. Main event of the eve- 
ning will be the crowning of the King 
and Queen of Swing. 



Miss Lillian Swenson, assistant 
reference librarian, acted as chair- 
man of the college libraries round- 
table at the annual Kansas Library 
association meeting in Hutchinson 
last week. Misses Mildred Camp and 
Gladys Baker, Kansas State College 
librarians, also attended the meeting. 



A. Byers. 
Michael, 2. Pittsburgh, Pa., alumni have 

John B. Hanna. Ag. '32, is county | pla „ ned a n evening meeting Novem- W »^> *^ B 5*SSi 

club agent for the Butler County Der 5. T . L. Weybrew is in charge of C^t'ne Wiggins, Manhattan 

_ . ^1 . /-u-„„««™,\ ■ .. . .. ~,,_. x__ ni u„ 1930 — John K. Merritt. I 



Farm bureau. Evelyn (Yarrow) , tnat meeting. The secretary will be 
lege. Two children are in high school | Ranna f g , 32 and he make their j in Washington, D. C, November 6 
and one is in grade school. | home at 927 \y e st First avenue, El and 7> and there will be no formal 

"I'm hoping to be in Kansas again nn ,, nHn , mootintra nf fl i„ m ni then, 

after Christmas and, of course, I hope 
to visit Manhattan again." 



Maria Morris, H. E. '11, M. S. '27, 
is an assistant professor in the De- 
partment of Applied Art at Kansas 
State College. Her Manhattan ad- 
dress is 816 North Juliette avenue 



1930 — John K. Merritt, Haven; 
Louise (Child) Spence, Denver. 

1931 — C. E. Glasco, Wichita; 
Frances (Morlan) Short, St. Marys. 

193 2 — John H. Rust, Seattle; 

Ed 



M. A. Durland, assistant dean of 
the Division of Engineering and 
Architecture, and four staff members 
of The Kansas State Engineer maga- 
zine will attend a meeting of the En- 
gineering College Magazines Associ- 
ated, Friday and Saturday. The staff 
members are Charles Webb, Hill 
City; Alfred White, Topeka; Thomas 
Martin, Topeka, and Benjamin Pe- 
trie, Greensburg. 



Dorado. ; meetings of alumni then 

Rex Woodward, E. E. '33, is a At Columbia, S. C, November 9,. 

member of the seismograph crew of alumni will meet at luncheon and Martin Mayrath, Dodge City; 

the Shell Oil company at Robinson, dinner meetings before and after the Kotapish, Blue Rapids. 
Ill His son Donald James, is 1%. ; Kansas State game with the Univer- 1933— Marvin Vautravers, Con- 

HerschelW. Weber, Ag. '34, writes sity of South Carolina These meet- cordia; 3 ID Corrigan .Atchison; , -- made . " T he Council hopes to 

from 39 Hammond street, Cambridge, ins. will be at the Hotel Jefferson in ^^^J^SStuiS^. \ " liminate -organized victory cele 
Mass.. that he is now enrolled in Har- Columbia. -ayioid mu hi, ju n uuy. ,,„„„„„ ot fflinM11 Statn nnllflM fl 



A survey made recently by the Stu- 
dent Council of 3 colleges and uni- 
versities concerning the question of 
unauthorized student holidays reveals 
that such days are not customary. 
When they are granted, the students 
and faculty cooperate and organized 



Robert Clifton, 11 months, are his ] KansaB state College who registered 1 1937— Charles W. Beer, Larned; 

two children. j at the College Alumni association of- ! Dorothy (Hammond) Terry, Great 

Arthur F. Endacott, B. S. '36, is flce a nd at the alumni Homecoming Bend: Mary ObrM JJ-J^ 

hosiery buyer for Sears Roebuck and ! luncheon , October 2, .included: An ^ *J* Caldwell Kansas 

SenTa^,^ i y 938_Ral P h Hathaway, Chase; 

den aamess 1S tan. c w Benkelman, McDonald; Doro- 

dnve. 1888— Lieut.-Gov. Carl E. Friend Perrier Hays 

Tate B. Collins, E. E. '37, is the . and MrB . Fri end, Lawrence. | ** ,, b S Soderbiom Delphos- 

toll testboard man if or South ^n Bell , 1891 _ w . s . Arbuthnot, Penning- , ^l^-^^ZT^ZT^ 
Telephone company, Central City, K.y. ton To w»n- v™* Zntavern Great 

His residence in Central City is 417 1894 _ Charl es R. Hatchings and ; 1 *''™±™?*^™1 ££ 



Fifteenth street. 



Mayfleld, E. E. '38, 



toward Memphis, Tenn., meeting will be 1934— Virginia Speer, Manhattan; 

George W. Hill, D. . M. '12 has vaidand ^^^^J^^ November 11. At Little Rock, Ark., Muriel Morgan, Larned; Edna 

changed his address to 516 West Mar- aa ™J* ea £ Weber won the Joseph November 12, an evening meeting has (Greever) Van Tuyl, Fort Sheridan, 

quette road in Chicago^ He is a vet- 1 ^ scno i a rship in landscape ar- been planned under the supervision ; m.; Eugene D. Warner, Manhattan; 

erinarlan and most of his work is ^^^^^^ which ^ u as - of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Nelson. B . B. Coale, St. Joseph, Mo.; S. M. 

inspection of meat. ^^ jn fln ' ancing his gra duate work. Alumni near Tulsa, Okla., are plan- Caughron, Wichita. 

Henry O. Dresser, B. S. '14, writes: gjnce graduatioil) he h as been em- ning their meeting November 13. 1935— L. W. Hibbs, Milwaukee; 

"I am now associate professor of 1 loyed in lan dscape developments in Motion pictures of Kansas State Kathryn Knechtel, Medicine Lodge; 

health and physical education at I Q on and com pleted some graduate College activities will be shown at willard Parker, Clearwater. 

Louisiana State university, Univer " 1 oourses i„ the University of Oregon, most of the above meetings. 1936 — Marjorie (Hanson) Schmit, 

sity, La., P. O. Box 3 252^ I received , ' w Pangburn , G . S . '35, is | Kansas City, Mo.; Lieut. G. W. 

my doctorate from New York univer- | f h Russell Chamber of Homecoming Registration Thornbrough, McChord Field, Wash.; 

S L tylnl93 hi„ offh^artm^loJlcrmerL. Paula Annette, 3, and; Alumni and former stud ents of Caldwell Davis Jr. Bronson 
chairmanship of the Department w^^^ nuftnn n mon ths. are his 
Professional Preparation in Recrea- 
tion and member of the graduate 
committee in the School of Health, 
Physical Education and Recreation 
which is a department in the College 
of Education here at the university." 

Will R. Bolen, Ag. '16, is super- 
visor of extension work at large in 
the division of agriculture in the 
United States Indian service. His 
offices are at 462 Federal building, 
Salt Lake City, and his home is at 
1473 East Ninth South in Salt Lake 
City. 

Mildred (Arends) Hedrick, H. E. 
'20, and George Hedrick, f. s. '20, are 
living at 1133 Emery road, Lawrence. 
Mr. Hedrick is secretary of the Cham- 
ber of Commerce there. 

George W. Hinds, Ag. '21, is man- 
ager of the Pure Ice company, Hutch- 
inson. His four children are Betty 
Jean, 15; Caroline, 12; Marion Joyce, 
10; and George W. Jr., 8. 

William T. Turnbull, G. S. '22, 
teaches mathematics at the Council 
Grove high school. The Turnbulls 
(Leta Henderson) have one daughter, 
Donna Lee, who is 8. 

John E. Franz, G. S. '23, is district 
representative for Omar, Incorpo- 
rated, Omaha, Neb., which manufac- 
tures Omar Wonder flour. His head- 
quarters is at Morgantown, W. Va., 
and his address there is 241 South 
High street. Mrs. Franz (Irene Mc- 
Elroy, f. s. '15) and he have four 
children. They are Dorothy, 23; 
Eula. 21; Edward. 18; and Donald, 
15. 

Mary L. Callahan, M. S. '24, is pro 
fessoi 



brations at Kansas State College in 
the future, members said. 



First announcement of this year's 
members of Prix, junior women's 
honorary society, will be made Thurs- 
day evening in Thompson hall at the 
Mortar Board Hallowe'en dinner at 
which Prof. Howard T. Hill of the 
Department of Public Speaking will 
be the principal speaker. The name 
of the sophomore woman who re- 
ceived the best grades last year as a 
freshman also will be announced at 
the dinner to be given by the senior 
women's honorary society. 



Mrs. Hutchings, Kansas City. 

1895 — R. J. Barnett, Manhattan. 

1896 — Gertrude (Stump) Cudney, 
Trousdale. 

1897 — Ina E. Holroyd, Manhattan. 

1898 — Alice Melton, Manhattan; 
F. M. Seekamp, f. s., and Mrs. See- 



William A. 
writes: 

"The first of September I was 
transferred to the industrial wiring 
department of the Dowzer Construc- 
tion company of Hutchinson to our kainp. Mulvane. 
company here (Texas) as industrial 1899-Richard Auer Good and. 
engineer. Since leaving K. S. C. In 1900-F. B. Morlan. Courtland 
December, 193 8, I had been at Salem,: 1902— Mame (Alexander) Boyd 
111 in our office there as an engineer and F. W. Boyd, f s. Ph.llipsburg. 
in the electrification of oil fields. 1904-Dean R. A. Seaton, Manhat- 

»My address now is 2615 Fannin | tan Manhattan, 

street, Houston, Texas. I should ap- 



preciate having my copy of Tiie^ In- 
DisruiAi.isT sent to this address." 

DEATHS 



1907 — Clarence G. Nevins, Dodge Dr. W. M. 



Kansas State College women must 

have parental permission in order to 

attend out-of-town dances, according 

to a new interpretation of the present 

dance ruling by the Student Council 

and the Faculty Council on Student 

Affairs. The interpretation points 

out that all dances sponsored by stu- 

Bend J Dorothy (Olson) Kirk, Scott j dent organizations or other groups 

City; W. J. Hudspeth and J. R. De- 1 are to be held within the city limits 

Rigne, Kansas City; W. G. "Bunt" ! of Manhattan or at the Manhattan 

Speer' Jr., Arkansas City; Earl J. j Country club and must be approved 

Cook, Pawnee City, Neb. | by the Student Council. 

1940— Anthony Kimmi, South 

Haven; Louie Marshall, Garden City; For the fourth consecutive year 

Charles Piatt, Topeka; Helen Van C. J. Medlin, graduate manager of 

Der Stelt, Anthony. student publications, will conduct the 

„ , „,. „ roa r»^ yearbook school at the annual meet- 

Faculty member present was Dr. , ^ ^ ^ Asgociated Collegiate pre8S . 

R. K. Naoours. 1 Thg meetjng thjs year will be held at 

Guests at the luncheon were: I Detrolt> Nov ember 7, 8 and 9. Stu- 
Chancellor Deane W. Malott, Kansas , den( . publlcatIon representatives at- 
university; Mike H. Malott, Abilene; 1 tendi the convention will be James 
Bob and Eleanor Malott, Lawrence; 



LIGHTFOOT 



■awrence; Kendall( editor, and Murray Mason, 
Jardine, former president ))Usiness manager f The Kansas 
City. of Kansas State College, and Mrs. : gtate Collegian( and Don Makins, edi 

1908 — Ira A. Wilson, Winfield; H. Jardine; Fred M. Harris, chairman : tM attA „„,.„„ whu* hnsinpss man 
A. Praeger and Gertrude (Grizzell) of State Board of Regents, and Mrs. 



Praeger, Claflin. 

1909 — Margaret (Copley) Buch 
holtz, Olathe; H. L. Cudney, Trous 



noitz, uiatne; n. u. ^uuuey, m 

Grace (Strong) Lightfoot, f. s. 84 » ] dale; L. G. Haynes, Los Angeles. 

who died October 9, was born in 1862 \ 191Q L c Aicner> Hays. 

in Manhattan. She lived on a f arm 1 mi R y christian and A 

„ «i_ ai, «* Mn„hoHan until -_. ... - ..... «»,_!_ 



one mile north of Manhattan until 
she was married, attending Manhat- 
tan public schools. She was married 
to William J. Lightfoot, B. S. '81, in 
188 8. For some time after their mar- 
riage, they lived in Topeka. They 
0^ nome"economic8 at Saint j lived in California for some time, as 
Mary-of-the- Woods college in Indi- j Mr. Lightfoot was an examiner of 
ana Her address there is Querin survey for the government. In 1920, 
hall Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. I Mr. Lightfoot was stationed in Wash- 

owns ' Ington, D. C, as an employee of the 



(Vezie) Christian, f. s. '13, Wichita; 
W. G. "Bunt" Speer and Elsie (Rog- 
ler) Speer, Manhattan. 

1912 — Willis N. Kelly, Hutchin- 
son; Homer E. Ira, f. s., Chase; L. C. 
Williams, Manhattan; Lois (Gist) 
Lupfer, Larned. 

1913 — Arthur H. Montford, Hutch- 



Harris; Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Mark- 
ham, Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Brighton, 
Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Harger, Mrs. Don- 
ald Muir, Eleanor Harbaugh, Mr. 
and Mrs. Richard H. Wagstaff, Fred 
Anna Ellsworth, K. U. alumni secretary, 



tor, and Byron White, business man- 
ager of The Royal Purple. 



MARRIAGES 



and Mrs. Ellsworth and Pres. F. D. 
Farrell and Mrs. Farrell. 



BIRTHS 



COOPER — SEATON 
Frances Cooper, Conrad, Iowa, was 
married to James N. Seaton, I. J. '38, 
of Chicago on June 1 at Conrad. The 
bride has been employed by the Gen- 
eral Electric company in Chicago. 
After his graduation from Kansas 



Raymond W Wann, D. V. M. '38, State College, Mr. Seaton did gradu- 

andOra (Riepe) Wann, H. E. '37, an- ate work at Columbia university's 

1913-Anniir n. iyiuuuu.u, nu^"- nounce the birth of a son, Rex Ro- journalism school. He is now em- 

nson; Dr. W. E. Grimes, Manhattan. land on June 22. Their home is at ployed on the Daily Drovers Telegram 

...... . ~ ~ tt l~< :..<:. .1.1. . ' . ... ... . , t_. J HI.. in Chi-inn-r. Ho •! 11 H lUl-H Sf>fltflll 3 Tfi 



1914 — R. R. Houser, Grainfield; 
Blanche (Burt) Yeaton, Lawrence; 
Ethel (Roseberry) Grimes, Manhat- 



Wabash, Ind. Mr. In Chicago. He and Mrs. Seaton are 
Wann is employed at the Baker Vet- at home at 6447 South Kimbark av- 
erinary clinic. 



\< 



T W Honeywell, G. S. '25, ^ 
the Honeywell Repair and Exchange \ Department of the Interior 
shon in Washington, Kan. He has one Mr. Lightfoot died on February 24, , A P Dav idsoii, Manhattan. 

,' V Arthur 11 who helps him 1932. Mrs. Lightfoot lived in Wash- i 916 _ w . W . Haggard, Topeka; M . L . Bergsten, D. V. M. '34, writes BURSON-BURNETT 

with his hobby' of raising goats. j ington until her death. | Charles W. Shaver and Vera (Woody) that Mrs. Bergsten (Elizabeth Gaden, The marriage of Stephaiina Bur- 

1 Fev) Walters G S '26 Immediate relatives surviving Mrs. shaver, f. s., Salina. Wichita U.) and he have a daughter, son, H. B '38, Manhattan, and Gilbert 

m I 28 and Orvme S Waliers M Grace Lightfoot are one sister, Jose- ; 1917-Harry E. Van Tuyl, Fort Janet Kathlene, who was born March Burnett Ch. E. '3 9 McPherson took 

n " are at M % SS ££\ Se^ E Strong; a daughter, Grace Sheridan, 111.; Carl Hultgren and H. lg . They also have a 2-year-old place at the home of the bride s par- 

SS& Washtn^^^ KMSB To Harry L^n7j, M. S. J^tt^^Sr 



two sons, Stanley David, 9, and Rich- Mabel (Baxter) Horner of California. 
ard Paul 4 i A daughter, Fairy Lightfoot, H. E. 

Opal Endsley, M. '27, is director of ; '12. died in 1920. 
amateur shows for the National Pro- | Former Kansas Staters who were 
ducinc company, Kansas City, Mo. j pallbearers at the funeral were Wil- 
She says: "I spend two weeks in a Ham C. Lee, f. s. '80, and Dr. Oliver 
town previously contacted by my , H. Gish, B. S. '08. 



Kansas Uity, mo. u. a. jvraiiH.euuuu, iu nunj ^. *».<..... «^., — ■ «• --. =- 

Plainfield, N. J.; Comfort (Neale) and Mrs. Kent, Austin, Texas, a son, ber of Phi Omega Pi, Enchiladas and 
Copple, Salt Lake City; Nellie (Hunt) Harry L. Kent III, born September Purple Pepsters. She has been teach- 



Converse, Eskridge. 

1919 — Fred E. Pollom and Myrtle 
Gunselman, Manhattan. 

1920 — R. D. Nichols, Fort Scott; 
Mary A. (Furneaux) Daniels, Olathe; 



| 14. The baby's grandfather, Harry 
L. Kent Sr., Ag. '13, M. S. '20, LL. D. 
'31, is also in Texas where he is ad- 
ministrative assistant of the Texas 
Technological college, Lubbock. 



ing at Climax. 

Mr. Burnett, a member of Delta 
Sigma Phi, is now employed with the 
National refinery as a chemical engi- 
neer. The couple live in Coffeyville. 



** 



PHILLIPS COUNTY REVIEW, 
COFFEYVILLE JOURNAL WIN 



lli:i (H.M I l(»\ IS ANNOUNCED 
PROF. It. I. THACKREY 



II ¥ 



Tllll KlIIINIIM I'illll-is l(l'lli\l- KlIllNIIH 

City linn rtl of Trade Journalism 

Scholarship Awards 

ThlM Vear 



Louise Moore, Junior Boyd Win 

Louise Moore, Ellis county, and 
Junior Boyd, Finney county, were 
winners of the state 4-H health con- 
test held here last Saturday. They 
were selected from 13 county health 
champions who were high individuals 
at the annual 4-H cluh roundup last 
June. They were given a four-month 
period before the final contest. 



FRED WARING PROMISES 
TO WRITE WILDCAT SONG 

PETITION IS BEING SIGNED IN 
ANDERSON HALL 



Two Kansas newspapers, the Cof- * 

feyville Journal and the Phillips FARMERS' STORES SURVEY 
County Review, have been named SHOWS 12 PER CENT CASH 

winners of the third annual Kansas 
City Board of Trade Journalism ! 
Scholarship awards. The announce- 
ment was made here today by Frank 
M. Stoll, executive director of Associ 



ated Producers and Distributors in 
Kansas City, and Prof. R. I. Thack- 
rey, head of the Department of In- 
dustrial Journalism and Printing. 

Two $100 awards are given each 
year by the Kansas City Board of 
Trade. One award goes to a daily and 
one to a weekly newspaper for excel- 
lence in community service during 
the previous year. Last year the 



J. W. Mather, College Extension Econo- 
inixt, Finds 48 Companies Have Av- 
erage Current Assets of $8,X75 

Balance sheets of 48 farmers' 
stores in Kansas for the 1936-1937 
year showed average current assets 
for the 48 companies to be $8,375, 
according to a survey by J. W. 
Mather, College extension economist. 

The figure included cash, $985; re- 
ceivables, $2,460; inventories, $4,900, 
and miscellaneous assets of $30 for 
each store. Cash constituted about 
12 per cent, receivables 29 per cent 



tUG PLCYIUUO J^Cll. *-,«,u„ j ~«. j^ POT CtJUL, ICtClVttUICD « v **«» 

awards were made to the Peabody and inventories 59 per cent of the 

I current and working assets of each 
of the average figures for the con- 



Gazette and the Pratt Tribune 
GIVE MONEY TO STUDENTS 
Each newspaper receiving the 
scholarship in turn selects a deserv- 
ing and outstanding student in its 



cents, 

When these associations were clas- 
sified into three groups based on 



ing ana outstanding stuaem m n-o ~— - - - « n nnr1 that 

territory and transfers the $100 to "volume id ££ , 1 ~2Sf ^2 



the student. The money can be used 



current assets were in about the same 



the student. The money can De uaeu ~- - — -- vn i limP handled 

by the student only as a scholarship P»P^^ c^aTts^ the 
to pay fees at Kansas State College 1™ . * „,.„„„ 0VBrMed « 12 . 



for the study of journalism and agri 
culture or journalism and home eco- 
nomics. 

John Tasker Jr. is the student se- 
lected by the Coffeyville Journal to 
receive one of the scholarships. Task 



high-volume group averaged $12,621; 
of the middle group, $7,752, and of 
the low group, $4,753. 

Contrasting the companies having 
the highest volume with those having 
the lowest or smallest volume, it was 



Purple Pepsters Are Sponsoring Pro- 
positi for Broadcast of New Music 
Over Friday Night Brondenst 
by Noted Band 

Fred Waring, band leader, has 
promised to write a new school song 
for Kansas State College, according 
to Mary Ann Bair, president of Pur- 
ple Pepsters. 

In a letter, Mr. Waring promised to 
write the new song for Kansas State 
and dedicate it to the Purple Pepsters 
during one of his regular Friday 
night broadcasts. The Purple Pep- 
sters wrote to the musician last 
spring and asked him to write a Kan- 
sas State school song as he had al- 
ready done for other schools. 

In order to establish that there is 
sufficient interest in the student body 
to warrant writing the song, the stu- 
dents have been asked to sign a peti- 
tion which was placed in Anderson 
hall Tuesday afternoon. 

The Purple Pepsters hope that all 
' students will sign the petition. 

Old songs, stories and traditions 
of the College, together with other 
information which may be of value 
in writing the song, will be sent to 
Mr. Waring by the College Alumni 
association office with the petition. 
Mr. Waring wrote a song for the Uni- 
I versity of Kansas and presented it 
last spring. 



Bill Story at Temple, Texas 

William "Bill" Story. I. J- '39, 
sports editor of The Kansas State 
Collegian two years ago, is now in 
the advertising department of the 
Daily Telegram at Temple, Texas. The 
editor of the Telegram is Walter 
Humphrey, former national president 
of Sigma Delta Chi, national profes- 
sional journalism fraternity. Mr. 
Story formerly was employed by 
radio station KTEM in Temple. 
KTEM and the Daily Telegram are 
under the same management. 
♦ 

YWCA'S ANNUAL AGGIE POP 
TO HAVE NO SPECIAL THEME 



WILDCATS WIN, 20 TO 0, 
FROM JAYHAWK VISITORS 

HOMECOMING THRONG SEES SO.IAD 
MARCH TO VICTORY 



THE COLLEGE 



. t h Task , found that 61 per cent of current 
er, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. I.E Jagk- i storeg were tied 

er of Caney, has enrolled in agricul- invM , tories . while in the low 



tural administration and journalism. 
He also is a Sears, Roebuck scholar- 
ship winner. He was valedictorian of 
the 1939 graduating class of Coffey- 
ville high school where he was a 
member of the debate squad, student 
congress and the National Honor so- 
ciety. He was active in 4-H club 
work, and won firsts in demonstra- 
tion work at the Topeka Free fair 
and the Hutchinson State fair. As 
Tasker has a Sears, Roebuck scholar- 
ship this year, the Board of Trade 
award will be retained by the alumni 
loan fund committee until next year. 
CHOSEN OUTSTANDING STUDENT 
The student chosen by the Phillips 
County Review is Virgil Whitsitt, 
who is enrolled in industrial journal- 
ism and agriculture. Whitsitt, 19, is 
the son of Mr. and Mis. C. C. Whit- 
sitt, a farm family near Phillipsburg. 
He was high individual in scholarship 



up in inventories, while in the low 
group inventories represented only 52 
per cent of current assets. As a re- 
sult, cash constituted only 10 per cent 
of the working assets in the high 
group, as compared with 14 per cent 
on the part of the low group. Ac- 
counts receivable were in relatively 
better condition in the larger stores, 
however, although both accounts and 
notes receivable were excessive in 
each case, Mr. Mather said. 

When all resources were added to- 
gether and divided by the total mem- 
bership in the 48 associations, it was 
determined that the stores had assets 
equivalent to about $100 per member. 

♦ 
SIGMA NIT FRATERNITY LOSES 

SOCIAL RIGHTS FOR SEMESTER 



Organi/ation Accused of Breaking Hush 
Week Rules Denies Wrong Intent 

Social privileges for the rest of the 
in the 1939 graduating class of Phil- f a n semester for Sigma Nu fraternity 



lipsburg high school where he was 

active in music and dramatics. He 

was chosen the outstanding senior j enic council last week 

boy of his class and was valedictori- nily was penalized foi 

an. Whitsitt attended the University 

of Kansas last year. 

The Coffeyville Journal, a daily 
owned and published by Hugh 



will be restricted in accordance with 
a ruling of the senior Men's Panhel- 

The frater- 
breaking a 
rush week rule last fall. 

The Council decided that the fra- 
ternity must forfeit a bond put up be- 
fore rush week, notify its national 



owneu iiiiu !»..■»». o..^„ ..., -- ~ iuic ■ «o.. „~~.., -„ -— 

Powell since July 1, 1914, devotes oflicers of the case and must publish 
much of its space to farm problems an announcement of the violation, 
and activities. The Phillips County Tne fraternity contended it did not 
Review, published by the Boyd fami- niean to violate any rule. 

The case was a result of a mis- 
interpretation of rush rules, said Jack 
Haymaker, Manhattan, president of 
the Panhellenic Council. A commit- 
tee has been appointed to revise men's 
rushing rules to prevent any similar 
situation in the future. 



ly, is the weekly to receive the award. 

♦ 

GRADE A SEED WHEAT HAS 
HIGH GERMINATION RATING 



MANHATTAN THEATRE TICKETS 
FOR 'WHAT A LIFE' ON SALE 



Dr. John II. I'arker Issues Annual Re- 
port on Tests Made at State Seed 
Laboratory Here 

The Grade A seed wheat made 
available for planting in Kansas this 
fall through the cooperative wheat 
Improvement program of the Kansas 
Wheat Improvement association had 
high germination and purity ratings, 
according to a summary report issued 
by Dr. John H. Parker, director. The play will be given in the College 

The 103 samples of Grade A seed A „j. t — .„„, r , { ^ v j,,,h Saturday 



First Kill I Piodiietlon Will lie Given on 
Friday and Saturday Xights 

Tickets for the Manhattan Thea- 
tre's first production of the year, 
"What a Life," went on sale today. 



(Continued from page one) 
of halls previously built and paid 
for. This plan is used successfully at 
many colleges throughout the coun- 
try. 

The student union bonds would be 
amortized from the receipts from a 
student union fee of not to exceed 
$5 a semester and $2.50 a summer; 
session. This plan is in successful 
use at Purdue, Iowa State college, 
Oregon State college, the University 
of Oklahoma and many other col- 1 
leges. 

These are some of the major needs 
of the College. Your Alma Mater is 
rapidly approaching a crisis, if indeed ; 
it has not already arrived. Its future 
will depend chiefly upon the action 
Of the Kansas Legislature. If that 
action is constructive, the College 
will continue to increase the quan- ; 
tity and improve the quality of its , 
service to the state. If it is not con- , 
structive, the College inevitably will 
sink into mediocrity, or worse. 

Can the state afford better support 
for the state schools? Communities 
all over the state are improving their 
high schools and grade schools. The 
cost to these communities of ade- 
quate support for the state institu- 
tions is so small, comparatively and 
absolutely, as to be almost negligible. 
So long as we spend as much as we 
do for cosmetics and cigarettes, we 
cannot justly plead inability to afford 
adequate support for the state 
schools. The state is neither very rich 
nor very poor. It is not rich enough 
to afford continued neglect of the 
five state schools. 

Through their potential influence 
on public opinion, on members of the 
Legislature and on the governor, the 
alumni of Kansas State College can 
perform a valuable public service, as 
well as a service to themselves and 
their posterity, by seeing to it that 
the College is enabled to carry on ef- 
ficiently and effectively the work for , 
which it was established and is main- 
tained. 



Trndltlonnl Kail Show Will Present 
Four Individual and Four Organi- 
zation Acts This Year 

The YWCA's annual Aggie Pop 
stunt nights, November 15 and 16, 
will differ from former ones in that 
no theme will be followed. 

Four organizations and four indi- 
viduals will participate in the pro- 
gram. The organization stunts may 
last 12 minutes each and the indi- 
vidual acts eight minutes. A prize of 
$10 will be awarded to the winner in 
the individual competition and a i 
trophy to the organization. 

William Hall, Phillipsburg, will be 
master of ceremonies. Hall, who is 
a two-year student from Fort Hays 
State, will also give an eight-minute 
skit in which he impersonates radio, 
screen and stage stars. While at 
Hays, Hall conducted amateur hours. 

Organizations and their managers 
are Kappa Delta, Darolyn Johnsmey- 
er, Topeka; Beta Theta Pi, Burks 
Sherwood, Independence; Alpha Del- 
ta Pi, Mona Marie Jones, Wichita, 
and Kappa Kappa Gamma, Clara Jane 
Billingsley, Belleville. 

Individuals who will appear on the 

Aggie Pop program are Mary Alice 

Matchette, Kansas City, Mo.; Byron 

McCall, El Dorado; Gerald Tucker, 

1 Winfield, and Edward La Salle, Kan- 

! sas City. 

Members of the Aggie Pop com- 
i mittee are Jean Scott, Manhattan, 
manager; Pat Townley, Abilene, as- 
sistant manager; Jean Alford, River- 
: side, 111., and Carol Stevenson, Ober- 
: lin, ticket sales; and Audrey Durland, 
Manhattan, and Ema Lou Bireline, 
Lewis, publicity. 



DAIRY PRODUCTS TEAM WINS 
12TH PLACE AT ATLANTIC CITY 



Conrad Jackson. Elsmore, Takes Fifth 
Banking for Individuals 

The Dairy Products Judging team I 
representing Kansas State College 
placed 12th at the Student National 
Contest in Judging Dairy Products, 
Atlantic City, N. J., last week. 
Twenty-one teams competed. 

Conrad Jackson, Elsmore, was fifth 
individual in the entire contest. 

As a group, the team placed 12th 
in dairy production, seventh in butter, 
10th in cheese, 12th in milk and ninth 
in ice cream. Prof. W. H. Martin, 
coach, accompanied the team. 

Members included Dale Brown, 
Manhattan; Clayton David, Topeka; 
M. W. Marcoux, Havensville; and 
Jackson. The group returned to 
Manhattan Saturday. 
♦ 
Mackintosh on Program 

D. L. Mackintosh, associate profes- 
sor of animal husbandry, went to 
Chicago Sunday to attend a three-day 
convention of the National Frozen 
Food Locker association. Professor 
Mackintosh spoke on "Practical Bon- 
ing of Meat for Greater Revenue for 
the Operator and Saving for the Pa- 
tron." 



wheat tested by J. W. Zahnley, direc- 
tor of the state seed laboratory at 
Manhattan, had an average germina- 
tion of 93 per cent. The average puri- 
ty of these samples, as determined in 
the seed laboratory, is 97.8 per cent. 

Eleven of the 103 samples tested 
were from western Kansas, 54 from 
the central counties and 38 from the 
eastern third of the state. Varieties 
included in this list of tested Grade A 
seed wheat were Turkey, Kanred, 
Tenmarq and Blackhull, hard wheats, 
as well as Kawvale, a semihard type, 
and Clarkan, a soft wheat. 

, T ,% , ?„Ti«^^ 0d farin* Se Pilot-training program have spent 
££3lf^vE35.% moisture and a total of 213 hours in the air during 
ea?ly g owth of the new crop, augurs their first two weeks of flying, while 
well to™ he quantity and the quality advanced students have flown 25 
Zthl 1941 winter wheat harvest for! hours and 40 minutes, Prof. C. E. 
Se stal's wheat production and j Pearce, local director, reported this 
flour milling, Doctor Parker believes. | week. 



Auditorium Friday and Saturday 
nights, starting at 8:15 p. m. 

Thomas Trenkle, Topeka, will play 
the lead role of Henry Aldrich, high 
school student who gets into numer- 
ous scrapes. The play, which was 
written by Clifford Goldsmith, had a 
long, successful run on Broadway. 

Dress rehearsals will be held to- 
night and Thursday evening, accord- 
ing to H. Miles Heberer, associate 
professor of public speaking and di- 
rector of the Manhattan Theatre. 
♦ 
Flying Activities Under Way 

Primary students of the civilian 



EVERYDAY ECONOMICS 

By W.E. GRIMES 



"Man always is forecasting the future." 



Raymond Rokey, Snhetha, nnd Donald 
" Munzer, Herlngtnii, Make Inter- 
ceptions to Rrlirhten Up 
Second Half 

By H. W. DAVIS 
Head, Department of English 

The Kansas State Wildcat clawed 
the Kansas Jayhawk for a 20-0 count 
on Ahearn field last Saturday after- 
noon before 14,000 pleased Home- 
coming fans. 

The Wildcat started savagely and 
pushed the bewildered Jayhawk all 
over the gridiron for a quarter and a 
half. Then with two touchdowns to 
the good he calmed considerably and 
the last half of the game, with the ex- 
ceptions of a brilliant interception by 
' Raymond Rokey, Sabetha, with a 30- 
Jyard return, and a ditto by Donald 
Munzer, Herington, for a 16-yard 
gallop to a touchdown, was somewhat 
sparkless. 

EARLY MARCH FAILS 
The game opened with a march 
down the field featuring Kent Duwe, 
Lucas, Kansas State quarterback. It 
bogged on the Kansas 17, and the Jay- 
hawkers took over. A few minutes 
later the Wildcat started again, with 
Duwe smashing and tossing to the 
Kansas 14. Then on a fourth down 
Duwe passed to Rokey for a touch- 
down. 

The second marker came on the 
first play of the second quarter, the 
stage having been set by a 39-yard 
dash by Rokey on a reverse and two 
charges by Duwe. Bill Quick, Beloit, 
in for Duwe, simply threw to James 
Watkins, Manhattan, who had crossed 
over from left end to the right receiv- 
ing zone, and Watkins spun over for 
1 six more counters. 

The final touchdown came late in 
the fourth quarter, after a half of un- 
eventful play. Duwe had kicked out 
of bounds on the Kansas 19. On the 
third down the Jayhawkers, eager for 
< a break, passed and Munzer inter- 
1 cepted, ignored four or five tacklers 
beautifully and galloped across. 
JAYHAWKS ARE INEFFECTIVE 
The Kansas team, with the excep- 
: tions of Pierce, a real center in any- 
j body's league, and Pollom and Fry, 
: backfield boys any coach would wel- 
come, seemed unable to swing into 
effective footballing. The Wildcats 
displayed more smoothness and ag- 
gressiveness than heretofore this 
season and looked the part of a hard- 
to-beat team. 

Duwe came back into power in 
mighty fine style, Rokey found him- 
self and Munzer looked like a charg- 
ing fullback on his interception re- 
turn. The line riddled the opposition 
consistently. But the flow of power 
from the Wildcat was not without 
its ebbings, its gain from passing and 
rushing being 26 4 yards during the 
first half and 63 in the second. 

Here are the statistics: 

K. S. K. U. 

First downs 16 

From rushing i* 

From passing - 

From penalty » 

Net yards rushing <"" 

Yards lost from rushing £l> 

Net yards forward passes 57 

Forwards attempted l'> 

Forwards completed 4 

Intercepted by 4 

Yards interceptions ret »!> 

Punts, number J 

Average yards by punts At--> 

Kiekoffs, average 4Z 

Yards kicks returned oi 

Punts 44 . 

Kiekoffs ° 

Fumbles •? 

Ball lost | 

Yards lost on penalties 55 

Ball lost on downs j 

Hall lost on penalty 1 

Score by periods: 
1C o r 7 6 7—20 

k! r. ..'..'.'.'.'.'."■.'.'.'.'.'.'." o o n o— o 

Kansas State scoring: Touchdowns — 
Rokey (sub for Langvardt), Watkins 
(sub for Swanson), Munzer. Point from 
try after touchdown: Nichols I. 

♦ 
ALPHA ZETA INITIATES 18 

INTO LOCAL ORGANIZATION 



8 

3 

3 

2 
47 
28 
67 
23 

7 





!l 
39.5 
44 
61 
27 
34 




10 

2 





Man always is forecasting the fu- 
ture. The farmer seeds his wheat, 
hoping that the yield will be good 
and the price satisfactory. The manu- 
facturer builds his factory and manu- 
factures goods, hoping that the goods 
will meet real needs and be in suffi- 
cient demand to make it possible for 
him to regain his expenditures. The 
farmer and the manufacturer and all 
other producers of goods for future 
markets engage in production, ex- 
pecting that the price to be received 
will be sufficient to cover the costs 
incurred and hoping that there will 
be a margin left over as profit 



Costs are incurred at certain levels in 
the belief that the price to be received 
will justify those costs. In deciding 
to incur the costs, business men at- 
tempt to obtain all possible informa- 
tion concerning the probable markets 
for the products to be produced. This 
information is the basis for their 
forecasts which are expressed in the 
costs incurred. 

Forecasting of future events is an 
important part of our modern econ- 
omy. Any development which will in- 
crease the accuracy of these business 
forecasts will benefit the producers 



iTSSrS 2= n are j M ar.0 t*™*™ b. ■» *• 
based upon foreea.ts of the future. ! advantage oi all consumers. 



Six Seniors mill Seven Juniors Selected 
lor Honorary Ag Fraternity 

Alpha Zeta, honorary agricultural 
organization, announced the election 
of 13 candidates for formal initiation 
into the local chapter Monday night. 
The men are: 

Seniors: William Ball, Oswego; 
Lloyd Jones, Frankfort; David Long, 
Abilene; Milton Manuel, Havens- 
ville; Willard Meinecke, Herkimer; 
Paul Smith, Lebanon. 

Juniors: Bert Danielson, Linds- 
borg; Leonard Deets, South Haven; 
Dale McCune, Stafford; Gene Pogge- 
meyer, Topeka; Ed Reed, Lyons; 
Dick Wellman, Sterling; Francis 
Wempe, Frankfort. 



MM 



HISTORICAL SOCIETY Q 

TOPEKA 

KAN. 



The Kansas Industrialist 



Volume 67 



Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, Manhattan, Wednesday, November 6, 1940 



Number 8 



DEAN DOROTHY STRATTON 
TO ADDRESS CONFERENCE 

GIRLS' ADVISERS WILL MEET ON 
CAMPUS THIS WEEK-END 



'i v 



< 



Purdue I nlver»llj'» Repreaentative 

Will Dlacuaa What More Than 600 

Parents Told Her About 

Coeda' Problema 

Three talks by Dean Dorothy Strat- 
ton, Purdue university, will highlight 
the 25th annual conference of the 
Kansas Association of Deans of Wo- 
men and Advisers of Girls to be held 
at Kansas State College Friday and 
Saturday. 

At 2 o'clock Friday afternoon she 
will address the high school deans' 
roundtable. The subject of her talk 
at the formal banquet Friday night 
in the Crystal room of the Wareham 
hotel will be "A Philosophy for 
1940." Saturday morning she will 
present material gathered from more 
than 600 parents under the title, 
"What the Parents Are Saying." 
REGISTER FRIDAY MORNING 

Registration for the conference will 



Prof. G. A. Sellers Chosen 

Prof. G. A. Sellers of the Depart- 
ment of Shop Practice was elected 
secretary of the Kansas-Nebraska 
section of the Society for the Promo- 
tion of Engineering Education at the 
meeting here Saturday. Prof. C. H. 
Scholer of the Department of Applied 
Mechanics was elected a member of 
the program committee. 

♦ 

PRIX MEMBERS REVEALED 

AT RECOGNITION DINNER 



PHI KAPPA PHI SELECTS 
33 FOR NEW MEMBERSHIP 

DR. MARY T. HARMAJS, SECRETARY, J 
MAKES ANNOUNCEMENT 



Regional Adviser 



Eleven Coeda, Six from Sororltlea, 
Named to Junior Women'a All- 
School Honorary Organization 

Recognition for junior women at 
Kansas State College was conferred 
on 11 coeds at the annual recognition 
dinner Thursday night, when the 
girls were admitted to membership 
in Prix, junior women's all-school 
honorary. 

Membership in Prix is based on 
scholarship, leadership, service and 



General Science and Engineering Each 

Supply Eight Studenta, While Home 

Economlca and Veta Both 

Have Seven 

Thirty-three students have been 
elected to membership in the Kansas 
State College chapter of Phi Kappa 
Phi, national honorary scholastic so- 
ciety. The names of the new mem- 
bers of the society were announced 
Friday by Dr. Mary T. Harman, chap- 
ter secretary. 

The list included seven from the 
Division of Agriculture, eight from 
the Division of Engineering and 
Architecture, eight from the Division 
of General Science, seven from the 
Division of Home Economics and 
three from the Division of Veterinary 
Medicine. i 

SEVEN PROM AGRICULTURE 
Those elected include: 
Division of Agriculture — George ' 




ENGINEERING DIVISION 

TO TRAIN FOR DEFENSE 



DEAN R. A. SEATON ANNOUNCES 
PLANS TO COOPERATE 



seph Smies, Courtland; Emerson Lyle 
Cyphers, Fairview; Lloyd Charles 
Jones, Frankfort; James Frederick 



character. 

New Prix members included Helen 
Kegisu-auon ior me cumei-eiiue win ;„„„„_, , .... „„„„ (,,.„!, 

be Mfc, m„,„.„ B ,n ReceaHon j ^te^^S.- »S/S* i WU.on Cechr.n. T.pe.a; Hanry Jo- 

The association will be greeted by ! rier, Kingman, Kappa Kappa Gam- 
Dr. J. T. Willard, College historian, ma; Helen Reiman, Byers; EmaLou 

Addresses will be heard on 'The Bireline Lewi.: . ^^/fX" ! Booth, Fairview; Boyd Homer Mc 
Dean's Task," by Dean Emeritus ! haurn^ Glenn Martin Busset, 

Mary Pierce Van Zile; "The Place of , C° u, "» nd <*™ J i^MaHe Knott I Manhattan. 
the Family in the Adjustment of the tan, Pi Beta Phi. Jean Mane ivnoix, 

Girl," by Dr. Katharine Roy, head of I Independence, Kappa Kappa Gamma; I Division of Engineering and Archi- 
the nMiartment of Child Welfare and Alice Warren, Manhattan, Delta Del- lecture— Howard Miller Zeidler, 
Euthei lies- "What in 1940 Should Be i ta Delta; Mary Griswold, Manhattan, : Girard; Albert Erwin Schwerin, Kan- 
the Policy of the Institution in Re- ' Chi Omega. ■ sas City, Mo; Louis Earl Raburn, 

gard to Social Regulations of Stu- Of the 11 girls selected six are so- Manhattan; Joseph Donald Musil, 
dents'" bv Dean Maude Minrow, rority girls and five are independents. Manhattan; Carl Theodore Besse, 
Kansas State Teachers college, Em- 1 Recognition was given to the clay Center; Vincent Henry Ellis, 
S-«Rettiono^ girl who had the highest UPbanBi m. ; Melvin Eugene Estey, 

.. . _ . o«ii,-.lnaHf. avowp-p in thp entire Col- T.nnn-rlrm • Rnhprt Allen Peterson. 



R.A, SJE/iTOAT 

Dean R. A. Seaton of the Division 
of Engineering and Architecture has 
been named regional adviser for Ar- 
kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Kan- 
sas under the federal government's 
$9,000,000 program to train students 
to meet the needs of industry and 
government in carrying out the na- 1 
tional defense program. 



KANSAS STATE ENGINEER 

WINS NATIONAL HONORS 



dent Organizations," by Dean Minnie 
Maude Macaulay, Ottawa university; 



"The Responsibility of the Dean to I Arnold, Manhattan a journalism 
the Girl Who Works," by Miss Marie : student, daughter of Mayor J. David 
Miller, assistant to the dean of wo- Arnold and a member of Pi Beta Phi 



scholastic average in the entire Col- Langdon; Robert Allen Peterson, 
lege last ye?r. She is Mary Margaret Jasper, Mo. 



Division of General Science — Ray- 
mond Voiles Adam5l»4r., Manhattan; 

to the dean or wo- 1 *""""* ■*"'* ■ •»»-—— — Marianna Kistler, Manhattan; Carl 

men Kansas university; "Some Ob- , sorority. Miss Arnold, an attractive BrneBt Lat8Char> Manhattan; Rich- 
servations on Our Contemporary red-head, made 96 grade points out \ a ,. A Tvr„ni QT1Q >, a n Weitv, Manhattan: 
World," by Prof. F. L. Parrish, De- of a possible 97%. 

Mary Marjorie Willis, Newton, a 
journalism major and a Chi Omega 



partment of History. 

DEAN MOORE IS PRESIDENT 

I I'll US' ■'■ VT€*0 H 

Discussions will be led by Dean j Nace Dw j g ht, 
Elizabeth Agnew, Fort Hays Kansas 
State college; Dean Dorothy Hamer, 
Emporia high school; Dean Grace; 



ard McClanahan Keith, Manhattan; 

Ruth Ella Kindred, Bonner Springs; 

Harold McKee Lemert, Arkansas 

j""'-"'*" -•— City; James Merlin Kendall, Dwight; 

pledge, was second, and Marjorie c , ara Katharine C hubb, Topeka. 
N.ncp riwitrht. another iournalism 



major, was third. 



Irwin, Baker university at Baldwin 
Miss Mary Alice Seller, girls' adviser, 
Roosevelt high school at Emporia; 
and Dean Grace Wilkie, University of 
Wichita. 

Dean Helen Moore, Kansas State 
College, is president of the associa- 
tion; Miss Mary Alice Seller, Em- 
poria, is vice-president; and Sister 



All II. 



O. T. ('. Studenta Will Selcet 
Winner uy IlnllotinK 

The Cadet Officers club has an- 
nounced selection of three candidates 
for the title of honorary cadet colonel 
at the annual Military ball, December 
Margaret Mary, dean of women at i 7, in Nichols Gymnasium 



CADET CLUB PICKS THREE 

FOR HONORARY COLONEL 



THREE VETS INCLUDED 
Division of Home Economics — 
Helen Rowena Marshall, Wheaton, 
111.; Jessie Margaret Collins, Dwight; 
Autumn Felton Fields, McPherson; 
Dorothy Mae Green, Wichita; Helen 
Leona Pilcher, Gridley; Agnes Marie 
Smith, Toronto; Velva Aldene Peffly, 
Waldron. 

Division of Veterinary Medicine — 
Bernard Busby, Wakefield, Neb.; 
Clark C. Collins, West Point, Neb.; 



Marymount college, Salina, is secre 
tary-treasurer. 

Approximately 50 deans are ex 
pected to attend the conference and 



in Nichols Gymnasium. William Dale Bowerman, Oklahoma 

The candidates are Dorothy Green, „. 



Wichita, Pi Beta Phi; Shirley Karns, 
Coffeyville, Kappa Kappa Gamma, 
and Jane Galbraith, Cottonwood 



40 Girl Reserve high school advisers j Falls, Alpha Delta Pi 
have been invited. 

E. G. KELLY IS CHOSEN 

TO HEAD EXTENSION GROUP 



City. 



Mra. Laura WHHaon, Wichita, Selected 

Vlce-Prealdent and Don L. Ingle, 

Secretnry-Treaaurer 

Prof. E. G. Kelly, extension en- 
tomologist, was elected president of 
the Kansas Extension Workers asso- 
ciation last week. 

Other new officers are Mrs. Laura 
Willison, home demonstration agent 
from Wichita, vice-president, and 
Don L. Ingle, county agent at Hutch- 
inson, secretary-treasurer. 

B. H. Fleenor, professor of educa- 
tion, was elected head of the state 
branch of Epsilon Sigma Phi, national 
honorary fraternity of extension 
workers who have served 10 years or 
more, at their annual banquet Thurs- 
day night. 

L. L. Longsdorf, extension pub- 
licity editor, is the new secretary- 
treasurer and Miss Pearl Martin of 
the extension home economics depart- 
ment is the new analyst. About 75 
members attended the banquet, at 
which L. H. Caldwell of Wichita gave 
a color illustrated lecture of "Color- 
ful Kansas." 

H. Umberger, dean and director 
of the Division of College Extension, 
concluded the general session with a 
summarization of the conference. 



Marketing on Radio Program 

Problems of marketing turkeys for 
The winning candidate will be \ the holiday season will be discussed 
chosen by a vote of all the advanced ! on the KSAC Farm Hour broadcast 
and basic R. O. T. C. students. I at 12:30 p. m. on November 13. 

DROUGHT RESISTANCE IN CORN IS INHERITED, 

FEDERAL WORKERS FIND IN RESEARCH HERE 



Research workers of the federal 
Bureau of Plant Industry working in 
greenhouses and fields of the Kansas 
Agricultural Experiment station have 
found that drought resistance in corn 
is inherited. 

This is one of the immediately 
practical findings of a study of corn 
genetics related to heat and drought 
tolerance undertaken by E. G. Heyne 
and Arthur M. Brunson of the United 
States Department of Agriculture. 

They believe that seed corn which 
is reliably drought resistant probably 
can be assured by controlled crossing 
of inbred lines that have previously 
produced drought-resistant hybrid 
seed. 

There is no indication in these ex- 
periments that the crossing of two 
inbred lines of drought-resistant corn 
will increase drought resistance in 
the same way or to the same degree 



be able to develop sweet corns as 
drought resistant as the hardiest of 
the starchy corns. 

During the past few years, Mr. 
Heyne and Mr. Brunson have found 
conditions unusually favorable for 
checking greenhouse results by means 
of field plantings. They have applied 
the earlier discovery that it is pos- 
sible to get a fairly reliable indica- 
tion of drought resistance of corn by 
exposing seedling plants to several 
hours of extreme heat — at about 130 
degrees Fahrenheit — in a chamber 
where the humidity is only about 30 
per cent. 

The research project showed that 
"sweetness" in corn is governed 
chiefly, if not exclusively, by the 
"sugary gene" located on one of the 
chromosomes. 

The analysis indicated that this 



DIyIhIoiiiiI IHaKnzlne la Selected na lleat- 

Illuatrated College Publication 

Lnat Year 

The Kansas State Engineer, official 
magazine of the Division of Engi- 
neering and Architecture, received 
several awards, including a first 
place, at the annual convention of 
the members of the Engineering Col- 
lege Magazines Associated conven- 
tion in Fayetteville, Ark., last Friday 
and Saturday. 

The first-place award received by 
The Engineer was given to the best- 
illustrated magazine of last year. 
The other awards given to The Engi- 
neer were second place for the best 
general editorials and third place for 
the best single editorial. The single 
editorial, written by Jim Stockman, 
Wichita, editor of the publication, 
was "After Graduation, What?" pub- 
lished last March. 

Robert Teeter, McPherson, was 
business manager of last year's Engi- 
neer. 

The members of this year's staff, 
who attended the meeting in Fayette- 
ville, were Al White, Topeka, editor; 
Tom Martin, Topeka, assistant edi- 
tor; Charles Webb, Hill City, busi- 
ness manager; Ben Petrie, Syracuse, 
assistant business manager, and Prof. 
M. A. Durland, assistant dean of the 
Division of Engineering and Archi- 
tecture and faculty adviser. 

Of the 24 members of the associa- 
tion, 13 were represented at the con- 
vention. The awards were made at 
the close of the convention. 

The convention met at Iowa State 
college last year, and The Engineer 
received three first-place awards. 
Next year the convention will be at 
the University of Illinois. 
♦ 

MRS. BESSIE BROOKS WEST 

SELECTED BY DIETITIANS 



the same way or o me «u« s ™ othenj that make 

that other quantities — yield, for ex- 1 8 A„„„„\,t ininv* 

ample-may be increased by crossing i corn susceptible to drought injury- 
inbred lines to produce first-genera- ! and this makes improbable the ,breed- 
tion hybrids for seed. ! ™S of sweet corns as drought resis- 



The studies also Indicate that it is 
not probable that breeders will ever 



tant as may be possible with the 
starchy corns. 



ProfcHHor Is Choaen na Chnirinnn of 
Profeaalonal Ktlucation Section 

Mrs. Bessie Brooks West, head of 
the Department of Institutional Man- 
agement, was elected chairman of 
the professional education section of 
the American Dietetic association at 
the annual convention October 20 to 
24 in New York City. This position 
will make her a member of the execu- 
tive board of the association. 

The executive board has five mem- 
bers made up of chairmen of the sev- 
eral sections. 

Mrs. West returned to the campus 
Monday after a tour which included 
the convention, visits to former stu- 
dents and hospitals offering courses 
for student dietitians. Dr. Martha S. 
Pittman of the Department of Food 
Economics and Nutrition accom- 
panied Mrs. West. 



Federal Government Will Finance Stu- 
denta Dealrlng Intenalve Instruc- 
tion for Induatrlal or Govern- 
mental Work 

R. A. Seaton, dean of the Division 
of Engineering and Architecture, to- 
day announced plans for the estab- 
lishment of special short technical 
courses for intensive engineering 
training of students to meet the needs , 
of industry and government in carry- 
ing out the national defense program. 

Dean Seaton has been selected as 
regional adviser for the Arkansas, 
Missouri, Oklahoma and Kansas 
region. He returned Sunday from 
conferences in Washington. 
TO SPEND $9,000,000 

Kansas State College is one of the 
qualified institutions under the pro- 
gram which is expected to reach ap- 
proximately 150 schools in the 
country. A $9,000,000 program will 
be set up under the general direction 
of John W. Studebaker, United States 
commissioner of education. Details 
for Kansas State College have not 
yet been entirely worked out. 

Young men with one or more years 
of engineering college training or 
with a high school education and in- 
dustrial experience are being sought 
j to enter the training, the dean said. 
' Some of the courses will require three 
years of engineering college training, 
or equivalent industrial experience, 
for admission. 

No provision is made to defray the 
living expenses of students. All other 
charges by the schools such as tuition 
| and fees, which usually run about 
$150 a year for regular students, will 
"be paid from the federal appropria- 
tion for this purpose, Dean Seaton 
said. 

DRAFT NEW TEACHERS 

Announcement of the first courses 
to be offered will be made about No- 

! vember 25 and instruction probably 
will begin shortly thereafter, Dean 

j Seaton said. 

As the program develops arrange- 
ments will be made to facilitate the 
placement of students in defense posi- 
tions as they complete their training. 
Classes will be conducted at the engi- 
neering schools for full-time students 
and in or near industrial plants for 
the benefit of part-time and evening 
students. Regular college teaching 
staffs will be supplemented by addi- 
tional teachers including specially 
qualified men from the industries to 
be served. 

A FINE OPPORTUNITY 
"Industries are badly in need of 
technically trained men. This is a 
fine opportunity for young men with 
a high school education, and prefer- 
ably with some engineering college 
training or industrial experience, to 
get some college grade training at 
no cost except actual maintenance," 
Dean Seaton declared. He is urging 
all who are interested to get in touch 
immediately with the engineering 
school preferred. 

First courses to be established will 
be designed to meet present needs 
and to forestall potential shortages 
of inspectors of materials, chemicals, 
explosives, instruments and power 
units; designers of machinery, equip- 
ment, tools and dies and aircraft 

| power plants, structures and instru- 
ments; production engineers and 
supervisors; physical metallurgists, 
marine engineers and naval archi- 
tects. As needs become apparent 
other courses will be added. 
•*- 

Ag Student Appears 

A new, enlarged Kansas Agricul- 
i tural Student made its appearance 
Tuesday. This magazine is published 
i by the agricultural students, and has 
ja circulation of about 1,600. Editor 
I of this year's magazine is Glenn Bus- 
set, Manhattan; the business man- 
ager is Stan Winter, Dresden. The 
editor and business manager are 
elected by the students in the Divi- 
sion of Agriculture in the spring. 



ja 



The KANSAS INDUSTRIALIST 

Established April 24, 1875 



R. I. Thaok hi v Editor 

JANE ROCKWELL. RALPH LASHBBOOK. 

Hili.iih Kkicuiiiiaum . . . Associate Editors 
KiNSir Ford Alumni Editor 



Published weekly during the college year by 
the Kansas State College of Agriculture and 
Applied Science. Manhattan, Kansas. 



Except for contributions from officers of the 
college and membersof the faculty, the articles 
in Thk Kansas Indusi kialist are written by 
students in the Department of Industrial Jour- 
nalism and Printing, which also does the me- 
chanical work. 

The price of The Kansas Industrialist is 
S3 a year, payable in advance. 



Entered at the postoftlce, Manhattan. Kansas, 
as second-class matter October 27. 19IH. Act 
of July 16. 1894. 

Make checks and drafts payable to the K. 
S. C. Alumni association. Manhattan. Sub- 
scriptions for all alumni and former students, 
S3 a year; life subscript ions. $50 cash or in instal- 
ments. Membership in alumni association in- 
cluded. 



ly good impression on the two packed- 
house audiences. 

Undoubtedly much of the success 
of the presentation is due to the act- 
ing of Tommy Trenkle, Topeka, who 
did the role of Henry Aldrich. Mr. 
Trenkle's work as a juvenile comic 
was so consistently professional that 
the audiences were rocked with ex- 
plosive laughter throughout. Betty- 
Lee Beatty, Ellsworth, who played 
the part of Barbara Pearson, the one 
shining light in Henry's befuddled 
existence, was no less successful. The 
two of them presented high school 
psychology in all its ridiculous and 
entertaining abnormality. 

There was a whole host of other 
collegians having the time of their 
life presenting the good old days of 
two or three years ago in highly 



SCIENCE TODAY 




WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1940 



By J. H. WHITLOCK 

Assistant Professor, Department of 
Pathology 

The activities of medical science in 
recent years have not been confined to 
discovering new diseases and new 
drugs. One of the most remarkable 
of recent investigations has revealed 
that a disease, formerly thought to 
be rare in this country, is so wide- 
spread that about one out of every 
six people in the country have had it 
in some form or other. The disease 



or more people who started a co- 
operative boarding club in Manhat- 
tan. Professor White acted as secre- 
tary. 



is trichinosis, which is caused by 

small, worm-like parasites that live 

! in the muscles and intestinal tract of 

farcical manner. High school princi- | man> p j g an d other animals 

pals, teachers and students 



DEFENSE AGAINST PROPAGANDA 

A controversy over the proper defi- 
nition of the word propaganda has 
broken out in the columns of the New 
Republic between Max Lerner, author 
of "Ideas Are Weapons," and Clyde 
R. Miller, secretary of the Institute 
for Propaganda Analysis. 

The controversy involves such aca- 
demic questions as to whether or not 
one who is sincere but misrepresents 
because he is poorly informed should 
be classed as a propagandist, and 
whether propaganda covers all at- 
tempts to influence opinion or merely 
those which can be classed as "ma- 
nipulation" rather than persuasion. 
It is important because it involves 
two intelligent and informed social 
scientists, but the fact that experts 
disagree need not add to the per- 
plexities of the layman who is at- 
tempting to form rational judgments 
and make intelligent decisions amid 
the conflicting persuasive efforts of 

today. 

The disagreement may even be 
helpful in calling attention to the 
fact that "education against propa- 
ganda" has laid too much emphasis 
on nomenclature — upon definitions 
of propaganda and classification of 
techniques. 

Recent studies at the University of 
Minnesota and elsewhere indicate 
that sophistication (in the best sense 
of the term), rather than mere fa- 
miliarity with types of propaganda 
devices, is the best "insurance 
against being misled. 

Thus the citizen who has become 
acquainted with the names, methods 
and ends of the more powerful pres- 
sure groups operating in Washington, 
through the writings of Peter Ode- 
gard and Kenneth Crawford, can 
evaluate the frequent statements and 
actions of representatives of these 
groups, which frequently conduct 
their affairs under names which have 
no relationship to their real objec- 
tives. Those who have some familiar- 
ity with the history of censorship and 
propaganda in wartime are equipped 
to accept the conflicting announce- 
ments of rival military and naval 
chiefs as inevitable, to suspend judg- 
ment and to know truth can be ar- 
rived at by the slow accumulation of 
verifications rather than by accepting 
or rejecting the claims of either side. 
They thus escape the temptation to 
take dangerous refuge from a men- 
acing world by fleeing to the innocu- 
ous certainties of the sports and so- 
ciety columns. 

Wide reading and study and cul- 
tivation of the ability to weigh the 
merits of rival claimants in the scales 
of known interest, opportunity for 
observation and previous reputation: 
these are the tools for "defense 
against propaganda" however the 
term may !><■ defined. They are not 
to use. but every citizen of a 



were 
taken off at their pathetic worst, and 
both the actors and the student audi- 
ence seemed to have a glorious time 
doing it and seeing it done. 

The consensus seemed to be that 
H. Miles Heberer, director, and his 
assistant, Miss Martha Baird, had 
made a wise and lucky choice of play 
with which to initiate the season. 
They also are to be credited with 
having coached the play to just the 
right tempo, for it could easily have 
been ruined by too slow a movement 
forward and too much plugging of 
particular situations. 

The supporting cast for Mr. Tren- 
kle and Miss Beatty did excellent 
work — H. W. D. 



RESPONSIBLE CITIZENSHIP 
To prepare yourself best for 



tasks of responsible citizenship which 
will soon be yours, you must not only 
seek to acquire as much knowledge 
as you can of the actual state of pub- 
lic affairs and as deep an appreciation 
as you can of the lessons of history, 
but you must become imbued with a 
few simple, but basic and vital, ideas 
— namely: 

That freedom under law for every 
individual is one of the finest gifts of 
God to man. 

That only when such freedom pre- 
vails can adequate opportunity exist 
for the individual to develop his own 
capabilities and to share equitably in 
the rewards of life. 

That the attainment of such free- 
dom, which is the essence of democ- 
racy, is possible only when each indi- 
vidual is ready to contribute to it, not 
alone by abstaining from actions 
which are detrimental to others, but 
also . 
with others for the common good of 

all. 

That in the same way, no nation 
can pursue policies which injure it- 
self and others, either through seek- 
ing to stand alone or through at- 
tempting to impose its will upon 
others, and enjoy a reasonable mea- 
sure of progress and prosperity. 

Test your own actions and the ac- 
tions of others by such ideas as these, 
and you will not be far from making 
your best individual contribution to 
the welfare of your country and, 



The worms seem to cause little dis- 
turbance in swine, but if man eats 
infected pork which has not been 
thoroughly cooked the adult parasites 
develop in the intestine and their 
progeny invade the muscles of the 
host, causing severe disturbance if 
many are present. 

It was shown 50 years ago that 
trichinosis was extraordinarily prev- 
alent in the United States, but the 
figures were so misread by supposedly 
competent observers that the fiction 
that the disease was rare was firmly 
implanted in medical minds and liter- 
ature for half a century. The estab- 
lishment of a Division of Zoology in 
the United States Public Health ser- 
vice and the appointment of the late 
Dr. Maurice C. Hall to head the divi- 
sion led to the re-examination of the 
' available data and to the accumula- 
tion of new material from which 
many things have been learned about 
the disease. 

As has been mentioned, the disease 
is widespread throughout the United 
States, with approximately 17 per 
cent of the population being infected 
with the parasite. However, light in- 
fections which are the most prevalent 
apparently cause little or no dis- 
turbance, but there are a number of 
reasons for supposing that many 
more than the 5,000 to 6,000 acute 
cases reported in recent years have 
occurred. 

One of the most, important of these 
is that the disease*' is so very difficult 
to diagnose. Trichinosis has been 
misdiagnosed as over 50 different dis- 
eases ranging from typhoid fever to 
acute alcoholism before the correct 
Even more than 



. diagnosis was made. 

tal to others, but hni8 is tnis disease "the great imi- 

willing to cooperate | £^„ Congiderable progress has 

been made in this respect, and today 

a physician has much better tests and 

information at his disposal than he 



had 10 years ago due to the activities 
of Doctor Hall and his colleagues, but I 
much research still needs to be done. 
It is the tendency of the American 
public to be largely indifferent to mat- 
ters of public health until it becomes 
frightened, but when it is well fright- 
ened the reaction often causes need- 
less financial loss to the ever-present 
innocent bystander. The trichinosis 
problem promises to become a good 
example of this short-sighted policy. 
The elimination of trichinosis from 
man in this country can only follow 
the elimination of the disease from 
swine. 

The disease can practically be 
wiped out, however, in swine if the 
widespread practice of feeding un- 
cooked garbage to hogs is stopped. 
Hogs fed uncooked garbage are in- 
fected five to 10 times as often with 
the trichina worm as are grain-fed 
or cooked garbage-fed hogs, and 
there is every reason to suppose that 
most of the infection in the latter an- 
imals comes from feeding them some 
uncooked pork scraps. It follows 
from this that it is to the interest of 
the grain-belt hog raiser and the meat 
packer, as well as the ordinary citi- 
zen, to do everything in their power 
to stop the practice of feeding un- 
cooked garbage to swine. If this is 
done, there will be little danger of 
a severe outbreak of the disease with 
its resultant publicity and partial loss 
of a market for pork products from 
the frightened consumer. 

Pork is an excellent food and the 
hog market usually a good source of 
income for the Midwestern farmer. 
Neither the farmer, nor the packer, 
nor the consumer can afford to ignore 
such a threat to the hog market. 

Meanwhile, what can be done to 
protect oneself and family? 

First: insist that all pork or pork 
products be cooked thoroughly be- 
fore eating. This includes foods such 
as hamburger from an unknown 
source which is often adulterated 
with pork. 

Second: buy only meat which has 
been inspected and passed by the 
meat inspection service of the United 
States Bureau of Animal Industry. 
All such meat bears the stamp, "U. 
S. Inspected and Passed." While such 
meat has not been specifically in- 
spected for trichinosis, all pork prod- 
ucts which may be eaten in a raw or 
semicooked condition have been 
frozen at a temperature which in- 
sures the destruction of all the living 
trichina larvae within the meat. 



SIXTY YEARS AGO 
Professor Smythe of the Andover 
Theological seminary visited at the 
College. 

Frank Kedzie, brother of the late 
Professor Kedzie, was the guest of 
President Fairchild. 

Prof. A. J. Cook, professor of en- 
tomology of Michigan State Agricul- 
tural college, with his family was vis- 
iting President Fairchild. 



^ 



KANSAS POETRY 

Robert Conover, Editor 



FACT AND FLAME 

By Myra Perrings 

I sought the fact and found it near — 
Before my eyes, beneath my hand, 
A thing to hold, a sound to hear, 
A wall of stone on which to stand. 

I looked for truth but I could not 
Put finger on it here nor there, 
Nor trace its form in any spot 
Although its breath was everywhere. 

A wall has substance and a name, 
A breath no shape to see or call; 
Fact is fact, but truth is flame 
And flame may leap a wall. 



Myra Perrings of Topeka, during 
the 10 years in which she has been 
writing poetry, has had more than 
300 poems published. Her work has 
appeared in numerous anthologies, 
The Industrialist and The Kansas 
Magazine. 



Hi/ H. W. Davis 
PARTLY OPTIMISTIC, ANYHOW 
Of course you can't remember back 
when Troy was really a town, nor 
even when Caesar was king of the 
world; but maybe you can imagine 
you remember. 



How different it all was then. The 
world was big, BIG. It wasn't a pill 
with every cell electrically connected 
with every other cell. In Kansas and 
Nebraska, in Missouri and Oklahoma 
it made not the slightest difference 
who conquered Greece or any other 
nation, and I doubt that a single sigh 
was sighed in America when Marc 
Antony succumbed to the siren of 
the Nile. 



Those were the days for avoiding 
trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific com- 
plications, and they're gone forever. 



never known. Just as radio created 
a popular demand for classical music 
by increasing its availability, so can 
television— through the theater and 
the home — intensify popular interest 
in the drama, in its allied arts such 
as the dance and even in the graphic 
arts. In turn, it can help infuse the 
arts with a vitality drawn only from 



lege. He was a guest at the Elkhart 
club while in Manhattan. Mr. Scheff 
planned to take postgraduate work 
during the spring semester. 



Then man got to building ships 
bigger and tougher, and after 15 or 
20 centuries Columbus put out into 
the Atlantic and discovered what 
later became a Pan-American Union, 
though he thought it was only a sub- 
urb of India. The world suddenly be- 
came so big man's genius had to im- 
prove communication. 



therefore, in the broadest sense, to j the lives of the people. — Irving £ iske 



easy 
democ 

tunity 



patio state has both the oppor- 
and tbe obligation to use them 



DRAMA 

Fast-Moving- Comedy 

The Manhattan Theatre got away 
to a good start for the 1940-41 sea- 
son on Friday and Saturday nights 
,,y presenting Clifford Goldsmiths 
hilarious, fast-moving comedy of high 
school existence, "What a Life." The 
play had plenty of pickup from be- 
ginning to end and made an unusual- 



your own well-being. — Cordell Hull 
in the "Youth Forum" department of 
the American magazine. 

♦ 

KEY TO A PEOPLE'S PHILOSOPHY 
The minor mannerisms of an age 
illustrate its philosophy as clearly as 
great events, and there is no account 
of small affairs more revealing than 
that kept in the popular magazines. 
It is enlightening, though not always 
flattering to the national ego, to read 
the records of the United States as 
set down when the nation and the 
l!»th century were young together. 

The publications of a hundred 
years or more ago betray first of all 
that in those days we had a character- 
istic not yet known by the name of 
inferiority complex. Though we had 
won political freedom from the Brit- 
ish, we had not acquired cultural 
self-confidence. Our country was 
raw, our national ideals unproved, 
and our sensitiveness to transatlantic 
criticism so great that in 1832 the 
Ladies' Magazine of Boston ex- 
claimed wrathfully, "This homage to 
English judgment is more humiliat- 
ing than the tea tax!"— Gwen Bris- 
tow in the Saturday Review of Liter- 
ature. 

♦ 

WHAT TELEVISION MAY DO 
Television represents a culmina- 
tion of previous methods devised by 
science for recording and communi- 
cating human information, both of 
sound and of sight. To the arts it 
offers a fertile soil such as they have 



in Harpers magazine. 



Prom the Files of The Industrialist 
TEN YEARS AGO 

James W. Pratt, '30, was employed 
' as a public accountant with the ac- 
I counting firm of Lybrand, Ross Broth- 
' ers and Montgomery, Chicago. 

Vernon Bundy, '20, and former 
I member of the English departmental 
J faculty, was a feature writer on the 
Buffalo (N. Y.) Times, Scripps-How- 
! ard paper. He was also teaching 
journalism once a week at D'Youville, 
| a Catholic girls' school. 

Prof. H. H. Laude and C. O. Grand- 
field of the Department of Agronomy 
j made a three-day trip through north- 
eastern Kansas, investigating alfalfa 
in that part of the state. They vis- 
ited Jackson, Jefferson, Brown, Ne- 
maha, Shawnee and Douglas counties. 



THIRTY YEARS AGO 
William A. McKeever, professor of 
philosophy, left for Indianapolis 
where he was to address the annual 
juvenile court conference of the Mid- 
dle Western states, on the "Rural 
Environment of the Young." 

G. H. Failyer, '77, for many years 
professor of chemistry at the College, 
was scientist in the Bureau of Soils, 
Washington, D. C. He was elected 
president of the Washington division 
of the American Chemical society. 



And the technologists did a swell 
job of it, so complete a job that Kan- 
sas Citians, in the heart of America, 
nowadays complain on Tuesday night 
if they don't know what happened in 
the island of Crete the following 
Wednesday morning. And it may 
come about that bored New Yorkers 
will flit across the Atlantic in a sight- 
seeing Clipper during the luncheon 
hour to gawk at a night raid on Lon- 
don by Hitler's boys. 



TWENTY YEARS AGO 
Lou Aicher, '11, was in the govern- 
ment service and in charge of experi- 
ment station work for the state of 
Idaho. 

Gilbert H. Sechrist, '16, was as- 
sistant professor in the Department 
of Electrical Engineering of the Ag- 
ricultural and Mechanical College of 
Texas, College Station, Texas. 

Warren R. Scheff, '17, who had 
been practicing veterinary medicine 
in the Panama Canal zone since his 
graduation, was a visitor at the Col- 



FORTY YEARS AGO 
Lieut. Philip Fix, professor of mili- 
tary science and tactics at the St. 
John Military academy, Salina, was 
a visitor at the College. 

Professor and Mrs. Metcalf, as- 
sisted by R. H. Brown, violinist, Mrs. 
R. H. Brown, harpist, and F. F. Fock- 
ele, vocalist and mandolinist, were 
making plans to give a recital at Fort 
Riley. 

Pres. E. R. Nichols left for New 
Haven, Conn., to attend the annual 
meeting of the Agricultural Colleges 
and Experiment Stations of America. 
He planned to be absent for about 
10 days. Professor Walters, as the 
senior member of the faculty, would 
attend to routine executive duties 
during the President's absence. 



Communication, as developed by 
the skilled geniuses of the past quar- 
ter century, has shrunk the earth to 
the size of a pea. Communication, 
plus something, I know not what, has 
shrunk man's mentality and morality 
to the mentality and the morality of a 
mosquito with a lethal germ on his 
stinger. Have the technocrats for- 
gotten that Soul must be mightier 
than Power — or else? 



I hope there will be no improve- 
ment in communication, either by 
ether-wave trickery or two-ton bomb- 
ing, for the next five centuries. Com- 
mon decency and common sense must 
have time to catch up; or there isn't 
going to be any sanity in the human 
race for them to take root in. 



FIFTY YEARS AGO 

Mrs. Kellerman attended the meet- 
ing of the Kansas and Western Mis- 
souri Social Science club at Emporia. 

President Fairchild and Professor 
Failyer went to Champaign, 111., to 
attend the annual meeting of the Ag- 
ricultural College association. 

Professor Lantz and family and 
Professor White were among the 20 



Otherwise I'm quite optimistic, 
thank you. I think there is a chance 
that England may ultimately win the 
war (with proper aid) and that de- 
mocracy may be allowed another 
century or so to get itself tuned up 
for active service. 



But I hope the improved communi- 
cationists get us out of what they've 
got us into before they try to help us 
again. 



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AMONG THE 
ALUMNI 



Maude (Knickerbocker) Pyles, B. 

S. '93, writes that she lives at 1913 

Knickerbocker place, La Canada, 

Calif., and "should love to see any 

f old College friends who may visit 

,«• Southern California." 

Alexis J. Reed, E. E. "03, recently 
changed his mailing address for The 
Industrialist to 14 275 Valley Vista 
boulevard, Van Nuys, Calif. The 
Reeds* (Laura Paulsen, f. s. '03) 
home had been in New York City, 
where he was chief engineer for the 
New York Telephone company. 

Raymond R. Birch, Ag. '06, is re- 
search professor of veterinary medi- 
cine at New York State Veterinary 
college, Cornell university, Ithaca, N. 
\ Y. Mrs. Birch was Olive McKeeman, 

'08, and they are the parents of 
| Frank M. and Juanita Rae Birch. 

Carroll Walker, E. E. '08, is a law- 
yer in University City, Mo. His resi- 
dence address is 73 37 Tulane avenue. 
Robert C. Moseley, Ag. '11, is a 
farmer at Wamego. He visited the 
Alumni association office November 
1 while on the campus making ar- 
rangements for a niece to enter school 
here next fall. 

Harry L. Kent Br., Ag. '13, is ad- 
ministrative assistant to the presi- 
dent of the Texas Technological col- 
lege, Lubbock. He has Ave children, 
of whom only one, Harry L. Kent Jr., 
has gone to school at Kansas State. 
He received his master's degree in 
mechanical engineering in 1931. 
F Bruce H. Cummings, M. E. '15, is 

a civil engineer with the Missouri di- 
vision of the United States Engi- 
neers. He has charge of miscella- 
neous civil section and land acquisi- 
tion. His office is at 1201 Davidson 
building, Seventeenth and Main, Kan- 
sas City. 

Nathan A. Gish, Ag. '16, is a dairy 
farmer at Junction City. He does 
part-time work for the county Agri- 
cultural Adjustment administration. 
He is married to Edith Gwin, f. s., 
and they have one daughter, Wilma 
Jean, 3. 

Helen Mcllrath, H. E. '19, is at 
Kingman. She has been teaching at 
Pretty Prairie, but she has plans 
for attending school the second se- 
mester. 

Dr Frank Hare, D. V. M. '20, with 
Mrs. Hare and their 11-year-old son, 
of 260 Clay avenue, Lexington, Ky., 
were College visitors the latter part 
of July They were enroute to Colo- 
rado Springs for a brief vacation. 
Doctor Hare has a practice in the 
thoroughbred horse section of Ken- 
tucky. 

Dewey Z. McCormick, Ag. '21, has 
resigned as county agricultural agent 
in Morris county, a position he has 
held for the past 15 years. He has 
accepted the position of assistant re- 
1$ v gjonal director in the Farm Security 
P administration office at Lincoln, Neb 
Mrs McCormick is a daughter of 
Jonathan M. Davis, a former Kansas 
governor. 

Charles C. McPherson, f. s. '22, 
and Vera (Samuel) McPherson H. 
E '19 are at 403 2 Hawthorne, Dal- 
las, Texas. Mr. McPherson stopped 
at the Alumni association office Oc- 
tober 16 when he came through on 
business. He is regional manager for 
the Stanley Products, Westfleld, 
Mass. 

Winifred (West) South worth, H. 
E '24, and S. D. Southworth visited 
the campus July 11. Mr. Southworth 
is professor of economics at William 
and Mary college, Williamsburg, Va 
During the summer, they visited 
friends and relatives in Manhattan 
and Kinsley. 

John F. Sheel, M. E. '25, is an in- 
structor in shopwork at Altamont. 
Last summer he attended summer 
school at 152 Sheetz street, West La- 
fayette, Ind. 

Helen Harper Howell, H. E. '26 

• is a teacher in the Southeast high 

I i school. She is a teacher of clothing 

in the homeniaking department. Her 

home address is :!000 Tracy avenue, 

Kansas City, Mo. 

j. Edgar Durham, G. S. '27, is re- 
gional finance supervisor lor the Na- 
tional Youth administration. The 
Durhams (Welthalee Groves 28) 
live at 1421 Menaco street in Denver. 
, Olga Saffry, G. S. '28, is a new in- 

structor in foods and chemistry at the 
Eastern New Mexico college at Por- 
tales For the past few years she has 
been" an instructor in the Department 



of Foods and Nutrition at Kansas 
State College. 

Emmett Allen Smith, M. S. '29, is 
teaching in the Northeast Senior high 
school, Kansas City, Mo. For the 
past several years he has been head 
of the high school department in the 
McCune School for Boys at Indepen- 
dence, Mo. 

Ruby Scholz, H. E. '30, called at 

the Alumni association office in Au- 

, gust. She reports that she is teaching 

I foods at the East Carolina Teachers 

J college at Greenville, N. C. 

Miriam G. Eads, H. E. '31, writes: 
i "I am district home demonstration | 
j agent at large in the upper peninsula i 
of Michigan. My work consists of 
nutrition and home management 
projects in those counties that choose 
that type of work. This year I have 
completed my work for my master's j 
degree with Michigan State college." 
Her address is 110 East Arch, Mar-; 
quette, Mich. 

H. D. Richardson, G. S. '32, is 
superintendent of schools at Prairie 
View. He was in Manhattan this 
summer working on his master's de- 
gree at Kansas State College. 



LOOKING AROUND 

KENNEY L. FORD 



M. F. Whittaker Writes 

M. F. Whittaker, Ar. '13, Prof. 
Deg. '28, president of the State Agri- 
cultural and Mechanical college, 
Orangeburg, S. C, wrote on October 

22: 

"I regret exceedingly that it has 
not been my pleasure to return to a 
Homecoming and I am still unable 
to do so. Some one of these days, I 
am going to do so. 

"I am a life member of the Alumni 
association, but you will And in- 
closed my check for $10 as a good- 
will offering to the Alumni Loan 
fund. 

"Please send me the copy of Doctor 
Willard's history, and ask him to 
autograph it for me. He was the first 
person I met, when I entered Kansas 
State for the first time." 



braska, Lincoln. She has been teach- 
ing in Grand Island, Neb., the past 
six years. She is a member of Mu Phi 
Epsilon and chapter EH of P. E. O. at 
Grand Island. 

Mr. Phillips is a successful stock- 
man, his stock having taken many 
prizes. The Phillips make their home 
at Cleghorn, Iowa. 



RECENT HAPPENINGS 
ON THE HILL 



KNOX— OLSON 
Gwyndora Ruth Knox was married 
to Charles H. Olson, Ag. '38, on June 
16. The bride has been employed in 
the Agricultural Adjustment admin- 
istration offices. Mr. Olson has 
served as Pottawatomie county agent 
since February, 1939. He is a mem- 
ber of Beta Kappa social fraternity. 



A man at least six feet tall who 
will make a pleasing stage appear- 
ance is wanted to All a leading part 
in the next Manhattan Theatre pro- 
duction, George Bernard Shaw's 
"Arms and the Man." 



Carl G. Ossmann, Ar. E. '33, M. S. 
'39, owns a Holstein cow represent- 
ing' the central states in the Borden 
Milk company's exhibit at the 1940 
New York World's fair. Twenty- 
four cows of each breed were se- 
lected from the United States and 
Canada by the Borden Milk company 
to show the processes and methods 
used in its Walker-Gordon Labora- 
tory farm. 

Mr. Ossmann is superintendent of 
schools at Greenleaf. His avocation 
is music, not dairy cows. While an 
undergraduate at Kansas State, he 
was drum-major. 

In addition to being a superinten- 
dent and a music lover, he has time 
to raise prize-winning cows on his 
Gerhardt farms, five miles west of 
Concordia. 



Kansas City Star-Times Graduates 

Many Kansas State graduates and 
former students are working with 
the Kansas City Star and Times news- 
papers. 

C. G. "Pete" Wellington, f. s., is 
managing editor of the Times. John 
Chandley, I. J. '29, works on the 
Times city desk and Allan Settle, I. J. 
'37, is on the Star city desk staff. 
Adrian Sorrells, I. J. '38, is a Times 
reporter. Cruise Palmer, I. J. '38, 
reports for the Star. 

Gordon Molesworth, I. J. '39, is 
' on the market desk staff of the Star. 
Daniel Partner, I. J. '36, writes for 
the sports desk. Dan was formerly 
director of sports publicity at Kan- 
sas State. 

Alva Frashier, E. E. '3 2, is an 
operator at WDAF, the Star's radio 
station. Fred Weingarth, f. s. '32, 
also works at the radio station. 



LONG-BUCHMANN 
Susanne Long, I. J. '39, and Ed- 
ward A. Buchmann, I. J. '39, were 
married June 16. The bride is a mem- 
ber of Pi Beta Phi sorority and Mr. 
Buchmann is a member of Delta Tau 
Delta. Mrs. Buchmann was a jour- 
nalism professional and a member of 
Theta Sigma Phi. 

Their home is in Clay Center where 
Mr. Buchmann is one of the adver- 
tising staff of the Clay Center Dis- 
patch. 



A Are of unknown origin on the 
fourth Aoor of the Phi Delta Theta 
fraternity house last week caused 
damage unofficially estimated by Are- 
men at $500. Clothing losses were 
placed at the same amount. 

Green coveralls with white letters 
were chosen for their official uniform 
by the Flying Wildcats at a meeting 
last week. Because they are used as 
work clothes, green was suggested 
in preference to white, now being 
used. 



WAGG — ITZ 

The marriage of Milford F. Itz, 
M. E. '38, and Vera Maxine Wagg of 
Osage City took place June 22 in 
Osage City. 

Mrs. Itz is a graduate of the Col- 
lege of Emporia and has taught for 
one year in the Bentley Rural high 
school. 

While attending Kansas State Col- 
lege, Mr. Itz was a member of Pi 
Kappa Alpha fraternity, Sigma Tau, 
Scabbard and Blade and the K fra- 
ternity. He is now lieutenant of the 
Aying corps with the United States 
army at Hamilton held, Calif. 



Students interested in election re- 
turns attended an election party 
sponsored by the College Y's in Rec- 
reation Center last night. A radio 
in Recreation Center received broad- 
casts of the election results as stu- 
dents played cards or talked. 



Prof. Roger C. Smith of the De- 
partment of Entomology speaks to- 
day on "Observations Upon the Agri- 
cultural Progress and Social Reforms 
in Mexico" at the YMCA-YWCA Stu- 
dent forum. Professor Smith spent 
! part of last summer in Mexico. 

Dr. John Ise, professor of econom- 
ics in the School of Business at Kan- 
sas university, talked at journalism 
seminar and a student assembly 
last week. He discussed the economic 
issues of the campaign at the Audi- 
torium and the coverage of economic 
news at the seminar. 



W. Martin Cheney, E. E. '34, rep- 
resents the Baker Steel and Tube 
company and is engaged in engineer- 
ing work with aircraft companies and 
those engaged in aircraft production. 
He has spent four years while in: 
school with the communications de- j 
partment of the telephone company 
and after graduation he worked for 
three years with the Stromberg Carl- 
son Telephone Manufacturing com- 
pany's radio division. His resi- 1 
dence address is 208 North Avenue . 
52, Los Angeles. 

Edmund P. Marx, G. S. '35, M. S. 
•37, was granted a doctor of philoso- I 
phy degree in applied science at Ohio 
State university, Columbus. Emma; 
(Storer) Marx, I. J. '35, was with him 
in Columbus while he worked on his 
doctor's degree. 

Vona Wandling, H. E. '36, writes: 
"I am now employed at Mercy hos- 
pital, Burlington, Iowa, in the capaci- 
ty of dietitian, having been here since 
October 1. I should like my copy of 
Tiir. iMHSTisiAi.isT sent to that ad- 
dress. 

"If there are any Kansas State Col- 
lege alumni associations in or around 
this city I should like very much to 
be informed of their whereabouts. 

"Hoping to hear from you at your 
earliest convenience, and looking for- 
ward to receiving Tiik Ixihjstkiaijst 
soon." 



M. It. West, Ag. '37, nad Maxine 
(Walton) West, f. s. '34, are at Clay 
Center They have two sons, Dean, 4, 
and Richard, 1. Mr. West is the 
hateheryman and farm service man 
for Swift and company in that dis- 
trict. 

Frank L, Schneider, C. '38, is at 
9 28 Porter avenue, Wichita. He is 
an accountant with Lunsford, Barnes, 
and company, certified public ac- 
countants. 

Simon R. Wagler, E. E. '39, is em- 
ployed in the statistical department 
of the Transcontinental and Western 
airlines in Kansas City, Mo. 

Dorothy Agnes Warner, H. E. '40, 
is doing work as a nurse in the Colo- 
rado General hospital, Denver. 



Pittsburgh Alumni Picnic 

A report of the Pennsylvania alum- 
ni picnic was sent by Grace (Daugh- 
erty) Rogers, '29, former secretary 
of that group. 

"The Kansas State College alumni 
group of Pittsburgh, Pa., and vicini- 
ty held the annual fall picnic at the 
lodge in the municipal park at Clair- 
ton, Pa., on September 7," she wrote. 
"The afternoon was spent at out- 
door amusements, such as horseshoe 
pitching contests, mushball etc. At 
6 p. m. a picnic supper was served to 
47 members and guests. A business 
meeting was held at which a commit- 
tee was appointed to plan for a party 
to be held on the Saturday closest to 
Kansas day. 

"A round of applause was given 
our newest member, Mrs. E. H. 
Myers, as a welcome to our group. 
The good wishes of the entire group 
go with Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Geil who 
will go to join the alumni group at 
Springfield, Mo. After the business; 
meeting the evening was spent at , 
games, stunts and dancing. 

Those present were B. A. Rose, '26, 
and Mrs. Rose; Dean Nonamaker, 
•40; Austin Fink, '40; Ralph D. j 
Walker, '27, Mrs. Walker and two 
sons; Merle G. Crawford, '25, and 
Mrs. Crawford; Hurd T. Morris, '10,' 
and Mrs. Morris; Nathan G. Chilcott, , 
I '25, and sons, Buddy and Merle; G. 
A. Geil, Elfrieda (Hemker) Geil, '23, 
and children, Wilma and Freddie; 
Walter D. Hemker, '25; Charles H. 
Mehaffey, '29, and Mrs. Mehaffey and 
Jimmie; Dudley Atkins Jr., '13, and 
Josephine (Skinner) Atkins, '13; 
' Earl Harry Myers, '37, and Mrs. 
Myers; Henry A. Killian, '37, and 
Mrs. Killian; Lester G. Tubbs, '17, 
Madge (Austin) Tubbs, '19, and son, 
Austin; William A. Nelson, '29, Mar- 
garet (Adams) Nelson, '27, and chil- 
dren, Janice and Billy; Owen G. 
Rogers, '29, and Grace (Daugherty) 
Rogers, '29; Sidney F. Weybrew, '32, 
Mrs. Weybrew and Sybil; T. L. Wey- 
brew, '24, Mrs. Weybrew and Bar- 
bara; Mr. and Mrs. Earl L. Sitz and 
Caroline; James Phinney, '40; and 
Mr. and Mrs. Weybrew who were here 
from Kansas visiting their sons, Sid- 
ney and Thalbert, and families." 



BIRTHS 



Harvey J. Stewart, '28, and Doro- 
thy (Schrumpf) Stewart, '30, are the 
parents of a daughter, Maurine Kay, 
born July 11. Maurine Kay has a 
sister, Sharon Annette, 3. Mr. Stew- 
art is county agent at St. Francis. 



Word has been received of the 
birth of a daughter to Ray Ellis, P. E. 
•38, and Mary Evelyn (Brincefield) 
Ellis, April 23. She has been named 
Dorothy Ann. The couple are now in 
Manhattan at 914 Bluemont. Mr. El- 
lis is assistant freshman football 
coach. 



Edith Carlson, McPherson, and 
Bertil Danielson, Lindsborg, were 
elected secretary and librarian, re- 
spectively, of the Lutheran Students 
association at the Midwest regional 
meeting held in Manhattan last week- 
end. More than 60 persons from eight 
colleges in Nebraska and Kansas 

were present. 

♦ 

DR. HAROLD HOWE RELEASES 
LATEST LISTING OF PLEDGES 



Janice Sue is the arrival recently 
announced by Daniel P. Heigele, Ag. 
E '38, and LaMonte (Coffin) Heigele 
who were married in 1938. Mr. Hei- 
gele is blockman representing the 
Kansas City, Mo., territory for the 
J. I. Case company, manufacturers of 
farm machinery. 

♦ 

DEATHS 

MURPHY 
Christine (Bertsch) Murphy, H. E. 
•28, died July 19 as a result of child- 
- birth Her home for several years 
had been Plainfield, N. J., where her 
husband, L. A. Murphy, f. s. '27, and 
two sons, Dennis and Michael, now 
live. Other survivors are one sister, 
two brothers and her parents. Be- 
fore her marriage Mrs. Murphy 
taught at Phillipsburg for two years. 



Projective Frnternlty Member* Bring 
Total for Year to 202 

Ten fraternities announced 21 new 
pledges, Dr. Harold Howe, faculty 
adviser of fraternities, said recently. 
This release makes a total of 202 
fraternity pledges this fall. The men 
and their fraternities: 

Acacia — Maurice Bewley and War- 
ren Brown, both of Fall River. Alpha 
Gamma Rho— Vance Darland, Co- 
dell; Edwin A. Kline, Mentor; Free- 
man Biery, Stockton. Alpha Kappa 
Lambda— Carl Alleman, Kansas City; 
Ray D. Freeman, Paola. Beta Kappa 

Sealy Max Brown, Manhattan; 

Donald Burnett, Turon; John W. Sex- 
son, Weskan. 

Beta Theta Pi— James Leker, Man- 
hattan. Phi Delta Theta— John H. 
Leach, Arkansas City. Phi Kappa 
Tau — Paul Cooper, Hazelton; John 
Higham Jr., Wichita; Max O'Dell, 
Wichita; Don Sheffer, Wichita. 

Sigma Alpha Epsilon — Jim Glenn, 
Amarillo, Texas. Theta Xi— Donald 
Brenner, Clay Center; William Des- 
Jardins, Clay Center; LeRoy B. Pat- 
terson, Marysville. Sigma Phi Epsi- 
lon _Kendall Evans, Amarillo, Texas. 



Plan Rig Band Day 

Twenty-two high school bands and 
the home band of Manhattan will 
take part in the Band day activities 
and see the Kansas State-Iowa State 
football game November 16, an- 
nounced Charles Horner, Abilene, 
chairman of the Band day committee. 
Met ween 1,300 and 1,400 high school 
students will take part in Band day, 
the eighth to be held on this campus. 



MARRIAGES 



KVANS— PHILLIPS 

Lucile Evans, M. '26, and Odell 
Phillips of Cleghorn, Iowa, were mar- 
ried June 11 at the home of the 
bride's parents, Dr. and Mrs. J. W. 
Evans, Manhattan. 

The bride received her life certiA- 
cate to teach from Emporia State 
Teachers college and later a master's 
degree from the University of Ne- 



DOCTOR WILLARD'S HISTORY 

Dr Julius T. Willard's "History of Kansas State College 
of Agriculture and Applied Science" is now ready for dis- 
Sbutlon Return the following order blank to the Alumni 
office, Kansas State College, for your copy: 

I am a paid-up life member of the K. S. C. Alumni asso- 
ciation. Kindly send my free copy. 

Fnrlosed fin d $ to complete payments on my 

H?e membership; which will entitle me to a free copy. 

Enclosed find $4 for one copy and annual membership 

in the Alumni association for 1940-41. 

Enclosed find $1 for one copy. My 1940-41 dues already 

have been paid. 

Please ask Doctor Willard to autograph my copy. 



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EVA JESSYE ENSEMBLE 
OPENS CELEBRITY SERIES 



NEGRO CHOIR WILL SING FRIDAY 
IN COLLEGE AUDITORIUM 



Fray and Bragglottl, Graft* Ballet, Tony 

Surg's Marionettes and Magician 

John Mulholland on 

Program 

The Eva Jessye choir, Negro 
mixed vocal ensemble, will inaugu- 
rate the College Celebrity series 
Friday in the College Auditorium. 

"We are proud to present this 
choir as the first of our series because 
the Eva Jessye choir represents the 
best talent we could obtain in this 
field," said William Hickman, Kir- 
win, president of the Student Council 
and chairman of the Celebrity Series 
committee. 

PIANISTS WILL RETURN 

Fray and Braggiotti, pianists who 
appeared last year on the campus 
with Dave Rubinoff, will be second 
on the series and will play for Kan- 
sas State College students on Decem- 
ber 12. 

The Graff Ballet is scheduled for 
February 13, and Tony Sarg's Mario- 
nettes for March 17 and 18. John 
Mulholland, a magician, will perform 
on the campus April 17. 

THIS IS SECOND YEAR 

Last year the Russian chorus, the 
San Francisco opera ballet, Cornelius 
Vanderbilt Jr., world traveler and 
journalist, and Cornelia Otis Skinner, 
monologist and actress, were pre- 
sented in the College Celebrity series. 
This is the second year for the series. 

Members of the Celebrity Series 
committee are Worth Linn, Manhat- 
tan; Marianna Kistler, Manhattan; 
William Hickman, Kirwin; Prof. J. 
H. Robert of the Department of En- 
gineering and Architecture, and Vice- 
Pres. S. A. Nock. 

♦ 

PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER 
DISCUSSES RURAL PICTURES 



Students Have Leading F. F. A. Roles 




These Future Farmers of America and their advisers will have an im- 
portant part in the four-day national convention which will begin Sunday 
in Kansas City in connection with the American Royal Livestock show. 

Left to right, they are Raymond Kaup, Smith Center, president of the 
Kansas Association of the F. F. A.; Ivan Kindschi, Prairie du Sac, Wis., 
national president; Prof. A. P. Davidson, Kansas State College, executive 
adviser of the Kansas F. F. A.; Albert Coates, Shawnee Mission; Walter 
Porter, Council Grove; L. B. Pollom, Topeka, state adviser; John Dean, 
Ottawa, and Paul Kelley, Solomon. 

Coates, Porter, Dean and Kelley are past presidents of the Kansas Asso- 
ciation of Future Farmers of America. Coates is a sophomore in veterinary 
medicine at Kansas State College. Dean, graduated from Kansas State Col- 
lege in 194 0, is a research assistant at the University of Nebraska. Porter 
is a junior in the Division of Agriculture at Kansas State College. Kelley 
is a sophomore in agriculture at the College and won the $200 Sears- 
Roebuck sophomore scholarship. 



Kansas Apple Quality 

In answer to the Question as to 
which section of the country produces 
the best apples, it can be safely stat- 
ed that, varieties such as Jonathan, 
Grimes, Winesap, York, Rome and 
others grown in Kansas are equal, or 
superior, to those grown in other 
parts of the country, says William F. 
Pickett, head of the Department of 
Horticulture. 



TENMARQ, BLACKHULL LEAD 
IN TWO CENTRAL DISTRICTS 



PROF. L. E. MELCHERS 

GIVES INVITATION PAPER 



J. W. McMnnlgnl of Ilorton Shows 
Camera Club Examples of Ills Na- 
tionally Famous llliisl rations 

J. W. McManigal of Horton dis- 
played more than 100 of his Kansas 
rural scenes and used them to illus- 
trate his talk before members of the 
Manhattan Camera club Monday 
night in Willard hall. His subject 
was "An Amateur Turns Profes- 
sional." 

Mr. McManigal told how he took 
up photography when he returned to 
Horton from army service during the 
World war. He had been a newspaper 
man and deserted the profession in 
order to avoid "copy deadlines." His 
pictures of commonplace rural scenes, 
Kansas farmers and their families 
soon became popular and today he 
finds himself striving to meet "pic- 
ture deadlines" for magazine editors. 

Camera club members had oppor- 
tunity to see many of his salon prints 
which have won prizes in national 
contests. He also showed several 
prints which won prizes in the Kansas 
Industrial Development commission 
contest. Mr. McManigal exhibited 
several of his prints and then showed 
how they were used as illustrative 
material for stories and advertising 
in national magazines. 

After his talk he answered ques- 
tions for an hour on supplies, equip- 
ment and exposure data. 
♦ 

REHEARSALS BEGIN TONIGHT 

FOR AGGIE POP PROGRAM 



Botany Department Head Is One of 
Three Asked to Address Weather- 
Crops Seminar In Kansas City 

Prof. L. E. Melchers, head of the 
Department of Botany and Plant 
Pathology, was one of three men in- 
vited to present papers at the annual 
meeting of the Kansas Weather-Crops 
seminar in Kansas City, Mo., last Sat- 
urday. The meeting was held in con- 
junction with the American Meteoro- 
logical society. 

Professor Melchers' talk was on 
"The Relation of Climatic Conditions 
to Plant Diseases." 

The other two papers were by A. 
J. King of the Agricultural Market- 
ing service, United States Department 
of Agriculture, on "The Pre-harvest 
Wheat Survey to Obtain an Early 
Evaluation of the Crop" and by Floyd 
E. Davis, associate agricultural stat- 
istician of Des Moines, Iowa, on "In- 
fluence of Seasonal Distribution of 
Rainfall and Temperature on Yield 
of Corn." 

W. A. Cochel, editor of the Weekly 
Kansas City Star, was chairman of 
the session, which was attended by 
several hundred people interested in 
climate and meteorological matters. 
At the banquet in the evening, Com- 
mander F. W. Reichelderfer, chief 
of the United States Weather bureau, 
spoke on "Modern Meteorology: Some 
of Its Uses and Limitations." 
♦ 

STATE'S TURKEY PRODUCTION 
UP 280 PER CENT IN DECADE 



Australian Visitor 

Irvine A. Watson from Sydney, 
Australia, plans to be on the campus 
today. Mr. Watson is studying cereal 
crop diseases in this country. 

♦ 
PROFESSIONAL LIST INCLUDES 

23 STUDENTS THIS SEMESTER! 



YWCA's Traditional Stunt Night Will 
Be November 15 and 10 

Rehearsals for YWCA's Aggie Pop, 
annual stunt night, begin tonight for 
four organizations and five individu- 
als. H. Miles Heberer, associate pro- 
fessor in the Department of Public 
Speaking, will direct the stunts which 
will be presented November 15 
and 16. 

No theme will be used in the pro- 
gram this year. The stunts are varied, 
with Beta Theta Pi presenting a take- 
off on country schools, Kappa Kappa 
Gamma singing out with a musical 
skit, Alpha Delta Pi also presenting 
a musical skit and Kappa Delta en- 
tertaining with a mock track meet. 

Among individual numbers will be 
magicians' tricks by Byron McCall, 
El Dorado; tap dancing by Mary Alice 
Matchette, Kansas City, Mo.; popular 
songs by Gerald Tucker, Winfield; a 
jitterbug exhibition by Edward La- 
Salle, Kansas City, and an impersona- 
tion of radio and movie characters by 
William Hall, Phillipsburg, also mas- 
ter of ceremonies for the program. 



I>r. H. M. Scott IHscunkcn Mnnngeineiit 
of Fowl Farms In Clreulnr 

An increase of approximately 280 
per cent in the state's turkey popula- 
tion during the past 10 years shows 
that turkey raising has become a 
profitable enterprise on farms in all 
sections of Kansas, according to a cir- 
cular recently published by the Kan- 
sas Agricultural Experiment station. 

Dr. H. M. Scott of the Department 
of Poultry Husbandry credits the in- 
crease to the large number of farm 
flocks and specialized turkey farms. 

Doctor Scott discussed the care and 
management of turkeys on Kansas 
farms, giving a detailed discussion of 
when and how to market them. He 
prescribed the kind of turkeys to use 
for breeding stock, the most satis- 
factory feeding practices and the 
equipment necessary for raising tur- 
keys. The range system of raising 
the flock and turkey diseases are also 
discussed. 



Journalism Group Is Selected on Basis 
of Activities, Grades, Intelligence 

Twenty-three students have been 
named to the journalism professional 
list for the first semester of 1940-41. 

Qualifications for the professional 
list include an intelligence rank as 
established by freshman intelligence 
tests given to all incoming freshmen; 
scholarship in all subjects, with a 
minimum of 1.5 (C plus) in journal- 
ism subjects; interest and participa- 
tion in voluntary journalistic activi- 
ties, and the collective estimate of the 
journalism faculty as to personality, 
temperament and general adaptabili- 
ty for work in the field of journalism. 

Those on the list include Enid Alt- 
wegg, Junction City; Ema Lou Bire- 
line, Lewis; Harry Bouck, Manhat- 
tan; Richard Cech, Kansas City; 
Katharine Chubb, Topeka; Kendall 
Evans, Amarillo, Texas; Mary Jean 
Grentner, Junction City; Herbert 
Hollinger, Chapman; James Kendall, 
Dwight; Marianna Kistler, Manhat- 
tan; Katherine Lovitt, Great Bend; 
Margaret Ann Lupfer, Larned; Jen- 
nie Marie Madsen, Dwight; Hurst 
Majors, Manhattan; . Mary Belle 
Morris, Chapman; Ellen Peak, Man- 
hattan; Robert Rathbone, Manhat- 
tan; Marjorie Rogers, Manhattan; 
Sylvia Roper, Manhattan; Frances 
Ruhl, Hiawatha; Gordon West, Man- 
hattan; Glenn Williams, Manhattan; 
and Mary Marjorie Willis, Newton. 
♦ 
How to Avoid "Tainted Milk" 

Producers of market milk who pas- 
til re their dairy cattle on wheat can 
avoid the complaints of their cus- 
tomers about "tainted milk" if the 
cows are removed from wheat pas- 
ture at least five hours before milk- 
ing, according to Dr. H. E. Bechtel 
of the Department of Dairy Hus- 
bandry. 



Prof. A. I.. Clapp Surveys Regions to 

Find Leading Varieties of Wheat 

Grown in Kansas 

A current official report by Prof. 
A. L. Clapp, Department of Agron- 
omy, on acreages and yields of the 
several leading varieties of wheat 
harvested in Kansas in 1940 shows 
that in two big central Kansas wheat 
districts, Tenmarq and Blackhull 
continue to be the high-yielding va- 
rieties, with Tenmarq ahead by 1.4 
bushels in the south and 0.2 ahead in 
the north central district. The test 
weight of Blackhull was slightly 
higher. 

Farther west, Blackhull and Ter- 
key varieties predominated, but Ten- 
marq outyielded both varieties this 
year as in nine previous years of 
grower cooperating tests in that sec- 
tion. 

The rapid increase of Tenmarq 
acreage over the entire "big hard 
wheat" section of the state again is 
notable. With only 1.3 per cent of 
the entire acreage seeded to this va- 
i riety in 1934, the sown acreage last 
year was 19.6 per cent, giving it sec- 
ond rank in grower preference. A 
considerable part of this increase has 
been at the expense of Turkey, the 
acreage of which in the state as a 
whole has declined from 82 per cent 
in 1919 to 28 per cent in the 1940 
harvest. 

In a recent letter to Dr. John H. 
Parker, director of the Kansas Wheat 
Improvement association, J. C. Moh- 
ler, secretary of the Kansas State 
Board of Agriculture, said: 

"I know the Kansas Wheat Im- 
provement association must be great- 
ly gratified by what has already been 
accomplished and the great promise 
for the future. I think it represents 
one of the best investments ever made 
for Kansas, and which is in no small 
measure credited to your able leader- 
ship in cooperation with your strong 
executive committee." 

♦ 
EUROPEAN BOOKS DELAYED 
BECAUSE OF WAR SITUATION 



MICHIGAN STATE BEATS 
WILDCATS BY 32 POINTS 



College Librarian Tells of Difficulties in 
Obtaining New Volumes 

Until the present European war 
situation abates, volumes of German, 
English and French scientific and lit- 
erary material will be added slowly 
to the College Library. Embargoes 
on shipments of such books have 
practically halted the receipt of such 
material here, A. B. Smith, College 
librarian, says. 

Even last year's order of German 
books has not yet arrived. They are 
being held up in Leipzig, Germany, 
until the war situation makes it pos- 
sible for them to be sent safely tto 
America. Publication of periodicals, 
particularly in Germany and France, 
has been retarded to some extent. 

The only safe means of transport- 
ing books is across Russia and the 
Pacific ocean, which would be more 
than the cost of the volumes. 



KANSAS STATE SQUAD PREPARES 
FOR SOUTH CAROLINA 



Four of Five Touchdowns by Spartans 

Are Made by Sophomores) Breaks 

Run Against Visiting Team 

at East Lansing 

Undismayed by a 32-0 defeat from 
Michigan State college last Saturday, 
Kansas State College's gridmen are 
preparing to meet the University of 
South Carolina at Columbia, Novem- 
ber 9. 

Capitalizing on breaks at East 
Lansing, the Spartans rolled up five 
touchdowns against the Wildcats, 
four being made by Michigan State 
sophomores. 

PAIL TO KICK GOAL 

Michigan State's first touchdown 
came in the first four minutes of the 
game. After Wilford Davis, quarter- 
back, had carried the ball for two 
successive first downs, Charley Carey, 
sophomore halfback, ran the remain- 
ing 23 yards to score. Carter of 
Michigan failed to make the extra 
point. 

In the second period, the Spartans 
scored three more touchdowns. Two 
were from pass interceptions, the 
other from a fourth down fumble by 
Bill Quick, Beloit, sophomore. 

SCORELESS FINAL QUARTER 

The final Michigan score came in 
the third quarter when the Kansas 
State line weakened to allow a quick 
kick to be blocked on the Kansas 
State 25-yard line. The Wildcats 
managed to hold the Michigan team 
during the final quarter. 

The statistics: 

KS MS 

First clowns 10 14 

Yards gained rushing 8 235 

Forwards attempted 24 9 

Forwards completed 8 2 

Yards by forwards 57 30 

Forwards intercepted by 1 3 

Yards intercepted passes ret 92 

Punting average 37 36 

Yards kicks returned 82 76 

Fumbles recovered by 3 

Yards lost on penalties 30 65 

Score by quarters: 

Kansas State — 

Michigan State 6 20 6 0—32 

♦ 

CARY GRANT WILL PICK 

PURPLE BEAUTY QUEEN 



EVERYDAY ECONOMICS 

By W. E. GRIMES 



PUREBRED DAIRY BREEDERS 
WILL MEET HERE SATURDAY 



"The balance between individual rights and group rights must be main- 
tained if true democracy is to prevail." 

possible without denying to the 
group, which usually is a govern- 
mental unit, the exercise of those 
rights which are essential for the 
well-being of the group and of the 



Announcement of Winner Will Be Made 

by Yearbook Editor at Ball on 

November 22 

Cary Grant, Hollywood screen star, 
will choose from 21 candidates the 
beauty queen for the 1941 Royal Pur- 
ple, according to Don Makins, editor 
of the Kansas State College yearbook. 
In his telegram of acceptance, the 
motion picture star requested that 
j he be allowed to appoint a jury of 
1 his friends outside pictures to pass 
! final judgment on his choice. On No- 
j vember 22, the final decision will be 
! announced at the annual Royal Pur- 
| pie beauty ball. 

The 21 candidates are Rosemarie 
Van Diest, Prairie View, Elizabeth 
1 Clarke, Winfield, Alpha Delta Pi; 
i Emily Hofsess, Partridge, Rachel 
Wagaman, Emporia, Clovia; Adelyn 
1 Peterson, Kansas City, Jeanne Jac- 
| card, Manhattan, Kappa Kappa Gam- 
ma; Lillian Dumler, Gorham, Blanch- 
i etta Fair, Dearing, Zeta Tau Alpha; 
! Jacqueline Eidson, Manhattan, Doro- 
thy Johnstone, Wichita, Alpha Xi 
Delta. 

Catherine Detrich, Chapman, Mary 
I Shaver, Salina, Pi Beta Phi; Ruth 
Hanson, Chanute, Jean Bishop, 
Whitewater, Delta Delta Delta; Mar- 
jorie Rogers, Manhattan, Bette Bone- 
cutter, Smith Center, Chi Omega; 
June Burton, Topeka, Aline F. Shee- 
ley, Emporia, Kappa Delta; Virginia 
Hoover, Abilene, Anne Dukelow, 
Hutchinson, and Mary Cawood, Wet- 
more, Van Zile hall. 
♦ 
DAIRY PLANT SHORT COURSE 
SCHEDULED FOR NEXT WEEK 



Speakers on Program Include 
Members of College Faculty 

Purebred dairy breeders in Kansas 
will meet on the campus Saturday. 

Breeders and cattlemen from over 
the state are expected to attend. 

Speakers on the program include 
Dr. S. J. Roberts, Department of Sur- 
gery and Medicine; Dr. W. J. Peter- 
son, Department of Chemistry; Prof. 
V. D. Foltz, Department of Bacteri- 
ology; Dr. A. O. Shaw, Department of 
Dairy Husbandry; Dr. Lester O. Gil- 
more, extension specialist. 



All economic systems are con- 
cerned with the rights of the indi- 
vidual versus the rights of the group. 
In communism the rights of the in- 
dividual are completely submerged 
Five and the rights of the group are wholly 
dominant. In anarchism the reverse 
is true and the group has no rights 
excepting the sum of the rights of 
the individuals making up the group. 
All other economic systems seek a 
balance between the rights of the in- 
dividual and the rights of the group. 

In democracy, the individual has 
certain rights. The rights of the 
group are defined and any rights not 
denied to the individual are open to 
him. In democracy the individual has 
the maximum of rights considered 



individual members of the group. 

The maintenance of individual 
rights is essential to American de- 
mocracy. This does not mean that 
individuals will not have their rights 
curtailed at times, but any curtail- 
ment clearly should be made only 
when the gain to all individuals out- 
weighs the loss to one or to the few 
affected. The balance between indi- 
vidual rights and group rights must 
be maintained if true democracy is 
to prevail. 



Dr. II. W. Haskell, United States Public 
Health Service, to Speak 

A short course for dairy plant 
operators and employees and the elev- 
enth annual Dairy Inspectors' school 
will be at Kansas State College No- 
vember 13 to 15. 

Profs. W. J. Caulfield and W. H. 
Martin of the Department of Dairy 
Husbandry are planning the program. 

The program for the meetings in- 
cludes Dr. W. H. Haskell, milk spe- 
cialist of the United States Public 
Health service, Washington; N. C. 
Angevine, representative of a dairy 
supply company in Chicago; M. E. 
Parker, production manager of a Chi- 
cago creamery; several members of 
the College staff, and milk sanitari- 
ans of several Kansas cities. 



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HISTORICAL SOCIETY C 

TOPEKA 

KAN. 



The Kansas Industrialist 



Volume 67 



Kansas State College 



of Agriculture^ii^PPlied'scieiice, Manhattan, Wednesday, November 13, 1940 



Number 9 



LIVESTOCK JUDGES TAKE 
SEVENTH ROYAL RANKING 

MACK YENSBKR. SAFFOHDVII-I.E. 
TIBS FOR FOURTH 




Pres. F. D. Farrell Discusses Land -Grant College Policy 



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Meats Judging Tenm nnd Home Eco- 
nomlcs Identification Representa- 
tives Compete In Intereolleglnte 
Content at Kansas City 

The Kansas State College livestock 
judging team placed seventh in the 
intercollegiate livestock judging con- 
test in connection with the American 
Royal in Kansas City. Nineteen other 
colleges competed in the contest. 

Iowa State College placed first and 
had first and second high individuals. 
Mack Yenzer, Saffordville, of the 
College team was in the five-way tie 
for fourth place in the swine class. 
PROFESSOR BELL IS COACH 
Other members of the livestock 
judging team besides Yenzer were 
Wayne R. Colle, Sterling; Boyd H. 
McCune, Stafford; Warren Rhodes, 
Silver Lake; Eugene Watson, Peck, 
and John S. Winter, Dresden. Prof. 
F W. Bell of the Department of Ani- 
mal Husbandry, coach, accompanied 

the team. 

The men's meats judging team and 
the home economics meat identifica- 
tion and judging team representing 
Kansas State College competed Tues- 
day in the intercollegiate fall judging 
contests at the Royal. 

On the men's meats judging team 
were Bertram Gardner, Carbondale; 
Wendell Moyer, Manhattan; Fried- 
rich Meenen, Clifton; Oscar Norby, 
Pratt. Members of the home eco- 
nomics team were Edith Buchholtz, 
Olathe; Cornelia Burtis, Hymer; 
Betty Hutchinson, Goddard; Helen 
Shepard, Erie. Both teams were ac- 
companied by their coach, Prof. 
David L. Mackintosh, associate pro- 
fessor in the Department of Animal 
Husbandry. 

Swine, sheep and cattle from Kan- 
sas State College were being shown at 
the American Royal this week. In 
charge of the entries are Prof. A. ^D 
Weber, cattle; Prof. C. E. Aubel, 
swine, and R. B. Cathcart, sheep. 
FACULTY PLAY ROLES 
Several members of the Depart- 
ment of Animal Husbandry are serv- 
ing in various official capacities at 
the American Royal Livestock show 

this week. 

Dr C W. McCampbell, head of 
the department, is a director of the 
American Royal Livestock show, and 
has charge of the horse and mule 
department. Doctor McCampbell 
v judged feeder cattle classes on Mon- 
day and mule classes on Wednesday. 
Thomas Dean, shepherd for the 
Animal Husbandry department 
judged fat lamb classes for the 4-H 
club and vocational agriculture 
groups. Mr. Dean also judged Chev- 
iots in the breeding classes of sheep^ 
Dr C E. Aubel judged the 4-H club 
and vocational agriculture swine 

olflSSOS. 

Prof David L. Mackintosh is su- 
perintendent of the draft horse 
division Professor Mackintosh also 
coached the two meats judging teams 
entered in the American Royal inter- 
collegiate meats judging contests. 



The following is the Pr?»Mential ad- 
dress of Pres. F. D. Farrell at the 54th 
annua? convention of the Association 
of Land-Grant Colleges and Universi- 
ties at Chicago on Monday. The title 
was "Lest We Forget. 



MECHANICAL ENGINEERS WIN 
FROM OKLAHOMA'S DEBATERS 



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Disc, »« Take- Place Before *Wta* 

of Automotive Engineer- In Tulsa 

Students of the Department of 
Mechanical Engineering won over the 
University of Oklahoma at a debate 
Friday evening in Tulsa before the 
Society of Automotive Engineers con- 
vention. . 

Vincent Ellis, Urbana, 111.; Phillip 
Myers, Formoso, and Joe Blackburn, 
Alma, represented the College. They 
argued that higher compression trac- 
tor engines are to be preferred for 
tractor power equipment. Richard 
Breckenridge, Woodston, was alter- 
nate. Wilson Tripp, assistant profes- 
aor in the Department of Mechanical 
Engineering, was faculty supervisor. 

Debaters from both schools re- 
ceived honorary student memberships 
in the Society of Automotive Engi- 
neers. 



By F. D. FARRELL 
President, Kansas State College 
In the 78 years since the passage of 
the Morrill act, the land-grant col- 
leges have developed from an un- 
popular educational ideal to one of 
the important influences in American 
life. The resident teaching, research 
and extension staffs of these institu- 
tions now contain about 35,000 men 
and women. The total number of 
resident students each year exceeds 
250,000. The men and women and 
boys and girls receiving instruction 
from the land-grant colleges by the 
extension method are numbered in 
j millions. 

Within the memory of men now 
i living, the land-grant colleges have 
' changed from weak and struggling 
' institutions, subjected to widespread 
! public contempt, to strong and vigor- 
'■ ous scientific and educational agencies 
i to which the public turns increasingly 
for scientific and educational gui- 
1 dance and leadership in the solution 
,of almost innumerable problems of 
' varying significance to individuals, 
| families, communities, states and the 
j nation as a whole. 

GUIDED BY SCIENCE 
The land-grant colleges have 
grown in size and influence because 
of their practical usefulness. They 
are useful because they have adhered 
to certain principles and practices. 
They have been guided much less by 
expediency than by scientific, educa- 
tional and governmental morality, j 
They have responded to certain fun- 
damental forces that underlie the 
development of American civilization. 
It is always important that these 
forces be understood and appreciated. 
In times like the present, when cer- 
tain conditions change drastically 
from day to day, it is even more im- 
portant. At such times, because of 
the pressures that accompany drastic 
land sudden change, there is always 
| the possibility that essential prin- 
ciples and reliable practices will be 
sacrificed on the altar of expediency. 

Many of you doubtless remember 
the fairy story of Hansel and Grethel. 
You will remember that the wicked 
stepmother of the two children at- 
who dropped these pebbles were per- 
sons of various sorts, many of them 
interested in fundamental principles 
and reliable practices relating to edu- 
cation of the land-grant college type. 
WARNS AOAINST SHORT-CUTS 
It is my purpose today to remind 
you of a few of these pebbles, lest we 
forget them and lose our way. Wick- 
ed stepmothers in various guises 
tempt us from time to time with their 
blandishments. Expediencies, short- 
cuts, something-for-nothing, offered, 
us in various seductive forms may en- 
tice us into some pathless forest of 
confusion and lose us there unless we 
keep clearly in mind the principles! 
and practices upon which the insti- 
tutions that we represent have been 
brought to their present state of in- 
iiuence and usefulness. 

It is not possible in a brief paper 
to discuss all the pebbles. I shall 
tempted to lose them in the depths 
of a forest but that Hansel thwarted 
her attempt by dropping pebbles as 
he went into the woods so that he and 
Grethel could And the way home. 

Now, it happens that a good many 
pebbles have been dropped along the 
course that led to the establishment 
and the subsequent development of 
the land-grant colleges. The Hansels 
mention only a few, and I shall not 
attempt to list them in the order of 
their supposed importance. 

1. The land-grant college Ideal of 
combining the practical with the lib- 
eral in education is not new. — This 
ideal is a part of our heritage from 
antiquity. In the ancient Greek town 
of Crotona a school was kept by 
Pythagoras, a Greek philosopher who 
was born about 580 B. C. The school 



was coeducational. The women stu- 
dents were taught philosophy and lit- 
erature. But they were also instruct- 
ed in "maternal and domestic arts." 
They were the "Pythagorean women" 
who were "honored by antiquity as 
the highest feminine type that Greece 
ever produoed." 1 It appears that 
both coeducation and education in 
home economics are a part of our 
heritage from the ancient Greeks. 
This is a fragment of the abundant 
evidence that supports the old adage: 
"When you have a new idea, look up 
the Greeks and see which one ex- 
pressed it best." 

NATURE AND BOOKS 
Francois Rabelais, a French sati- 
rist, humorist and philosopher, born 
about 1490, recommended the study 
of nature as well as books and the use 



INDEPENDENTS, GREEKS 
NOMINATE FOR ELECTION 



BALLOTING WILL TAKE PLACE ON 




F. 0. FA/WELL 



in men's daily occupations of the 
knowledge so gained. In 1644, John 
Milton, the English poet, advocated 
the study of classical literature and 
agriculture and defined a generous 
education as "that which fits a man to 
perform justly, skillfully and mag- 
nanimously all the offices both pri- 
vate and public of peace and war." 2 
The land-grant college educational 
ideal developed from the educational 
aspirations of the human race, as ex- 
pressed repeatedly throughout 25 
centuries by poets and philosophers. 
It is a tremendously significant ideal. 
Its extensive fruition was long de- 
layed, largely by the influence of 
Oriental philosophies that supported 
the stratification of society into a 
small but powerful educated leisure 
class and a large but oppressed un- 
educated working class. 

2. The large-scale application of 
the land-grant college educational 
ideal is new. — Although, as just 
shown, the ideal is hoary with age, 
its application on a large scale has oc- 
curred since July 2, 1862, when Pres- 
ident Lincoln approved the Morrill 
act. Previous to that date Rensselaer 
Polytechnic institute had been found- 
ed in 1824 at Troy, and Michigan 
Agricultural college had been opened 
in the 1850's at East Lansing. The 
founding of similar institutions in 
Massachusetts and several other 
states had been vigorously advocated. 
These events, particularly the pas- 
sage of the Morrill act, are the peb- 
bles that show the beginning of large- 
scale application of the ideal. 

3. The land-grant colleges legally 
and morally are obliged to be techni- 
cal schools primarily but to provide 
liberal as well as technical education. 
— Perhaps the most significant provi- 
sion of the charter of the land-grant 
colleges, the act of July 2, 1862, is 
the following familiar statement of 
the "leading object": 

"Without excluding other scien- 
tific and classical studies and includ- 



ing military tactics, to teach such 
branches of learning as are related 
to agriculture and the mechanic arts, ; 
in such manner as the legislatures of 
the states may respectively prescribe, i 
in order to promote the liberal and 
practical education of the industrial 
classes in the several pursuits and 
professions in life." 

This really is a description of the 
land-grant college educational ideal; 
the ideal of combining the liberal 
with the practical, or technical, in 
college education. In a speech before 
the Vermont legislature in 1888,3 
Senator Morrill said: "The useful was 
to have greater prominence in the 
eyes of the students, as it will have 
in all their after life, and not stand 
unequal and shamefaced even in the 
presence of ancient literature. . . • 
The fundamental idea was to offer 
an opportunity in every state for a 
liberal and larger education to larger 
numbers ... to those much needing 
higher instruction for the world's 
business, for the industrial pursuits 
and professions of life." 

TECHNICAL TRAINING 
In their early years the land-grant 
colleges were not able to provide ade- 
quately for the technical training of 
their students and the major empha- 
sis was non-technical. Later, as com- 
petent technical personnel and ade- 
quate equipment became available, 
the emphasis shifted in the opposite 
direction and liberal education fre- 
quently was neglected. It is not im- 
probable that one of the chief current 
defects in land-grant college educa- 
tion is that it fails to provide ade- 
quately for the "liberal and larger 
education" of which Senator Morrill 
spoke in 1888. I am not sure that we 
have learned how best to liberalize 
the training of our technical students. 
Whether to do it by means of class- 
room instruction alone or to make 
more effective use of extracurricular 
activities as well has not been finally 
determined. 

At this point I should like to offer 
a few comments about the words 
technical, liberal and cultural as ap- 
plied to education. A college subject 
is technical when it is studied pri- 
marily for the purpose of increasing 
the student's vocational competence. 
It is liberal when it is studied pri- 
marily for the purpose of increasing 
the student's competence as a human 
being, his competence for living and 
for citizenship. It is cultural in either 
case. The study of the Bible is techni- 
cal for a prospective clergyman, lib- 
eral for a prospective mechanical en- 
gineer and cultural for both. The 
study of thermodynamics is techni- 
cal for a prospective mechanical engi- 
neer, liberal for a prospective clergy- 
man and cultural for both. I wish we 
would cease classifying college sub- 
jects rigidly into two groups — techni- ! 
cal and cultural — and think of them j 
rather as technical or liberal, depend- | 
ing in each instance on the major 
purpose of the individual who studies 
them. There is quite as much culture | 
in understanding the physiology of 
the corn plant or the life history of 
the liver fluke as there is in under- 
standing a Greek tragedy or a sym- 
phony. A spider or a diatom is quite 
as wonderful as a sonnet or a star. 

4. In the land-grant colleges engi- 
neering should be coordinate with 
agriculture. — This is clearly pre- 
scribed in our charter. In his Ver- 
mont address in 1888 Senator Morrill 
described the main purpose of the 
land-grant colleges as, "without ex- 
cluding other scientific and classical 
studies" to teach "such branches of 
learning as are related to agriculture 
and the mechanic arts — the latter as 
absolutely as the former."* Public 
attention is not called to this pebble 
as often as it should be. The co- 
ordinate status of agriculture and 
engineering is better understood and 
(Continued on last page) 



NOVEMBER 21 

Senior Pnnhellenlc Councils Select 

Slate, While Unorganised Group 

Huh Primary to Pick Those 

Who Will Have Places 

Independent and Greek party offi- 
cials have announced the candidates 
for class offices in the coming general 
election on November 21. 

The Greek candidates were chosen 
at a joint meeting of the Men's and 
Women's Senior Panhellenic councils 
and were announced by Pierce 
Wheatly, Gypsum, publicity director 
of the Men's Panhellenic council. The 
Independent candidates were chosen 
by ballot at a primary election in 
Anderson hall last Thursday. 

SENIOR OFFICERS NAMED 
The candidates for senior offices 
include: 

Greeks — Ray Bukaty, Phi Kappa, 
Kansas City, president; Wallace 
Swanson, Alpha Tau Omega, Sharon 
Springs, vice-president; Dorothy 
Green, Pi Beta Phi, Wichita, secre- 
tary, and Josephine Lann, Chi 
Omega, Axtell, treasurer. 

Independents— Garland Childers, 
Augusta, president; James Kendall, 
Dwight, vice-president; Ethel Haller, 
Alma, secretary, and Chris Lang- 
vardt, Alta Vista, treasurer. 

The candidates for junior class 
offices are: 

Greeks — Jack Young, Phi Kappa 
Tau, Clearwater, president; John 
Hancock, Kappa Sigma, St. Francis, 
vice-president; Marjorie Spurrier, 
Kappa Kappa Gamma, Kingman, sec- 
retary, and Ray Rokey, Alpha Gam- 
ma Rho, Sabetha, treasurer. 

Independents — Thaine High, Abi- 
lene, president; Helen Woodard, To- 
peka, vice-president; Alma Deane 
Fuller, Courtland, secretary, and 
Lawrence Spear, Mission, treasurer. 
SOPHOMORE CANDIDATES 
The sophomore class candidates 

Greeks — Gene Snyder, Pi Kappa 
Alpha, Junction City, president; Rex 
Pruett, Delta Sigma Phi, Culver, 
vice-president; Margaret Mack, Delta 
Delta Delta, Manhattan, secretary, 
and Bill Quick, Tau Kappa Epsilon, 
Beloit, treasurer. 

Independents — Grant Marburger, 

Lyons, president; George Campbell, 

i Wichita, vice-president; Wilma Gan- 

! tenbein, Elmo, secretary, and Jack 

j Nutter, Morrowville, treasurer. 



i "The Life of Greece" by Will Durant, 

P- 1«L . .. 

•History of Agricultural Education 

by A. C. True, p. 2. 



s "History of Agricultural Education 
by A. C. True, p. 108. 

« "History of Agricultural Education 
by A. C. True, p. 108-9. 



BANKERS FARM COMMITTEE 
WILL MEET HERE WEDNESDAY 

Prof. R. I. Throckmorton Hns Prepared 

Leaflet on Soil Conservation 

and Land Use 

Members of the Kansas Bankers 
association agricultural committee 
will meet here November 20 for their 
annual session in the interest of 
Kansas agriculture. The day's activi- 
I ties will begin at noon Wednesday 
J with a luncheon at the Hotel Ware- 
ham, and will continue throughout 
i the afternoon. 

Each member of the K. B. A. agri- 
1 cultural committee will be accom- 
j panied by one or two leading farmers 
. in his community, according to Fred 
i M. Bowman, K. B. A. secretary. 

Representatives of the State Board 
| of Agriculture, Kansas State College 
and a group of Kansas farmers will 
meet with the K. B. A. representa- 
tives. Representatives of the Kansas 
Editorial association and the Kansas 
Press association and other Kansas 
newspapermen have been invited. 

The meeting is primarily for the 
consideration of a leaflet on "Soil 
and Water Conservation and Land 
Utilization." This leaflet was pre- 
pared for the agricultural committee 
of the K. B. A. by Prof. R. I. Throck- 
morton, head of the Department of 
Agronomy at Kansas State College. 
The K. B. A. agricultural commit- 
tee arranged this meeting for repre- 
sentative farmers and citizens so that 
a program for soil and water con- 
servation and proper land use for 
Kansas will be discussed. 



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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1940 



OUR CONTEMPORARY WORL.n 

The following U a summary of a. 
talk given by Prof. Fred L. Parrish 
of the Department of History and 
Government at the meeting on the 
campus last week-end of the Kan- 
sas Association of Deans of W o- 
men and Advisers of Girls. It is 
printed as an editorial because the 
editors of The Industrialist be- 
lieve it will interest readers. 



It is open to question whether, 
with the great nations at war again, 
this world in which we live is "the 
best of all possible worlds," as the 
German philosopher Leibnitz stated 
in the 17th century. 

Aggressor nations, under moral 
pressure to explain the meaning of 
the turmoil, announce that a "new 
order" is being born into the world, 
and that the strife in progress is in 
itself the evidence of the process of 
the "new order" that is coming into 
being. Hence, Japanese speak of the 
"new order" in east Asia; and the 
axis powers, Germany and Italy, 
solemnly set forth the "new order" 
which is developing in Europe, in 
Africa and eventually the entire 
world. The "new order" envisaged 
by these aggressor powers, is — if the 
most assuring fascist propaganda is 
to be believed — the harvest of the 
working of contemporary forces, and 
that the "new order" is inevitable. 

If we examine the assumptions of 
the sponsors of the "new order" we 
find that the attitude of imperialism 
toward other peoples completely 
dominates the sponsors' thinking. 
The method by which this imperial 
attitude is implemented is an ultra- 
modern, highly geared war machine. 
By its quick use, the aggressor gets 
the drop on the others before they 
have time to defend themselves on 
anything like equal terms. The ag- 
gressor hopes to maintain this control 
by preventing others from acquiring 
instruments of war with which to 
save themselves. Through systematic 
and sustained terrorism all others 
may be cowed into submission. 

Success has already attended such 
mechanized war and terrorism to an 
astonishing degree. One after an- 
other nations of contemporary peo- 
ples have seen their governments, de- 
fenses and independence destroyed 
and the population left in a state of 
paralysis. The story is only too well 
known what the Japanese unleashed 
upon Chinese cities; what Italy did 
to Libyans, Spanish Loyalists, Ethi- 
opians and Albanians; what Ger- 
many did to Poles, Norwegians, 
Dutch, Belgians, French. To-day the 
question is raised: will the Greeks. 
Turks and Egyptians go the same 
route, and after them still others? 

Fascism, we are told, is a revohi- 
tlonary system needed for the 20th 
century, something new in this old 
world. But we have only to take a 
second squint at it to recognize that 
t et is only the old hag of history- 
empire with her face lifted The 
ideology of fascism, used as wjndow 
dressing for hijackers and black 
Sers and murderers in high places^ 
will quickly fade away if and when 
Tome other system or ideology can 
be discovered which would be , more 
effective in securing and holding an 
empire which destroys liberties of 

,r Ve e °a P ggression of fascist ^ naUons 
in Europe and the aggression of non- 
fascist militarists of Japan both 
evenuate in a similar holocaust: 
whether the bombs be released by an 



emperor-worshipping aviator of Ja- 
pan upon the heads of civilian Chi- 
nese, or similar bombs be released 
by a fuehrer-befuddled aviator of 
Germany upon the heads of neighbor- 
ing Dutch and French, it is all for 
the glory of the empire in the much- 
touted "new order." 

At present there appears to be lit- 
tle to hope from any organized, re- 
demptive influences remaining in the 
intransigent countries of Germany, 
Italy and Japan. Political parties and 
other elements of an incipient de- 
mocracy have been ruthlessly crushed 
by wanton and bloody governments. 
It is useless to look to the institution 
of the church; it is too busy looking 
after the preservation of its property 
and organization to throw its un- 
restrained influence into the scale of 
the common welfare of the people. 
Furthermore, the growth of democ- 
racy has come more through the sac- 
rifices of the laity than the clergy. 
To-day in France the appeasers, fas- 
cists monarchists, great industrial- 
ists and clericals huddle under the 
questionable shelter of a cowering, 
intimidated, humiliated group called 
a government. It seems to be waiting 
for a Laval to be for them what 
Franco is supposed to be for a simi- 
lar group in Spain. 

The first World war did make the 
world safe from the autocracy of 
Kaiserism at that time: it purged 
Germany of one group, and out of the 
harvest of the settlement emerged a 
whole flock of free peoples. But the 
world was left unsafe for democracy 
when the United States, its leading 
sponsor, utterly failed to give its sup- 
port to a system of collective security 
which would have augured well for 
the continued existence of democratic 
powers which were brought to inde- 
pendence. As has been truly said 
many times: United States helped win 
the war, and helped lose the peace 
after the war. The peace offered so 
far by the aggressor states has been 
only a peace of desolation. 

It cannot be too often pointed out 
to Americans who believe in the 
democratic way of life, that the an- 
tagonisms between fascism and de- 
mocracy are fundamental ones. The 
time has come when democracy, if it 
is to live in this world, must be a] 
fighting faith to the extent at least 
that it will stand its ground. The 
failure of democracies to cooperate 
for the purpose of safeguarding their 
independence and liberties has re- 
sulted already in the destruction of . 
the liberties of many peoples; it re- 
mains to be seen whether the demo- ( 
cratic faith furnishes men with what 
it takes or will take in this country | 
in future years, to preserve charac- 1 
teristically American liberties while; 
Americans are reaching out at the 
same time for a modest security. In 
Europe many peoples have sold their 
liberty to gain security, only to dis- 
cover to their dismay that they were 
blackmailed, and now they have 
neither. — Fred L. Parrish. 



SCIENCE TODAY 



By HAZEL FLETCHER 

Assistant Professor, Department of 
Clothing and Textiles 



Rayon and other synthetic fibers 
have attained a place of importance 
in the textile field within the past few 
years. 

Before the year 1884 some few 
people had the idea that textile fibers 
might be created in the laboratory. 
Between 1884 and 1934 came the de- 
velopment of rayon, a man-made tex- 1 
tile fiber made chemically from a 
cellulose base. Both chemists and 
physicists made intensive study of 
cellulose and cellulose derivatives. 
Out of this period of experimentation 
came the three important rayons: 
viscose, cuprammonium and cellulose 

JlC6tfl.tG. 

Three parallel developments have 
taken place since 1934: first, and 
foremost, the extensive use of rayon 
staple fibers; second, the use of natu- 
ral raw materials other than cellu- 
lose in making synthetic fibers, and 
third, the creation of man-made tex- 
tile fibers from synthetic polymers 
or resins. 

Rayon staple fibers are made by 
cutting the continuous filaments of 
rayon into short lengths of a few 
inches. These staple lengths are then 
spun into yarn and woven into cloth. 
Spun rayon has made possible a wide 
variety of fabrics. It may be blended 
with wool, silk, linen or cotton to 
form an infinite variety of yarns and 
fabrics. Fabrics made from spun or 
staple rayon can be made to resemble 
linens, silks, cottons or woolens hav- 
ing an endless variety of textures that 
have never been seen before. 

The chemists and physicists have 
been ingenious in converting other 
than cellulose into fine filaments 
which have proven to be a success for 
use as textiles. The raw materials 
i used for these synthetic textiles are 
casein of skimmed milk, soybeans, 
i corn meal, glass and resins. The fiber 
made from casein, known as lanital, j 
is quite similar to wool in its chemi- 
cal composition, and, even though it 
lacks certain desirable qualities of 
wool its lower cost will cause it to 
replace wool and aid totalitarian 
countries toward national sufficiency. 
Even though the fibers made from 
corn meal are as yet quite new in 
their development, they show useful- 
ness in the textile field. Exceedingly 
fine fibers can be spun from molten 
glass These can in turn be braided, 
knitted or woven into cloth known as 
fiberglas. 

The third development, the crea- 
tion of man-made textile fibers from 
synthetic polymers or resins, has at- 
tracted considerable attention. These 
textiles are vinyon and nylon which 
have been produced from plastics or 



resins which in turn have been syn- 
thesized from raw materials such as 
coal, oil, natural gas or other sources 
of organic compounds. Vinyon is de- 
rived from a vinyl resin. Nylon has 
been said to be the first man-made 
organic textile fiber manufactured 
entirely from raw materials of the 
mineral kingdom, namely, coal, water 
and air. It resembles silk more close- 
ly than it does any of the other natu- 
ral fibers. 

Many of the synthetics are substi- 
tuted for and used as an adulterant 
for the natural fibers. However, many 
of the man-made fibers have intrinsic 
qualities which make them more de- 
sirable for many purposes than the 
natural fibers. When natural fibers 
are not available synthetic fibers will 
take their places. Tests are being 
made to determine just where these 
can be employed in place of silk, wool 
and other natural fibers. 

Blends of wool and staple rayon 
are used for various military fabrics. 
Now Germany and Italy are using 
fabrics made from rayon and casein 
fibers which were formerly made of 
all wool. 

Silk is the best available fabric 
for parachute cloth and cartridge 
bags. Because nylon has qualities 
similar to silk, it seems that this 
synthetic textile could make this 
country independent of silk for para- 
chutes, and eventually provide a bet- 
ter fabric than can be made from any 
natural fiber. 

Mercerized cotton is used for air- 
plane cloth. Vinyon may prove to be 
a superior fabric for this use because 
it does not support combustion and 
fuses at a comparatively low tempera- 
ture. When a hot bullet pierces vin- 
yon fabric it will fuse at the edges 
of the hole and not tear further when 
subjected to the pressure of a strong 

wind. 

Linen is becoming more difficult to 
i obtain. Spun rayon and cotton will 
I be substituted for linen in handker- 
chiefs, towels, table cloths, napkins 
and draperies. 

High-strength rayon may be sub- 
stituted for manila fiber and other 
I cordage fibers if imports of these are 
stopped. High-strength rayon is more 
desirable than cotton in cords for 
tires because it has greater breaking 
strength at high temperatures. 

All carpet wool is imported. Lim- 
ited quantities of rayon are already 
being used in carpets, and more and 
more synthetics will be used in car- 
pets if imports of carpet wool are cur- 
tailed. 

No doubt rayon and other synthet- 
ics will play an increasingly impor- 
tant role in the field of textiles even 
though the supply of natural fibers 
is adequate to meet the need. 



and United States statutes to the 
College Library. 

Original orations were presented 
at the public exercises for the week 
by Messrs. Lightfoot and Houston and 
Misses Adams, Mason and Glossop, 
a division of the senior class. 



KANSAS POETRY 

Robert Conover, Editor 



f 



ELYS1AN FIELDS 

By Billy B. Cooper 

I like to think there will be work to do 
For every weather-roughened, gnarled 

Horses to harness, and a cow or two 
To milk, and sheep to tend; and fertile 

To a turn beneath the plow in early 

I likTto^hink there will be days of sun 
For seeding of the fields and harvest- 

AndTestful evenings when the work is 

done, 
you would not feel at home unless you 
Tour chores to do; the smell of new- 
The^caVe of pearling colts; a growing 

And'^dog to follow at your heels all day. 
You cmild not be contented without 

Without the changing seasons, wind 

I like to think there will be honest toil 
Provided for your willing hands, again. 



Billv B. Cooper of Neodesha has 
had poetry published in most of the 
leading general and women s maga- 
zines in this country as well as The 
Industrialist, The Kansas Magazine 
and numerous anthologies. She began 
writing seriously at the age of '14, 
when she was encouraged by a high 
school teacher who discovered her 
creative talent. She is one of Kan- 
sas' most talented poets and also one 
of her youngest. 



SUNFLOWERS 
By H. W. Davis 
IF THIS BE TREASON 
That boom-boom — with echoes — 
you heard a week or 10 days ago was 
only the finale of a presidential elec- 
tion. Its reverberations are pleasant- 
ly dying away as we busy ourselves 
forgetting fears and cooling angers. 

Now we are beginning to hear the 
early rattling of a new cry. And the 
new cry is: join hands and hearts, 
and present a solid front to a raging 
world. 



Not many Americans will disagree 

! with the new shibboleth. For even 

j in the hottest heat of the campaign 

I there was no argument about unity 

' in defense. When it is a matter of 

protection against desperate, power- 

crazy foreign foes, differences of 

j opinion are regularly subordinated 

in America. 



However, in the new rush to ac- 
cord, we had better leave open a 
chink or two so differences which will 
come up — particularly about social 
and economic problems within our 
wave-washed borders — may have a 
chance to breathe. 



FORCE DEFEATS ITSELF 
Force in the end always defeats it- 
self In the long run it solves nothing 
and answers nothing. It brings us no 
step nearer the prospect of the "great 
society" which science and culture 
have revealed. If the world of the 
future is a more promising habitation 
for mankind it will be only as a result 
of the persistent application not of 
force but of intelligence against the 
things that now thwart our hopes. 
We have created a society so interde- 
pendent that issues are no longer 
simple, individual and local; they 
are complex, social and world wide. 
And they are beyond the experience 
of most of us. Money and credit, 
fiscal policy, international relations, 
international trade and finance, na- 
tional income and its distribution, 
wages, profits, prices, monopoly, 
purchasing power, savings and in- 
vestment, employment and unem- 
'ployment, social security, collective 
| bargaining, housing, public opinion, 
propaganda, public administration 
the relations between government 
I and business, individual and social 
adjustment, crime, social welfare, ed- 
ucation, population, social justice in 
an interdependent society — here is 
merely a brief list of some of the ur- 
gent issues. How can tanks and bayo- 
nets hope to solve such problems as 
these?— Raymond B. Fosdick in the 
Rockefeller Foundation Review. 
♦ 
IN OLDER DAYS 
From the Files of The Industrialist 

TEN YEARS AGO 
Estella (Barnum) Shelley, '20, a 
teacher in the high school at Glen- 
dale, Calif., was granted the degree 



of master of arts by the University 
of Southern California, Los Angeles. 

Prof. F. A. Smutz and Prof. R. F. 
Gingrich of the Department of Ma- 
chine Design were authors of a new 
textbook, "Elements of Descriptive 
Geometry," published by D. Van 
Nostrand, New York City. 

H. M. Weddle, '27, was assistant 
to the general manager of the Dewey- 
Alniy Chemical company, Cambridge, 
i Mass. After his graduation from this 
I College, Mr. Weddle attended Massa- 
chusetts Institute of Technology, 
I Boston, where he received his mas- 
i ter's degree. 



E. L. Holton, professor of rural 
education, addressed a teachers' as- 
sociation meeting at Washington,, 
Kan He was also scheduled to speak 
to the teachers of Jackson county 
on the subject, "The Public Schools 
and Community Life." 



TWENTY YEARS AGO 
R. R. Hind, '20, was field man for 
the Great Western Sugar Beet com- 
pany at Greeley, Colo. 

Fern Jessup, '11, was home dem- 
onstration agent for Nemaha county, 
with headquarters in Seneca. 

Harry C. Turner, '01, came to 
Manhattan for Homecoming from 
Halsey, Neb., where he was working 
for the United States Forestry ser- 
vice in the sand hills of Nebraska. 



FORTY YEARS AGO 

Henrietta Willard Calvin, '86, was 
conducting the children's corner in 
the Sunday issues of the Topeka 
Daily Capital. 

R H. Pond, '98, was appointed to 
the position of assistant botanist and 
pathologist at the Maryland Agricul- 
tural college. 

Nellie S. Kedzie, '76, delivered an 
address at the dedication of the Wo- 
man's building at the Michigan Agri- 
cultural college. In addition to her 
regular work as professor of domes- 
tic science in Bradley Polytechnic 
institute, Mrs. Kedzie lectured week- 
ly at Purdue university. 



In the quite worthy effort to 
achieve suddenly a new national 
solidarity we Americans, who are just 
as emotional and human as other 
peoples, may readily go over the top 
too enthusiastically, and pledge our- 
selves to deliver what we can't. We 
must remember that, besides having 
a two-party system of democracy, 
America is delightfully composite, 
and differences of opinion must have 
air. 



THIRTY YEARS AGO 

Mrs. Mary P. Van Zile, dean of 
home economics and professor of 
domestic science, and Miss Ula M. 
Dow, assistant professor of domestic 
science, spent two weeks visiting the 
Pittsburg Normal school. 

Frederick W. Wilson, '05, animal 
husbandman and superintendent of 
the experiment station farm of the 
University of Arizona, Phoenix, vis- 
ited Manhattan. Professor Wilson 
was on his way to the International 
at Chicago. 



FIFTY YEARS AGO 

J. B. Brown, '87, worked in the 
United States Signal office, St. Louis, 
Mo. 

C. W. Earle, '90, was doing cleri- 
cal work in the Missouri-Pacific rail- 
road offices in Denver. 

D. G. Fairchild, '88, read a paper 
on fungicides at the meeting of the 
Association of Agricultural Colleges 
at Champaign, 111. 



An election is not a final battle in 
a war; it is just another skirmish in 
a non-lethal altercation that — in de- 
mocracies — goes on and on — to se- 
cure, in a way. government by the 
people. 

To ask leaders and their millions 
of followers to forget the at-home 
causes they honestly fought for is to 
ask them to admit they were only 
fooling and trying to get into power. 
England has demonstrated how dif- 
ferences can be given air to breathe 
— even in time of over-hanging in- 
vasion. Germany has demonstrated 
brass-front solidarity. You may have 
your choice; but I'll take England. 

I like countries in which people 
who mutter now and then because 
they honestly disagree are neither 
shot at sunrise nor accused of being 
unpatriotic. And I suspect democ- 
racy saved from without and smoth- 
ered within would be a sorry thing to 
make America safe for. 



SIXTY YEARS AGO 
President Fairchild lectured be- 
fore the student body of the Univer- 
sity of Kansas. 

John A. Anderson contributed six 
volumes of Congressional Records 



So — billions for defense solidarity, 
both in steel and in spirit; but not 
so much for whatever cramps circu- 
lation and checks the flow of honest 
convictions, which vanish, often for- 
ever, when they are bottle-necked. 



AMONG THE 
ALUMNI 



Ralph Snyder, B. S. '90, is presi- 
dent of the Wichita Bank for Co- 
operatives, the banking unit of the 
Farm Credit administration. He 
visited the campus November 6, when 
he spoke before the annual exten- 
sion conference. 

Louise (Reed) Paddleford, B. S. 
'91, visited the campus November 5 
with her daughter, Alice (Paddle- 
ford) Wood, '25, and her son, Merton, i 
•29. She has been living with her 
daughter at 104 Burns terrace, Penn ; 
Yan, N. Y., for the past year. She re- 
ports that she likes New York. 

Maj.-Gen. Emory S. Adams, B. S. | 
'9 8, is the adjutant-general of the 
United States army, Washington, D. 
C. Mrs. Adams (Elies Yeates) f. s., 
University of Utah, and he reside at 
2909 Thirty-Fourth street, N. W., 
Washington, D. C. 

L V. White, C. E. '03, M. S. '27, 
Prof. Engr. '18, is associate professor 
of civil engineering at Kansas State 
College. He resides at 1832 Ander- 
son, Manhattan. 

Claude B. Thummel, M. E. '05, is 
lieutenant-colonel of the Ordnance 
department, Chicago, 111. His office is 
in the new post-office building. His 
home is at 860 Roslyn circle, High- 
land Park, 111. 

Esther E. Christensen, D. S. '08, 
is business manager of Kirby hall, a 
dormitory for 120 girls, at the 
Stephen F. Austin college, Austin, 
Texas Her work includes purchas- 



Ben H. Pubols, M. S. '27, is profes- 
sor and head of the Department of 
Farm Management and Agricultural 
Economics, College of Agriculture, 
Washington State college, Pullman, 
Wash. He also is head of the Division 
of Farm Management and Agricul- 
tural Economics at the Agricultural 
Experiment station there. His ad- 
dress is 1715 B street, Pullman. He 
has two sons, Ben H. Jr., 9, and 
George R., 4. 

Frances G. Robinson, H. E. '28, is 
home economics teacher at Westmin- 
ster, Colo. 

Florence (Sederlin) Nulty, '29, 
writes that she moved from Detroit 
to Jackson, Mich., October 1. Her ad- 
dress is 776 Oakride drive. Mr. 
Nulty, f. s. '30, is a sales engineer 
with the Walker Manufacturing com- 
pany. The office has been in Detroit 
but is being moved to Jackson where 
the factory is located. They have 
lived in Detroit 9% years and have 
two children, Bobby, 5%, and Jane 
Ellen, 2y 2 . 

Henry J. Barre, Ag. E. *30, is as- 
sistant professor in the agricultural 
engineering section of the Iowa Ag- 
ricultural Experiment station, Ames, 
Iowa. He is agent in charge of the 
corn storage investigations of United 
States agricultural chemical engi- 
neers. He has a son, James Freder- 
ick, born January 4, 1940. 

Beatrice (Woodworth) Weber, H. 
E. '31, is at 1430 Coolidge, Wichita. 

Wilbur S. Nay, G. S. '32, teaches 
metal work, machine shop, sheet 



LOOKING AROUND 

KENNEY L. FORD 



Nine Employed by Oil Concern 

O. Roland Smith, E. E. '39, with 
the engineering department of the 
Halliburton Oil Well Cementing com- 
pany, at Duncan, Okla., recently has 
completed a survey of the Kansas 
State College graduates who are em- 
ployed by that company and sent a 
list of them to the College Alumni 
association office. 

The graduates and their positions 
with the company are: A. D. Stod- 
dard, '06, vice-president and chief 
of engineering and manufacturing, 
Duncan, Okla.; H. E. Gardner, '38, 
well-logging department, Duncan 
Okla.; David Scott Crippen, well-log- 
ging department, Houston, Texas; L. 
E. Patterson, '33, well-logging de- 
partment, Houston, Texas; Gordon 
W. Brown, '39, well-logging depart- 
ment, Alice, Texas; Kemp Barley, 
'37, echometer department, Great 
Bend; Maurice Hanson, '37, acid de- 
partment and cementing department, 
Great Bend; Louis B. McManis, '38, 
well-logging department, Lafayette, 
La., and Edwin J. Shellenberger, '37, 
well-logging department, Victoria, 
Texas. 



lieutenant with the United States 

army. 

At Kansas State College, Mrs. 
Crow was a member of Delta Delta 
Delta sorority, and was chosen Kan- 
sas State Homecoming queen in 1938. 

Lieutenant Crow was a member 
of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity of 
which he served as president. He 
played on the Kansas State golf team. 



RECENT HAPPENINGS 
ON THE HILL 



The Eva Jessye choir, mixed Negro 
choral ensemble, was received well 
Friday. The arrangements of "Sum- 
mertime," "Shortenin' Bread" and 
others brought much applause. 



Chicago Alumni Dinner 

Wally C. Watkins, E. E. '22, Wil- 
mette, 111., writes: 
work, machine snop, «~», "Prof. R. G. Kloeffler and his se- 
metal forging, in the Industrial Arts nior electrical engineering students, 
Sartment at the Arizona State while on their annual inspection trip, 
Teache-s ollege, Tempe, Ariz. He is met some former graduates of Kan- 
JiiUc teacher for the Industrial Arts sas State College during a dinner at 
criuc iecu.uei iw» u Q ,.mmiv rn.fet.eria. 21 South 



WARREN— ROBERTS 
A letter announcing her marriage 
to June Roberts, Ag. E. '33, M. S. 
•34, former instructor in agricultural 
engineering at Kansas State, has 
been sent by Ellen (Warren) Rob- 
erts, I. J. '33, extension editor with 
the Division of College Extension un- 
til her marriage. 

"For your alumni records here are 
the facts: September 23 was the date, 
the place — Lubbock, Texas, at the 
home of my aunt. Doris (Paulson) 
Hasler, f. s., of El Dorado, Kan., was 
my matron of honor. 

"Manhattan people who attended 
the wedding were: Mr. and Mrs. B. 
R. Patterson, R. B. Cathcart and 
Peairs Wilson. 

"June came to Washington State 
college as a research engineer work- 
ing with the Committee on the Rela- 
tion of Electricity to Agriculture, 
cooperating with the Agricultural En- 
gineering department. We are set- 
tled in a duplex and our address is 
1507 V 2 Opal, Pullman, Wash. Social 
life here is cut by the same pattern 
as Kansas State activities and we are 
having no trouble having plenty to 
do getting acquainted. We have been 
accepted in the Alpha Gamma Rho 
and Alpha Delta Pi circles, so feel 
right at home." 



Barclay Wright, a home economics 
senior from Salina, represented Man- 
hattan in the American Royal beauty 
contest at Kansas City Saturday. Leo 
Carrillo, judge, chose the Tulsa en- 
try as queen. 

Twenty-six students and five fac- 
ulty members of the Department of 
Industrial Journalism and Printing 
visited newspaper, press association 
and radio station offices in Kansas 
City Saturday on the first field trip 
to be taken by journalism students. 



Mrs. Mary P. Van Zile, dean emeri- 
tus, and Miss Kathleen Knittle, as- 
sistant to the dean of women, left 
today for Ames, Iowa. Mrs. Van Zile 
will visit sons in Bloomington, 111., 
and Atlanta, Ga., in the next month. 
Miss Knittle will spend two weeks in 
Ames and White City, Kan. 



L Texas. Her work includes purchaj- critic [^^^"^ mmm „\the Harmony cafeteria 21 South 

>' ing, supervision of food service and J^^Jj^^. AlllBon Steel Dearborn street, Chicago October 21. 

** v„„ DO i,opni^. he was em P 10 ' eu "' n i„„„w ' ..sn^rt talks were made by M. C. 



V. M. '10, is 
medicine at 



w 



housekeeping. 

Robert M. Piatt, D 
practicing veterinary 
Protection. 

Frank H. Graham, E. E. '13, made 
his first visit back to the campus since 
graduation October 19. He is married 
and is an engineer for Amsler-Morton 
company, Fulton building, Pitts- 
burgh Pa. The Grahams' residence 
address is 1300 Singer place, Wil- 
kinsburg, Pa. 

Blanche (Burt) Yeaton, B. S. '14, 
who lives at 1620 Tennessee street, 
Lawrence, writes: 

"I have a house for university girls 
which is managed on a cooperative 
man Each girl works a short time 
each day and most of the expenses 
are shared. I do the cooking for 
lunch and dinner. Each girl prepares 
her own breakfast." 

Mrs Yeaton has two girls. Mabel 
Lucile' is a senior at the University 
of Kansas. Ruth Margaret is a junior , 
in high school. 

Wilhelm A. Wunsch, Ag. '17, is, 
extension economist with the New 
Mexico Extension service, State Col- 
leee N M. He and Helen (Coolidge) 
Wunsch have three children, William 
C, 15, Barbara Jean, 8, and Donald, 

' Mary Hill, H. B. '20, visited the 
Alumni association office October 21. 
She lives at 1110 North street, Marys- 
ville, where she is supervisor of a 
National Youth administration girls 
residence center. 

Clara Lee Cramsey, H. E. '22, 
teaches in the Polytechnic high 
school at Tulsa, Okla. Her address is 
741! Carson avenue. 

Elfrieda (Hemker) Geil, G. S. '23, 
lives at 812 South Weller avenue, 
Springfield, Mo. Mr. Geil is psychol- 



Manufacturing company, Phoenix, 
Ariz., as a machinist. He and Leano 
(Nichols) Nay, f. b. '29, live at 1005 
Maple avenue, Tempe, Ariz. 

Carmy Gross Page, Ag. '33, is in- 
structor of agriculture for the United 
States Indian service at the Macy Day 
school, Macy, Neb. He has one son, 
Carmy Gross Jr., 1. 



BIRTHS 



College student delegates to the 
19th annual convention of the Asso- 
ciated Collegiate press in Detroit last 
week were James Kendall, Dwight, 
The Kansas State Collegian editor; 
Don Makins, Abilene, Royal Purple 
editor; Murray Mason, Manhattan, 
The Kansas State Collegian business 
manager, and Byron White, Neode- 
sha, Royal Purple business manager. 



Lois Elda Howard, H. E. '34, of 
335 Mount avenue, Missoula, Mont., 

writes: 

"I am sharing a house now ana 
find the housework quite a derivation 
from teaching. Also, I wish to report 
an interesting fact for The Indtjstbi- 

| A LI ST. 

"The 1.600 high school students 
here are divided into groups of 30 
with a home room teacher in charge, 
acting as head of that group. In my 
group is Bob Kahl, a freshman, son 
of Arthur and Goldie (Eagles) Kahl, 
Kansas State graduates in 1911 



"Short talks were made by M. C 
Watkins, E. E. '22, who arranged the 
meeting, by C. M. Kopf, E. E. '30, 
president of the Chicago Alumni sec- 
tion who welcomed the seniors and 
called on Professor Kloeffler to talk. 
Professor Kloeffler gave a few per- 
sonal observations on some of his 
former students which were of inter- 
est to the seniors and graduates. Each 
man present introduced himself, gave 
his year of graduation, his present 
occupation, and, if a senior, his home 
town. This bit of information drew 
the men together and by this method 
they found out some recent happen 
ings back home. 



Ralph A. Van Camp, I. J. '33, own- 
er and editor of the Halstead Inde- 
pendent, and Mary Margaret (Bragg) 
Van Camp, announced the birth of 
their son, Brian Ralph, on August 23. 
The announcement was a printed 
"second edition" called LOOK and 
had a picture of the baby, the mother 
and father and big sister, Marilyn. 



Kathryn Jane is the name chosen 
by Ralph W. Crouch, C. '3 4, and Floy 
(Reeves) Crouch for their daughter 
born July 1. The Crouch's had been 
in Topeka where he was employed 
i by the Kansas Division of Unemploy- 



Six officers of Pi Tau Sigma, na- 
tional honorary mechanical engineer- 
ing fraternity, returned this week 
from a convention at the University 
of Iowa. Bert Sells, Wichita, presi- 
dent of the local chapter, was official 
delegate. Others who attended were 
Jack Rupe, Kansas City; Al Schwe- 
rin, Kansas City, Mo.; Melvin Estey, 
Langdon; James Walker, Emporia, 
and Cornelius Vanderwilt, Solomon. 



following. 

"A H. Ford, E. E. '22, Downers 

Grove, 111.; H. W. Phelps, E. E. '35, 

and C. M. Kopf, E. E. '30, Maywood, 
! in ; Gerald Pickett, Berwyn, 111.; H. 
' L. Madsen, E. E. '25, Oak Park, 111.; 

M J. Lucas. E. E. '21, Lombard, 111.; 
!w. H. Reed, E. E. '23, Villa Park, 



"Also, 



I called on Mrs 
240 Woodford street, Missoula, who 
is a Kansas State graduate. As she 
does not get Tiik IlTOUBTHtAUBT but 
is interested, I am taking her my 

copies. 

"I like my teaching immensely in 
the Missoula County high school and | man 



Murphy, ' 111.; F. E. Henderson, E. E. '24, 
Riverside, 111.; E. G. Abbott, E. E. 
'24, Western Springs, 111.; F. H. Roth, 
E E. '30, Glen Ellyn, HI.: K. P. 



November 1 to Kansas City, Mo 
where he is with Peat, Marwick, 
Mitchell and company, certified pub- 
lic accountants, Commerce building. 



DEATHS 



Alma Henry, Everest; Jeanette 
Coons, Canton; Ralph Tichenor, Rus- 
sell, and James Porter, Fredonia, 
members of the Kansas State College 
debate squad, attended a debate at 
the Kansas Debate Coaches meeting 
in Kansas City Saturday. Mrs. Mary 
Myers Elliott, Prof. H. B. Summers 
and Norman Webster of the Depart- 
ment of Public Speaking also at- 
tended the meeting. 



MONTAGUE 
John D. Montague, Ag. '20, Sedg- 
wick county farm agent the past 10 
years, died September 14 from in- 
juries received in a motor car colli- 



juries ic^"^» -— — ~ .. 

Nowell, E. E. '25, and C. L. Erickson, ! gion in Wic hita. His left leg virtually 
E E '27, Hinsdale, 111.; M. C. Wat- 
kins, E. E. '22, and E. H. Free- 



LUC lUIBOKlli" -- » — 

feel I have reached my goal in teach- 
ing in a first class school." 



•95, Wilmette, 111.; James 



W. 



Wilma Brewer, H. E. '35, is in- 
structor in foods and nutrition at the 
University of New Hampshire, Dur- 
ham. 

Thomas R. Collins, G. S. '36, re- 
ceived his M. D. at Rush Medical col- 
lege, Chicago, last spring and is now 
an interne at the Kansas City General 
hospital, Kansas City, Mo. He was 
married June 16 to Arlene Wallace 
■ , H. E. '37, who is dietitian at the Bell 
SKfS SbSiSi ,«*««* I Me^orU, h„,P„a,. K-,« Mo. 



Schwanke, E. E. '30; M. J. Kilroy, 
E E '37; H. M. Porter, E. E. 26; 
C L. Browning, E. E. '20; P. A. Mil- 
ler, E. E. '30; T. B. Hofmann, E. E. 
•29, and John M. Eyer, E. E. '40, all 
of Chicago. 



MARRIAGES 



was severed in the accident. He is 
survived by his widow, three daugh- 
ters two sisters and his mother. Be- 
fore going to Sedgwick as county 
agent, he held a similar position in 

Marion county. 

♦ 

Talks at Ag Seminar 

Paul E Estill, manager of the Sand 
Springs Home farm, Sand Springs, 
Okla., spoke at the agricultural semi- , J 



AGGIE POP IS SCHEDULED 

FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY 

Traditional Show Sponsored by VWCA 

Will Have No Central Theme 

Thin Yenr 

Four organizations and four stu- 
dents will participate in this year's 
| Aggie Pop Friday and Saturday 
! nights in the College Auditorium. 
Tickets for the YWCA-sponsored 
stunt night will be on sale today 
through Saturday in Anderson hall 
and the YWCA office, according to 
Jean Scott, Manhattan, show man- 



prisoners. They have moved there Ly i e 



M. Murphy, Ag. '37, is re 

recenrtlMrom Pittsburgh, Pa., where j seai : ch aS8i8 tant at Rhode Island 

M Geil was a psychologist at the state college , Kingston. He received 

uvonile court for Allegheny county, I his iuast er*s degree last year at Mieh- 

Pennsylvania. , igan State college, East Lansing. 

Margaret E. Rafflngton, H. E. '14. Ear l J. Cook, Ag. '39. is junior 

k T "° n " agronomist with the Soil Conserva- 
tion service, Civilian Conservation 



u 



is assistant to" Dean Margaret Justin 
Division of Home Economics at the 
College. In that capacity she is in 
charge of student personnel work 
She also is assistant professor of 
child welfare and euthen.cs and 
teaches personal health. 

Wayne E. McKibben, E. E. '25, is 
development engineer for the Indiana 
meel Products company at Valpa 
ratso Ind. He and Viola (Dicus) 
McKibben, f. ... »• at 201 East Jef- 
ferson street. 

Ruth (Long) Dary, HE. '26 is 
at 206 Houston street, Manhattan. 
Her husband, Russell Dary, is en- 
e aE ed in real estate business and 
handles insurance. They have one 
son David, 6. She says that she is 
looking forward to seeing many old 
classmates next spring at the reunion. 



corps camp, Pawnee City, Neb. 

Linn M. Swenson, E. E. '40, writes 
from 3014 West Pierce street, Mil- 
waukee, Wis.: "I am working as a 
student apprentice for the Allis- 
Chalmers Manufacturing company. 
This is a two-year course and I am 
to be shifted to different departments 
during that period. At present I am 
working on the electrical test floor. 



Decker Represents Florists 

S. W. Decker, associate professor 
of horticulture, represented the Kan- 
sas State Florists association, of 
which he is secretary, at a meeting of 
the Kansas City Allied Florists there 
Friday. 



OHAPPEL.L— HAROLD 

Mildred Chappell, G. S. '36, be- 
came the bride of Orval Harold, stu- 
dent at Kansas State College, on Sep- 
tember 15, at Concordia. The couple 
are at home at 730 Fremont. Mr. 
Harold is enrolled in the Division of 
Agriculture at the College, while Mrs 
i Harold is employed in the offices of 
the Department of Economics and So- 
ciology. 

Mcintosh— dendurent 
Lucille Mcintosh, G. S. '40, and 
Myron S. Dendurent, Ch. E. '39, M. 
S. '39, were married September 1 at 
Palmer, the home of the bride. H. 
O Dendurent, I. J. '34, Manhattan, 
brother of the groom, acted as best 
man The couple are at home at 4 27 
Highland avenue, South Charleston, 
W Va., where Mr. Dendurent is em- 
ployed as a chemical engineer with 
the West Vaco company. 

HACKER— CROW 
The marriage of Dorothy Hacker, 
f s , Pratt, to Roger Crow, C. E. '40, 
took place June 20 at the Hacker 
home in Pratt. The service was fol- 
lowed by a reception after which the 
couple left on a wedding trip. The 
couple are now at home at Randolph 
Field, Texas, where Mr. Crow is a 



nar Thursday afternoon 
farm management. 



on modern 



Discusses Blood Research 

Members of the Kansas State Col- 
lege chapter of the Society of Sigma 
Xi Friday night heard Dr. W. E. 
Peterson of the Department of Dairy 
Husbandry of the University of Min- 
nesota. Doctor Peterson discussed 
some phase of his research on the re- 
lation of blood chemistry to milk se- 
cretion Doctor Peterson was brought 
to the campus by the Department of 
Dairy Husbandry and Sigma XI. 



Plan Omicron Nu Sessions 
Dr Gladys E. Vail of the Depart- 
ment of Food Economics and Nutri- 
tion has returned from a meeting 
with other national officers of Omi- 
cron Nu, home economics honor so- 
ciety, to plan the national convention 
of the organization. Doctor Vail is 
the national secretary. The Grand 
Council met in Chicago. East Lan- 
sing, Mich., will be the site of the 
national convention of Omicron Nu, 
June 20 and 21, immediately preced- 
ing the National Home Economics 
association convention in Chicago. 
The delegate from Kansas State Col- 
lege will be elected near the end of 
the school year. 



Since there is no central theme for 
Aggie Pop this year, each group and 
individual has chosen its own. A 
country school is the setting for Beta 
Theta Pi's stunt, and a track meet 
for Kappa Delta sorority. 

"Sun Valley," a musical travel- 
ogue, is the theme for the Kappa 
Kappa Gamma number. Songs dat- 
ing from 1850 up to the present make 
up Alpha Delta Pi's act for which 
they selected the theme "Now and 

Then." , . . 

Individuals who will take part in 
Aggie Pop are Byron McCall, El 
Dorado; Mary Alice Matchette, Kan- 
sas City, Mo.; Edward LaSalle, Kan- 
sas City, and William Hall, Phillips- 
burg Byron McCall will be a magi- 
cian; Mary Alice Matchette a toe 
dancer; Edward LaSalle a jitterbug, 
and William Hall, master of cere- 
monies. 

Students on the judging commit- 
tee will be Thomas Trenkle, Topeka; 
Helen Pilcher, Gridley, and Mary 
Margaret Arnold, Manhattan. Other 
judges will be H. W. Brewer of Man- 
hattan and Mrs. Mary E. Holland, in- 
structor in art. One out-of-town per- 
son will also be selected to judge 
each night. 

A trophy will be awarded the or- 
ganization presenting the best stunt 
and a $10 prize to the individual. 



amm 



CYCLONE-WILDCAT CLASH 
IS FINAL HOME CONTEST 

ELEVEN SENIORS WILL MAKE 
PINAI, STADIUM APPEARANCES 



Pres. F. D. Farrell Discusses Land -Grant College Policy 



KiiiiNiiN State, Defeated by South Caro 

Una, 20 to 18, Will Have Nenrly 

Full Strength for Use Annlnst 

Iowa State College 

Kansas State College's football ; securing federal supper for en g > 



(Continued from page one) 
more definitely accepted in the col- 
leges themselves than it is by the 
general public. This fact doubtless 
helps to explain the long delay In 



The 
have 



Kansas oiai« uuncgc ° •."«-» — ~ o( .i inn . 

team returns to Big Six conference neering experiment stations 
nlav in a Band day game here Satur- land-grant colleges will not 
da/ against theloT State Cyclones | reached optimum development and 
who have provided the Wildcats with balance until ^ir work in eng 

plenty of grid troubles in past years, neering— research, r ettaem w» » and by the delusion> that seems j 

nd extension— receives botn ewie n ,-evalent in the states,; 



totalitarian form of government 
which, they knew perfectly well, leads 
inevitably to tyranny and all that 
that implies. They valued certain 
liberties above mere efficiency and 
even above what is called, often fatu- 
ously, security. For at least a half- 
century there has been an accelerated 
movement toward increased centrali- 
zation. This is caused partly by in- 
creased complexity in our civilization 



It will be the final home game and anc 



It will be the nnai nome game auu a.m «.»«—-— -- M „«-_,i«nt. to 
spectators will see U Kansas State and federal suppo rt equ ratant^o 
senior gridders in action for the last that provided for a gricult ure. "ine 
time in Memorial Stadium. Twelve basis of equivalence ..not the same 
seniors are on Coach Hobbs Adams' of course, in a 1 the .states it v 

squad, one being Gene Fair, quarter- J with the ^"Y^' ^;^^ a"d tormonioualy with the other. Bach and shining pebble by which i if we 

- and the other industries *»" »' * «+v«- has. an »«i «ro mn ha ended safely through 



to be widely prevalent in the states, 
that what we get from the federal 
treasury doesn't cost us anything. 

In our dual system of government, j application of the Hatch act and the 
pach side sooner or later must work Smith-Lever act constitute a bright 



sion, commonly called extension 
director, shall administer all the 
extension work in the State as 
the joint representative of the 
college and the department; (3) 
that all funds for extension work 
in agriculture and home eco- 
nomics shall be expended 
through such extension divi- 
sions; and (4) that the depart- 
ment shall cooperate with the 
extension divisions of the col- 
leges in such work done by the 
department in the States." 7 
The time-tested procedures for the 



f 



back 'from Alden who has been out | riculture „.. fnr . t nrs The 

m . broken .« since e.r.y ,„ «.| do.bU.M ««£-•>•«; »J£*. 

;„. inr>rpaBpq as the nation becomes 
e.even AUK seniors | Sfre«lnS? l^-.triall-ed. 

The senior roster includes cnn Although our charter makes no 



season. 



Langvardt, Alta Vista, halfback; Art 
Kirk, Scott City, and John Jackson, 
Eureka, fullbacks; Wallace Swanson, 
Sharon Springs, and Don Munzer, 
Herington, ends; Bernie Weiner, Ir- 
vington, N. J., and Ken Makalous, 
Cuba, tackles; Bill Nichols, Water- 
ville, Charles Fairman, Manhattan, 
and Al Niemoller, Wakefield, guards, 
and Ken Hamlin, Eureka, center. 

The Wildcats returned from their 
trip to South Carolina without seri- 



speciflc mention of home economics 
Senator Morrill probably knew little 
or nothing of the Pythagorean school 
at Crotona — the need for education is 
no less important in that field than it 
is in agriculture and engineering. 
Fortunately this need has been recog- 
nized increasingly by the states since 



must recognize that the other has an 
indispensable function to perform if 
the whole nation is to benefit. Each 
must be actuated by a spirit of gen- 
erosity, fairness and good will and by 
an honest desire to serve the common 
weal. Each must recognize that the 
parts must be strong and responsible 
if the whole is to endure. 

Of the pebbles to which I am call- 
ing your attention, the Buchanan 
veto is one of the most significant. 

6. The land-grant colleges and cer- 



nizea increasingly u } w^ ~ u. *■«= •—«« *. ~ 

the 1870's when instruction in home ta|n federal departments have clem 
economics was begun in Illinois, onstrat ed the feasibility of joint 



Iowa and Kansas. The need also has 
been recognized specifically by the 



ous injury. Kent Duwe, quarterback, National congress in some of the 
has a bruised leg, but it is hoped he legislation of the past quarter- 



will be ready for Iowa State 

GAINS MORE THAN WINNER 



ICftlOlMV"/" — - 

century relating to research and ex- 



action by state and federal govern 
ments in research and education. — It 



is important that we remember this 
in view of what I have just said about 
our dual system of government. 



will, we may be guided safely through 
the forest of present-day complexi- 
ties. These procedures provide ade- 
quate fundamental safeguards for the 
respective functions of the state and 
federal agencies concerned. And, 
what is equally important, they work. 
Changing conditions doubtless will 
require modifications in detail, but 
the basic features of the procedures 
are clearly adequate. 

7. The land-grant colleges proper- 
ly are not and never should be police- 
men, promoters or propagandists. — 
The colleges are scientific and educa- 
tional agencies. If and when such an 
agency becomes a policeman, a pro 



moter or a propagandist, it ceases, 

in some degree, to be either scientific 

or educational. 

I Son workTt SeTnd-gVanTc^ at present ' As the alleges rose to public es- 

„,,„ p nllpE . P outlined ' wpq And of course, home econom- 1 t rem ember that joint action has . teem and gained public confidence, it 

i™Enr«^ 



two previous contests. The Big Six 
team netted 217 yards from rushing 



expended for resident instruction. 
But there still is urgent need that the 



team netteu m )"" u » ""«• »<~ ° ««•. w.v,»~ ~ - - - „j„„„ a * 

compared to 86 for Carolina, but the ' general public give more adequate 

Southern conference squad clicked \ recognition to^the importance 
on three passes to win 20 to 13. 



time. The notably successful co 
operation of the colleges and the fed 



important services that were inap 
propriate to such institutions. )ne 



erel government in 1917 and 1918 such service is the enforcement of 

regulatory laws. The undertaking of 



L demonstrated the feasibility and de 
home economics in the land-grant sirabimy f joint action and oin this service by many o .f the coUeges 

' responsibility in times of national caused so much confusion JUld so 
emergency. 

For more than three quarters of a 
century, the Department of the In 



disrupted the appropriate work of 
the colleges that in 1917 this associ- 
ation made an agreement with the 



tliree passes to win ^v w j-«- ; uumc «»»••-. -- 

The Wildcat line turned in its best j colleges. There are certain peculiai 
performance of the season, both of- 1 difficulties inherent in home econom- 
fensively and defensively. Coach j ic s education. An important one was 

Adams Draised the play of Hamlin, i exemplified at the University ox uu century lUii u Cya iL^»* — — - i-«-- n t <atatp De 

Werner Nichols and Ed Huff, guard, nois about 1880, when the Univer- and the land -grant colleges National Aaeociation ! State De 

Weiner, Nicnois ana , ^ professol . of -domestic j haye cooperat ed effectively; first, in partments and Commissioners of Ag 

1 economy" married one of the regents , applying the provisions of the Morrill riculture providing that— 
I with the result that the professorship I ac( . of July 2 1862 , and subsequently "State Departments now handli 



APPROXIMATELY 50 MEET 



FOR DEANS' CONFERENCE \ remained vacant for 20 years.s 

5. The Buchanan veto was 



not 



. „ . „ 'without merit. — On February 26, 
Dorothy Stratton of Purdue University Pres ident James Buchanan 

^SSSSESr i vetoed "rill's first land-grant 

i„ lessen college bill.* He said, among other 

Approximately 50 representatives m th&t the biU , <wag impo litic 

attended the two-day program of the becaug ' e it would encourage the states 



in relation to the Morrill act of 1890. 
During the same long period the De- 
partment of War and the colleges 
have worked together with ever 



various forms of education and ex- 
tension work are to transfer the same 
(to the land-grant colleges) as soon 
as circumstances permit; likewise, 



have woi Keu wfi«nci „._- «« - 

increasing harmony and effectiveness experiment stations are to transfer 
in relation to military training. These (to the state departments) regula- 
two instances are sufficient to con- ! tory functions now located with 
vince any reasonable person of the them." 



€»hc..va^v. ...-- -..- - - - rr „„ Decause it wuuiu cu™»i»o>' -* vince any imbuu«»'v r~ — 

25th annual conference of the Kan- ^ ^ ^ Qn the federal government | pract i C al feasibility of genuine co- This is a pebble that should not be 
sas Association of Deans of Women ■ which thev were not en-i„„ orQHn n he.t.ween state and federal forgotten. 



sas Association of Deans of Women ;™ r "' a y d t0 which they were not en- j opera tion between state and federal forgotten 
and Advisers of Girls at the College ule(L „ In other wor ds, education is aKencie s in land-grant college work. 

.-_i n-IJ._ n r.A Cotlll'llilV ... _i_i.__ 11..,,. (l.-.ll ; :_~ Ar,vr 



last Friday and Saturday. 



a function of the states rather than 



The greater the public confidence 
But an even more convincing dem- 1 j U a land-grant college, the greater 



last rriaay anu od.iuiu«.j. | ft funct i on f the states ratner man But an even more convincing aem- i j U a lana-grant couege, tuc 6 ica,^. 

This was the largest group ever ^ ^ federal government. Heaven onstration is that of the Department ' the likelihood that special interests 
to attend a conference, according to ^ UnUed stateg if and when we f Agriculture and the colleges. w m see k to enlist its support for va- 

Dean Helen Moore, retiring presl- eompletely abando n this theory. The j gjnce lgg7 in reS earch and since 1914 r ious promotion schemes. These 
dent of the association. ■ nation is strong only as its constitu- 1 ta extension the demonstration has special interests may be commercial, 

Dean Dorothy Stratton of Purdue j ^ ^ tg &r& strong If> as may , ^^ ^ prog ' ress Following the pas- industrial, political or even ecclesi- 
university, guest speaker at the con " Heaven for bid, the states should ever ■ of the Hatch ac t in 1887 meth- astical. It is the duty of the land- 

ference, said that in the near tutuie , becQme SQ weak and s0 dependent , qAs q£ {eder al-state cooperation in the grant college to serve the whole pub- 
there will be a great number or op- 1 ^^ the federal gove riiment as to I conduct of agricultural experiment i ic> by which it is supported, and to 
portunities for women in nonessen- relinquigh thelr responsibility for edu- gtation work developed gradually and avo id serving one fraction of the pub- 
tial" industries. cation or tnelr con trol of it, some of j gatls factorily through trial and error, : u c a t the expense of the remainder. 

'The industries that will not ^ ^^ Drecloug p rinc ipies that the friendly disC ussion and the practice And the service should be restricted 



ustnes that wi l not oe preclo us principles that the 

needed directly for national defense American colonigts fought to estab- 
such as merchandising, will neeo. ■ the makerg o{ the 

women to fill the places that men I JiJ Uution gought t0 preserve 
have been filling in those industries, ^^ ^ danger0UBly lm p a ired if not 

she said. „*„.*«„. todav actually abandoned. 

"The girl who is graduating today gugges ts a brief reference to 

must be on the alert to open and 



of mutual understanding and good 
will. When the Smith-Lever act was 
passed in 1914 there was sufficient 
successful cooperative experience to 



to research and education 

Now that the manufacture and dis- 
tribution of propaganda have become 
a sort of major industry, the land 



SUCCeSSIUl COUpeittLivc c/v^^i .~..~~ — a 8UU ui ui»jui ...v»„^.^, 

enable the Department and the col- gra nt colleges must be wary if they 
leges in less than six months to draw are t o avoid being victimized by it 



ni« k... «.." '"»'•."" and This suggests a brier reierence i" , leges m less than six months to draw are t o avoid being victimizea oy il 
must be on the alert ic > open ^ ^^ ByBtem of government. The I u ftnd agree upon a Bimple but ade- and if they are to avoid contributing 

keep open the °P portunl "^ o m th t pm i federal-state system is clumsy, slow, te memo randum of understand- 1 t0 the victimization of the public. We 

country rather tnan ;° c '°*! ine „ ! inefficient, irritating— and supremely Thig , the admirable memo 

As long as there are plenty ofoPP 01 d , ble The welfare 
tnnities there is always a demand , des rame. ine «»"»"' 
tunnies iiieic ^ nation requires that b< 

for women in business. individual states be strong 

The association was greeted by Di. ami ™* form 

j. T . Willard, CoUege htate^n. Ad- g^gJSi-. that unity implies 
dresses during the two-day session pn _ nlrM . the ind i vld ual states 



„uu rju U .>i...v. J | Th j tne aaiuiiauic m<="'« should never forget that as scientific 

welfare of the whole randum of understanding of July, and educational agencies the colleges 
that both the Union j 1914 . are obligated to discover and dissem- 



tion or belief or as serve a particulai 
special interest. It means unpleasant 
truth as well as pleasant truth. Only 
by telling the truth can we do our full 
duty as scientific and educational 
agencies. Only so can we be fair to 
the public, which looks to the colleges 
for unbiased, reliable information. 
If we are to retain the respect and the 
confidence of the public — not to men- 
tion our own self-respect — we must 
maintain unfalteringly our intel- 
lectual integrity. 

This little pebble is extremely old. 
It was dropped, for the guidance of 
all honest men, by the Founder of 
Christianity when He said, "Ye shall 
know the truth and the truth shall 
make you free." Than this, there is 
no more important pebble. 

8. Fortunately, the land-grant col- 
leges have some safeguards against 
complacency. — There are at least two 
facts that help to save the land-grant 
colleges from becoming over-satisfied 
with themselves. One is that at fre- 
quent intervals each of the colleges 
must pass in review before the peo- 
ple's representatives, the State Legis- 
lature. The other is that the acts of 
Congress authorizing federal appro- 
priations for the support of the col- 
leges are not as the laws of the Medes 
and the Persians but are subject to 
change and even to repeal. Section 6 
of the second Morrill act, the act of 
August 30, 1890, reads: 

"Congress may at any time amend, 
suspend, or repeal any or all of the 
provisions of this act." 

Section 8 of the Bankhead-Jones 
act of June 29, 1935, reads: 

"The right to alter, amend, or re- 
peal this act is hereby expressly re- 
served." 

Other federal acts authorizing ap- 
propriations for the support of the 
land-grant colleges and passed during 
the 45 years between the passage of 
the second Morrill act and that of the 
Bankhead-Jones act have similar 
provisions. 

In short, these statutory pebbles 
should be a constant reminder to us 
that the American public is not com- 
mitted to the support of the land- 
grant colleges if they become negli- 
gent of their responsibilities or care- 
less of their integrity. The absence 
of a fixed commitment involves many 
difficulties and uncertainties, but it 
is a continuing challenge to our cour- 
age, industry and public spirit and a 
safeguard against indifference and 
complacency. 

I have mentioned only a few of the 
many pebbles that have been dropped 
by far-sighted and provident Hansels 
who have appeared from time to time 
in the long history of the land-grant 
college educational ideal. There are 
many more. Those mentioned should 
serve to remind us that the ideal is 
potentially well-fortified against the 
machinations of wicked stepmothers, 
in whatever guise they appear and 
however seductive their blandish- 
ments. 

The land-grant colleges will con- 
tinue to increase in usefulness and in- 
fluence if they adhere courageously 
and persistently to the essential prin- 
ciples and basic practices that have 
brought them to their present state 
of development. In this ever-chang- 
ing world, it is the part of wisdom for 
both men and institutions to follow 
St. Paul's injunction to "prove all 
things;" that is, to experiment. But 
it is equally the part of wisdom to 
follow the second clause of the same 
injunction and "hold fast that which 
is good." 8 



dresses dunng the two^ Q ay 8 ™» ; the individual Btate s 

were given by Dean Emeu us Majy . tQ perform ftU other 

Pierce Van Zile D • Kato ne Hoy R either thfi Union or it8 

headof theDepa, ™ ent j' ^iW Wei should become lm . 

S^mKmSSi TTherfcol- potent, the whole national structure, 

^' ySS^ySWhS dual P system is a sore trial to 
^umeT^tZtotoietnot]*™ persons, whether "federalists" 
Maiie Mi liei , ass s and or » BtateB rights" advocates, who are 
? r T F L Pa sh Department of impatient for the millennium. But let 
History 'and Government at Kansas! us never forget that the system was 
S*Tr iip^p set U P deliberately by the makers of 
Dean EUa Wiebe of Bethel college, the Constitution, who acted with full 
Dean Jiiiia »» «- uo _ _ , „,__ . .„. ,- fVl „ „,.n<» nt nnchpeked. 



"This memorandum provides 

(1) that the State shall organize 
and maintain a definite and dis- 
tinct administrative division of 
the college for extension work; 

(2) that the head of this divi- 



are obligated to discover and dissem 
inate truth; and that means the 
whole truth, in so far as it is known, 
and not merely such fractions of the 
truth as support a particular conten- 



21. 



8 First Thessalonians, chapter 5, verse 



i "History of Agricultural Education" 
by A. C. True, p. 288-289. 



Newton, was elected to succeed Miss 
Moore as president of the association. 

♦ 

Talks on Dietetics 
"The Dietitian in a Small Hospi- 
tal" was the title of a talk given by 
Miss Ella Jane Meiller, member of 
the Department of Food Economics 
and Nutrition, at the convention of 
the Kansas State Hospital assoc a- 
tion in Salina last week-end. Miss 
Meiller is chairman of the committee 
on dietetics training at the College. 



knowledge of the evils of unchecked, 
centralized governmental power on 
the one hand and of the impotence of 
disunited individual states on the 



EVERYDAY ECONOMICS 

By W. E. GRIMES 



FRESHMAN BASKETBALL STAR 
jT'WITHDRAWS FROM COLLEGE 



"Man values the present more highly than the future." 



Man values the present more high- 
ly than the future. He will give more 
for things available to him now than 
he would give for the same kind and 



for waiting. This payment is inter- 
est. 

Interest exists under any and every 
form of government. Changing the 



disunited ndividual sta tes on the he would give for the same kind and ~ = m tQ soclalism 

S TheyTho d s U e a denoe e rately and Quantity of goods -^^^^ I of communism or some other of the 

..* . ,. , « ~* onmp future time. This fact gives . .,, t t „ wav f ro m waitniK 



otlier. xney cnose ubhucio^., »».».- - . 

after months of discussion a form of, some future time. This fact gives 

government that provides a wide dis- I rise to interest. 

tribution of responsibility and power, j If man must wait until some ru- 
notwithstanding its patent inefflcien- ture date to get what he wants, he 

" insists upon being paid for waiting. 
Or if he does not want to wait but 
must induce someone else to wait, 
he will have to pay the other fellow 



cies, in preference to a centralized 



« "History of Agricultural Education" 
by A. C. True, p. 268. 

• "History of Agricultural Education" 
by A. C. True, p. 103. 



isms will not get away from waiting 
and the fact that an inducement is 
required to get people to wait. All 
that it will change is the receiver of 
the payment for waiting. Interest is 
the result of a man's impatience and 
it will persist as long as man con- 
tinues to be impatient. 



Close FrlendN Report that Gerald Tuck- 
er Plans to Enter University 
of Oklahoma 

Gerald Tucker, Winfield high 
school's all-state basketball center of 
last season, left Kansas State College 
Saturday and close friends said he 
planned to enroll at the University of 
Oklahoma. 

One of the Midwest's most publi- 
cized basketball players, Tucker en- 
rolled as a freshman here Septem- 
ber 6. 

Jack Gardner, Kansas State's head 
basketball coach, made the following 
statement: 

"Gerald Tucker's decision to leave 
Kansas State College came as a com- 
plete surprise to me. He was getting 
along well in his school work and al- 
ways impressed me as being very 
happy here. Naturally, I am sorry 
to lose a boy with such fine basket- 
ball possibilities." 



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HISTORICAL SOCIETY C 

TOPEKA 

KAN. 



The Kansas Industrialist 



Volume 67 



^^tTc^^g^^^ M » Bhatte11 ' *""-* y ° Wmh ° r 2 °' M4 ° 



Number 10 



WOMEN'S MEATS JUDGES 
WIN AT AMERICAN ROYAL 

TEAM CAPTURES FIRST PLACE FOR 
SIXTH CONSECUTIVE YEAR 



Coeda Are Preaented with Gold Trophy 
by National Llveatock Board In 
Recognition of Outstand- 
ing Work 

A gold trophy was presented the 
College last week by the National 
Livestock and Meat board in recog- 
nition of the outstanding work of the 
women's meats judging team of Kan- 
sas State College at the American 
Royal in Kansas City. 

The team won first place for the 
sixth consecutive year in the home 
economics meats judging and identi- 
fication contest during the intercol- 
legiate fall judging competition at 
the traditional livestock show. 
MACKINTOSH IS COACH 
Members of the winning team 
coached by D. L. Mackintosh, associ- 
ate professor in the Department of 
Animal Husbandry, were Edith Bucn- 
holtz, Olathe; Cornelia Burtis, Hy- 
mer, who was high-point girl of the 
entire contest; Betty Hutchinson, 
Goddard, and Helen Shepard, Erie, 

alternate. 

The men's meats judging team 
placed ninth. On this team were 
Bertram Gardner, Carbondale; Wen- 
dell Moyer, Manhattan; Priednch 
Meenen, Clifton; Oscar Norby, Pratt. 
Five students represented the Col- 
legiate 4-H at the Royal. Thomas 
Benton, Olathe, represented the 
Rural Life organization, a division of 
the Collegiate 4-H club. 

VETS ATTEND HOY AT.. 
Helen Stagg, Manhattan, and Wil- 
liam Grifflng, Manhattan, were 4-H 
leadership chairmen for their coun- 
ties William Phillips, Walton, and 
Ray Walker, Clyde, were wheat 
champions and received free trips to 
the American Royal. 

Ten senior veterinary students at- 
tended the Royal and meat-packing 
plants in Kansas City. These were 
George Armstrong, Gastonia, N. U, 
Donald Christian, Manhattan; John 
Erickson, Clairton, Pa.; Glenn Hal- 
ver Crane, Mont.; George Hickman, 
Venice, Calif.; Gordon Howell, Kan- 
sas City; Martin Kadets, Natick, 
Mass.; El win Prather, Eureka; 
Charles Renfrew. West Plains, Mo., 
and Charles L. Smith, Harveyville. 
♦ 

23 STUDENTS ARE PLEDGED 
TO ALL-SCHOOL HONORARY 



To Show Kansas Film 

The film, "Industrial Kansas," a 
motion picture of interesting scenes 
related to all industries of the state, 
will be shown December 3 at 4 p. m. 
in Willard hall, Room 101. The pic- 
ture, which is filmed in technicolor, 
is sponsored by the Kansas Industrial 
Development commission as a project 
to familiarize Kansas people with the 
state's industries. 



BANKERS AG COMMITTEE 
STUDIES CONSERVATION 

GROUP LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN AT 
L.UNCHEON TODAY 



Asks Leave of Absence 



NEGRO IS STUDYING HERE 
UNDER R OCKEFEL LER GRANT 

George L.. Smith Is Flrat Representative 

of National Foundation to 

Attend College 

George L. Smith, a Negro, now en- 
rolled, is the first student to be sent 
to Kansas State College on a Rocke- 
feller foundation fellowship, accord- 
ing to Prof. L. F. Payne, head of the 
Department of Poultry Husbandry 
here. 

Mr. Smith was awarded a $2,000 
fellowship from the General Educa- 
tional board of the Rockefeller foun- 
dation in New York City last summer. 
j He is continuing his graduate work 
here in poultry husbandry and re- 
lated subjects after the completion 
of his study for a master's degree. 

For 10 years after graduation from 
' Hampton institute, Hampton, Va., 
Mr. Smith has been in charge of poul- 
try instruction at Prairie View State 
Normal and Industrial college, a 
land-grant college at Prairie View, 
Texas. 

This year is the fourth in which 
he has been enrolled at Kansas State 
College. He came here first in 1935 
daring the summer session and re- 
turned again in 1937 for summer 
school. The following year he en- , 
I rolled for the fall semester. 

After completion of his thesis, 

! "Green Feed as a Supplement to the 

Poultry Diet," he continued his 

| graduate work here. He enrolled 

I here during the past summer school 

; session and expects to remain until 

the end of summer school in 1941. 

When he completes his graduate 

work, Mr. Smith plans to return to 

his teaching position in Texas. 



hr 



UynamlH Pre.ldent Makes Announee- 

,„ent of New Member*! Initiation 

Will He " ,l December 12 

Bob Lank, Kansas City, president 
of Dynamis, all-school honorary so- 
ciety, announced the recent pledging 
of 23 sophomores, juniors and se- 

B Formal initiation of the pledges, 
who have satisfactorily passed an ex- 
animation over the organization's 
constitution, has been set for De- 
cember 12. 

The pledges include: 
Mary Margaret Arnold, Manhat- 
tan; Faye Clapp, Manhattan; Merrill 
Peterson, Manhattan; Mary Marjone 
Willis, Newton; Don Kortman, Man- 
hattan; Dick Cech, Kansas City; 
Blolae Morris, Wichita; Patricia 
Townley, Abilene; Edith Hanna, 
Manhattan; Emy Lou Ragland, 
Hutchinson; Margaret Bayless, Wa- 
karusa; Jean Elaine Falkenrich, 
Manhattan; Ethan Potter, Peabody; 
Oscar Norby, Pratt. 

Ray Rokoy. Sabetha; Dick Well- 
man, Sterling; Charles Beardmore, 
Concordia; Audrey Jean Durland, 
Manhattan; David Lupfer, Larned; 
Norman Ross, Manhattan; William 
Fit /.Simmons, Macksville; Earl Split- 
ter, Frederick, and Albert Coates, 
Kansas City. 

Two Attend Radio Sessions 
Dr A C Tregidga and Dr. Harner 
Selvidge of the Department of Elec- 
trical Engineering returned Thurs- 
day from Rochester, N. Y., where 
they attended a convention of radio 
engineers and manufacturers of ra- 
dio equipment. 



Allen to Speak in Chicago 

Dr. J. S. Allen, associate professor j 
of physics, will contribute a paper for j 
the 237th regular meeting of the j 
American Physical society in Chicago, 
Friday and Saturday. His discussion 
will be "The Measurement of the In- 
tensity of A-rays by Means of an 
Electron Multiplier Tube." Dr. J. H. 
McMillen, professor of physics, will 
accompany him to Chicago. 



Session* Devoted to Land Uae nnd 

Various Waya to Improve Kanaaa 

Farming! R. *• Throckmorton 

Wrltea Leaflet 

Soil and water conservation and 
land utilization will be the principal 
subjects discussed at the meeting of 
the agricultural committee of the 
Kansas Bankers association in Man- 
hattan today. 

R. N. Downie of Garden City is 
chairman of the committee. The 
bankers meeting here will start with 
a luncheon. The group will consider 
how Kansas bankers can cooperate 
in improving Kansas agriculture, 
particularly in connection with soil 
and water conservation. 

BRING LEADING FARMERS 
Each member of the K. B. A. agri- 
cultural committee has been asked 
to bring one or more leading farm- 
ers In his community to attend the 
meeting. Representatives of the 
State Board of Agriculture, the Kan- 
sas Livestock association, the Ameri- 
can Bankers association, the Kansas 
Press association, the Kansas Editori- 
al association and prominent farmers 
have been invited to attend the meet- 
ing. O. D. Newman, Garden City, K. 
B. A. president, also will attend. 

The meeting will consider a leaflet 
on "Soil and Water Conservation and 
Land Utilization" prepared for the 
K B A by Prof. R. I. Throckmorton, 
head of the Department of Agronomy. 
Association officers have for sev- 
i eral years recognized the need for 
improved soil conditions and water 
I conservation. Professor Throckmor- 
! ton consolidated these needs into a 
comprehensive plan and the K. B. A. 
will consider possible means of help- 
ing Kansas agriculture to put some 
of Professor Throckmorton's recom- 
mendations into effect. The commit- 
tee hopes to have the recommenda- 
tions discussed in every Kansas farm 
community. 

MAY EXTEND PROJECT CREDIT 
The K. B. A. agricultural commit- 
tee also plans to discuss the extension 
of project credit to 4-H clubs, Future 
Farmers and other farm youth or- 
ganizations which might need credit 
to carry on their work. This activity 
probably would be handled through 
county bankers' associations. 

The agricultural committee also 
I will consider the possibility of financ- 
ing farmers who plan to build 
standardized laying houses and other 
farm service construction. 




SEATON REQUESTS LEAVE 
TO DIRECT DEFENSE WORK 

ENGINEERING DEAN EXPECTS TO 
GO TO WASHINGTON 



Dean R. A. Seaton of the Division of 

I Engineering and Architecture has re- 

IcTuested a leave .of absence so that he 

nav go to Washington, D. C.to aid the 

i defense program being carried o ut in 

schools of engineering through tne 

United States Office of Education. He 

, will be in charge of the $9,000,000 engi- 

ineering defense training program. 



KANSAS STATE COLLEGE JOURNALISM GRADUATE 

IS HAILED AS "MODERN JOHN PETER ZENGER" 



Paul A. Vohs, I. J. '26, who goes 
on trial at Telluride, Colo., December 
2 on charges of criminal libel, has 
been hailed as a "modern John Peter 
Zenger" by Ralph L. Crosman, direc- 
tor of the College of Journalism at 
the University of Colorado, in a re- 
cent article in the Publishers' Auxil- 
iary- 
John Peter Zenger is frequently 
called the journalistic martyr whose 
trial insured most of the freedom of 
the press which is now enjoyed by 
American newspapers. 

Mr. Vohs is publisher of the San 
Miguel County Journal, a weekly, at 
Telluride. 

Mr. Crosinan's article follows: 
"At 6:30 p. m. on September 6, 
Paul A. Vohs was preparing to put 
to bed his little weekly newspaper, 
the San Miguel County Journal, pub- 
lished at Telluride, Colo., a small 
mining town high up near the crest 
of the Divide of the Rocky moun- 
tains. 

"Into the office of the Journal 
walked Sheriff L. G. Warrick. Pro- 
ducing a warrant charging Mr. Vohs 
with criminal libel, Sheriff Warrick i 
arrested the young publisher and; 
took him off to jail. Paul Vohs' 
crime was the publication of facts 
regarding the expenditure of county 
funds by the county commissioners, 



particularly the payment of mileage 
allowances to themselves. 

"Paul Vohs goes to trial at Tellu- 
ride at the term of the district court 
which opens December 2. 

"With a simple change of name, 
place and date, this would be an ac- 
curate description of what happened 
more than 200 years ago in the office 
of the little New York Weekly Jour- 
nal, published in the Colony of New 
York in 1734. 

"On November 17, 1734, while 
John Peter Zenger was at work on his 
Weekly Journal, the sheriff of the 
Colony of New York walked into his 
office, placed him under arrest and 
took him off to the common jail. 
Zenger's offense was the publication 
of comment and criticism regarding; 
the actions of Governor Cosby of the j 
Colony of New York. 

"The only difference in these two 
instances was that Paul Vohs was 
able to get bail. He got out of jail 
at 9:30 p. m. and was able to bring 
out the San Miguel County Journal 
on time. Zenger was kept in jail from 
November 17, 1734, until August 4, 

11735. 

"It is an interesting coincidence 
that both of these little papers had 
the same name. 

"Colorado has statutes requiring 
(Continued on last page) 



KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA STUNT, 
McCALL WIN AT AGGIE POP 

Sorority Receive* Trophy, While El 

Dorado Student I* Presented 

with $10 Cheek 

The YWCA awarded a trophy to 
Kappa Kappa Gamma social sorority 
Saturday night for its stunt In the 
26th annual Aggie Pop stunt program 
after the decision of seven judges. A 
$10 check was given Byron McCall, 
El Dorado, for his prize-winning 
magician act in the individual com- 
petition. 

A story of the West, or "Sun Val- 
ley " was the Kappa Kappa Gamma 
act' winning first place. Beta Theta 
Pi fraternity won second place in the , 
group stunt class with a country 
school burlesque. Alpha Delta Pi 
sorority took third with its songs of 
J new and old. 

Shirley Marlow, Manhattan, placed 
second in the individual competition 
with her version of the "Three 
Bears." Stuart Jones, Columbus, was 
third-place winner with his imitations 
of farm animals. 

All acts were judged for then- 
originality, entertainment value and 
timeliness. The judges were H. W. 
Brewer, Manhattan business man; 
Mrs Mary E. Holland of the College 
Department of Art; Helen Pilcher, 
Gridley, president of Omicron Nu; 
Mary Margaret Arnold, Manhattan, 
The Collegian society editor; Thomas 
Trenkle, Topeka, Manhattan Thea- 
tre actor; James Gould, I. J. '40, 
Hastings, Neb., and Norman Crook 
of Ogden. 

H. Miles Heberer, associate profes- 
sor of public speaking, directed the 
program. Jean Scott, Manhattan, was 
manager. 



ROBERT C. MACKIK TO TALK 

AT ASSEMBLY ON TUESDAY 



General Secretary of Student ChrlNtinn 
Federation Will Meet Forum* 

The Rev. Robert C. Mackie, gen- 
eral secretary of the World's Student 
Christian federation, will speak at 
student assembly at 9 a. m. Tuesday. 
He also will appear in student forums 
at 12:20 p. m. and 4 p. m. on the 
campus. 

He is appearing here under the 
auspices of the University commis- 
sion, a division of the national Coun- 
cil of Churches. 

Mr. Mackie has traveled extensive- 
ly in India, China, Japan and Europe 
before and after the outbreak of war. 
He and his family came to the United 
States from Lisbon, Portugal, last 
summer. He has a special knowledge 
of the life of students throughout the 
world and of their present needs. 



Knnxnn In Scheduled to Be In Charge 

of $0,000,000 Training Program for 

Students Under Office 

of Education 

Dean R. A. Seaton of the Division 
of Engineering and Architecture has 
been appointed national director of 
the $9,000,000 engineering defense 
training program. Announcement of 
his appointment was made Saturday. 
His new job is a non-competitive 
temporary appointment in the Civil 
service. His duties will be in the 
United States Office of Education. 
ASKS FOR LEAVE 
Dean Seaton recently was ap- 
pointed one of 22 regional directors 
of the national engineering defense 
training program. He will be suc- 
ceeded as regional director by Dean 
A. S. Langsdorf of Washington uni- 
versity at St. Louis. This region in- 
cludes Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, 
Arkansas and western Tennessee. 

Dean Seaton said he had requested 
the State Board of Regents for a 
leave of absence and expects to leave 
soon for Washington, D. C, to take 
up his new duties. He said it is ex- 
pected that Prof. W. W. Carlson, 
head of the Department of Shop 
Practice, will serve as representative 
of Kansas State College in the engi- 
neering defense training program. 
NEED TRAINED MEN 
The new national director of the 
engineering training for defense pro- 
gram said there is a great shortage 
of technically trained men for key 
positions in defense industries and 
that the national program is to train 
men for those positions. There is 
urgent need for inspectors of ord- 
I nance materials, production super- 
visors in defense industries, drafts- 
men and designers. Young men with 
; one or more years of engineering col- 
' lege training or with industrial ex- 
perience are being sought to enter 

training. 

Calls have been issued by Dean 
Seaton to engineering schools to sub- 
mit by November 2 5 proposals of the 
first group of courses they wish to 
give under this program. Action on 
these proposals is expected to be tak- 
en early in December, and the ap- 
proved training courses can then be 
started immediately at the various 
institutions. Other courses may be 
submitted by the various institutions 
at any later time. 

COLLEGE TO COOPEKATE 
Several departments in the Divi- 
sion of Engineering and Architecture 
are expected to offer courses under 
the defense training program, Dean 
Seaton said. 

Dean Seaton was graduated from 
Kansas State College in 1904 and 
started teaching mathematics here 
that year. He later became head of 
the Department of Applied Mechan- 
ics and Machine Design and dean of 
engineering in 19 20. He is a past 
president of the International Society 
for the Promotion of Engineering 
Education. 



IMPROVEMENTS BEING MADE 

AT COLLEGE POWER PLANT 



A. A. U. P. Meets at Noon 

The local chapter of the American 
Association of University Professors 
holds a luncheon meeting this noon 
in the College Cafeteria. 



Bight New Rowa of llludcM Are to lie 
Added to Turbine Unit 

Eight new rows of blades will be 
added to an old turbine unit in the 
Power, Heat and Service building, 
and repairs will be made in order that 
it will be suitable for condensing op- 
erations. 

New nozzles also will be installed 
to facilitate operations at the new 
225 pounds of steam pressure, which 
reaches a temperature of 491.7 de- 
grees Fahrenheit. The unit was origi- 
nally designed for 17 5-pound pres- 
sure of saturated steam, which car- 
ried a temperature of 391.7 degrees 
Fahrenheit. 

The same department Is receiving 
bids for new air-conditioning equip- 
ment to be put in the Kansas High- 
way Road Materials laboratory in 
Engineering hall. Bids will be re- 
ceived November 22. 






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Established April 24, 1875 



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Published weekly during the college year by 
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In Thb Kansas Indusikialist are written by 
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as second-class matter October 27, 19IH. Act 
of July 16 1894. 



was not names upon a map — it was 
people; people traveling, singing. . . 
sweating, fearing, fighting, going in 
clouds of dust by day, plowing 
through quicksand and mud, sitting 
around great fires at night, hunters, 
trappers, traders, soldiers, emigrants, 
of all degrees of intelligence, virtue 
and vice, of most races, bound to- 
gether only by a common hardihood 
and a common exposure to the vast- 
ness and desolation and beauty of 
the trans-Missouri wilderness. It was 
a fabulous procession 
point to a signpost and read the faded 
inscription we see letters that burned 
into men's memories like unquench- 
able flame.— R. L. Duffus in "The 
Santa Fe Trail." 



SCIENCE TODAY 



By KATHARINE ROT 

Head, Department of Child Welfare 
and Euthenics 



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$3 a year: life subscriptions. S50cash or in instal- 
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cluded. 




WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1940 



POWER OF THE PRESS 
The power of the press is far from 
being an illusion if we take care to 
redefine both terms in accordance 
with realities. We must think of the 
power of the newspaper as stopping 
far short of domination, and we must 



When one listens to a group of 
parents discussing their own children 
or the neighbor's children one won- 
ders at the contradictory remarks 
, made about human behavior. The 
When we problem is acute for the research 
worker and he asks himself, "Do we 
have a measure for human behavior 
and, if so, what is that instrument?" 
Throughout the ages questions on 
personality, training of the young 
and all other phases of human be- 
havior have been of interest but to- 
day our concern increases. 

C. H. Cooley states that in the 
world we find material and human 
phenomena. Since these two phe- 
nomena are different they need to be 
measured differently. Material phe- 



!wuf» nomena can be measured by other 

think of the newspaper as consisting materlal phenomena if there is agree- 

of a great deal more than just an em- ^^ ^ technique Even with ma te- 

torial page plus a front page, we phenomena the point of view of 

must think of the newspaper in the „,,„._._„ has an effect on the re- 



light of its complete contents. People 



think primarily of the editorial page 
when they speak of a newspaper 



the observer has an effect on the re- 
sults. Mr. Cooley believes that to 
know man you have to measure him 



HIS TASK IS IMPORTANT 

By its choice of Dean R. A. Seaton 
of the Division of Engineering and 
Architecture to head the national en- 
gineering defense training program 
the federal government entrusts to 
him a work of crucial importance. 

Many of the so-called "bottle- 
necks" In the national defense pro- 
duction program are due to the short- 
age of technically trained men for 
work which must be done before 
mass production methods can op- 
erate; and to the shortage of men 
who can supervise and check on such 
production. 

Draftsmen and designers, inspec- 
tors and production supervisors — 
men capable of filling such roles 
are needed in great numbers. They 
are not now available in the numbers 
needed, and the national defense 
program will not gain its full momen- 
tum until they are available. 

Approximately 150 engineering 
schools in the United States have 
been asked to help relieve this short- 
age by offering special courses during 
the coming winter. They will be open 
to those with at least a year of engi- 
neering training or with industrial 
experience, and the students are to 
be relieved of fees and tuition 
charges, although they must provide 
for their own maintenance. Lack of j 
a similar program of training in the 
European democracies has been an 
Important factor in the victories of 
the Fascist armies. When they were 
faced by the reality of war the de- 
mocracies found themselves unable 
to catch up in the race to provide 
equipment. Mechanized armies do 
not "spring to arms" over night. 

To see that the United States has 
the needed technicians for produc- 
tion and has them in time is the pur- 
pose of the program to be supervised 
by Dean Seaton. 

Instructional units of the College 
played an important part in the de- 
fense program in 1917-1918. The 
story is well told in Dr. J. T. Wil- 
lard's history. All divisions of the 
College participated. Dean A. A. j 
Potter of the Division of Engineering 
and later at Purdue, supervised a 
training program for soldiers in en- 
gineering schools in Kansas and seven 
other Midwestern states. Now the 
federal government has come to Kan- 
sas State College for supervision of 
a national program which may prove 
to be of far greater importance than 
that of a quarter-century ago. Dean 
Seaton, the College and the state of 
Kansas are honored by the choice. 



»en they speak of a. HlW> with like material or in Mr. Cooley's 
throwing its support to this party and „ the measure of man is 
that candidate. A newspaper* for dramatic introspection." 
this man when it urges hi. election JJ^J introspection means using 
on the editorial page. It is against available tests of behavior to- 
that man when it assails him on tne _ ^^ ^ athetic under- 
editorial P^e. To be sure partisan- of the innel . experiences of 
ship may invade the , news c olumns ^^ q£ ^ natm . e de _ 
and especially the head! roes The ^ ^^ di8closeg nQt 
news may be colored by emphasis oi concerning human na- 
suppression. The reporter may be Y ^ ^ ^^ ^ goalg 
guilty of editorializing. Btttjfjtowj frustr ations of man. 
find that thta 2S33S?Sa2 Social sciences have been slow to 
news colored "JfgJ^JjK accept and use man as an instrument 
on a narrow oncep ion of w* at ^^ flubjecUve mea . 

Z™*« t h he P g?e e at bufkTnews sures fell into disrepute when science 

in the paper cannot be colored. It 

could not be otherwise if a newspaper and resp0 nsibilities strengthens and 



emphasized the purely objective mea- 
sure. Physics was supposed to have 
attained the ultimate in objectivity 
and only recently has the position of 
the observer in the physical labora- 
tory been taken into consideration in 
relation to the final results. If this 
is true of physics, need social sciences 
studying human relationship be apol- 
ogetic for making use of the observ- 
er's position in relation to the subject 
he is studying? The position of the 
observer is important in both physi- 
cal and social sciences. 

Biases and prejudices make a con- 
tribution in research because they 
define the position of the observer. 
A warning may be necessary at this 
point. The research worker needs to 
be aware of his position. Research 
along the lines of human behavior 
has need of many studies from many 
different positions. Behavior changes 
under different conditions and a mea- 
sure is needed that will respond to 
these changes. The study of man by 
man gives research an instrument by 
which behavior trends and sequences 
may be studied. 

A beginning has been made in re- 
search based on dramatic introspec- 
tion. Certain attitude studies, the 
study of the individual through the 
responses of the group to him, com- 
parison of the performance of the 
child alone in a test situation versus 
his performance in a social situation, 
observation of children in varied 
situations in relation to the family 
background and the general cultural 
setting of the family are examples of 
the type of research described. Dra- 
matic introspection is being used and 
not only yields results but opens un- 
limited fields of endeavor. 



culture, Washington, D. C; Abby L. 
Marlatt, '88, and A. A. Mills, '89, 
both in the new College of Utah. D. 
G. Fairchild, '88, represented the 
Botanical division, United States 
Department of Agriculture, Washing- 
ton, D. C. 



SIXTY YEARS AGO 
Regent Purcell presented to the 
College an aboriginal stone hammer, 
which was found in Wabaunsee coun- 
ty, 10 miles southeast of the College. 
W. A. Campbell, a former student 
in the Telegraph department of the 
College, was promoted to the division 
office at Wamego. Other former stu- 
dents in this department who had 
good positions were: Emma Hoyt, 
manager of the city office at Junction 
City; Bessie Larsh, manager of the 
Western Union city office at North 
Topeka; J. Garfield Lay, operator 
i and agent at Olsburg; L. F. Gault, 
j operator at Great Bend. 



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KANSAS POETRY 

Robert Conover, Editor 



By Jane Browning 

The leaves fall, 

We hear a call, 

The geese have answered twice. 

Cold winds blow 

And sunset's glow 

Will paint the frozen ice. 

And frost prints 
A lace that glints 
In winter's paradise. 



Jane Browning Snider of Linwood 
is a former student of both Kansas 
State College and the University of 
Kansas. Her poems have appeared 
in The Industrialist several other 
times. 



coula noi oe omei »■=<= " «• —~ ■■-*■- «•-- ana responsiumuea iwougwou" »-*» 

is technically a good newspaper. Such enricneB tne mind, and adds to the 

a newspaper is bound to give a com- yariety of i ife . to live abundantly is 

plete picture of the nation and the Uke climDing a mountain or a tower. 

times; and in so doing it cannot be To gay that yout h is happier than 

partisan.— Simeon Strunsky in the ( maturlty is nke saying that the view 

Saturday Review of Literature. from the bottom of the tower is bet- 

♦ I ter than the view from the top. As 

WHERE DO THE FLIES GO? , we a8 cend, the range of our view 

Most of our summer insects, like widens immensely; the horizon is 

the moths and butterflies, perish pushed farther away. Finally, a. we 

In the lutumn cold begins. This | reach the summit, it is as if we had 

I the answerfor instate to the old the world at our feet.-Willl.rn Lyon 

query, "Where do the flies go in the Phelps in "Autobiography. 

wintprtimp'" They do not go any- 

whei"-Txcept for a rare stray indi- EPOCHS OF BELIEF 

vidual which may crawl into a cellar j Tne mos t singular and deepest 
or attic and remain there dormant themes in the History of the Universe 
until the returning sun puts new life and Mankind, to which all the rest 
and strength into his numb wings. are subordinate, are those in which 
Mostly the flies just die, having there is a conflict between Belief and 
first deposited the batches of eggs ; unbelief, and all epochs, wherein Be- 
which now, during the months of n e f prevails, under what form it will, 
snow and cold, are holding in embryo a re splendid, heart-elevating, and 
the undeveloped grubs which will fruitful. All epoch, on the contrary, 
turn into the fly hordes that we shall ; when Unbelief, in what form soever, 



He spoke at the regular student as- 
sembly here on the subject, "What 
Does a College Education Mean to 
You?" 



TWENTY YEARS AGO 
Arthur L. Kahl, '11, won the Idaho 
state championship in golf. Mr. Kahl, 
a civil engineer, lived at Boise. 

Carl Thompson, '04, was associate 
professor of animal husbandry at the 
Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechani- 
cal college, Stillwater. 

W. M. Sanderson, '98, of Cedar 
Vale was among the successful Re- 
publican candidates for the House of 
Representatives at the last election. 



By H. W. Davis 
MODEST PROPOSAL NO. 1313 
As long as it is the fashion — the 
Hitler fashion — to call somebody in 
every month or so and establish new 
spheres of influence, I have decided 
to go into a nice, comfortable huddle 
and divide the world to suit me. 



(These words in parentheses rep- 
resent the lapse of 25 seconds, the 
limit in football — our nearest ap- 
proach to war.) 



I'm out of my huddle and here is 
the play. 



see next summer. 



THE TRA11L WAS PEOPLE 
The Trail had several successive 
starting points. In Johnson county, 
Kan nearly all the resulting branch- 
es joined Yet the main Trail, though 
it was definite enough, was never so 
exact as it would have had to be ma 
country with fences. It might shift 
a considerable distance to one side or 
the other according to the wetness 
or dryness of the season or the friend- 
less or unfriendliness of the Ind - 
as ingenious travelers, or very fool- 
Si travelers, were continually 
experimenting with cut-offs, some- 
times successfully, sometimes not 
She Trail had never the rigidity of 
Irai road or a modern automobile 
highway. It was a living thing, which 
changed and wandered and grew. It 



maintains its sorry victory, should 
A few of our insects, though, are they even for a moment glitter with 
still alive now, and only sleeping. Al- i a sham splendor, vanish from the 
though most of the bumblebees end- , eyes to posterity, because no one 
a thrives with the coming of the chooses to burden himself with the 
frost, the queens of the tribe are still study of the unfruitful.— Goethe, 
surviving, dozing in sheltered places, ♦ m „„,,„, 

ready to carry on their work when CONCENTRATE! 

the cold has gone. Today, more than ever, concentra- 

The queen wasps and queen hor- | tion ig easent i a l to the full enjoyment 
nets are also quiescently alive, and j of plea sures or to effective work, 
when the early thaws come they will ( This ig an age f distraction, with 
be ready to build small nests and interruptions by phone, by friends, 
raise a few workers to look after by noisei Dy acare s and by our own 
themselves and their young. — Alan nig hti n ess. Increasingly work must 
Devoe in Scribner's Commentator. be done unae r conditions which are 

inhospitable to concentration, yet on 
concentration depends, more and 
more, a man's success in this special- 
Achievement in science, more often I ized world-William Moulton Mar- 
than not, is the result of the sus- ston ,n Rotanan magazine, 
tained thinking of many minds in ♦ 

many countries driving toward a Men are wise in proportion, not to 
common goal. The creative spirit of their experience, but to their capacity 
man cannot successfully be localized f or experience. — Bernard Shaw, 
or nationalized. Ideas are starved „. 

when they are fenced in behind fron- 
tiers. The fundamental unity of mod- 
ern civilization is the unity of its in- 
tellectual life, and that life cannot 
without disaster be broken up into 

Teparate parts. If, as a result of the was honored at the American Legn,n 
present cataclysm on the other side of convention held in Boston _ b y her 
the Atlantic, Europe freezes into an election as national president of the 
Arctic night, we shall not easily keep American Legion Auxiliary, 
the fires lit in the universities and Mrs. Julia (Wolcott) Kiene, f. s., 
laboratories of America.— Raymond woman's editor of Capper's Farmer, 
H Fosdick in the Rockefeller Foun- Topeka, was in Washington, D.^C, 



THIRTY YEARS AGO 
L. E. Hazen, '06, was teaching ag- 
riculture and military science in 
Eureka academy, Eureka, Kan. He 
was also taking a course in advanced 
descriptive geometry under the di- 
rection of Professor Walters of this 
College. 

L. B. Call of the Department of 
Agronomy, H. B. Walker, drainage 
engineer for the Agricultural Exten- 
sion department, and Pleasant Crab- 
tree, expert on farm management, 
made a trip to Johnson county for 
experimental work in dynamiting 
crop soil. The purpose of the experi- 
ment was to see if dynamite would 
increase the productivity of hard 
soils. 



England is to withdraw peacefully 
from Europe and retire to Canada 
or some other seat in the Western 
hemisphere. Germany and Italy are 
to have Europe and how, excluding 
Russia. Russia and Japan are to 
have Asia. Africa is set aside as a 
free continent for the practice of so- 
cial experimentation. The various 
islands sticking out of the water are 
to be assigned to their nearest con- 
tinents, no matter what they produce. 



For exactly 100 years, or until 
Christinas 2040 A. D., England, the 
United States and the South Ameri- 
ca republics are to practice democ- 
racy in the Western hemisphere. 
Germany and Italy are to try dicta- 
torships in Europe; Russia and Japan 
are to fool with anything they can 
agree on in Asia. Africa, as I said, 
can try anarchy, nihilism or what 
have you. 



FORTY YEARS AGO 
Asst. J. G. Haney and Miss Berry 
attended farmers' institutes at Eu- 
reka and Matfleld Green. 

Julia R. Pearce, '90, was taking a 
course in mathematics and physics 
in California university and at the 
same time teaching a number of 
classes. 

John R. Harrison, '88, postmaster 
at Havana, Cuba, was appointed act- 
ing director-general of posts in Cuba, 
pending the absence of Director-Gen- 
eral Fosnes, who was in New York. 



During the century of experimen- 
tation no nation is to make war out- 
side its own territories, and no intra- 
continental war is to be interfered 
with from without. The oceans are 
to be free to all except ships of war, 
of which there need be none. 



From the Files of The Industrialist 
TEN YEARS AGO 

Wilma Dette (Evans) Hoyal, '09, 



elation Review. 

♦ 

"LIFE BEGINS," AGAIN — 

As we advance in years we really 

grow happier, if we live intelligently. 

The universe is spectacular, and it is 

i a free show. Increase of difficulties 



where she was called by Pres. Her 
bert Hoover to the child welfare con- 
ference held there. 

H. Leigh Baker, '22, was principal 
of the Lawrence high school. Mr. 
Baker was formerly principal of the 
Manhattan high school for four years. 



FIFTY YEARS AGO 
President Fairchild presented a 
paper before the Central Kansas 
Teachers association on "The Teach- 
er's Certificate: For How Long 
Granted?" 

President Fairchild and Professors 
Popenoe, Walters, Lantz, Kellerman 
and Mason presented papers at the 
meeting of the State Horticultural 
society which was held in Topeka. 

Among College alumni of whom 
good reports were heard at the meet- 
ing of agricultural college men in 
Champaign, 111., were Phoebe E. 
Haines, '83, in New Mexico; C. L. 
Marlatt, '84, Entomological division, 
United States Department of Agri- 



Ten years before the end, or be- 
ginning December 1, 2030, each con- 
tinent is to send delegations to every 
other continent to study the content- 
ment and happiness of people not on 
the payroll of the government. Need- 
less to say, these delegations are to 
be made up of ordinary people — citi- 
zens who have never been office 
holders, not even postmasters. 



At the end of the snooping decade 
all the delegations are to meet at 
the South Pole and there, after a 
good-natured snowball battle, calmly 
iind coolly come to some conclusion 
about what form of government, if 
any, is best. Then they can go home, 
tell their people all about it and re- 
tire to the blessed obscurity from 
which they came. 



The superpoint about this plan is 
that if the world doesn't want to do 
anything about it after the 100 years, 
the world doesn't have to. 



AMONG THE 
ALUMNI 



Fannie (Waugh) Davis, B. S. '91, 
writes from her home at 1714 Villa 
place, Nashville, Tenn.: 

"To show you how the K. S. C. 
graduates get around and take the 
' lead, I submit the fact that at a small 
lunch at the Boston YWCA camp on 
Martha's Vineyard island, Septem- 
ber 1, after the campers were all 
gone, there were six councilors and 
myself. Of the seven present, four 
were graduates of Kansas State Col- 
lege. 

"Hattie Droll, H. E. '19, is direc- 
tor of the camp. Maxine McKinley, 
G. S. '26, is music councilor. Another 
was Louise Davis, H. E. '32, crafts 
councilor, and the other was yours 
truly. 

"Last Friday we had a call from 
Mrs. Maude (Gardiner) Obrecht, 
'93, M. S. *97, and her husband, 
their daughter, Dorothy (Obrecht) 
Ekdahl, H. E. '31, and her husband, 
Oscar Ekdahl, Ar. '33. They were 
on their way to Chattanooga to visit 
the Obrechts' son, Gardiner, E. E. 
'28." 



*' 



Delmar Akin, B. S. '01, is a farmer 
and may be addressed R. R. 3, Man- 
hattan. He called at the Alumni of- 
fice October 23 and expressed his 
interest in a successful '01 class re- 
union next commencement. His 
daughter, Marguerite (Akin) Wil- 
liamson, G. S. '27, lives in Tonga- 
noxie. Mr. Williamson is principal 
of the Tonganoxie high school. 



Thomas M. Wood, E. E. '06, and \ 
Grace (Enfield) Wood, D. S. '05, are 
at Pippapass, Ky. Mr. Wood writes: 

"I am in charge of boys' work in 
Caney junior college and Mrs. Wood 
is dietitian. We have 200 in the col- 
lege, which is in the heart of the 
Cumberland mountains— a very in- 
accessible place until a WPA road 
was built last July. The mountains 
are beautiful and we enjoy being in 
them." 



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James E. Brock, Ag. '08, and Mary 
(LeCrone) Brock, f. s. '08, live at 
714 Sandalwood drive, El Centro, 
Calif. They are engaged in farming. 
A Homer Whitney, D. V. M. '12, 
is a practitioner at Glenwood, Iowa. 
He was previously located for many 
years at Narka, Kan. 

Nellie (Reed) Ludtngton, B. S. '14, 
is beginning her third year of teach- 
ing in the high school at Espanola, 
N M Her son, Lincoln, graduated 
from high school this spring and is 
now attending the University of New 
Mexico at Santa Fe. 

Robert Bruce Leydig, E. E. '17, is 
a construction engineer in Lima, 
Ohio. 

L G. Alford, E. E. '18, has been 
transferred in his work as sales en- 
gineer for General Electric from 
* Chicago to Kansas City, Mo. He and 
his wife, Helen (Dawley) Alford, H. 
E '20 were in Manhattan last week- 
end visiting Mrs. Alford's parents, 
Frank A. Dawley, B. S. '95, and Mrs. 
Dawley, and their daughter, Jean 
Alford, a sophomore at Kansas State 
in home economics and dietetics. 

Arthur F. Swanson, Ag. '19, is as- 
sociate agronomist at the Fort Hays 
experiment station at Hays. He 
writes that he is "still struggling 
with the sorghums, trying to improve 
them but the weather man seems to 
have the upper hand." He spent his 
vacation out on the West coast. 

Theodore T. Swenson, Ag. '20, is 
married and has a daughter, Jacque- 
line A., 5. They live at 8541 N. E. 
Columbia Bottom road, Portland 
Ore He is In charge of the local 
office of livestock, meats and wool 
division, Agricultural Marketing ser- 
vice United States Department of 
Agriculture. This is a market news 
service, covering livestock market- 
ing conducted by the department. He 
has been in charge of the local office 
lor about seven years. 

Homer Henney, Ag. '21, M. S. '28, 
is senior agricultural economist for 
the Federal Crop Insurance corpora- 
tion United States Department of 
Agriculture. His address is 1359 
lUUenhouse street, N. W.. Washing- 
ton D C. He and Grayce (Cole) 
Henney have one son, Edward, 14. 
Mr Henney was formerly with the 
Department of Agricultural Econom- 
ics at the College. 

Maj Ernest E. Hodgson, B. S. '22, 
D V M '24, is with the regular army 
veterinary corps at Fort Logan, 



Colo. His children are Robert Loy, 
8%. and Frank Louis, 3. 

Edward W. Merrill, G. S. '23, is 
general agent for Northwestern Na- 
tional Life Insurance company, To- 
peka. He works in the Kansas City 
vicinity, and his address is 5918 
Grand, Kansas City, Mo. He called 
at the Alumni association office Oc- 
tober 9. 

Harold W. Retter, C. E. '24, is em- 
ployed as junior engineer with the 
United States Department of Agri- 
culture. His work is in connection 
with projects carried on for the New 
Hampshire State Forest service. 

Florence (Harris) Walker, H. E. 
'25, M. S. '29, is county home dem- 
onstration agent at Kennett, Mo. Her 
address there is 501 Clipper street. 
H. H. Schwardt, G. S. '26, is as- 
sistant professor of entomology with 
the College of Agriculture, Cornell 
university, Ithaca, N. Y. He visited 
the campus September 23. He and; 
Bernice (Hedge) Schwardt, '24, are 
living at 705 Mitchell street, Ithaca. 
Oscar K. Dizmang, Ag. '27, is pro- 
fessor and head of the Economics 
and Business Administration depart- 
ment at Whitworth college, Spokane, j 
Wash. He recently sent to the Alum- 
ni association office a notice of the 
50th anniversary of the founding of 
Whitworth college. 

Mildred (Skinner) O'Keefe, H. E. 
'2 8, asks that her address on the files 
lie changed to Veterans administra- 
tion, Montgomery- Ala. Mr. O'Keefe 
is being transferred to open the 
physiotherapy department in the new 
2 70-bed Veterans hospital in that 
j city. 

H. C. Lindberg, E. E. '29, Mary 
Frances (Wagner) Lindberg, H. E. 
'29, and their children called at the 
alumni office this summer while Mr. 
Lindberg was on a vacation from his 
position as assistant superintendent 
of construction with General Electric 
company, New York City. The home 
of the family is at 5718 161st street, 
Flushing, Long Island, N. Y. 

Gertrude (Brookens) Zscheile, G. 
S. '30, writes that her home is at 410 
South' Estelle, Wichita. She and her 
husband, J. W. Zscheile, f. s. K. U., 
have one daughter, Barbara, 3. 

Nelle (Curry) Manville, M. S. '32, 
is a housewife and lives at 7925 
Drexel, IB, Chicago. 

Elmer A. Taylor, Ag. E. '33, has 
recently been transferred from Dun- 
can to Tishomingo, Okla. He is still 
with the Soil Conservation service. 

Opal (Andrews) Shellhaas, M. S. 
'34, is the wife of Paul Shellhaas, 
'25 K. U., and lives at 424 West 
Fourth, Junction City. 



LOOKING AROUND 

KENNEY L. FORD 



Akron, Ohio, Gathering 

Kansas State College alumni met 
November 4 at the University club 
at Akron, Ohio. C. A. Byers, '33, was 
in charge of the meeting. Kenney 
Ford, alumni secretary, showed mo- 
tion pictures of Kansas State College 
activities. Alumni who registered at 
the meeting were: 

Helen (Hall) Bennett, '36, Copley, 
Ohio; Eunice (Walker) Foot, '27, 
Barberton, Ohio; Marie Hruby, '36, 
and Bernice Light, '36, Cleveland, 
Ohio; James C. Richards, '34, Erma 
(Miller) Richards, '34, W. W. How- 
ell, '26, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. 

Akron, Ohio, alumni were: C. A. 
Byers, H. C. Bugbee, '28, L. K. Firth, 
'33, J. H. Zimmerman, '12, Mrs. 
Zimmerman, f. s., Myrna (Lawton) 
Zimmerman, '17, M. G. Peterson, '35. 



Washington, D. C, Luncheon 

Donald B. Ibach, secretary of the 
Washington, D. C, alumni section, 
wrote the following report of a meet- 
ing there: 

"Thirty-five Kansas State College 
alumni attended a luncheon held No- 
vember 8 at the cafeteria in the South 
Agricultural building, Washington. 
Kenney L. Ford, alumni secretary, 
discussed the problems facing Kan- 
sas State, with particular reference 
to the situation of a 25 percent in- 
crease in enrolment with an 18 per- 
cent decrease in funds as compared 
with 1930. He also discussed the his- 
tory of Kansas State College written 
by the College historian. Dr. J. T. 
Willard, which is available at this 

time. 

"The following persons attended 

the luncheon: 

"Leon M. Davis, '09; Carl M. Con- 
rad '21; Roland McKee, '00; Harry 
A. Gunning, '16; M. M. Hoover, '24; 
Chester D. Tolle, '24; Jason R. Swal- 
len M. S. '25; E. Jack Coulson, '27; 
Merlin Mundell, '29; H. W. Loy Jr., 
'30- Samuel J. Gilbert, '21; Harry 
E Ratcliffe, '23; H. W. Marston, M. 
S '21; John L. Wilson, '31; Miner 
M. Justin, '07; R. H. Davis, '27; H. 
A. Spilman, '03; Floyd F. Higbee, 
!, 26; Cecille M. Protzman, '27; Wal- 
ter T Swingle, '90; Karl Knaus, '14; 
'Harry V. Harlan, '04; Lee T. Mor- 
gan '34; L. E. Childers, '25; Hubert 
!l. Collins, '23; S. A. McCracken, 
I '26; Beryle McCammon, f. s.; M. L. 
DuMars, '33; F. M. Wadley, '16; H. 
E Reed, '28; S. C. Salmon, M. S. 
'23; L. B. Mann, '15; W. W. Fetrow, 
'20, and D. B. Ibach, '23." 



Mrs. Moore; Boyd R. Churchill, '24, 
Mrs. Churchill; Wade Brant, '40; 
Carl A. Brandly, '23, M. S. '30, Mrs. 
Brandly; Erwin J. Benne, '28, M. 
S. '31, Ph. D. '37; Charles W. Bach- 
man, Grace (Cary) Bachman, '27; 
Harry F. Moxley, '25, Mrs. Moxley; 
Ruth J. Peck, '28; William A. Ljung- 
dahl, '40. 

Three graduates who came from 
Ohio were F. E. Charles, '24, Dayton, 
Ohio; Jay W. Stratton, '16, and Gus- 
sie (Johnson) Stratton, '19, Celina, 
Ohio. 

Others from the College besides 
Mr. Ford were Owen L. Cochrane, 
'31, Prof. D. C. Warren and Mrs. 
Warren. 

«- 

MARRIAGES 

BROWN— SCQTT 
Elizabeth Brown, H. E. '39, be- 
came the bride of Walter O'Daniel 
Scott, Ag. '39, on August 24. They 
are at home in Council Grove, where 
Mr. Scott is assistant county agent 
and head of the soil conservation 
projects. Mrs. Scott taught home 
economics at Beatrice, Neb., last 
year. 



RECENT HAPPENINGS 
ON THE HILL 



Miss Ada Rice, professor in the 
Department of English, is a guest 
today of the Quill club, organization 
for the promotion of creative writing, 
at Washburn college, Topeka. She 
will assist in initiation of new mem- 
bers there. 



The election of upperclass officers 
will be held Thursday in Recreation 
Center. At the same time the stu- 
dents will vote on the repeal of the 
present out-of-town dance ruling as 
it appears in the Students Governing 
association constitution. 



STOOPS— MUELLER 
The marriage of Enid Stoops, H. 
E. '40, to Clyde Mueller, Ag. '39, took 
place August 16 at Ithaca, N. Y. Both 
the bride and the bridegroom at- 
tended Sawyer high school. Mr. 
Mueller is attending Cornell univer- 
sity, where he holds a graduate as- 
sistantship in the Poultry depart- 
ment. Mr. and Mrs. Mueller reside 
at 114 Highland place, Ithaca. 



Vice-Pres. S. A. Nock spoke yester- 
day to a home economics poetry 
group on "Love Poetry." Doctor 
Nock took charge of the second of a 
series of four lectures. Other home 
economics lecture groups are photog- 
raphy, novel, poetry, opera and folk 
music. 



Members of the Independent Stu- 
dent Union will meet tonight to vote 
on whether to continue the organi- 
zation. The I. S. U., said to be the 
only independent student organization 
in the country which maintains its 
own house, is reported to be suffering 
financial difficulties. 



HALSTEA.D— JONES 

Jeanette Halstead, H. E. '37, was 
married to James D. Jones, Manhat- 
tan, August 19. The bride is a mem- 
ber of Delta Delta Delta social so- 
rority. Prior to her marriage, she 
was a member of the staff of the 
School of Home Economics at Purdue 
university. They live in Manhattan, 
where Mr. Jones is assistant man- 
ager of Gibbs Clothing company. 



KIETZMANN— DILLINGHAM 
Ruth Kietzmann, Alma, and Paul 
Dillingham, C. '38, were married 
i August 30. Both Mr. and Mrs. Dil- 
1 lingham are graduates of Alma high 
school. She attended business col- 
lege, and for the past three years has 
been with Capper publications in 
Topeka. Mr. Dillingham has been 
teaching at Randall, and this year is 
teacher in the St. Marys high school. 
Their home is in St. Marys. 



Emilia Anne (Storer) Marx, I. J. 
•35, writes from 40 Vz East Main 
street, Columbus, Ohio: 

"Edmund received his Ph. D. in 
psychology at Ohio State August 30, 
and is leaving this week-end for a 
job with the government as occu- 
pational analyst. We don't know a 
lot about the work yet, but under- 
stand the purpose is to study indus- 
try and make up tests for employees 
and prospective employees to help 
them find the jobs best suited and 
pleasing to them. It will also be ap- 
plied to the army boys who are to be 
taught a craft while in camp during 
training periods as set up by the re- 
cent draft law. He will have to spend 
three or four weeks in Washington, 
D. C, learning the 'ropes' and then 
will be given a district, which we 
hope will be Ohio, as we like it here 
very much. 

"Kansas State seems to be making 
great strides in many ways these 
days, and we are quite proud of her. 
Am anxious to get back for a visit, 
but don't know just when that can 
be arranged as yet." 



Russell T. Daulton, Ag. '36, and 
Ruth (Linscott) Daulton, H. E. '35, 
visited the campus and friends in 
Manhattan in July. They are at Gray- 
son, Ky., where Mr. Daulton is rural 
resettlement supervisor with the 
Farm Security administration. 

Laurence C. Horton, Ar. '38, is 
employed as junior architectural 
draftsman in the office of Ludwig Abt, 
architect, with offices at 114 V 2 North 
Williams, Moberly, Mo. His residence 
address is 710 West Coates, Moberly. 

Galen E. Meckfessel, M. E. '39, is 
an aeronautical engineer in Wich- 
ita. His address is 345 North Poplar. 

Raymond Wells Hopkins, M. E. 
•40 is mechanical engineer and 
draftsman for the Charles Stecher 
company, 24 52 North Greenview av- 
enue, Chicago. 



Michigan Alumni Meeting 

Alumni attended the Michigan 

i Alumni reunion November 2 after 

the Michigan State-Kansas State 

football game. J. G. Lill arranged 

[for the meeting and Kenney Ford, 

alumni secretary, who was present 

, at the meeting, received cards on 

which the alumni and former stu- 

i dents who attended wrote their 

| names, addresses and occupations 

I for the records of the Alumni office. 

Alumni in Michigan attending the 

i meeting included: 

George R. Elliott, '11, Belleville; 
Mary (Houser) Kuthe, '33, Birming- 
'ham; Gladys (Meyer) Benne, '30; 
'Okemos; Miriam G. Eads, '31, Mar- 
Iquette; J. D. McCallum, '14, and 
I Elizabeth (Sellon) McCallum, f. s. 
| '12, Flint. 

Lonnie J. Simmons, '28, and Helen 
(Boler) Simmons, '34, Alma; J. Rus- 
sell Baggerly and Effie (Steele) Bag- 
gerly, '09, Leslie; Robert L. Nulty, f. 
s., and Florence (Sederlin) Nulty, 
'29, Jackson; Don M. McCrone and 
Edith (Forsyth) McCrone, '06, Mi- 
lair Fred H. Bayer and Marie (Ham- 
merly) Bayer, '20, Kalamazoo; 
Maurice D. Laine, '22, and Mrs. 
Laine, Royal Oak; Ben D. Jeffs, f. s. 
•08, and Bess (Tolin) Jeffs, '08, Lake 
City. 

R H. Wilson, '09, and Mary 
' (Haney) Wilson, f. s. '05, Charles 
W. Melick, M. S. '07, and Mrs. Me- 
I lick, Rochester; Paul C. Westerman, 
'31, and Mrs. Westerman, John C. 
Christensen, '94, and Mrs. Christen- 
sen, Kathleen Hamm, '18, Ann Ar- 
bor; Earl E. Thomas, '22, and Leota 
'. (Johnson) Thomas, '21, Henry J. 
S McLaurin, Mildred (Sederlin) Mc- 
Laurin, '31, and Mary L. Hoover, '14, 
I Detroit. 

The largest number was from East 
Lansing, Mich. They were Elizabeth 
Walbert, '35; Mabelle (Sperry) Ehl- 
ers, '06; J. G. Lill, f. s. '11; Sarah 
Ann Grimes, '36; Nevels Pearson, 
'20, Mrs. Pearson; J. M. Moore, '25, 



BERLIN— KING 
Betty Berlin, f. s. '40, and Ronald 
B King, Ag. '40, were married Au- 
gust 18,' at the home of the bride's 
parents in Wakefield. The bride was 
graduated from Wakefield high 
school, attended business college at 
' Salina, and Kansas State College two 
'years. The groom was an active 
! member of Collegiate 4-H club, Horti- 
culture club and the poultry judging 
' team. Their home is in Girard, 
where Mr. King is vocational agricul- 
ture instructor in the high school. 



The annual Royal Purple Beauty 
ball will be in Nichols Gymnasium 
Friday night. At that time the win- 
ning coed from the 21 candidates 
nominated for beauty queen will be 
announced. This year's beauty queen 
was chosen by Cary Grant, Hollywood 
moving picture star. 

Kansas State College students will 
see H. Miles Heberer, associate pro- 
fessor in the Department of Public 
Speaking, on the Manhattan Theatre 
stage in George Bernard Shaw's 
satire, "Arms and the Man." Others 
in the cast of the play set in Bulgaria 
in 1885 are Martha Baird, Manhat- 
tan; June Cox, Lyons; Charles Jones, 
Lisbon, N. Y.; Max Gould, Broken 
Bow, Neb., and Joe Jagger, Minne- 
apolis. 

Students on the campus Friday 
will see this month's Kickapoo. This 
I issue of the college humor magazine, 
sponsored by Theta Sigma Phi and 
Sigma Delta Chi, journalism profes- 
sional organizations, is modeled after 
the New Yorker. Instead of photo- 
graphs it will contain cartoons drawn 
by Peter Ruckman, Topeka. New 
features to be found in the magazine 
will be a story on Negro life by Theo 
Nix, Kansas City, Mo., and columns 
and comments on music, movies and 
fashions. 



DEATHS 



WHO'S WHOOT, 4-H ANNUAL, 

TO BE EXPANDED THIS YEAR 



Martha Wrenth, Manhattan, Editor, 
Gives List of Staff Members 

Changes in editorial content and 
general appearance will characterize 
the 19 41 Who's Whoot, annual pub- 
lication of the Collegiate 4-H club. 

A larger number of counties in the 
state are expected to contribute pic- 
tures and material on the county 4-H 
i clubs for the coming issue, Martha 
Wreath, Manhattan, editor of the pub- 
lication, indicated. Last year, 57 
counties were represented. 

Staff members for the new edition 
' are Martha Wreath, editor; Paul San- 
ford, Milford, business manager; Gor- 
don West, Manhattan, assistant editor ; 
Betty Hutchinson, Goddard, assistant 
business manager; Lucille Owen, Ed- 
son' Elva Ann Nelson, Concordia; 
Mary Evelyn Nielson, Atchison; 
Lourie Shoffner, Kipp; Marjorie Sim- 
mons, Barnard; Tom Benton, Olathe; 
Dwight Blaesi, Abilene; Betty Lou 
Wiley, Topeka; Allan Neeley, Minne- 
apolis; Harlan Shuyler, Bethel; Eula 
Hudson, Wilsey; Marcile Norby, Cul- 
lison- Helen Woodard, Topeka; Alma 
Deane Fuller, Courtland; and Oscar 
Norby, Pratt, department heads. 
♦• 
Helps on Education Project 
Mrs. Leone Kell, associate profes- 
sor of child welfare and euthenics, 
went to Wichita Tuesday to help with 
the family life education project. 



ELLIOTT 
Frederick B. Elliott, B. S. '87, 
Manhattan insurance agent, died at 
his home at 4 24 Osage street Novem- 
ber 13. He had been ill only one day. 
Mr. Elliott was educated in Man- 
hattan public schools and, after his 
graduation from Kansas State Col- 
lege, he became associated with his 
father in the real estate and insur- 
ance business. In 1890, he became 
owner of the insurance agency. He 
had represented one company more 
i than 50 years and recently received 
recognition for his long service. He 
J had been a notary public more than 
! 50 years in Manhattan. 
I In 1891 he was married to Eva 
IM. Knostman, f. s. '87. They had 
! two sons, Frederick D., Ar. '11, who 
1 died in 1939, and Richmond K., who 
| is with the Commonwealth Edison 
! company in Chicago. Also surviving 
i Mr. Elliott is a brother, Albert R., 
I B. S. '87, who is at Dawson, Yukon 
territory. Canada. 

BIRTHS 

John J. Donnelly, '35, and Doro- 
thy (Rosencrans) Donnelly, '34, are 
the parents of a son, John Joseph 
III born October 9. Mr. Donnelly is 
engineer for the Bliss Syrup and 
Preserving company in Kansas City, 
Mo. 



Ralph Richard Jr. is the name 
chosen by Ralph R. Lashbrook, I. J. 
•29 and Ruthana (Jones) Lash- 
brook, I. J. '36, for their son born 
October 14. The Lashbrooks' home 
is at 1853 Fairchild, Manhattan. Mr. 
Lashbrook is associate professor in 
journalism at the College. 



OSCAR W. NORBY, PRATT, 
IS SWIFT ESSAY WINNER 

Will. MAKE TRIP TO CHICAGO FOR 
LIVESTOCK SHOW 



EVERYDAY ECONOMICS 

By W. E. GRIMES 



Junior In Agricultural Administration 

to Attend gpeclnl Training School 

In ChlcnKO During 

International 

Oscar W. Norby, Pratt, a junior 
in agricultural administration, has 
been declared the winner of the 1940 
Swift essay contest. He will receive 
a $50 cash prize to cover expenses 
of a trip to the International Live- 
stock show, November 30 to Decem- 
ber 7, and to attend a special train- 
ing school sponsored by Swift and 
company in Chicago. 

Seventy-six students in the Divi- 
sion of Agriculture competed. Judges 
were Prof. H. W. Davis, head of the 
Department of English; R. R. Lash- 
brook, associate professor of journal- 
ism, and Prof. R. J. Barnett of the 
Department of Horticulture. Prof. 
L. F. Payne was chairman of the 
Swift essay contest committee. 

Due to his outstanding scholastic 
record and leadership ability, Norby 
has been the recipient of three Sears 
scholarships of $150, $200 and $250. 
He is president of the Kansas State 
College Sears Scholarship club of 51 
members. He is also president of 
the Christian Endeavor society at the 
Christian church. Some of the other 
organizations in which he holds 
membership are Alpha Zeta, Dy- 
namis, Agricultural Economics club, 
Collegiate 4-H club and Alpha Gam- 
ma Rho fraternity. 

Norby won the leadership contest 
in 4-H club work and was one of 
four Kansans to receive the trip to 
Washington, D. C, in 1938. He was 
on the men's meats judging team 
which competed at the American 
Royal in Kansas City last week. 

Many years of farm experience 
gave Norby a fundamental apprecia- 
tion of production and packing-plant 
problems. He is 22 years of age and 
the eldest of four children, with one 
brother and two sisters, one of whom 
is a sophomore at Kansas State Col- 
lege. His father is active in farm 
bureau work. After graduating from 
college, he hopes to either pursue 
graduate studies, 4-H club work or 
enter the county agent field of en- 
deavor. 



"When distress is widespread, relief agencies must be active." 



Democracy cannot survive unless | 
the individual citizen in the democ- 
racy assumes responsibility for secur- 
ing his own living. In times when 
distress is widespread, relief agencies 
must be active. Temporarily, the in- 
dividual may be helpless to provide 
for himself. However, as quickly as 
possible the necessity for dependence 
upon relief agencies must be re- 
moved. If this necessity is not over- 
come, the individual continues to be 
dependent upon relief and his con- 
tribution to the maintenance of de- 
mocracy is lost. 

When relief agencies are set up, 
competent administrators must be in 
charge. Too frequently these admin- 
istrators lose sight of the fact that 
the most important task before them 
is to work themselves out of a job 
by helping to make relief unneces- 
sary. Instead, too frequently the ad- 



ministrator of relief seeks to do a 
bigger and better job and, in so doing, 
urges that relief be extended to an 
ever-increasing proportion of the 
population. Such action is purely 
negative from the standpoint of 
maintaining democracy. If relief is 
gradually extended to more and more 
people, gradually more and more 
people rely upon public agencies 
rather than upon their own initiative. 
Loss of their initiative means loss 
of their effectiveness in maintaining 
democracy. 

The desire of the relief adminis- 
trator to do a good job is to be com- 
mended. But usually he has done 
the best job when, in cooperation 
with others, he has worked himself 
out of a job by helping the people 
who have been on relief to "get on 
their own." 



Steers Bring Record Price 

Nine head of fat steers, owned and 
fed by the Department of Animal 
Husbandry, set a high price for the 
year at Kansas City when they were 
sold last week for $14 a hundred. 
Armour and company was the pur- 
chaser. The steers were culls from a 
lot of 20 that had been fitted for 
showing at the American Royal Live- 
stock show. They averaged 1,077 
pounds. Dr. A. D. Weber, cattle 
specialist with the department, had 
charge of the feeding. 



WILDCATS LOSE, 12-0, 

TO IOWA STATE COLLEGE 

JIM YEAGER CONTINUES TO WIN 
OVER ALMA MATER 



HORT SHOW TO HIGHLIGHT 

ANNUAL NURSERY SCHOOL 



HYBRID CORN TEST PLOTS 

WILL BE HARVESTED SOON 



Result* of Experiment* Will Be Pub- 

liNlicil Next January In Form of 

College nulletln 

Test plots planted last spring to . 
determine the comparative yields of 
approximately 50 experiment station 
and commercial corn hybrids will be 
harvested within the next two weeks, 
according to H. D. Hollembeak, as- 
sistant agronomist in charge of co- 
operative tests for the Kansas Agri- 
cultural Experiment station. 

The plots to be harvested are in 
eight counties in the eastern section 
of the state. Approximately 50 test 
plots were planted last spring, Mr. 
Hollembeak said, but unfavorable 
climatic conditions last summer re- 
duced the yield too much to warrant 
harvesting 31 of the plots. 

A schedule of harvesting dates has 
been arranged by the Kansas corn 
performance committee, supervisor 
of the tests, and three days will be 
spent in each of eight counties having 
plots. The Shawnee county plots 
were harvested November 5 and 6. 
The Neosho county plots were com- 
pleted last week, and the Bourbon 
and Franklin county plots will be 
harvested next week. A public meet- 
ing for all persons interested in hy- 
brid corn will be held in connection 
with the harvesting. At this meeting 
a qualified agronomist will discuss 
the breeding of hybrid corn and will 
answer questions pertaining to it. 

Results of the 19 40 Kansas corn 
performance tests will be issued as a 
bulletin by the Agricultural Experi- 
ment station in January. 
♦ 
Attend National Conference 
Thirteen Kansas women attended 
the national conference of the Ameri- 
can Country Life association and the 
annual meeting of the National Home 
Demonstration council at Purdue 
university, Lafayette, Ind., Novem- 
ber 6 to 9. The women went in three 
croups under the leadership of Mrs. 
O O Wolf, Ottawa; Miss Florence 
Lovejoy, home demonstration agent, 
Ellsworth, and Miss Georglana H. 
Smurthwaite, state home demonstra- 
tion leader for the College extension 
service. 



COSMOPOLITAN CLUB TO HOLD 
FEAST OF NATIONS THURSDAY 

William Troutmnn, Associate Profes- 
sor of Public Spenklng, Will 
Talk on Program 

Foods of 11 countries will be pre- 
pared and eaten by members and 
guests of the Cosmopolitan club at 
the annual "Feast of the Nations 
Thursday night at the Methodist 

church. 

William Troutman, associate pro- 
fessor in the Department of Public 
Speaking, will talk on "Amusing 
Highlights of the World." 

The menu, according to Doris Kim, 
Haina, Hawaii, banquet chairman, 
will include a Filipino meat dish by 
Severo Cervera, Junction City; a 
stuffed Turkish salad by Mary Fran- 
ces, Isely, Wichita; Mexican rice and 
egg and Mexican chocolate by Juan 
Castillo, Spearville; a Chinese soup 
by Ruth Mo, Hongkong, China, and 
H T. Chang, Shanghai, China; and 
a Canadian relish by Doris Clark, 
Longton. 

Abdul Khalaf and David Totah, 
Jerusalem, Palestine, will prepare a 
Palestine dessert, bucklawa; Hilde- 
gard Knopp, Kansas City, will pre- 
pare German rye bread; Harvey 
Harakawa, Honolulu, Kenneth Yoon, 
Honolulu, and Doris Kim will pre- 
pare a Hawaiian poi. 

Dishes common in Austria, Russia 
and America also will be prepared. 



Plan Telephone School 

The third annual Rural Telephone 
Service school will be held on the 
campus November 29 and 30. This 
school is designed to give information 
on the construction, repair and opera- 
tion of rural telephone systems. The 
instruction is planned to be helpful 
to the telephone lineman, trouble 
shooter and operator on farm mutual 
telephone systems and switch lines, 
faculty members said. 



RABBI SAMUEL MAYERBERG 
TO BE ASSEMBLY SPEAKER 



LINN HELANDER ADDRESSES 

ENGINEERS AT MINNESOTA 



ProfcMor Stresses Importance of Power 
in National DefWUW Program 

Prof. Linn Helander, head of the 
Department of Mechanical Engineer- 
ing addressed the Minnesota section 
Of the American Society of Mechani- 
cal Engineers at a recent meeting on 
the campus of the University of Min- 
nesota Professor Helander, who is 
a manager of the A. S. M. E., dis- 
cussed affairs of the society, includ- 
ing a review of other meetings. 

He also addressed a meeting on. 
"Factors in the Design and Opera- j 
lion of Steam Power Plants." 

Professor Helander stressed the 
Importance of power to the national 
defense program and said that be- 
cause of its emergency nature avail- 
able capacity is more important than 
efficiency. He also pointed out a de- 
cided trend toward standardization 
of pressures and temperatures. 

♦ 
COLLEGE HOLSTE1N RATED 

SECOND IN MILKING TESTS 



Kansas Cltlan Will Talk December 
on Whether Sclcntlllc Knowledge 
Hinder* Religious Belief 

Rabbi Samuel Mayerberg, minister 
of Congregation B'nai Jehuda in 
Kansas City, will be the student 
assembly speaker Thursday, Decem- 
ber 5. 

Rabbi Mayerberg's subject will be 
"Does Scientific Knowledge Make It 
Difficult to Accept Religious Faith?" 
Rabbi Mayerberg has been profes- 
sor of Old Testament literature and 
Hebrew history at the University of 
Kansas. He is the founder of a chair 
of Jewish study at the University of 
Missouri, a former director of the 
United Jewish charities and the Jew- 
ish Welfare federation and is honor- 
ary president of the Jewish Chil- 
dren's home in Kansas City. He has 
been a director of the Kansas City 
chapter of Boy Scouts of America, 
and from 1926 to 1927 was president 
of District Grand Lodge No. 2 of 
B'nai B'rith. 

Rabbi Mayerberg was educated at 
the University of Cincinnati where he 
; received both his A. B. and his M. A. 
1 degrees and was graduated and or- 
dained by the Hebrew Union college 
where he received his master of 
Hebrew literature degree. 



Annual Display Will Include Exhibits 

of Fruits, Vegetableii. Landscapes, 

Forestry and Flowers 

The third annual horticultural 
show Friday and Saturday in Dickens 
hall is sponsored by the Department 
of Horticulture. The show will be 
held in conjunction with the fourth 
annual nurserymen's school and will 
consist of exhibits of fruits, vege- 
tables, landscapes, forestry and 
flowers. 

Among the exhibits will be displays 
of frozen fruits and vegetables ar- 
ranged by Severo Cervera, Junction 
City; an apple display by David 
Totah, Palestine, and a forestry dis- 
play by Jack Fields, Manhattan. 

Six speakers will address the nurs- 
erymen's school. E. R. Chandler 
of the Kansas City, Mo., park board 
will tell of the 1940 convention of the 
American Association of Nurserymen. 
C. K. Ward, associate professor of 
economics and sociology, will speak 
on "The Nurseryman Becomes Sales 
Conscious" and R. J. Barnett, profes- 
sor of horticulture, will discuss "Why 
the Nurseryman Is Interested in Soil 
Texture." Mrs. Renna R. Hunter of 
the Kansas Industrial Development 
commission will speak on "The In- 
dustrial Development Commission 
and State Beautiflcation." J. J. Pin- 
ney, Ottawa, will tell about "Broad- 
leaf Evergreens" and R. C. Johnson, 
instructor in horticulture, will dis- 
cuss "Rabbit Control." 



JOURNALISM GRADUATE 



HOOKS ON DEMOCRACY PLACED 
ON SPECIAL LIBRARY SHELF 



Dean I"ka Venus Produces 11,800 
Founds of Milk, 41K of llutterfnt 

A registered Holstein-Friesian 
owned by Kansas State College has 
just completed a record entitling her 
to second place in the state for senior 
3-year-olds on three milkings daily, 
10-months division, the Holstein- 
Friesian Association of America an- 
nounced last week. 

Dean Inka Venus, as this Holstein 
is officially known, produced while on 
advanced registry test 11,866 pounds 
milk and 418 pounds butterfat. This 
production is nearly 2V 2 times as 
much butterfat and nearly 3 times 
as much milk as that of the average 
dairy cow in the country, according 
to statistics compiled by the United 
| States Department of Agriculture. 

Testing was supervised by the Hol- 
! stein-Friesian Association of Amer- 
I ica, Brattleboro, Vt. 



Youth Organisation Sponsors Display of 
Literature Available 

Fifty books on America's demo- 
cratic problems have been placed on 
a separate book shelf at the College 
Library through the efforts of De- 
mocracy's Volunteers, youth organi- 
zation started on this campus. 

Students interested in historical 
and current novels and books con- 
cerning democracy may check any of 
the books out for two weeks. 

Among these books are "Men Must 
, Act," by Lewis Mumford; "The Mod- 
ern Reader," by Walter Lippnrann; 
"Prospects of American Democracy," 
by George S. Courts; "New Democ- 
\ racy and the New Despotism," by 
Charles E.Merriam; "America in Mid- 
passage," by Charles and Mary Beard. 



Hobson Wins Promotion 

L. S. Hodson, who was graduated 
from Kansas State College in 1927 
with a degree in electrical engineer- 
ing, is managing engineer of the 
power circuit breaker division of 
General Electric company in Phila- 
delphia, according to a letter from 
him received by Prof. R. G. Kloeffler, 
head of the Department of Electrical 
Engineering. This promotion now 
places Mr. Hobson in charge of 150 
engineers, designers and draftsmen 
and 450 persons in the manufactur- 
ing group of his division. 



(Continued from page one) 
county commissioners to publish re- 
ports of their proceedings, semi- 
annual statements of indebtedness, 
I delinquent tax lists and to adver- 
tise for bids for office supplies. Paul 
Vohs contends that the commission- 
1 ers of San Miguel county have not 
been complying with all of these 
statutes. Finally, feeling that the 
people of the county should know 
some of the facts, he began last 
August to publish detailed state- 
ments of the amounts of money paid 
i by the county commissioners to 
! themselves, and to the sheriff of the 
county, for salary and mileage. In- 
cluded in his publications were the 
details of amounts paid for an audit 
of the books of the county and for 
an investigation by a detective. 

"The complaint in the action in 
criminal libel, tiled by District At- 
torney William F. Haywood, followed 
these publications. The warrant 
charged the sheriff to arrest Vohs 
'for the crime of . . . wilfully, un- 
lawfully, maliciously and feloniously 
write (ing) and publish (ing) ... a 
defamatory libel in the form of a 
newspaper editorial' against county 
commissioners William Finnegan, 
Paul Cornforth and Forest White, 
'thereby expose (ing) them to pub- 
lic hatred, contempt and ridicule.' 

"The San Miguel County Journal is 
I a modest, but vigorous, little weekly, 
serving the people of the mining 
town of Telluride and of surrounding 
San Miguel county. It has a circu- 
lation of 68 2. What it does and says 
is not ordinarily of great concern 
outside the boundaries of this little 
mountain county; but what has just 
been done to it by the authorities 
of San Miguel county is of the great- 
est concern to every newspaper pub- 
lisher in the entire United States, and 
to every citizen who believes in 
American freedoms and liberties. 
Bluntly and boldly said, the authori- 
ties of San Miguel county are trying 
to punish Paul Vohs for criticizing 
their conduct. 

"The trial of John Peter Zenger 
in 1735 established the right of news- 
papers to publish such criticism. 
The first amendment of the Bill of 
Rights of the Constitution made that 
right the law of the land. It is more 
important now than ever before in 
the history of our country that this 
right be not encroached upon. News- 
paper folk everywhere will watch 
with interest the trial of Paul Vohs." 



Cyclones Score When Larry Owens In 

First Qnnrter and Merle Osborne 

In Third Make Touchdowns, 

but Kicks Fail 

By H. W. DAVIS 
Head, Department of English 
The 1940 edition of Kansas State 
football closed its home book at 
Ahearn field on Saturday with a 
muddy, 12 to defeat splattered on 
by an Iowa State Cyclone, tutored by 
James Yeager, former Wildcat cen- 
ter, who doesn't seem to feel that 
it would be fun — once in a while — 
to lose to his alma mater. The game 
was witnessed by a Band day crowd. 
The game was played in a hopeless 
combination of mud, hard luck and 
absence of sustained fire. The weath- 
er warmed up nicely, but the game 
would not. Only once, when the Iowa 
boys tried out a job-lot of spread- 
formations with zeal enough to march 
down the field and across in the third 
quarter, were the spectators re- 
warded with a pay-off, over-the-goal 
offensive. 

FIRST SCORE IS EARLY 
The first Iowa touchdown came 
within five minutes of play in the 
first quarter as the result of a punt 
to Larry Owens, Cyclone back, who 
took the oval on the 50-yard stripe 
and tore down the east side-line after 
inveigling the Wildcats into believ- 
ing he would go down the middle. 
With the count of 6-0 against them 
the Wildcats spurted during the re- 
mainder of the half, piling up a 100- 
to-minus-one yards of rushing ad- 
vantage for the half and twice com- 
pleting passes just over the end-zone 
limit for what might have been. But 
the two bad breaks got them, and the 
half-time score had to go out as Iowa 
State 6, Kansas State 0. 

Kent Duwe, Wildcat line-plunger, 
was out of the game with injuries. 
"Hank" Wilder, Cyclone ace, did not 
start, and, with the lead always 
Iowa's, was kept out of the competi- 
tion. Owens, Darling and Merle Os- 
borne did most of the offensive dam- 
age for the Cyclones. Turner and 
Langvardt showed to best advantage 
for the Wildcats. 

WILDCATS GAIN MOST 

Here are the figures: 

KS 

First downs 9 

Net yards rushing l»i 

Net yards forwards JJ 

Forwards attempted 1" 

Forwards completed •> 

Intercepted by •• " 

Yds. interceptions returned .... 

Number of punts 1" 

Punts, average yards 4U.rf 



r 



IS 
6 

27 

52 

7 

3 

2 

14 

14 

35.2 

3 

46 

146 



4 

50 







Kickoffs •• ,\ 

Kickoffs, average yards 54 

Yards kicks returned H4 

Fumbles 

Penalties * 

Yards lost on penalties &» 

Ball lost on downs •> 

Ball lost on penalties " 

Score by periods: 

Kansas State j> 0—0 

Iowa State 6 6 0—1.2 

Scorers: Iowa State— Owens and Os- 
borne. 

DR. AGNES FAYE MORGAN 

WILL TALK ON GREY HAIR 

University of California Dean to Tell 

How Iliet May He Preventive 

Factor 

Dr. Agnes Faye Morgan, Dean of 
the Division of Home Economics, Uni- 
versity of California, Berkeley, will 
talk on "Vitamin B as a Factor in 
Grey Hair Prevention," Thursday at 
4 p. m. in West Ag 312. Her talk 
is sponsored by Sigma Xi, Omicron 
Nu and the Science club. 

Doctor Morgan is known for her 
work in nutrition. 

She received her B. S., M. S. and 
Ph. D. degrees from the University 
of Chicago in the Department of 
Chemistry. Doctor Morgan was ap- 
pointed assistant professor of nutri- 
tion at the University of California 
in 1915. She organized the Depart- 
ment of Household Science in 1916 
and in 1938 changed this department 
Into a Division of Home Economics 
in the College of Agriculture. 

During the past 25 years, she has 
| published nearly 90 research reports. 
i While her research always has been 
I concerned with the chemistry of food 
1 and nutrition, her particular interest 
has been the distribution and func- 
tion of vitamins. 

♦ 

Herbie Kay to Play 
Herbie Kay, band leader, and his 
band will play in Nichols Gymnasium 
Tuesday night. This will be the first 
in a series of "name band" varsities 
given by the Students Governing as- 
sociation. 



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HISTORICAL SOCIETY C 

TOPEKA 

KAN. 



The Kansas Industrialist 



Volume 67 



-^^Z^^TW^**** M"* M»»h»tt»n, Wednesday, tK>vemb», 27, IMP 



Number 11 



COLLEGE PARTICIPATES 
IN BANKERS AG SESSION 

GATHERING STUDIES CONSERVA- 
TION AND LAND USE 



Senior President 



he 



II. J. Itu/.i.k Sr.. Sylvan Grove Banker, 

II.-h.1m Committee to Increase Form 

Application of Approved 

Recommendntlons 

Kansas State College administra- 
tive officers, staff members and grad- 
uates had an important part in the 
annual meeting of the agricultural 
committee of the Kansas Bankers as- 
sociation at the Wareham hotel in 
Manhattan last Wednesday. The 11 
members of the K. B. A. agricultural 
committee, prominent farmers of the 
state, heads of farm organizations, j 
Kanssa State College representatives 
and agricultural newspaper men met 
to discuss the part bankers hope to 
play in soil and water conservation 
and land utilization in Kansas. 

At the conclusion of the meeting, 
R. N. Downie, Garden City, chairman 
of the K. B. A. agricultural commit- 
tee, appointed a sub-committee to 
take complete charge of the further 
dissemination of information regard- 
ing conservation. The committee will 
center its efforts on the further dis- 
tribution of a pamphlet on soil and 
water conservation and land utiliza- 
tion. The pamphlet was prepared 
several months ago by Prof. R. I. 
Throckmorton, head of the Depart- 
ment of Agronomy, at the request of 
the K. B. A. agricultural committee. 
BUZICK IS CHAIRMAN 
Members of the committee appoint- 
ed by Chairman Downie to take 
charge of a campaign to obtain wide- 
spread use by farmers of the recom- 
mendations contained in the pam- 1 
phlet included H. J.Buzick Sr., Sylvan 
Grove banker, chairman; Prof. R. I. 
Thackrcy, head of the Department of 
Industrial Journalism and Printing; 
L. L. Longsdorf, College extension 
editor; J. H. Rusco, secretary of the 
Kansas Press association; J. C. Moh- 
ler, secretary of the State Board of 
Agriculture; L. W. Collins, Junction 
City farmer, and M. H. Coe, state 4-H 
club leader. 

Members of the Kansas State Col- 
lege staff who spoke formally or par- 
ticipated in the informal discussion 
included: Pres. F. D. Farrell; Dean 
Harry Umberger of the Division of 
College Extension; Profs. R. L 
Throckmorton, L. F. Payne, Walter 
G. Ward and R. I. Thackrey; L. L. 
Longsdorf, extension editor; C. R. 
Jaccard, land-use planning specialist; 
Harold Johnson, assistant 4-H club 
leader; L. C. Williams, assistant di- 
rector of extension, and L. M. Sloan 
of the Garden City Experiment sta- 
tion Other staff members who at- 
tended included M. H. Coe, J. H. Coo- 
lidge, E. A. Cleavinger, R. R. 
Lashbrook, Frank Blecha, Paul L. 
Dittemore, E. H. Leker, F. W. Atke- 
son W. F. Pickett, L. E. Willoughby, 
Jane Rockwell and A. F. Turner. 

Among the alumni who attended 
the meeting was Dan H. Otis of Madi- 
son Wis., director of the agricultural 
commission of the American Bankers 
association. O. D. Newman, Garden 
City, president of the Kansas Bankers 
association, and Fred Bowman, Tope- 
ka, secretary of the organization, had 
general charge of the session. 

PRESIDENT FARRELL TALKS 
President Farrell, in his brief re- 
marks, urged the K. B. A. agricul- 
tural committee to attempt to get 
each banker in the state to persuade 
at least one farmer in his community 
to store in silos, in years of abundant 
production, enough feed to meet 
needs of two years. Such demonstra- 
tions, he pointed out, would be of 
great value to the state in stabilizing 
the livestock industry. 

The bankers expressed a desire to 
cooperate with farmers in building 
ponds, increasing herds of livestock, 
storing livestock food supplies and 
other practices which will stabilize 
agriculture. The water problem was 
recognized as a most serious one. 

George S. Knapp, chief engineer of 

the division of water resources of the 

State Board of Agriculture, used 

charts to show that since 1884 there 

(Continued on last page) 




GREEKS WIN SEVEN POSTS 
IN UPPERCLASS ELECTION 

RAY BTKATY CHOSEN AS SENIOR 
CLASS PRESIDENT 



RAYMOND BUKATY 



CROPS JUDGING TEAM WINS 

SECOND AT KANSAS CITY 



K,„or Cypher-, Palrview, Take- 

First Place in i«U'iiti««-«ti<>" and 
Receive* Reewptlttoii 

The Kansas State College crops 
judging team won second place in the 
annual Kansas City national collegi- 
ate grain judging contest Monday. 

The University of Nebraska team 
won first place with a total of 5,207 
points, 10.2 points more than Kansas 
State's. Oklahoma A. and M. won 
third place in the contest. 

Emerson Cyphers, Fairview, rep- 
resenting Kansas State College, won 
first place in crops identification and 
received individual recognition. 

Other members of the team were 
i Henry Smies, Courtland; Don Crum- 
| baker, Onaga, and Lyman Singer, 
Parker. 

The team was given a $50 scholar- 
ship check to bring back to Kansas 
j State College, and each member was 
! awarded a silver medal. 

WILLIS N. KELLY, 12, GRAD, 
NAMED TO BOARD OP REGENTS 



Thnlne Hlufh. Abilene, Rendu Junior 

Slate In Uncontested Race, While 

Grant Mnrbnrner. Lyons. I. S. 

P., Leads Sophomores 

Seven candidates of the Greeks' 
All-School party and five of the In- 
dependent Student party are upper- 
class officers as a result of class elec- 
tions last Thursday. Approximately 
1,700 votes were cast for the class 
officers last week compared to the 
1,400 votes last year. 

Ray Bukaty, Kansas City, Phi 
1 Kappa, is the senior class president. 
i He scored 267 votes to 260 for Gar- 
; land Childers, Augusta, I. S. P. 
THAINE HIGH WINS 
Thaine High, Abilene, I. S. P., was 
I uncontested for junior class presi- 
dent. Grant Marburger, Lyons, I. S. 
1 p., won by a 19-vote margin over 
Eugene Snyder, Junction City, Pi 
1 Kappa Alpha, in the race for sopho- 
more class president. 

Robert Page, Topeka, Beta Theta 
Pi; Dorothy Green, Wichita, Pi Beta 
Phi, and Chris Langvardt, Alta Vista, 
I. S. P., won over their opponents 
for senior class vice-president, secre- 1 
tary and treasurer, respectively. 
James Kendall, Dwight, I. S. P.; j 
Ethel Haller, Alma, I. S. P., and Jo- 
sephine Lann, Axtell, Chi Omega, 
were the losers. 

In the junior class election, John 
Hancock, St. Francis, Kappa Sigma; 
Marjorie Spurrier, Kingman, Kappa 
Kappa Gamma, and Ray Rokey, Sa- 
betha, Alpha Gamma Rho, defeated 
their I. S. P. opponents, Helen Wood- 
aid, Topeka; Alma Deane Fuller, 
| Courtland, and Lawrence Spear, Mis- 
sion, in contests for vice-president, 
i secretary and treasurer. 

SOPHOMORE WINNERS 
Winners of the sophomore election 
for vice-president, secretary and 
treasurer, respectively, were Rex 



Pruett, Culver, Delta Sigma Phi; 
Wilma Gantenbein, Elmo, I. S. P.; 
James Nielson, Marysville, I. S. P. 
Their opponents were George Camp- 
bell, Wichita, I. S. P.; Margaret 
Mack, Manhattan, Delta Delta Delta, 
and William Quick, Beloit, Tau Kap- 
pa Epsilon. 



1941 KANSAS MAGAZINE 
WILL BE LARGEST EVER 

PUBLICATION WILL GO ON SALE 
DECEMBER 15 



VARSITY FAIR TO LAUNCH 

FUND FOR STUDENT UNION 



Steel RliiK and SlKinn Delta Chi Spon- 

sortnK Revival of Old-time 

Activity to Raise Money 

Kansas State College students will 
have an opportunity to raise money 
for a Student Union fund at a Var- 
sity fair next spring, according to an 
announcement this week by Steel 
Ring, honorary engineering society, 
and Sigma Delta Chi, professional 
journalism fraternity. 

Alpha Zeta, honorary agricultural 
organization, also has been asked to 
help with the exposition but has not 
decided whether to join the other 
two groups. 

Varsity fair is a revival of the old- 
time Ag fair, an all-school attraction 
of former years. All campus organi- 
zations, fraternities and sororities 
will have the opportunity to sponsor 
booths at the fair. In addition, there 
will be space for educational exhibits. 
The project, the only all-school 
carnival at Kansas State College, has 
received the approval of Pres. F. D. 
Farrell. A percentage of the money 
will go toward a Student Union trust 
fund. 

The committee is composed of 
Roger Ghormley, Hutchinson, presi- 
dent of Steel Ring; Herbert Hollin- 
ger, Chapman, president of Sigma 
Delta Chi; and the faculty sponsors 
of the two organizations, L. M. Jor- 
genson, associate professor of elec- 
trical engineering, and E. L. Barger, 
associate professor of agricultural en- 
gineering, for Steel Ring, and Hillier 
Krieghbaum, assistant professor of 
industrial journalism and printing, 
for Sigma Delta Chi. 



Royal Purple Beauty Queen 



Mayor of Hutchinson Chosen by Gover- 
nor for Ralph O'Ncll's Place 

Willis N. Kelly, B. S. '12, was one 
of two new members of the State 
Board of Regents selected Tuesday 
by Gov. Payne Ratner. 

Mr Kelly replaces Ralph T. O'Neil, 
Topeka attorney, who died last May 
25 Mr. Kelly is mayor of the city of 
Hutchinson and vice-president of the 
milling firm founded by his father. 
He is a life member of the Kansas 
State College Alumni association and 
the Sigma Nu fraternity. One of his 
two sons, William Kelly, is a junior 
in milling industry at Kansas State 
College. 

The law sets up a bipartisan board 
requiring that not more than five of 
the nine members shall be from the 
majority party. Mr. Kelly is a Demo- 
cratic member of the board. Oscar S. 
Stauffer, a Topeka newspaper pub- 
lisher, who was appointed at the same 
time to take the place of Dr. H. L. 
I Snyder, is a Republican member. 
♦ 
STEEL RING INITIATES 14 

INTO ENGINEERING GROUP 



Banquet at Wareham Hotel Monday 
NlKht Concludes Formal Ceremony 

Steel Ring, honorary engineering 
organization, formally initiated 14 
pledges into the organization at a 
banquet in the Crystal room of the 
Wareham hotel Monday evening. 

The new members are: 

Joe Blattner, Rozel; Donald Cle- 
land, Eskridge; Durward Danielson, 
Clyde; Duane Davis, Beloit; Robert 
Deatz, Hutchinson; George Fadler, 
Carthage, Mo.; Robert Gilles, Kansas 
City; Kenneth Hamlin, Manhattan; 
Charles Kaiser, Kansas City; Marion 
Miller, Topeka; George Packer, Man- 
hattan; Jim Thackrey, Portland, 
Ore.; Lawrence Spear, Mission, and 
Gerald Walrafen, Topeka. 




Mary Ellen Shaver, above, a sophomore in home S^XZllTJtw- 
Bette Bonecutter, Smith Center, Chi Omega, was fourth. 



Cover In Spanish Colors of Red, Yellow 

and Black and Excerpt from Piny 

by Klrke Mechem Will Honor 

Coronado Annlversnry 

Largest issue of the modern series 
will be The Kansas Magazine of 1941, 
the ninth consecutive issue since the 
magazine's revival in 1933, which 
will appear December 15. The maga- 
zine will contain prose, poetry and 
art from the state's writers and art- 
ists, among whom are some contribu- 
tors new to the magazine. 

Gay Spanish colors — red, yellow 
and black — will be used on the maga- 
zine's cover, designed by Lloyd Foltz, 
well-known Wichita artist. The col- 
ors and the subject of the cover, 
"Coronado Heights," will be in keep- 
ing with the Coronado quartocenten- 
nial to be celebrated in Kansas in 
1941. Coronado Heights is a land- 
mark near Lindsborg. Spanish relics 
have been found on it. 

DRISCOLL TELLS OF BOYHOOD 
Also in keeping with the Coronado 
celebration is a brief excerpt from 
the play, "Adios, Coronado," by 
Kirke Mechem, secretary of the State 
Historical society and author of the 
play, "John Brown," published last 
year' by the Kanas Magazine Publish- 
ing association. 

A new contributor to The Kansas 
Magazine this year is Charles B. Dris- 
coll, famous New York columnist and 
native Kansan. "Notes for an Auto- 
biography" is a collection of the 
author's memories of his Kansas boy- 
hood and education. 

Among the new contributors are 
Miriam Richardson DuMars, Topeka; 
Catherine Wiggins Porter, Sterling; 
Robert E. Sterling, editor of the 
Northwestern Miller; W. C. Stevens, 
botanist at the University of Kansas, 
and the late Leslie E. Wallace, 
Larned. 
ROGERS, HARRIS ARE INCLUDED 
Short stories and sketches by au- 
thors new to The Kansas Magazine 
include "Now Is It April," a fantasy 
by Rachel Maddux, young Kansas 
City writer, and "Indians Don't Need 
Algebra," by lima Crawford Davis, 
Wichita. 

Among authors already well 
known to Kansans are John P. Har- 
ris Hutchinson; Charles E. Rogers, 
former editor of the magazine now 
with the Department of Technical 
Journalism of Iowa State college, 
Ames; Nora B. Cunningham, Cha- 
nute; Bernice Anderson, Partridge; 
Kunigunde Duncan (Mrs. Bliss Ise- 
ly), Wichita, and May Williams 
Ward, Wellington. 

Avis Carlson, Wichita, is the au- 
thor of "Great Lady," a tribute to 
the late Mrs. Cora G. Lewis of Kins- 
ley John Ise, economist, writer and 
lecturer of the University of Kansas, 
writes on "A Philosophy for Farm 
Life" for this Kansas Magazine. 

Among the fiction writers are 
Sanora Babb, Edythe Squier Draper, 
Oswego, Ronald Finney, Lou Agnes 
Reynolds of Chanute and Wichita, 
William March and John Gilchrist. 
TEN ARTISTS CONTRIBUTE 
An album showing the work of 10 
artists will be included in the 1941 
Kansas Magazine. The magazine will 
be the nearest that most of us can 
come to seeing representative work 
of most of the mural artists who are 
Kansans, said Prof. John F. Helm, 
Jr., art editor. Sixteen mural paint- 
ings will be reproduced. 

Russell I. Thackrey, who original- 
ly revived the magazine in 1933 and 
served as editor for three issues, 
again is editor of the magazine. 

News, features and illustrations 
concerning the contents of The Kan- 
sas Magazine and its contributors 
and editors are contained in three 
pages of The Kansas Magazine News, 
a four-page tabloid size newspaper, 
edited by Mrs. Rachel Lamprecht 
Dittemore of Manhattan. The news- 
paper will be mailed out soon to con- 
tributors and friends of the magazine 
throughout the state. 



The KANSAS INDUSTRIALIST 

Established April 24, 1875 



R. I. Th auk key Editor 

,1ANK ROCKWBLL, RALPH LiASBBROOK, 

Hillikh Kbibqhbaum . . . Associate Editors 
Kinniy Fobd Alumni Editor 



pectation of immediate or spectacular 
results. It is a program in which the 
active work of everyone who can con- 
tribute by furnishing information, 
financial aid or work, is needed. 



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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1940 



THE BANKS CAN HELP 

The bankers of Kansas are begin- 
ning to get thoroughly aroused about 
the necessity for soil and water con- 
servation and better land-utilization 
practices in Kansas. 

That is a hopeful sign, because 
bankers are in a position to make an 
important contribution to the success 
of a program which is vital to the 
future of this state. Many bankers, 
notably those who have served on the 
agricultural committee of the Kansas 
Bankers association, have been 
aroused about the problem for some 
time, but the general body of the 
membership— although thoroughly 
sympathetic to conservation efforts- 
has been slow to reach the "action 
stage. 

Last spring the agricultural com- 
mittee of the K. B. A. decided to try 
to swing the membership of the as- 
sociation into action. At a meeting 
of the committee, Prof. R. I. Throck- 
morton of the College presented a 
summary of the problem facing the 

state. 

Using Professor Throckmorton s 
summary as a basis, the bankers de- | 
cided to sponsor a statewide series of , 
local meetings at which bankers, 
farmers and business men would dis- 
cuss the problem and attempt to start 
local action programs. More than 
11 000 copies of Professor Throck- 
morton's summary were printed and 
distributed in pamphlet form, and 
many meetings were held. 

Last week the agricultural commit- 
tee of the Kansas Bankers associa- 
tion met again, to "revitalize" the 
program. Olney D. Newman, associa- 
tion president, and R. N. Downie, 
agricultural committee head, presid- 
ed over a session at which farmers, 
bankers, newspaper men. representa- , 
tives of the State Board of Agricul- 
ture and members of the College staff 
discussed the problem. 

In the next few weeks the Throck- 
morton pamphlet will be given added 
distribution, in thousands of copies, 
through the state extension service. 
in community land-use meetings, by 
4-H clubs and through the banks 
direct. A companion pamphlet by 
George S. Knapp, water resources en- 
gineer for the State Board of Agri- 
culture, will be Riven equally wide 
distribution. 

Hankers will personally take active 
roles through membership on local 
land-use planning committees, and by 
giving financial aid to farmers who 
want to carry on soil and water con- 
servation work. At the suggestion of 
Pres F. D. Farrell, each banker is 
to be asked to encourage at least one 
farmer in his locality to carry on a 
conservation project. Such a pro- 
gram would furnish a demonstration 
accessible to every community in the 

^Kansas farmers, the College and 
other state and federal agencies have 
been actively pushing the program 
of soil and water conservation for 
many years, particularly in this last 
decade in which the cumulative ef- 
fect of rising temperatures and re- 
duced rainfall has made the water 
problem one on which the solution of 
nearly all others with which we are 
g?a PP ling-including that of expand- 
ing our industries— must depend. 

The problem must be worked out 
slowly, over many years, without ex- 



Flora of Knimns 

"Flora of Kansas." By Frank C. 
Gates. Kansas Agricultural Experi- 
ment Station. Manhattan. 1940. tree. 
For many years no up-to-date list 
of the ferns and flowering plants of 
Kansas has been available. The fact 
that the limits of distribution of 
many plants lie within Kansas makes 
an accurate knowledge of their dis- 
tribution in Kansas important not 
only in botanical work but also in 
phases of conservation, soil erosion 
prevention and natural resources. 

To make this list it was necessary 
to re-examine all available collec- 
tions and to make extensive collec- 
tions in certain counties. This was 
done between 1932 and 1939. The 
large Kansas collection here at Kan- 
sas State College was supplemented 
by collections at the University of 
Kansas, Kansas State Teachers col- 
lege at Emporia and Fort Hays Kan- 
sas State college herbaria. 

After a short history of taxonomic 
botany in the state, conveniently di- 
vided into four periods, is a discus- 
sion of the physical features, the cli- 
mate and the geology of the state. 

A general discussion of the flora 
brings out the division of the state 
into the high plains with short 
grasses (buffalo and grama grasses) 
dominant, the plains border in cen- 
tral Kansas with a mixture of short 
and tall grasses, the eastern low 
plains with tall prairie grasses (blue- 
stems especially) dominating except 
at the eastern edge where forests are 
present and extend as fingers varying 
distances up the main river chan- 
nels and a small area of mostly for- 
ested Ozarkian plateau in the extreme 
southeastern corner. Cottonwoods 
and willows are the most widespread 
among the lowland trees, while the 
bur oak is the most widely distrib- 
uted upland tree. 

The statistics of the flora show 
683 genera, 559 of which are native 
and 124 introduced and 2,063 species 
and varieties of which 1,726 are na- 
tive to the state. The largest plant 
families or groups are the composites 
with 289 native and 36 introduced 
species, the Poaceae or grasses with 
199 native and 52 introduced, the 
legumes with 120 native and 22 in- 
troduced, the Cyperaceae or sedges 
with 9 9 and the Brassicaceae or mus- 
tards with 34 native and 30 intro- 
duced Additional larger families 
each with from 35 to 50 species in- 
clude the Ammiaceae or carrots, the 
Chenopodiaceae or goosefoots, the 
Euphorbiaceae or spurges, the Lamia- 
ceae or mints, the Oenotheraceae or 
evening primroses, the Polygonaceae 
or smartweeds and docks, the Rosa- 
ceae or roses, the Scrophulariaceae 
or flgworts and the Solanaceae or 
nightshades. 

Eighty plates of maps based upon 
herbarium specimens present the 
county distribution in Kansas of the 
various species to the glance. 

The maps are followed by the an- 
notated list itself, arranged by phyla 
and families, giving for each of the 
species the scientific name, the com- 
1 nion name, the general habitat, the 
' distribution in Kansas, the growth 
form and for important species spe- 
cial remarks. 

The catalog was published by the 
! Kansas Agricultural Experiment sta- 
tion and is available to botanists and 
other interested persons. Because of 
its semi-technical nature, the catalog 
will not be of interest to the average 
reader. — Paul L. Dittemore. 



For the past year and a quarter 
the Department of Applied Mechan- 
ics, in cooperation with the Kansas 
Industrial Development commission, 
has carried on a study of possible 
new sources of concrete aggregates 
in Kansas. The word "aggregate," 
as used here, may mean any or all 
of the many varieties of rock, gravel, 
sand, cinders or slag sometimes used 
in the manufacture of concrete. 

Kansas possesses incalculable re- 
serves of rock, gravel and sand of 
satisfactory quality, but these re- 
serves are poorly distributed. In 
some counties rock of the highest 
quality outcrops on hundreds of 
farms. In other areas whole counties 
are without any rock whatever, and 
the cost of transportation makes con- 
crete construction comparatively ex- 
pensive. Some counties have unlim- 
ited quantities of sand and gravel of 
excellent quality. In others, it is 
necessary to drive 40 miles for a 
sack of sand for chicken grits. 

In many areas the cost of trans- j 
portation is the greater part of the 
cost of making concrete. If local 
sources of aggregate can be devel- 
oped it makes concrete available at 
greatly reduced cost. The problem, 
then, is to find deposits of rock and 
sand in areas where they are not 
now known or to find ways in which 
materials of less desirable qualities 
can be used with satisfactory results. 
Kansas limestones are generally in 
thin strata interbedded with shale. 
Often there are several ledges of de- 
sirable limestone separated by thin 
strata of shale that must be sorted 
out before a marketable product can 
be obtained. This may increase labor 
costs to prohibitive figures. 

Rock ledges are usually in a hori- 
zontal position, and outcrop on rath- 
er steep hillsides. If a quarry is 
I opened in such a location, it is soon 
! necessary to work back into the hill 
i under a heavy overburden or move 
, to a new location. Generally speak- 
ling, it is unprofitable to quarry a 
! ledge of less thickness than the over- 
i burden that must be wasted. In 
some cases, mining methods have 
I been used. This may be too expensive 
| unless the ledge is several feet in 
thickness and the overlying material 
forms a safe roof, which is seldom 
the case. 

Low-cost quarrying requires the 
use of heavy equipment. Therefore, 
a commercial quarry can be success- 
ful only in a location where large 
quantities of rock can be obtained 
within convenient distance from the 
crushing plant. Low-cost transpor- 
tation must be available, either by 
rail or improved highway, preferably 
both. The best of rock is worthless 
if located in an inaccessible spot. 
Lastly, there must be a market within 
reasonable distance. Crushed rock 
has been shipped as much as 200 
miles for use on paving jobs, but it 
is doubtful if there was any profit 
in the deal for the producer. In gen- 
eral, cost of transportation becomes 
a serious limiting factor at less than 
100 miles. 

One of the most promising pros- 
pects yet investigated is a deposit of 
serpentine in Riley county. This rock 
reaches the surface in three outcrops 
some miles apart but quite possibly 
derived from a common source at 
some great depth. In laboratory 



tests, serpentine concrete has shown 
greater durability than that made 
from some of the rocks now in com- 
mon use but it has never been used 
for construction work of any sort, 
and is so different from the rocks 
with which Kansas builders are ac- 
quainted that a natural suspicion as 
to its qualities must be overcome be- 
fore commercial development will be 
practicable. This rock is one of the 
most interesting geological features 
in our state. One outcrop, near Bala, 
has been partially explored by core 
drilling. It seems to be a dike some 
300 feet in thickness, and perhaps 
1,000 feet long, exposed on the sur- 
face over an area of more than one 
acre and extending straight down- 
ward at least 150 feet. The rock is 
as hard as good limestone, cuts read- 
ily and takes a polish comparable to 
the best marble. It is variegated 
green in color, and is traversed by 
many thin veins of calcite and quartz, 
presenting a very rich appearance. 

There are small percentages of sev- 
eral minerals included in the serpen- 
tine. Mica, magnetite, spinel, garnet 
and ilmenite have been identified, 
but no minerals of commercial value 
1 have been found. Various optimists 
have sought to promote the develop- 
ment of the deposit as a mine. Cop- 
per, silver, gold and diamonds have 
all been reported or suspected; how- 
ever, the mineralogist's blow-pipe 
and microscope have as yet been un- 
able to detect their presence. 

This outcrop is within 300 yards 
of the track of the Rock Island rail- 
road, and equally close to a surfaced 
highway. Manhattan, Junction City 
and Clay Center are all within prac- 
tical truck-hauling distance and, at 
present, no important commercial 
quarry is operating within 70 miles. 
It is hoped that a large quarry may 
some day be operating here, furnish- 
ing employment to scores of men and 
supplying crushed rock and orna- 
mental stone. 

Another line of investigation that 
gives promise of valuable results is 
the use of the Kansas chalk as con- 
crete aggregate. Some people find it 
hard to think of chalk as a perma- 
nent structural material, but resi- 
dents of Gove, Scott and nearby 
counties have seen houses built of 
| chalk blocks that have stood for 
! more than 50 years. Chalk has just 
two serious faults as a building ma- 
terial: it wears away readily, and it 
; W ill crumble quickly from freezing 
and thawing unless protected from 
1 moisture. When used in concrete, 
j the chalk is protected to a consider- 
able extent by the encasing mortar. 
When saturated, chalk is com- 
pletely disintegrated by a dozen 
freezes; when dry, it is undamaged 
by 100 freezes. The problem is to 
find out just how much protection 
it needs. Many test pieces of chalk 
S concrete have been made and are be- 
I ing subjected to varying degrees of 
I exposure. In the course of time, we 
[should be able to know where and 
! how chalk concrete may be used with 
'' satisfactory results. When that time 
comes, we may expect to see houses 
built with massive walls of chalk 
! concrete that will furnish practically 
perfect insulation against summer 
1 heat and winter cold, that will shut 
out even the wildest blizzard, either 
white or black, and that will stand 
for generations without need for re- 
pair or reconstruction. 



school near Leonardville. 

The following graduates attended 
the Thanksgiving social: Mrs. Emma 
Haines-Bowen, '67; Emma Allen, 
Susan Nichols, A. B. Kimball, J. W. 
Bayles, C. E. Freeman, R. U. Wald- 
raven, '89; J. R. Harrison, "88; Ber- 
tha Kimball, John Davis, '90. 



SIXTY YEARS AGO 
Prof. A. J. Cook and family left 
Manhattan for a new home in Lan- fc 
sing, Mich. * 

Dr. Franklin B. Hough of Lewis 
county, N. Y., an authority on for- 
estry, visited the College. 

S. C. Mason read a paper on "Home 
Paleontology" at the regular meet- 
ing of the Scientific club. Other 
papers presented included "The Isth- 
mus Ship Railway," by William Ul- 
rich, and "The Metric System," by 
Professor Walters. 



KANSAS POETRY 

Robert Conover, Editor 



EXIT AUTUMN 

By Mabtl Sayre Brown 

A trembling leaf 

Upon a tree 
Brittle and frail 
Awaits the final 

gust 
Peace on its face 
And quiet lingering 

now 
Then dust to dust. 



Mrs. Stanley C. Brown, Strong City, 
was born and has lived in Chase 
county all her life. She has had 
poems read over radio station WDAF 
and published in the Kansas City 
Journal, the yearbook of the Kansas 
Authors club and in local papers. 



SUNFLOWERS 

By H. W. Davis 

JOHN QUIVERING PUBLIC 

TO 

UNCLE SAMUEL 

Dear Uncle Samuel: 

You may recall warning us, a little 
more than a year ago, to be very, 
very cautious about drawing into our 
poor brains too much propaganda — 
English, French, German, Russian, 
Italian propaganda. You, or some- 
body, said it would be widespread, 
insidious, and clever as all get-out, 
and hinted it would make us allergic 
to almost everything — except the 
truth. 



Well, a lot of bombs and bullets 
have spattered the face of the fair 
earth since those old days, and our 
way of life has taken many stagger- 
ing blows on the chin. The propa- 
ganda came, as you said it would, and 
we took some of it, too. But thanks 
to your warning, we didn't take it 
too seriously. 

At least, up to now — which is what 
I'm writing so hurriedly about. 



I've been worried all fall, some- 
what with that awful election, but 
mainly and pretty smartly with a new 
kind of propaganda coming from both 
nowhere and everywhere, coming 
over wires, the air, the screen, the 
press and the public platform. There 
was much of it in the election, too; 
even though everybody running for 
president got together, held up his 
right hand and swore he would not 
lead us into war. 



m OLDER PAYS 
From the Files of The Industrialist 

TEN YEARS AGO 
Miss Jessie Machir, College regis- 
trar was in Topeka attending the 
annual meeting of the registrars of 
Kansas colleges. 

Prof. L. E. Conrad, head of the 
Department of Civil Engineering, re- 
ceived notice of his appointment to 
serve as a member of the highway 
committee of the Kansas Chamber of 
Commerce. 

TWENTY YEARS AGO 
B. L. Anderson, '16, was selected 
to fill the position left vacant by F. 
W. Bell, associate professor of animal 
husbandry. 

Waldo E. Grimes, '13, head of the 
Department of Agricultural Econom- 
ics was notified of his appointment 
as chairman of the teaching commit- 



tee of the American Farm Economics 
association. 

D. W. Working, '88, dean and di- 
rector of the College of Agriculture, 
University of Arizona, presided at a 
meeting of Arizona vocational teach- 
ers at Phoenix. One of the speakers 
at the meeting was J. H. Brown, '87, 
superintendent of the Indian school 
at Phoenix. 



Wichita to attend a called meeting of 
the executive committee of the Kan- 
sas State Editorial association for 
the purpose of making arrangements 
for the next annual session of the 
association to be held in Wichita in 
mid-February. 



THIRTY YEARS AGO 
Jessie M. Hoover, '05, was profes- 
sor of home economics in the Agri- 
cultural College of North Dakota. 
She was also elected dean of women 
by the Board of Regents. 

Pres. H. J. Waters and Dr. J. T. 
Willard went to Chicago to attend the 
annual meeting of the American So- 
ciety of Animal Nutrition. President 
Waters was chairman of the commit- 1 
tee on experiments and a member of j 
several other committees. Doctor: 
Willard was registrar of elections. 

Supt. J. D. Rickman went to 



FORTY YEARS AGO 
Professors Hitchcock and Otis and 
Miss May Secrest were in Coffey 
county conducting farmers' institutes 
at Le Roy, Lebo and Agricola. 

President Nichols went to Ells- 
worth to confer with Hon. E. T. Fair- 
child, president of the Kansas Board 
of Regents, about College matters. 

T. W. Morse, '96, resigned his posi- 
tion with the Kansas Farmer to ac- 
cept one with the Livestock Indicator, 
Kansas City, as advertising solicitor. 



FIFTY YEARS AGO 
I. D. Gardiner, '84, was associated 
with the Alma News. 

S. C. Harner, '90, was teaching 



Here lately I begin to notice that 
my neighbors and I are beginning to 
grow grim and say, "Well, it's our 
war after all, and it's only a matter 
of time until we'll come out and ad- 
mit we're in it, anyhow. Why not — ?" 
There is where most of us stop, we're 
that scared— but day by day fewer 
are stopping with the "not." 

Do you suppose, Uncle Samuel, 
what was said about keeping us out 
of war has backfired and is shoving 
us in? Or is it our consciences, our 
sense of justice, the condition of 
things in Europe and Asia, or what 
the press, radio, screen and platform 
are pounding into us so relentlessly? 
Maybe we are doing a self-hypnosis, 
maybe the ominous urge for unity is y 
the natural oversoul getting us emo- 
tionally ready, maybe the proponents 
of financial prosperity at any cost 
see a silver lining for pocketbooks in 
the thing so many of us are begin- 
ning to suspect is inevitable. 

Uncle Samuel, don't you think your 
nephews and nieces need another 
warning about internal combustion 
propaganda, or whatever it is that 
has us so jittery? 

Your affectionate nephew, 
John Quivering Public 



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I 



AMONG THE 
ALUMNI 



Daniel F. Wickman, B. S. '92, has 
moved to 309 West Paramore, To- 
peka, from another address there. 

John F. Ross, Ag. '02, started the 
Amarillo Grain exchange in July, 
1920, and was chief inspector until 
June, 1931. He is now a federal grain 
inspector and lives at 323 A West 
Ninth avenue, Amarillo, Texas. He 
has three married daughters. 

B. D. Richardson, M. E. '06, re- 
cently sent a folder used in adver- 
tising of his manufacturing business, 
E. D. Richardson and Sons Manufac- 
turing company in Cawker City. 
Their products include cordwood saw 
frames, mandrels and other articles 
for the farm. 

Martin G. Smith, D. V. M. '08, and 
Grace (Streeter) Smith, D. S. '09, 
have moved from South Gates, Calif., 
to 1412 White avenue, Fresno, Calif. 



> 



Martha Eva (Linn) McKinstry, H. 
E. '12, wrote from Oyen, Alberta, 

C n nada: 

•I certainly enjoy The Industrial- 
ist, especially, 'Among the Alumni 
and 'Sunflowers'— but I like to see 
what the College folk are doing, too 
We are all well here, and have a real 
crop, the best since '28. Living on the 
farm as we do, with wheat our main- 
stay, we appreciate it. Our children 
are grown now, Harriet, 22, and Ed- 
ward, 15. - 

••Best wishes to all at K. S. C. ana 
the alumni scattered over the face 
of the earth." 

Amy (Gould) Irwin, H. E '15, 
writes that her husband, Don L. Ir- 
win f. s. '15, is superintendent of a 
government agricultural experiment 
station at Matanuska Alaska, and 
has been for the past six years. Their 
three children are Estella, 23, lna 
Belle, 20, and Donald, 10. 

Rose (Straka) Fowler, H. E. '18, 
her husband, William M. Fowler and 
their children, Glenn, 11, and Caro- 
lyn Anne, 8, live at Oak Park, 111. 
She writes: . 

"I still take an active part in tne 
business which I founded 20 years 
ago— the Chicago Dietetic Supply 
house We are manufacturers and 
distributors of 'Special Dietary 
Foods.' I had the opportunity -to rep- 
resent our line of business before the 
Food and Drug administration m 
Washington, D. C. It was my Privi- 
lege to testify in the hearings which 
were being conducted on the labeling 
of foods which are used for special 
dietary purposes. 

••My husband is the president of 
our business concern, and, aside from 
our business activities, we try to do 
a good job of home making also We 
saw several of our schoolmates at the 
recent meeting of the American Die- 
tetic association in New YorK. 



M 



Donald MacGregor, B. S. 19, » 
treasurer and general manager of the 
Webster-Chicago corporation. tie 
writes that he is director of 1,200 em- 
ployees who manufacture automatic 
record changers, phone motors, pub- 
lie address systems, outer-office com- 
municating systems, tools, dies and 
stampings. The MacGregors have 
three sons, Donald, 11, Robert, 8 
and Bruce, 6. Their home is at 3Z1 
North Central avenue, Chicago. 

Emmett S. Bacon, D. V. M '20 is 
a veterinarian with the United States 
Department of Agriculture. On Oc- 
tober 8 he was transferred from Wich- 
ita to 144 North Arnaz drive, Bev- 
erly Hills, Calif. 

Marianne Muse, H. E. '21, M. S. 
•27 has requested that her address 
be changed to Green Hall, University 
of Chicago, Chicago, 111. She will do 
graduate work in family economics 
under Dr. Hazel Kyrk during the fall, 
winter and spring quarters. She is 
on leave of absence from the Vermont 
Experiment station, where she is in 
charge of research in home eco- 
nomics. 

Dr p C. Mangelsdorf, Ag. 21, M. 
a '23 is now professor of economic 
botany and assistant director of the 
Botanical museum at Harvard uni- 
versity Upon accepting that position 
he resigned as vice-director and 
agronomist of the Texas Agricultural 
Experiment station. He has been in 
charge of small grain experiments in 
Texas since January, 1927, and his 
work in developing new and better 
varieties of cereals for the Southwest 
has made him one of the outstanding 



men of this field in the world. Under 
his leadership, 14 new varieties of 
corn, wheat, oats and barley, better 
adapted for the Southwest, have been 
developed. 

P. J. Phillips, E. E. '22, is now 
with the ordnance proving ground, 
Aberdeen, Md. Previously he was an 
instructor at the Oklahoma A. and M. 
college, Stillwater. 

Beginning teaching work in Jud- 
son college at Marion, Ala., is H. 
Eloise Monroe, H. E. '24. She has 
taught in Northeast State Teachers 
college, Tahlequah, Okla., and at Sul- 
lins college, Bristol, Va. 

Harold C. Elder, Ag. E. '25, M. S. 
■30, teaches sciences in Highland 
Park high school at Topeka. He and 
his wife, Bernice (Schumacker) 
Elder, have one daughter, Marie 
Louise, 5. 

Martha Elizabeth (Foster) Leon- 
ard, M. S. '26, teaches science to 
freshman and sophomore classes at 
the Webster high school, Tulsa, Okla. 
She is one of the sophomore class 
sponsors and is leader of the Web- 
ster Star Girl Scout troop. 

Maurice Edwin Osborn, Ag. '27, ■ 
and Lois (Grasty) Osborn, f. s. '27, 
are at Hanston. Mr. Osborn writes 
that he is "farming with my father. 
About half this acreage is in grass 
and restoration land." They have 
three children, Eldon, 10, Patricia, 
6, and Vivian, 1. 

Sherman S. Hoar, Ag. '28, and 
Lydia (Hommon) Hoar, f. s. '28, are 
at 416 Park, Sterling, Colo. They 
have three children, George Sidney, 
9, Vernice Louise, 5, and Rita Mae, 3. 
Mr. Hoar is county extension agent 
for Logan county, Colo. 

K. E. Rector, C. E. '29, and Maria 
(Samuel) Rector, '29, can be ad- 
dressed at Box 1511, Cristobal, Canal 
Zone. Mr. Rector is assistant engi- 
neer in the municipal engineering 
division of the department of opera- 
tion and maintenance of the Panama 
canal. The Rectors have two chil- 
dren, Joyce, 2, and Edwin, 7 months. 
Lois Oberhelman, H. E. '30, M. S. 
'3 8 is extension specialist in foods 
and nutrition at Purdue university, 
Lafayette, Ind. 

H. Oliver Dilsaver, f. s. '31, is a 
licensed embalmer in Kansas and 
Nebraska and a master funeral direc- 
tor in Kansas. He is vice-president 
of the Simmons-Rice Furniture and 
Undertaking company, Inc., which 
has stores in Kensington, Lebanon 
and Smith Center. He is located at 
113 South Jefferson street. Smith 
Center. 

Charles F. Ward, G. S. '33, is a 
mail distributor at the terminal rail- 
way post-office in Kansas City, Mo. 
His home is at 5648 Bales avenue. He 
[has two children, Pauline, 3%, and 
! Charlotte Ann, 6 months. 

Jonah Schreiner, G. S. '34, is em- 
ployed by the Derby Oil company at 
Wichita. His home is at 1207 West 
Franklin, Wichita. 

Ralph D. Shipp, Ag. '35, is director 
of agricultural activities at the Pine 
Ridge Indian school, Pine Ridge, 
S. D. 

Paul H. Nelson, Ag. '36, wrote that 
he has moved to 807 Kansas, Ells- 
worth. Madeline (Ferris) Nelson, H. 
E '36, and he were in Phillipsburg, 
where he was county agent from 
graduation in 1936 until November 
5, when they moved to Ellsworth 
after his appointment as county agent 
there. The couple have a boy, Arlyn 
(iene, 15 months old. 

Mary Elizabeth Rust, H. E. '37, is 
attending school at the University of 
Tennessee. Her address is 1816 West 
Clinch, Knoxville. 

Beulah Nelson, H. E. & N. '39, has 
completed her interneship as dieti- 
tian in the hospitals of Portland, 
Ore and has accepted a position as 
assistant dietitian in St. Vincent's 
' hospital, Los Angeles. 



LOOKING AROUND 



KENNEY L FORD 



Memphis Get-together 

Eleven alumni registered at a get- 
together with Kenney L. Ford at 
Memphis, Tenn., November 10. They 
discussed problems at Kansas State 
College and saw pictures of activities 
at the College. Those who attended 
the meeting included Dr. W. W. 
Fechner, '37, White Haven, Tenn., 
and these from Memphis, Tenn.: H. 
C Morton, '38; Dr. Jules L. Arnan- 
dez '25, and Lillian (Dearing) Ar- 
nandez; J. H. Tole, '24; Virginia 
King '39; Eric E. Matchette Jr., '36; 
R. H. Moran, '23; L. E. Baldwin, 
•21, and Elizabeth (Hargrave) Bald- 
win, '17. Mr. Baldwin made the ar- 
rangements for the meeting. 



Pittsburgh, Pa., Meeting 

Alumni from the region around 
Pittsburgh, Pa., met Tuesday, No- 
vember 5, to renew acquaintances! 
and to make new ones among Kansas 
State College graduates. 

Kenney L. Ford, alumni secretary, 
attended the meeting. He showed 
the group pictures of Kansas State 
scenes and activities. They listened 
to election returns. 

Those who registered at the meet- 
ing included William A. Nelson, '29, 
and Margaret (Adams) Nelson, '27, 
Clairton, Pa.; John E. Franz, '23, and 
Irene (McElroy) Franz, f. s. '16, 
Morgantown, W. Va.; R. D. Walker, 
'27, and Mrs. Walker, Wilkinsburg, 
Pa.; T. L. Weybrew, '24, and Mrs. 
Weybrew, Edgewood, Pa.; J. W. 
York, '36, and Mrs. York, Irwin, Pa.; 
E. H. Myers, '37, and Mrs. Myers, 
Wilkinsburg, Pa.; Owen G. Rogers, 
'29, and Grace (Daugherty) Rogers, 
| '29, Wilkinsburg, Pa.; W. D. Hem- 
> ker, '25; E. L. Blankenbeker, '27; L. 
|a. Tubbs, '17; N. G. Chilcott, '25; 
Dudley Atkins Jr., '13. 



Mantz, '30, Downs; Jake Chilcott, I 
'32, Ashland; Fred R. Schultis, '30, 
Great Bend; W. E. Stone, '23, Ba- 1 
zina; B. R. Petrie, '20, Syracuse; V. , 
E. Fletcher, '27, Grinnell; Ralph H. 
Eaton, '26, Alexander; Loren E. 
Whipps, '38, Goodland; H. H. Brown, j 
•28, Manhattan; R. E. Cleland, '22, 
St. Francis; J. R. Wood, '25, Trous- 
dale; Lucile Graham and Beryl No- 
land, undergraduates, Hill City; J. 
Oscar Brown, '20, and Irving Walker, 
f. s. '25, Wakeeney; H. N. Murray, 
f. s. '30, W. J. Yeoman, '93, and Mrs. 
Yeoman, La Crosse. 

Alumni whose homes are in Hays 
attending were Elgie Jones, '40, and 
Mrs. Jones; Marion W. Pearce, '33, 
and Mrs. Pearce; Lester J. Schmutz, 
•25, and Mrs. Schmutz; Ross Beach, 
'40; Leslie C. Nash, '39, and Mrs. 
Nash; Carl Heinrich, '29, and Mrs. 
Heinrich; R. L. Tweedy, '26, and 
Mrs. Tweedy; R. U. Brooks, '32, and 
Tina Mae (Bailey) Brooks, f. s.; G. I. 
Blair, '32, and lone (Strickland) 
Blair, '32; Mrs. Miriam Perry, f. s. 
•23; Lawrence Reed, '33; A. F. Swan- 
son, '19, and Mrs. Swanson; A. L. 
Hallsted, '03, and Mrs. Hallsted; 
Margaret H. Haggart, '05; Mary 
Meek, '37; Max Wann, '37, and Mar- 
jorie (Cooper) Wann, '38; H. B. 
| Lamer, f. s. '14; L. C. Aicher and 
Edith (Davis) Aicher, '05. 



RECENT HAPPENINGS 
ON THE HILL 



Yesterday morning the campus 
was covered with a light snow. May- 
be students will celebrate a white 
Thanksgiving yet this year. 

The campus Red Cross campaign 
Monday had 457 contributors and 
donations totaling $599, according to 
Kenney L. Ford, alumni secretary 
and director for the College. 



The Kansas State College band will 
attend the Kansas State-Nebraska 
football game at Lincoln Saturday. 
A special train will take the band and 
Kansas State College fans to the 
game. 



Herbie Kay, swing-band leader, 
and his band played in Nichols Gym- 
nasium Tuesday night in the first of 
a proposed series of Students Govern- 
ing association-sponsored "name 
band" varsities. 



MARRIAGES 

JOHNSTON— MATNEY 
The marriage of Ruth Johnston, M. 
Ed. '40, and Clayton Matney, M. E. 
•38, was August 2. The bridegroom 
is now associated with General Elec- 
tric in Schenectady, N. Y., where he 
and his bride will make their home. 



R. A. Seaton, dean of the Division 
of Engineering and Architecture, left 
Saturday for Washington, D. C, 
where he began his duties this week 
as national director of the engineer- 
ing training defense program. 



Columbia Alumni Activities 

Kansas State College alumni ac- 
tivities at Columbia, S. C, November 
9, included a luncheon, the football 
game between the University of South 
Carolina and Kansas State College 
and a dinner in the evening. Hobbs 
Adams, head football coach at the 
College, spoke to the group, and Ken- 
ney L. Ford, alumni secretary, 
showed motion pictures of Kansas I 
State activities. 

Those who were present besides j 
Coach Adams and Mr. Ford were G. j 
I. Johnson, Athens, Ga.; Riley E. I 
McGarraugh, '17, Hazel (Keil) Mc- 
Garraugh, '28, and Mania McGar- 1 
raugh, Decatur, Ga.; D. M. Howard, 
1 '20 and D. V. M. '35, and Mrs. How- [ 
ard, Augusta, Ga.; C. M. Barringer, 
! '23, Newton, N. C; Dr. J. E. Spring, 
•3 5, and Mary (Porter) Spring, f. s., 
Gastonia, N. C.I Dr. S. S. Fay, '05, 
Asheville, N. C; Ward H. Shurtz, 
•36, Fort Bragg, N. C; C. E. Hof- 
I mann, '40, and Catherine (Cook) 
Hofmann, f. s., Nashville, N. C. 

John T. Bregger and Myra (Pot- 
' ter) Bregger, '28, Clemson, S. C; N. 
C. Martin and L. J. Michael, '34, Fort 
Jackson, S. C; DeForest S. Hunger- 
ford, '10, and Ruth (Bennett) Hun- 
gerford, f. s., Spartanburg, S. C; 
W. H. Dieterich, '39; Frank Jordan, 
'39, and Gwen (Romine) Jordan, '40; 
Martha Engle, '26, Columbia, S. C. 

DeForest Hungerford planned the 
meetings. 



COLLINS— MYERS 
Elizabeth W. Collins, Edgewood, 
Pa., became the bride of E. H. Myers, 
E. E. '37, August 17. Mrs. Myers 
graduated in 1936 from the Carnegie 
Institute of Technology. Mr. Myers 
is a student engineer for Westing- 
house Electric and Manufacturing 
company at Wilkinsburg, Pa. 



Kansas State College students who 
have held Danforth scholarships to 
Miniwanca, American Youth Founda- 
tion camp in Michigan, have organ- 
ized a campus club, and will call 
themselves the Danforth fellows. 



CURTIS— NEEL 
The marriage of Pauline Bernice 
I Curtis, H. E. '38, to Charles H. Neel, 
I f. s. '38, was August 26 at the home 
of the bride's parents in Manhattan. 
Both Mr. and Mrs. Neel are graduates 
! of Manhattan high school. Mr. Neel 
S is connected with the meat depart- 
I ment of the Chastain stores in Man- 
hattan. 



Kansas State College students are 
dismissed from classes this afternoon 
and are heading for various points 
over the state to spend Thanksgiving 
vacation, which lasts officially from 
today noon to Saturday evening. 



The Thanksgiving issue of Kicka- 
poo, campus humor magazine, ap- 
peared on the campus yesterday. 
This magazine is fashioned after the 
New Yorker. Cartoons drawn by 
Peter Ruckman, Topeka, take the 
place of photographs. 



McCASLIN— COULTER 
Marjorie McCaslin, H. E. '40, and 
Carl Coulter, I. A. '40, were married 
August 8 by the Rev. W. U. Guerrant 
of the Presbyterian church, Manhat- 
tan. The bride is a member of the 
Alpha Delta Pi sorority. They live in 
Bartlesville, Okla., where Mr. Coulter 
is employed with the Cities Service 
Oil company. 



Social rights were restored to Sig- 
ma Nu fraternity at the close of a 
trial held Wednesday afternoon by a 
special committee appointed by the 
Faculty Council on Student Affairs. 
The privileges of the fraternity had 
been taken away last fall after an 
alleged infraction of the rush rules. 



A. O. Flinner, captain in the Coast 
Artillery reserve, has been granted 
leave of absence from his duties as 
assistant professor in the Department 
of Mechanical Engineering to become 
assistant professor of military science 
and tactics, effective November 5. 
The announcement was made from 
the office of Pres. F. D. Farrell after 
action by the State Board of RegentB. 



CHRISTMAS ? ? CHRISTMAS ? ? ? ? CHRISTMAS ? ? ? ? 
We HAVE solved the Christmas Gift problem— 

GIVE the Kansas Magazine 



DEATHS 

JOHNSON 

Earl H. Johnson, Ag. '32, died t 
Research hospital in Kansas City No- 
vember 6 after a brief illness. For 
the past two years, he had been in- 
structor of vocational agriculture at 
Effingham. He had previously taught 
at Moundridge and Greensburg. 

He is survived by his wife, two 
sons, two brothers, J. Harold, Ag. '27, 
and Kenneth E., Ag. '39, and his 
mother and father who live at Man- 
hattan. 

Burial was in Sunset cemetery in 
Manhattan. 



Hays Alumni Dinner 

L. C. Aicher, '10, wrote that the 
Kansas State alumni dinner at Hays 
November 1 was an excellent meeting. 
"We had a very nice crowd consist- 
ing of 57 and a youngster brought by 
Mr. Yeoman who is already planning 
l0 n being a 1951 graduate from Kan- 
' sas State," he wrote. "We had a nice 
; dinner and a splendid talk by Prof. 
W. C. Troutman. His address entitled 
'So Proudly We Hail' just hit the 
spot. Preceding Professor Trout- 
man's talk I took about 15 minutes 
to present the needs of the College, 
as presented to us at our alumni 
meeting the Friday evening preced- 
ing the K. U. -Kansas State game. We 
hope that this phase of the program 
will bear fruit when the various 
alumni present at our dinner here get 
back to their local communities." 

The graduates and former students 
who attended were Ormond Breeden, 
•40, Kismet; Lewis Sweat, '38, Spear- 
ville; Leroy E. Melia, '28, Coldwater; 
Kathryn Correll, '37, Norton; Ches- 
ter J. Ward, '36, Kinsley; Lester 
Chilson, '33, Oberlin; Frank R. Free- 
man, '32, Phillipsburg; Charles 



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COLLEGE AND TOWN JOIN 
IN NATIONAL ART WEEK 



Candidates for Honorary Colonel 



DOWNTOWN DISPLAY INCLUDES 60 
PIECES BY K A \SA \S 



Local Arrangements Committee Under 

Arthur Peine, Chairman, Includes 

Dean E. L. Holton, Professor* 

Helm and Lnshbrook 

Manhattan and Kansas State Col- 
lege are participating in the obser- 
vance of National Art fair week, 
which began Monday. An exhibit of 
60 pieces of art work is on display in 
the offices of the Manhattan Federal 
Savings and Loan association at 404 
Poyntz avenue. 

Announcement of the local obser- 
vance had been made by Arthur 
Peine, general chairman of local ar- 
rangements. Mr. Peine was asked by 
Bob Owthwaite, Topeka business 
man, to organize a Manhattan com- 
mittee to take charge of an art show 
here. 

DISPLAY 60 ART PIECES 

Mr. Owthwaite, state chairman for 
Kansas, collected several hundred 
pieces of art work from Kansas art- 
ists and selected more than 60 pieces 
for the Manhattan display. A large 
group of high-class art work was in- 
cluded in the exhibit for Manhattan, 
committee members said. 

Members of the Manhattan com- 
mittee assisting Mr. Peine with ar- 
rangements for the show are Dean 
E. L. Holton, chairman of the educa- 
tion and art committee of the Cham- 
ber of Commerce; Prof. John F. 
Helm, Jr., chairman of the art sub- 
committee of the Chamber of Com- 
merce; C. C. Brewer, Brewer Motor 
company; Richard Seaton, Seaton 
Publishing company; Mrs. M. W. 
Husband, president Manhattan 
branch A. A. U. W.; Ralph R. Lash- 
brook of the Junior Chamber of Com- 
merce; Mrs. H. K. Work, chairman 
art and travel group A. A. U. W.; 
and Mrs. W. L. French, instructor in 
art at the high school. 

MANY ATTEND EXHIBIT 

Committee members reported that 
the downtown display was attracting 
a number of students and faculty 
members as well as Manhattan resi- 
dents. 

♦ 

APPROXIMATELY 1,600 VISIT 
ANNUAL HORTICULTURE SHOW 




Wildcats Will Open Against Washburn 

Here December 0, and First Big 

Six Game Is Against 

Nebraska 

With the season's first game rapid- 
ly approaching, Coach Jack Gardner 
and his squad of 17 Kansas State Col- 
lege basketball players are busy at 
work brushing up on ball handling 
and goal shooting. 

A heavy graduation loss of six let- 
termen left Coach Gardner with only 
four lettered veterans from his 1939- 
40 squad, and the new sophomore 
crop is small. The returning "K" 
men are Chris Langvardt, Alta Vista, 
and Jack Horacek, Topeka, forwards; 
and Norris Holstrom, Topeka, and 
Kenney Graham, Framingham, Mass., 
guards. 

FOUR PROMISING SOPHOMORES 
Students in the Kansas State College Reserve Officers Training corps voted this week to select an Honorary A H th ,. t nf vpterana ar6 

cadet colonel and two cadet majors for the annual military ball on December 7 in Nichols Gymnasium Above Augmenting the list of veterans are 
are the three candidates. From left to right, the candidates are Shirley Karns, Coffey ville, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Dan Howe, a sophomore last season 
Jane Galbraith, Cottonwood Falls, Alpha Delta Pi, and Dorothy Green, Wichita, Pi Beta Phi. who was ineligible for competition 

last semester, and three sophomores 




JACK GARDNER SHAPING 
CAGE SQUAD FOR SEASON 



SEVENTEEN MEN OUT FOR POSTS 
ON BASKETBALL TEAM 



EVERYDAY ECONOMICS 

By W. E. GRIMES 



"The business man buys materials from other people, paying them now 
: waiting for the production processes in which he uses these 
terials to mature and the resulting goods to be ready for use." 



KANSAS STATE PREPARES 



Coach Hobbs Adams Hopes Team Will 

Re In Top Shape for Final Contest 

of Wis Six Season 

With Nebraska, one of the nation's 
but waiting for the production processes in which he uses these ma- footbaU ^^ Qn Saturday . s sched . 

ule, Kansas State's Wildcats made 
the most of the two weeks they had 
in which to prepare for the final game 
of the season at Lincoln. 

A two-day rest followed the Iowa 
State game. But last Wednesday the 
Wildcats again were hard at work, 
remembering that Kansas State has 
been known to give the Nebraska 
team some of its hardest battles. 

Coach Hobbs Adams voiced the 
hope that his squad would be in top 
shape for the final contest. The only 



The promise of two pieces of pie 
tomorrow may not induce the small 
boy to give up his one piece of pie 
today. He does not wish to wait. And 
all people have this same character- 
istic. Waiting is irksome and usually 
if one must wait, there must be a re- 
ward for waiting. This reward is 
interest. 

The business man takes advantage 
of this characteristic of men. He em- 
ploys labor, paying wages to the 
laborer, and waits for the product of 
labor to be ready to sell. The laborer 
has his wages even though the prod- 
uct he produces with his labor may 
not be ready for use in satisfying 
wants until a year or more has 
passed. The business man buys ma- 
terials from other people, paying 
them now but waiting for the pro- 



duction process in which he uses 
these materials to mature and the 
resulting goods to be ready for use. 

The business man is advancing 
funds which can be used to purchase 
goods and services for the immediate 
satisfaction of wants. He, in turn, 
waits and hopes to receive the reward 
for waiting. He does not always re- 
ceive this reward but he receives it 
frequently enough to induce him to 
keep trying. People often are willing 
to sell their labor or their goods when 
they are not in the form desired for 
immediate use. They do not want to 
wait, so they take less than their 
labor or goods ultimately will be 
worth. The business man takes ad- 



who are giving the oldsters a run for 
their positions. They are Larry Beau- 
F0R GAME WITH NEBRASKA m0 nt, El Dorado, and Tom Guy, Lib- 
erty, centers; and George Menden- 
hall, Belleville, guard. 

The coach will miss Joe Robertson 
and Frank Woolf, forwards; Ervin 
Reid, center; Melvin Seelye, Ernie 
Miller and D. S. Guerrant, guards — 
all lettermen of a year ago. 

The varsity cagers met the fresh- 
man team Tuesday before opening 
their season against Washburn col- 
lege at Manhattan December 6. 
OPEN AGAINST WASHBURN 

The schedule: 

Dec. 6 — Washburn at Manhattan. 

Deo. 10 — Washburn at Topeka. 

Dec. 11 — Donne college at Manhattan. 

Dec. 20 — Kentucky at Manhattan. 

Dec. 27 — Villanova college at Villanova, 

Pa. 
Dec. 28 — George Washington university 

at Washington, D. C. 
Dec. 30 — Seton Hall college at South 

Orange, N. J. 



Anple-bobblno; Context Won by Substi- 
tute IlepresentliiK Van Kile Hall, 
Dorothy Mayc ivnaiis 

Despite bad weather, the third an- 
nual Horticulture show, in conjunc- 
tion with the annual school for nurs- 
erymen last week-end drew approxi- 
mately 1,600 visitors. 

A highlight of the show was the 
apple-bobbing contest won by Doro- 
thy Maye Knaus, Van Zile hall coed 
from Neodesha, who substituted for 
Lou Stine from Glasco. Miss Knaus 
bobbed 12 apples in the first three- 
minute round to become College 
apple-bobbing champion. 

Marian Pfrimmer, Van Zile hall 
girl from Oberlin, won an overtime 
contest to break the tie for second 
place and Adaline Poole, Clovia mem- 
ber of Manhattan, was third. Flowers 
were given the winners. 

Displays of landscaping, floricul- 
ture, fruit, forestry and a 12-minute 
kodachrome show on landscaping 
hints attracted special attention. 
Floral displays showed proper ar- 
rangements for the home. Varieties 
of chrysanthemums obtained from a 
single cross attracted considerable 
interest. 

The fruit exhibit displayed apples 
from eight states as well as Kansas 
varieties. Citrus fruit from Texas 
and other fruits were shown. The 
frozen fruit and vegetable display on 
a rotating stand was arranged by 
Severo Cervera. 

S W. Decker, associate professor 

of horticulture, was faculty sponsor 

for the show, and George Cochran, 

Topeka, was student manager. 

♦ 

To Lay New Water Main 

G. R. Pauling, College superin- 
tendent of maintenance, reported the 
Department of Building and Repair 
will increase the size of the water 
main from the southeast corner of 
the Engineering Shops building to 
Kedzie hall. This will be done to ob- 
tain better distribution of water pres- 
sure on the campus. The replacement 
of four-inch pipes with six-inch pipes 
will cost approximately $1,300. The 
job will be started soon and its com- 
pletion will depend upon weather 
conditions. 



"Student Ambassador" to Speak 

Paul Moritz, "student ambassador" 
of the Student Christian movement, 
will speak on education in China at 
a student forum at 12:20 p. m. next 
Monday in Recreation Center and 
again at 7 p. m. in Recreation Center. 



exception is Gene Fair, who was lost 

early in the season when he suffered Jan. 2 -Illinois at Champaign. 

J Jan. 7 — Nebraska at Lincoln, 

a leg fracture. 

Cripples who are expected back in 
the lineup are Kent Duwe, hard- 
smashing quarterback; Frank Barn- 
hart, promising junior end, and 
• Charles Fairman, a senior guard. All 
are lettermen and regulars. 

Duwe has been out with a leg in- — ♦ 

jury since the first quarter of the MACKIE TELLS EXPERIENCE 
South Carolina game. Fairman has ^ REpuGEE FRQM E IJ R0 PE 



His reward is interest. 



LIVESTOCK JUDGING TEAM 

TO ATTEND INTERNATIONAL 



ENGINEERS' HONORARY PICKS 
23 NEW STUDENT MEMBERS 



Siu.mii Tail Initiation Will Begin Mon- 
day of Next Week 

Sigma Tau, honorary engineering 
organization, has announced the 
election of 23 new members to its 
group. Initiation will begin next 
Monday. 

Those elected were: 

Bill Bixler, Emporia; Emory Bond, 
Burlingame; Dwight Brown, Os- 
borne; Roy Call, Manhattan; Harry 
Converse, Eskridge; James Cushing, 
Manhattan; Robert Dunlap, Liberal; 
William Fitzsimmons, Macksville; 
Thomas Haines, Manhattan; Leroy 
King, Hesston; Leo Leggitt, Russell; 
Kenneth Lewis, Arlington, Va.; Don- 
ald Moss, Miltonvale; Ray Murray, 
St. Marys; Don Musil, Manhattan; 
Don Neubauer, Manhattan; Ben Ol- 
son, Manhattan; Gordon O'Neill, 
Ransom; George Packer, Manhat- 
tan; Leland Porter, Dellvale; Robert 
Bchreiber, Garden City; Lawrence 
Spear, Mission, and Keith Witt, In- 
dependence. 



Six StndentN and Prof. F. W. 11.11 Will 
Leave Tomorrow for Chicago 

Members of the Kansas State Col- 
lege intercollegiate judging team 
will compete in the International 
Livestock contest in Chicago Novem- 
ber 30. The team will go to Lincoln, 
Neb., Monday for practice sessions 
at the University of Nebraska animal 
husbandry farm. They will leave 
Lincoln for Chicago Thursday. 

Teams from approximately 30 
other colleges in the United States 
and Canada will compete in the judg- 
ing contest. The Kansas State team 
placed first in the contest in 193 8 and 
second last year. 

Team members include HoBart 
Frederick, Burrton; Boyd McCune, 
Stafford; Warren Rhodes, Silver 
Lake; Eugene Watson, Peck; Stanley 
Winter, Dresden, and Mack Yenzer, 
Saffordville. Prof. F. W. Bell, coach, 
will accompany the team. 



Jan. 11 — Oklahoma at Manhattan. 
Jan. 17 — Nebraska at Manhattan. 
Jan. 20 — Kansas at Manhattan. 
Jan. 31 — Oklahoma at Norman. 
Feb. 6 — Missouri at Manhattan. 
Feb. 10 — Iowa State college at Manhat- 
tan. 
Feb. 17 — Missouri at Columbia. 
Feb. 25 — Kansas at Lawrence. 
Mar. 1 — Iowa State college at Ames. 



Fairman has 
been inactive since the University of : 
Kansas contest because of a bad 
ankle, and Barnhart has been out 
with a knee injury since the Wildcats 
played Oklahoma. 



COLLEGE PARTICIPATES 

(Continued from page one) 
has been a gradual rise in the average 
temperature and a decrease in the 
average rainfall in Kansas. The two 
factors have resulted in a large de- 
crease in runoff water. High temper- 
atures increase evaporation. Mr. 
Knapp estimated evaporation ac- 
counted for about 70 percent of the 
rainfall in Kansas. The remaining 30 
percent is used by crops or is repre- 
sented in runoff supplies. Because of 
the decrease in runoff he urged that 
ponds be deep enough to hold large 



General Seeretnry of World's Student 

Christian Federation Speaks nt 

Collejse Assembly 

The Rev. Robert C. Mackie, gen- 
eral secretary of the World's Student 
Christian federation, related his ex- 
periences as a refugee from Switzer- 
land to the United States through 
war-torn France and Spain, before 
a College assembly Tuesday morning. 

Mr. Mackie told of the orderliness 
of the German troops in the occupied 
French town in which he was 
stranded and of the sudden anti- 
British sentiment that arose when 
the people first heard of the attack 
on the French navy at Oran. 

The speaker told students that the 
struggle in Europe was not so much a 
political struggle as an assault upon 
belief in God. He pointed out that 
the trying times in France, for ex- 



amounts of water and thus withstand 

evaporation through hot, dry periods, ample, were showing what individu 



EXTENSION WORKER GIVES 

CHRISTMAS GIFT ADVICE 



Gladys Myers Suggests Timely Presents 
for Town mid Country Women 

With Christinas only a few weeks 
away, what gifts to give is a problem 
uppermost in many minds, so Gladys 
Myers, extension service specialist in 
home management, offers a few 
timely suggestions. 

For the sister in the city, a loaf 
of home-made bread, a dish of cot- 
tage cheese or a jar of jam or jelly 
in gay Christmas wrappings makes 
an attractive gift. 

For the sister in the country a gay 
apron, a dozen tea towels, a red 
geranium or a pot of "Joseph's coat" 
says "Merry Christmas" in a way 
that brings the giver with the gift. 



Students Receive Scholarship Awards 




Two Kansas State College students received the third annual Kansas 
City Board of Trade Journalism Scholarship awards. Shown above is Prof. 
R I Thackrey head of the Department of Industrial Journalism and Print- 
ing center, and this year's winners, Virgil Whitsitt, Phillipsburg, left, and 
John Tasker Jr., Caney, right. The winning students were chosen by the 
Phillips County Review and Coffeyville Journal, the newspapers selected 
to designate the students who were to be awarded the $100 scholarships 
at the College. 






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als could be counted upon. 

Mr. Mackie said that part of the 
tragedy of France was that her finest 
young men were in prison camps in 
Germany, French soldiers held by the 
Nazis. He said that so many prison- 
ers were held that in some communi- 
ties there were no young men left, 
only the aged, the women and chil- 
dren. 

He said that there were no stu- 
dents in colleges In all of Poland or 
what was formerly Czechoslovakia 
because the Nazis had closed such 
institutions. 

Mr. Mackie spoke at a special stu- 
dent forum Tuesday noon and again 
in Calvin hall at 4 p. m. 
♦- 
Adams Will Give Talks 

Hobbs Adams, head football coach, 
has a busy schedule of speaking en- 
gagements. His football banquet 
schedule for the first two weeks in 
December includes Cherryvale, De- 
cember 2; Neodesha, December 3; 
Junction City, December 4; Salina, 
December 5; Wellington, December 
9; Belleville, December 10; Concor- 
dia, December 11, and Goodland, De- 
cember 12. 



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HISTORICAL SOCIETY C 
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THE KANSAS INDUSTRIALIST 



Volume 67 



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Number 12 



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POULTRY JUDGING TEAM 
CAPTURES FIRST PLACE 

STUDENTS BETTER THOSE FROM 14 
SCHOOLS AT CHICAGO 



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Victory Given College Permanent Pos- 
MMlon of Cnp tor All Around Activi- 
ties and Temporary Possession 
of Challenge Trophy 

The Kansas State College poultry 
judging team ranked first among 15 
collegiate teams competing at the 
Midwestern Intercollegiate Poultry 
Judging contest in Chicago last 
month. The team, composed of Wil- 
liam Winner, Topeka; Ray Morrison, 
Lamed; Howard Carnahan, Parsons, 
with Wilbert Greer, Council Grove, 
as alternate, was coached by Dr. H. 
M. Scott of the Department of Poul- 
try Husbandry. . 

The three top teams and tneir 
scores were Kansas State, 3,940; 
Purdue, 3,886, and Illinois, 3,847. 
TEAM TAKES TWO FIRSTS 
The Kansas State team placed first 
in production judging, first in exhi- 
bition judging and eighth in judging 
market poultry products. 

Winner was high individual in the 
entire contest and Morrison placed 
seventh, while Carnahan placed 14th. 
Winner also was first in the exhibi- 
tion-judging division, and Winner, 
Morrison and Carnahan all tied foi 
third place in production judging. 

The team gained permanent pos- 
session of a cup for all around judg- 
ing together with two trophies foi 
placing high in production and ex- 
hibition judging. They also gained 
temporary possession of the laige 
Challenge trophy, having the name 
of Kansas State College engraved on 
it for the second time. Only one other 
team. Purdue, has had possession of 
the cup twice. 

WINNER GETS $80 
Winner won a cash award of $80, 
Ray Morrison, $10, and Howard Car- 
nahan, $5. Winner also received a 
gold and silver medal. Carnahan and 
Morrison each won electric clocks. 

Doctor Scott has coached 11 poul- 
try judging teams for Kansas State 
College and taken five first places. 
A student of Doctor Scott's, T. B. 
Avery is coaching the Illinois team 
which took first place last year and 
third place this year. 

In the crops judging contest, held 
November 30, the Kansas State team 
ranked second, with the University 
of Nebraska holding the top position. 
This team also ranked second at the 
contest held at Kansas City a week 
earlier Team members were Emer- 
son Cyphers, Fairview; Don Crum- 
baker, Onaga; Henry Smies, Court- 
land, and Lyman Singer, Parker, 
alternate. J. W. Zahnley, associate 
professor in the Department of 
Agronomy, coached the team, assisted 
by C. D. Davis, associate professor of 
agronomy. 

MEATS TEAM TIES FOR FIFTH 
The meats judging team coached 
by D L Mackintosh, associate pro- 
fessor in the Department of Animal 
Husbandry, tied with the University 
of Wisconsin for fifth place in the 
contest, held December 3. Team 
members from Kansas State included 
Oscar Norby, Pratt; Wendell Moyer, 
Manhattan; Friedrich Meenen, Clif- 
ton, and Bert Gardner, Carbondale, 
alternate. 

In the livestock Judging contest 
the College team placed 11th in com- 
petition with 30 other teams Live- 
stock judging teams coached by Prof. 
F W. Bell have placed consistently 
higher in the past, winning perma- 
nent possession of the bronze bowl 
trophy in 1938. Members of the live- 
stock team this year were Boyd Mc- 
Cune, Stafford: Warren Rhodes, 
McLouth; Eugene Watson, Peck; 
Stanley Winter, Dresden; Mack Yen- 
zer , Saffordville, and HoBart Freder- 
ick', alternate, of Burrton. 



Doctor Harman Honored 
Among the approximately 120 per- 
sons designated by the American 
Naturalist as distinguished contribu- 
tors since 1936, Dr. Mary T. Harman 
of the Department of Zoology is one 
of only three women. 




PROF. ELDEN V. JAMES 

DIES OF HEART DISEASE 

HISTORY TEACHER SUCCUMBS AT 
HIS HOME DECEMBER 1 



U E. CONRAD 



PROFESSOR CONRAD NAMED 
ACTING ENGINEERING DEAN 



Head of Department of Civil Engineer- 
ing I" Selected to Fill Dean 
Scnton'N Place 

Prof. L. E. Conrad, head of the 
Department of Civil Engineering, has 
been designated acting dean of the 
Division of Engineering and Archi- 
tecture during the leave of absence 
of Dean R. A. Seaton, who is directing 
the national engineering defense 
training program, according to a for- 
mal announcement from the office of . 
Pres. F. D. Farrell on November 30. 

Prof. F. F. Frazier, a member of 
the faculty since 1911, has been se- 
lected to serve as head of the Depart- I 
nient of Civil Engineering, while Pro- 
fessor Conrad is acting as dean. 
Charles W. Sullivan has been ap- 
pointed instructor in the Department 
of Civil Engineering for the period 
December 1 to May 31, 1941. 

Professor Conrad, who received his 
bachelor's degree from Cornell col- 
lege and his M. S. degree from Lehigh 
university, has been a member of the 
faculty since 1908. He became a de- 
partment head the following year, 
and in 1913 he was named civil en- 
gineer of the Engineering Experiment 

station. 

M R Wilson, associate professor 
in the Department of Shop Practice, 
has been granted leave of absence for 
the period December 1 to June 30, 
1941, to serve as a state supervisor 
in the national defense training pro- 
gram in Kansas high schools. Joyce 
Miller has been appointed in Profes- 
sor Wilson's position for the period 
of the leave. 

The State Board of Regents has 
approved the leave of Dean Seaton to 
accept the position of director of the 
$9 000,000 program under the Office 
of Education in Washington. It is 
for the period December 1 to June 

30, 1941. 

President Farrell's office also an- 
nounced that the status of Ralph F. 
Fearn, graduate assistant in mechani- 
cal engineering, has been changed to 
temporary full-time instructor, ef- 
fective February 1. 



Faculty Member, Who Had Been HI for 

Several Weeks, Plnnned Work In 

Current Events and 

Latin America 

Elden V. James, professor in the 
Department of History and Govern- 
ment at Kansas State College, died 
from heart disease on December 1 at 
his home. He had been ill for sev- 
eral weeks. 

Professor James came to Kansas 
State College in 1912 from high 
school work in Wichita. 

PLANNED CURRENT HISTORY 
During his 28 years at the College, 
Professor James specialized in the 
fields of English and Latin-American 
history. He pioneered in the fMd 
of Latin-American relations, ie^ :1- 
oping the first college course offc ed 
in the Middle West to a point of J igh 
popularity and great respect. He was 
responsible for planning the courses 
in current history- 
Professor James is survived by his 
widow and a daughter Frances, a 
junior in home economics and art at 
the College, 

Professor James was born at Cen- 
tral Station, W. Va., on January 27, 
1876. He received his bachelor of 
arts degree from Marietta college in 
1901 and another bachelor's degree 
from the University of Michigan in 
1905. He was granted a master of 
arts degree from Marietta college in 

1908. 

COLLEAGUES AS PALLBEARERS 

Active pallbearers at the funeral 
service on December 3 included I. 
Victor lies, Fred L. Parrish, Dwight 
Williams, A. Bower Sageser, all of 
the Department of History and Gov- 
ernment, H. W. Davis, head of the 
Department of English, and Cu.-I 
Kipp. Honorary pallbearers included 
Pres. F. D. Farrell, Dean R. W. Bab- 
cock of the Division of General Sci- 
ence, Assistant Dean C. M. Correll, 
Prof. R. R. Price, head of the De- 
partment of History and Government, 
Prof. M. F. Ahearn, director of ath- 
letics, and C. W. McCampbell, head 
of the Department of Animal Hus- 
bandry. Burial was in Sunset ceme- 
tery. 




KANSAS STATE COLLEGE 
OFFERS DEFENSE COURSES 

TRAINING IS PART OF NATIONAL 
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM 



Willis N. Kelly, above, who received 
his bachelor of science degree from the 
College in 1912, was recently appointed 
to the State Board of Regents by Gov. 
Payne H. Ratner. Mr. Kelly is mayor 
of Hutchinson. 



BLOCK AND BRIDLE CLUB 

WINS ACHIEVEMENT PLAQUE 



Ljuiigduhl Ties for Third as Outstand- 
ing Member In Nation 

Top honors and national recogni- 
tion went to the Kansas chapter of 
Block and Bridle club at the annual 
national convention in Chicago. 

The achievement plaque, offered 
by the National Block and Bridle 
club to the chapter having the out- 
standing record of activities and ac- 
complishments for the school year, 
was awarded to the Kansas State 
uonege cnapier. The yearbook and 
annual report of the chapter was sec- 
ond in competition with the reports 
of all the other clubs in the nation. 

William A. Ljungdahl, named the 
outstanding member of the Kansas 
chapter of Block and Bridle last year, 
tied for third place with Paul Fidler 
of Nebraska for the honor of being 
the outstanding Block and Bridle 
member in the nation. 



Cover for 1941 Kansas Magazine 

BO - ■ ■ ■ ■-*** ■ ^fc ci 




Engineering Instruction Expected to 

Begin Within Month with Both Men 

and Women Eligible for Wide 

Range of Work 

Prof. W. W. Carlson, head of the 
Department of Shop Practice and the 
College's representative for the na- 
tional program of engineering train- 
ing for defense, this week announced 
the names of courses being offered 
by the College in connection with the 
national defense program. 

Courses to be offered in coopera- 
tion with the national program in- 
clude aeronautical engineering, ma- 
terials inspection and testing, engi- 
neering drawing and tool engineer- 
ing. 

INSTRUCTION TO START SOON 
Instruction is expected to begin 
within a month. Application blanks 
will be sent to all who indicate an 
interest in the program, Professor 
Carlson said. Persons interested in 
taking this work should indicate the 
name of the course in which he is in- 
terested and mail his name and ad- 
dress to Professor Carlson, it was 

said. 

Professor Carlson is sending out 
approximately 6,000 post-card notices 
to former students of engineering at 
Kansas State College and is using 
other means to obtain the atten- 
tion of men who may be eligible to 
benefits made possible by the $9,000,- 
000 federal program of training men 
for defense industries. 

Courses to be made available at 
Kansas State College will be "inten- 
sive engineering courses of college 
grade designed to meet the shortage 
of engineers with specialized training 
... f. ,! *; .i * ^Rtlcnil' de 

in tl.u -• "" 

fense," Professor Carlson said. The 
term intensive means the student 
will be required to complete in 12 
weeks a course requiring 600 hours 
of class, laboratory and preparation 
work. The work must be of the same 
high standard always demanded of 
students taking regular engineering 
courses, it was reported. 

OPEN TO WOMEN 
Courses are open to women as well 
as to men. 

The cost of the program will be 
borne by the government, Professor 
Carlson said. This means that the 
students will not pay enrolment fees. 
They will be provided with all lab- 
oratory equipment, materials and 
supplies. Students will be required 
to pay their living expenses. 



MAC A Z I N £ 



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WHITE LEGHORN HEN SETS 

ALL-TIME LAYING RECORD 

Produces 318 Eggs In 305 Days at Col- 
lege Poultry Form 

A new all-time record for the Col- 
lege poultry farm of 318 eggs in 365 
days was established recently by a 
Single Comb White Leghorn hen at 
the Kansas State College poultry 
farm, according to Prof. L. F. Payne, 
head of the Department of Poultry 
Husbandry. . 

"The hen produced approximately 
10 times her weight in eggs in the 
one-year period," Professor Payne 
said, "and in several instances she 
laid' eggs on approximately 20 con- 
secutive days." 

The hen made the record in a flock 
of 100 hens being carried on a spe- 
cial feeding trial. 




Pictured above is a reproduction of the cover for the "41K.BJM ^maga- 
zine which goes on sale Saturday. The cover depicts a peaceful Kansas 
andsrape afthe foot of Coronado Heights, land mark near Ljn-.boy.J- 
drawn by Lloyd Foltz, Wichita artist. The gay Spanish colors of yellow and 
JeTare incorporated into the cover to mark the quartocentennial of the 
Spaniards' visit to the state. 



J. HOMER SHARPE, GRADUATE, 
HEADS HORTICULTURAL GROUP 

Annual Meeting In Knnsns City Is Ad- 
dressed by Numerous Faculty 
Members 

j Homer Sharpe, Kansas State 
College graduate, was elected presi- 
dent of the Kansas State Horticul- 
tural society at its 74th annual meet- 
ing in Kansas City last week. 

The 20th annual Kansas Potato 
show was in conjunction with the 
Horticultural society meeting. S. W. 
Decker, associate professor in the 
Department of Horticulture, gave a 
report on experimental work in irri- 
gation, varieties and fertilizers of the 

potato. 

O H. Elmer, associate professor 
in the Department of Botany and 
Plant Pathology, gave reports on in- 
vestigations in the diseases of the 
Irish potato and the sweet potato. 
W. F. Pickett, head of the Horticul- 
ture department and retiring presi- 
dent of the Horticultural society, 
gave the opening address to the fruit 
growers' section. G. A. Filinger, as- 
sociate professor of horticulture, dis- 
cussed "Preserving Small Fruits by 
Freezing" and "The Preharvest Drop 
of Apples." 

Other speakers during the meeting 
were George Dean, professor in the 
Department of Entomology; R. J. 
Barnett, professor of horticulture; L. 
E. Melchers, head of the Botany and 
Plant Pathology department; L. R. 
Quinlan, professor of horticulture. 






— I 



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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1940 



. OUR CHANGING AGUICUI.TIRE 

A decade ago Arthur M. Hyde, 
then secretary of agriculture, was 
quoted as saying that in agriculture 
there is "a disconcerting continuity." 
Presumably he had in mind the fact 
that, notwithstanding tremendous 
difficulties and vicissitudes, agricul- 
ture keeps going. A field of corn on 
a moist summer day or a herd of 
cattle "knee deep in June" on a blue- 
stem pasture pays no heed to world 
affairs that try men's souls and 
threaten civilization. It keeps on 
about its business. To us human be- 
ings with our emotions, our hopes 
and fears, our jitters, this stubborn 
continuity in agriculture may well he 
disconcerting, as well as reassuring. 
But agriculture is never static. 
Though changes in farming usually 
take place slowly, they occur with 
what to some may be "disconcerting 
• continuity." Prom year to year they 
may seem inconsiderable but from 
decade to decade they are marked 
and significant. The November, 
1940, issue of "The Agricultural 
Situation," a publication of the 
United States Department of Agricul- 
ture, reveals some impressive changes 
that have occurred since 1870 in the 
percentage contribution of certain 
farm products to total gross farm in- 
come, and thus indicates some major 
shifts of emphasis in our agriculture 
during the past seven decades. 

In the five years, 1869-73, wheat 
contributed 11.2 percent of the gross 
farm income. It now contributes only 
5 7 percent. There has been a decline 
Of almost one-half in the relative 
economic importance of the wheat 
crop. In the 70 years the percentage 
contributed by hogs declined from 
20.3 to 12.3 and cotton fell from 12.6 
to 10.4. On the other hand, tobacco 
rose from 1.4 to 3.3, an increase of 
more than 100 percent in relative 
importance, dairy products rose from 
10.2 to 16.9 and fruits from 1.9 to 
4.9. The rise of dairy products and 
fruits doubtless resulted, in large 
part from Increased popular interest 
in human nutrition and improved 
methods of production, storage, trans- 
portation and processing. Emphasis 
on cattle remained steady, the per- 
centage' figures changing only from 
9.6 to 9.7. 

In 1S5X Emerson spoke admiringly 
and truthfully of the farmer as "a 
slow man. timed to Nature and not 
to city watches." In seeking adjust- 
ments to the ever-changing forces 
that affect his life and his livelihood. 
the farmer over long periods makes 
vast changes in his business. Neces- , 
sarily and fortunately— he changes 
slowly, but he does not stand still. 
♦ 

BOOKS 

Thomas Wolfe's hast Novel 
,.,-,,. can'l Oo Home Again." By 
Thnnil's Wolfe. Harper'* Company. 
New York. 1940. 

This book, the last novel of the 
late Thomas Wolfe, carries on the 
story of George Webber. This story 
Of a man and a family was begun in 
"Look Homeward, Angel," and was 
continued in "Of Time and the River 

and "The Web and the Rock. 

As usual, there is not much plot, 
bnt plot has never been important m 
Wolfe's novels. It's what he says that 
matters. 

The outstanding characteristic of 



this book is its maturity. There is 
less of the fury, confusion, frustra- 
tion and bitterness noticeable in his 
other novels. The capacity for self- 
torture is less evident. The beautiful 
writing, the same free and bounding 
humor and the mysticism are there. 

As with every Wolfe book, this 
one swarms with ideas. It is as teem- 
ing with thoughts as was his own 
vital personality. 

It is difficult to say what is in the 
book because practically everything 
is. Some motifs are repeated, how- 
ever, time after time: the loneliness 
of man; the web of life; the fascina- 
tion of the night and of great trains; 
his identification with the "disinher- 
ited of the world;" his love of the 
great earth; his faith in mankind; 
his belief that writing must be 
"made, as all honest fiction must be, 
from the stuff of human life" — "And 
if the artist is not first and foremost 
a living man — and by this I mean a 
man of life, a man who belongs to 
life, who is connected with it so in- 
timately that he draws his strength 
from it — then what manner of man 
is he?" 

The book derives its title — "You 
Can't Go Home Again" — from Wolfe's 
feeling that America has come to the 
end of one social and economic pat- 
tern, and to the beginning of an- 
other. And for himself, he realizes 
that he can no longer be wholly con- 
cerned with his own personal prob- 
lems; he is now identified with the 
larger destinies of all mankind. There 
is no return — either for America as 
a nation, or for Wolfe as an indi- 
vidual. 

Wolfe feels that he has won 
through to a faith and a credo: 

"Man was born to live, to suffer, 
and to die, and what befalls him is. 
a tragic lot. There is no denying this 
in the final end. But we must . . . 
deny it all along the way. Mankind 
was fashioned for eternity, but Man- 
Alive was fashioned for a day. 

"There came to him an image of 
mans whole life upon the earth. It 
seemed to him that all man's life was 
like a tiny spurt of flame that blazed 
out briefly in an illimitable and ter- 
rifying darkness, and that all man's 
grandeur, tragic dignity, his heroic 
glory, came from the brevity and 
smallness of this flame. New evils 
will come after him, but it is with 
the present evils that he is now con- 
cerned. And the essence of all faith, 
it seems to me, for such a man as I, 
the essence of religion for people of 
my belief, is that man's life can be, 
and will be, better; that man's great- 
est enemies, in the forms in which 
they now exist — the forms we see on 
every hand of fear, hatred, slavery, 
cruelty, poverty, and need — can be 
conquered and destroyed. But to 
conquer and destroy them will mean 
nothing less than the complete revi- 
sion of the structure of society as we 
know it." 

In this, his best book, as in his 
others, Wolfe has again caught the 
beauty, and mystery, and tragedy of 
life — and that is why he is a great 
writer. — G. Lockhart. 



SCIENCE TODAY 



He was a member of the firm of Bird 
and Pope. 



By JOHN M. FERGUSON 

Extension Specialist 
in Farm Machinery 



Mrs Gertrude Lockhart, Manhattan, 
i I '84 is currently taking graduate 
work In the Department of English. She 
was born and reared in Junction City 
and is the wif<> of Charles Lockhart, In- 
structor in the Department of Zoology. 



The problem facing the Kansas 
farmer at all times is to produce as 
efficiently, as unfailingly and as easily 
as possible. The business of the farm 
equipment industry is to improve the 
farmer's ability to do that by provid- 
ing him with adequate power and 
satisfactory farm machinery. 

In recent years, striking advances 
have been made in the use of farm 
machinery. Reasons for these ad- 
vances are many. Competition within 
their own areas and with other sec- 
tions of the country led many farm- 
ers to use machines. Some bought 
equipment to keep sons on the farm. 
Borrowing and going into debt was 
easy. Some sought a release from 
routine. For some, machinery meant 
independence from hired labor, an 
attempt to lower production costs, in- 
creased efficiency and greater mar- 
ketable production. Others thought 
of labor-saving machinery primarily 
in terms of shorter hours and release 
from physical labor of the most wear- 
ing kind. 

Any farmer who has walked 15 
miles a day in the furrow, wrestling 
every foot of the way to keep the plow 
on a true course, knows what the 
tractor and plow really mean. Any- 
one who has ever plodded through a 
corn field in freezing fall weather, 
husking by hand, knows what a bless- 
ing the mechanical corn picker is 
in terms of labor saving. 

This kind of labor saving has small 
effect on employment. Its main effect 
is in shortening the working day for 
the family group— father, mother 
and children — and making the group 
work more efficient, more pleasant 
and more profitable. 

For instance, with the machinery 
and power in common use in 1830, 
it took approximately 55.7 man-hours 
to raise and harvest an acre of wheat. 
! In the central winter wheat areas 
during 1900, the approximate time 
: to prepare land, seed, harvest with a 
hinder, shock, thresh and haul wheat 
' to the granary was 8.8 man-hours per 
acre. With the use of a tractor, trac- 
tor equipment and a 12-foot combine, 
the time for comparable work now 
has been reduced to approximately 
3.3 man-hours. 

Farming, as has been said many 
times, should be a way of life as well 
as a way of earning a living. Labor- 
saving machinery has contributed 
much to a more attractive way of liv- 
ing for the farm family, and it can 
contribute more. 

Prior to 1900, the principal ad- 
vance made in agricultural mechani- 
zation was the development of steel 
plows, threshing machines, grain 
drills, corn planters and grain bind- 
ers. Toward the latter part of the 
i century, considerable experimental 
! work was done with internal- 
I combustion engines, looking toward 
the development of the tractor. Be- 
tween 1900 and 1925, the tractor and 
the prairie type combine were devel- 
oped. Along with automobiles and 



DRAMA 



trucks, the tractor and combine | 
played a vital part in the mechaniza- 
tion of Kansas agriculture. It was 
also during this period that the corn 
picker was developed, and in 19 24 
the first successful row-crop tractor 
was introduced. 

Since 1925, much emphasis has 
been placed on building farm ma- 
chines to fit specific farm conditions. 
I Smaller tractors and combines and 
\ more flexible tillage and seeding 
j equipment have been developed and 
! a large percentage of all farm trac- 
tors and equipment is now on rubber 
\ tires. 

Another development concerns the 
materials of which machinery is ; 
made. In the past, many machines 
were about 90 percent casting, either 
cast iron or malleable iron, with little 
steel used. At present, a shift is 
noted to the use of steel. In a number 
of machines now on the market, only 
about 10 percent is casting, while the 
1 remainder is steel. A greater use of 
: steel is probable in the future; it not 
only makes for lighter equipment, 
but produces a stronger machine. 
Better design, better welding, better 
bearing construction and the use of 
' better lubricants all have aided in 
the development of farm machinery. 
Much has been written in recent 
1 years in condemnation of mechanical 
i power and machinery and their effect 
upon American agriculture. It has 
\ been claimed that the purchase of too 
much farm machinery has been the 
cause of the poor financial condition 
of many farmers. Also it is said that 
the great change from animal power 
to tractors, trucks and automobiles 
during the past 25 years has been 
mainly responsible for the creation of 
the troublesome surplus of farm 
products. It has been strongly inti- 
mated, if not actually claimed, that 
could we but return to the good old 
days of hand production, our troubles 
would be over. 

The confusion in the minds of peo- 
ple regarding the mechanization of 
agriculture shows that the develop- 
ments in machinery have been too 
recent to permit accurate evaluation. 
When the history of the agriculture 
of this country is written with a 
proper perspective, the great increase 
in the use of machinery and power 
will, no doubt, be seen as one of the 
vital influences. Although there is 
evidence to show that many of our 
modern farm machines were con- 
ceived, if not actually constructed 
and used, many centuries ago, they 
never came into general use because 
manufacturing was not developed 
and the farmer did not have the abili- 
ty to pay for such machines. 

Was it merely a matter of chance 
that the opening of a vast new coun- 
try to settlement, a country with 
broad, level acres of fertile, virgin 
soil, should coincide with the develop- 
ment of industry which was able to 
build machines for the farmer to 
buy? The industrial development 
and the mechanization of agriculture 
were partners and each depended 
upon the other. 



FIFTY YEARS AGO 
Professor Georgeson attended the 
meeting of the State Horticultural 
society held in Topeka, and spoke on 
pear culture in Japan. 

G. E. Hopper, '85, presented a 
paper before the State Sanitary com- 
mission. His subject was "The Water 
Supply of Manhattan." 



SIXTY YEARS AGO 

W. A. and Clarence Wood, sons of 
Regent Wood of Elmdale, visited the 
College. 

President Fairchild and Professor 
Popenoe attended the meeting of the 
State Horticultural society which 
was held in Wyandotte. 



!• 



KANSAS POETRY 

Robert Conover, Editor 



By Lttella Cliutll 

Kansas prairies 

Don their wintry clothes, 

Patches of white snows 

Cover vast black fields 

Fertile with winter wheat 

And rich foliage packed so neat. 

Hare trees glisten, 

Voices are heard without. Listen 

As winter's still seclusion 

Promises fruitful spring conclusion: 

Mrs. Luella Clewell, Wichita, Is a 
native of Minnesota. She taught 
school for four years in North Da- 
kota before coming to Wichita. She 
has had some of her work published 
and has had radio programs broad- 
cast. 



By H. TV. Davis 
I am more or less afflicted — now 
and then — by and with friends, op- 
pressively intellectual at times, who 
deplore my weakness for the cinema, 
the radio and certain current swing 
bands. 



They have a way of seeming pa- 
thetically disappointed because I go 
to picture shows ignored by the Sat- 
urday Review of Literature. They 
think it deplorable that I can listen 
to Bob Hope rattle for a half-hour, 
or that I enjoy Fred Waring or some 
other baton-wielder selling cigarettes 
to swing for 15 minutes. 

In spite of it all, however, I'm glad 
I was born whenever it was and 
happy that I'm living in the year of 
our Lord 1940. I wouldn't have 
missed the babyhood and the child- 
hood of the movies, the radio and the 
swing band for a million. It was so 
kind of Fate not to make of me a 
Miniver Cheevy. (You see, I'm at 
least intellectual enough to know 
that the late Edwin Arlington Robin- 
son once wrote a grand poem about a 
fellow who "sighed for what was not" 
and "wept that he was ever born" 
and "missed the medieval grace of 
iron clothing.") 



The Manhattan Theatre customers 
at the College Auditorium Friday and 
Saturday nights took to George Ber- 
nard Shaw's "Arms and the Man" 
with steadily increasing interest and 
delight. The poor "hearing" quali- 
ties of the College "playhouse," plus 
a too fast beginning tempo and a too 
unrelieved high pitch of voices right 
at the beginning made the start hard 
to get; but once into the comedy, 
everybody enjoyed everything, in- 
cluding the subtlest wise-cracks of 
the subtle Mr. Shaw. 

II. Miles Heberer, as "The Man" 
of the play, showed fine results of 
his own coaching and directing and 
gave a most even and enjoyable in- 
terpretation of the "chocolate sol- 
dier" role. His acting was easy and 
consistently unforced, although the 
play was set at a near-farce pace. 

Martha Baird, Manhattan, in the 
role of the not-always-waiting 
"Arms," also did most pleasing work, 
particularly after Mr. Shaw's line in 
the middle of the play permitted her 
to change occasionally from the high, 
super-romantic voice pitch assigned 
to the always agitated Raina. 

June Cox, Lyons, as Louka, the 
maid whose arms were just about as 
ready as Hitler's in 1939, and Joe 
Jagger, Minneapolis, as Nicola, who 
was consistently distrustful of love, 
both did a grand job of scrambling 



the romantic, Balkan mix-up of war 
and hearts. Dorolyn Johnsmeyer, 
Topeka. made a quite believable 
Catherine, mother of the distraught 
Raina. 

H. P. Bear, Abilene, as a Russian 
officer, Charles Jones. Lisbon, N. Y., 
as the irascible but honest Major 
Petkoff, and Max Gould, Broken Bow, 
Neb., as the always-under-fire Major 
Sergius Saranoff, all added to the 
melange that makes up "Arms and 
the Man," and added much. The play 
was thoroughly enjoyable. — H. W. D. 



San 



tura, veterinary department 
Domingo. 

John Calvin, '08, former professor 
of chemistry in the University of 
Nebraska, was chemist for the experi- 
ment station of the Dominican re- 
public. 



From the Files of The Industrialist 
TEN YEARS AOO 

O. W. Howe, '30, was on the agri- 
' cultural engineering staff of the Uni- 
versity of Minnesota. 

Pres. F. D. Farrell went to South 
Bend, Ind., to attend a meeting of 
the American Bankers association. 
He was a member of the association's 
agricultural commission, and ad- 
dressed the group on "The Competi- 
tion in the Wheat Industry." 



THIRTY YEARS AGO 
Col. J. G. Harbord, '86, in the 
United States army and assistant 
chief of the Philippine constabulary, 
visited the College. 

Pres. H. J. Waters and Profs. H. F. 

Roberts and A. M. TenEyck went to 

Omaha to attend the Missouri Valley 

^Corn exhibition. All three were on 

"the program for addresses. 



Folks who think everything Holly- 
wood produces is trash amuse me 
more than would be polite to say. 
They miss so much, and they never 
get the thrill (aye, the thrill) of 
realizing just how much the cinema 
has accomplished in the last 10 years. 
How favorably the cinema compares 
with higher education in that respect 
they wouldn't know. 

And they presume, being too hoity- 
toity to more than presume, that all 
entertainment programs on the radio 
are the merest drivel. They listen 
only to newscasts, commentators, 
weather prognostications and round 
tables, if you please, sir — and wheth- 
er or not you please. (And boy, do 
they get bamboozled and stuffed with 
propaganda.) They never seem to 
realize that millions of Americans are 
getting much finer entertainment by 
way of radio than any of us would 
have dreamed possible in 19 30 or 
1935 or 1938. 



TWENTY YEARS AGO 
Mary Cornelia Lee, '89, was elected 
president of the Kansas Librarians 
association at its meeting in Salina. 

Dr. Frank Hare, '20, accepted a 
position in the Colegio de Agricul- 



FOUTY YEARS AGO 
H. E. Moore, '91, was conducting 
an implement business in Kingfisher, 
Okla. 

Prof. J. T. Willard attended the 
first annual meeting of the Johns 
Hopkins Club of the Middle West at 
Kansas City. The club was formed 
by members from Kansas, Missouri, 
Iowa, Nebraska and Arkansas. 

Frank Yeoman, '98, was practicing 
law in Kansas City with the firm of 
Irish, Brock and Smith. H. G. Pope, 
'94, who was graduated from the 
University of Kansas law school, also 
was practicing law in Kansas City. 



My serious friends refuse, too, to 
see the democracy and the possibili- 
ties in orchestral organizations in 
which every fellow, from piccoloist to 
bull fiddler, has his chance — and 
takes it. One would think they want 
to go back to the time three-fourths 
of the orchestra never got in on the 
down beat, and when bull fiddlers 
had to be morons before they would 
even consider the job. 



Gee! I'm glad I'm living today, 
even with the Nazis monkey-wrench- 
ing the works to smithereens. It's 
the one thing I forgot to be thankful 
for on November 21 and 28. Forgive 
me, please. 



_ 



AMONG THE 
ALUMNI 



Marietta (Smith) Reed, B. S. '95, 
writes that her daughter, Harriet 
(Reed) Parsons, G. S. '34, with her 
husband, Frank G. Parsons, Ag. '35, 
who live at Davis, Calif., entertained 
lone (Clothier) McNay, '36, during 
her vacation this fall. The three 
went on a 10-day camping trip in 
the California Redwoods. Mrs. Mc- 
Nay is a reporter for the Ames Trib- 
une and is doing graduate work at 
Iowa State college at Ames. 

A visitor on the campus during 
November was C. A. Gingery, B. S. 
'02. Mr. Gingery is a rancher in 
Glendale, Ariz. His children are 
Laura and Ben. 

W. N. Birch, Agron. '04, is an oil 
worker for the Union Oil company in 
California. His home is at 409 Citrus 
avenue, Whittier, Calif. 

Walter T. Scholz, B. S. '07, and 
Nealie (Harbaugh) Scholz, f. s. '13, 
are now at 5fi23 Walnut street, Kan- 
sas City, Kan. They had been at 
Weslaco, Texas. 

Nellie (Lindsay) Clark, B. S. '12, 
is a housewife at Kingman, Ariz. She 
writes, "I have two daughters that 
attend the University of Arizona. My 
husband is a stockman and is inter- 
ested in mining. I was county school 
superintendent here for four years 
and enjoyed the work very much. We 
have the best schools in the West." 

Roy Elmer Gwin, B. S. '14, is farm- 
ing at Leoti. His son, Roy, is a junior 
in agriculture, and his daughter, 
Ruth, is a freshman in home eco- 
nomics and dietetics at Kansas State 
College. 



sweet gum, black haw and oak, in ad- 
dition to acres of pines. 

"Many people think our college has 
the most beautiful campus in the 
state — the college buildings are in a 
pine forest. If you could find your 
way down into the Piney Woods of 
East Texas, I should be so happy to 
have you and any other K. S. C. 
alumni, visit me. Miss Brooks and 
I would show you some scenery 'what 
am scenery'." 



LOOKING AROUND 

KENNEY L FORD 



Frances (Hildebrand) Fell, '17, 
writes that her husband, Shelby G. 
Fell, '15, was elected mayor of West- 
field, N. J. 

"He won by a large majority, 7,369 
against his Democratic candidate's 
1 8 51," Mrs. Fell reported. "He will 
take office January 1. We have lived 
in Westfield more than 18 years. Our 
oldest son is a senior in Georgia In- 
stitute of Technology at Atlanta. Our 
daughter is a junior at Middlebury 
college. Vermont. Our youngest son 
is in the eighth grade in Westfield 
schools. 

"Shelby is employed by Western 
Electric company at Kearny, N. J. 
Since the mayor's job pays the huge 
sum of $1 per year, you can well 
see it is a 'full-time, spare-time job' 

with little pay. lots of work and 

much honor." 



Chester A. Herrick, B. S. '21, M. 
S. '23, and Elva (Mall) Herrick, '18, 
are at 314 Virginia terrace, Madison, 
Wis. They have two children, Ray- 
mond, 14, Alberna Mae, 10. Mr. Her- 
rick is a teacher of and does research 
work in parasitology in the Depart- 
ments of Zoology and Veterinary 
Science at the University of Wiscon- 
sin, Madison. 

Charles L. .lobe, E. E. '23, is plan- 
ning engineer for the Oklahoma Gas j 
and Electric company at Oklahoma 
City. His son, Charles L. Jr., is 4 j 
years old. 

L. K. Lancaster, C. '23, and Laura 
(Hart) Lancaster, M. '30, are at Junc- 
tion City. Mr. Lancaster is a partner 
and manager of the Western Auto 
Supply company. 

Marshall K. Hoag, R. C. '26, has 
a private law practice at Pleasanton. 
His office is in the First National 
Bank building at Pleasanton. 

Clarence Elmer Morlan, M. E. '27, 
is production superintendent for War- 
ner-Quinlan Oil company, Crane. 
Texas. He and his family live at 
Odessa, Texas. Gordon Elliott Mor- 
lan is 4, and Donald William is 4 
months old. 

Roy W. Jones, M. S. '28, is dean 
of the Central State college at Ed- 
mond, Okla. He is a professor of 
biology at the college. His only son, 
Neil Winfield Jones, is 2 years old. 

Helen M. Wilmore, H. E. '29, M. 
S. '3 7, is home economics teacher 
and supervisor at the Manhattan se- 
nior high school. Her residence ad- 
dress is 2 21 South Eighth, Manhat- 
tan. 

Leonard M. Pike, Ag. '30, teaches 
vocational agriculture in Miltonvale 
high school. He spent last summer 
in Manhattan working on his mas- 
ter's degree from Kansas State Col- 
lege. 

Mildred (Sederlin) McLaurin, G. S. 
'31, writes that she is thoroughly en- 
joying the reading of the history of 
Kansas State College. Her mailing 
address has been changed to 17 519 
Melrose avenue, Route 1, Detroit, 
Mich. 



Little Rock, Ark., Meeting 

Kansas State College alumni in 
Little Rock, Ark., met November 12 
at the Hotel Marion, Little Rock. 
The meeting was arranged by Olive 
(Hering) Nelson, '24. 

Kenney Ford, alumni secretary, 
showed motion pictures of Kansas 
State College activities. 

Those who registered at the meet- 
ing included Eugene F. Nelson, f. s. 
'23; Henry J. Schwartz, '32, Mrs. 
Schwartz and their daughter, Re- 
gina; H. Myers Duphorne, '21, and 
Cleo (Roderick) Duphorne, '20; 
Gladys Roderick, f. s. '22; Bernice 
(Gilkerson) McDonald, f. s. '25; 
George Corbet, '24; James A. Stew- 
art, '29, and Mrs. Stewart; E. A. 
Cooper, '34, and Doris (Jaedicke) 
Cooper, '34; Mrs. Nelson, and Mr. 
! Ford. 



James Harold, born October 8 at 
Scott City. 



Frances (Loomis) Payer, f. s., and 
V. Eugene Payer, Ag. '39, are the par- 
ents of a daughter, Cheryl Ann, born 
August 16. Mr. Payer is assistant 
county agent at Effingham. 



RECENT HAPPENINGS 
ON THE HILL 



Louise (Child) Spence, '30, wrote 
of the birth of a daughter, Willa 
Louise, July 17. Her husband is Wil- 
lard M. Spence, who is a minister of 
the Grandview Community church in 
Denver. 



Dr. Howard T. Hill, head of the 
Department of Public Speaking, 
spoke at the first public program 
sponsored by Democracy's Volunteers 
last week. Doctor Hill advocated ed- 
ucation in all forms of governments, 
including dictatorships. 



To Max F. Rogers, C. E. '39, and 
Dorothy (Wealand) Rogers, a daugh- 
ter, Roberta Lou, was born July 7. 
The Rogers are at Jackson, Ala. Mr. 
Rogers is working with the Sun Oil 
company of Beaumont, Texas. 



Contracts for the covers and litho- 
graphing for the Royal Purple have 
been let, according to Don Makins, 
Abilene, yearbook editor. Most of 
the organization and more than half 
of the individual class pictures have 
been taken for the book. 



Lola May Chaffee. B. S. '18, teaches 
biology in the Compton junior col- 
lege at Compton, Calif. Her address 
in Compton is 120 Myrrh street. 



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Edna Wilkin, H. E. '20. is head of 
the home economics department at 
the Stephen F. Austin State Teachers 
college at Nacogdoches. Texas. She 

writes: 

"I was in college when World War 
No. 1 was declared, and later saw 
barracks go up on our campus, all 
Ibe grass worn off on the parade 
ground below the Auditorium and 
Gym— and most of the boys in R. O. 
T. C, or PunStOU. Prices for rooms 
went sky-high because of the greal 
demand. 1 hope nil that page of his- 
tory does not repeal itself. Young 
men found it difficult to settle down 
lo elasswork when they were released 
from camp, and it was even more dif- 
, i( .„ll | ()r them to fit into lucrative 

jobs. 

"I think we are fortunate to have 
a history written by Doctor Willard. 
He has practically given bis life to 
us and no one could know better than 
he our weaknesses as well as our 
triumphs. For awhile, when my sis- 
ter and I were in college, we lived 
at 1610 Poyntz. so I've tagged along 
'behind Doctor Willard a number of 
times on my way to the campus. 

"Miss Josephine Brooks, II. B. '26, 
and I represent Kansas State here at 
our college We have had other rep- 
resentatives in the persons of Mar- 
TO erite Chaffln, H. B. '31, and Mrs. 
jo (Lister) llansing. M. 8. '37. who 
have directed our nursery school in 
I he summer school. Miss Brooks 
teaches foods and nutrition. I teach 
lextiles and clothing and head the 
department of home economics. 

••Once in a great while another 
AuKie will visit us. Dean Justin came 
la*! year on an A. A. U. W. tour. 
Mary Anna (Mamie) Grimes. H. E. 
'20 M. S. '27, comes over from Col- 
lege Station once every two years to 
see our gorgeous autumn leaves — 



E. J. Underwood, C. E. '32, writes 
that he married Edith Ebbutt. Junc- 
tion City, on September 2. They 
went on a short honeymoon to Colo- 
rado and are living at Mankato, 
where he is employed by the Kansas 
Highway commission. 

Aileen Rundle, H. E. '33, is teach- 
ing in Phoenix Union high school, 
Phoenix. Ariz. Her work is with 
classes in human relations and other 
home economics phases. There are 
eight teachers in the department 
with a high school faculty of 125. 

Harrison A. Miller, E. E. '34, is 
an installer for the Mountain States 
Telephone company. His home is at 
431 Park street, Sterling, Colo. 

Harold P. Walker. Ag. '35, and 
Cheryl (Lassey) Walker, f. s. '3 2, 
are at 608 Locust. Anaconda, Mont. 
Mr. Walker is working in the office 
of the Anaconda Sales company, fer- 
tilizer department. 

Edward A. Murphy. D. V. M. '36, 
and Louise (Ratliff) Murphy, I. J. 
:',(;. have a daughter, Patricia Jo, 
2V 2 . They live at 3103 Hascall street, 
Omaha, Neb. Doctor Murphy is a 
government veterinarian with the 
Bureau of Animal Industry. 

Wesley S. Coblentz, Ag. '37, is 
chief dairy inspector for the city of 
Topeka. He and his wife, Betty Jane 
(Wagstaff) Coblentz, P. E. '33, live 
at 2417 West Seventeenth, Topeka. 
They have two children, Marjorie 
Ann. 4V a , and Wesley Samuel Jr., 3. | 
Raymond Isle, Ag. "38, is a student 
at the University of California, Berke- 
ley. He is working on his master's 
degree in forestry. 

Martha Ann (Wright) Potter, H. [ 
E. 39, and Thomas M. Potter, '37, 
are at 3736 Warwick boulevard, Kan- 
sas City, Mo. Mr. Potter is sheep 
salesman for John Clay Livestock 
Commission company. 

Robert Glenn McKay, M. E. '4 0, 
is in a training course at Crane com- 
pany at Chicago. His address is 5052 
South Ellis avenue, Chicago, 111. 



Seven at Fort Rosencrans 

Karl C. Frank, f. s. '22, major of 
the 19th Coast artillery at Fort 
Rosencrans, Calif., writes: 

"I believe that you will be inter- 
ested in knowing that there are now 
on duty here at Fort Rosencrans with 
the 19th Coast artillery seven young 
men who obtained their reserve com- 
missions through the Reserve Offi- 
cers Training corps at Kansas State 
College. 

"First Lieut. William A. Sells, E. 

E. '33, is working with the artillery 
engineer on the fire control telephone 
system. First Lieut. John E. Veatch, 
Ag. E. '3 4, is in charge of the recruit 
training for this post. First Lieut. 

F. W. Hayes, E. E. '35, is the harbor 
defense searchlight officer, also com- 
manding headquarters battery. 

"Second Lieut. Leslie O. Doane, f. 

s. '39, has been at Rosencrans for a 
year. He is leaving in January for 

] duty in the Philippine Islands. Sec- 
ond Lieut. Charles S. Dronberger, 

If. s. '39, came here a year ago, and 

leaves in January for the Philippines. 

"Other second lieutenants are John 

Id. Dietrich, Ag. E. '39, and Rex F. 

JToomey, f. s. '40. 

"The last four men listed above 
were in my classes while I was as- 

| signed to the Military department at 
Kansas State College. It is needless 
to say that we all were very much 
interested in the K. U.-K. S. C. foot- 
ball game. 

"My oldest son, who is enrolled in 
high school here in San Diego, is out 
for the football team. His coach 
made the statement to the boys that 

1 he had never known a coach who 
could arouse the fighting football 
spirit within a group of men as Hobbs 
Adams could." 



Lenda Louise is the name chosen 
by Dr. L. K. Firth, D. V. M. '33, and 
Josephine (Grubb) Firth for their 
daughter born October 7. They have 
another daughter, Sylvia Josephine, 
who will be 3 in February. Doctor 
Firth is on the Akron Veterinary hos- 
pital staff, and lives at 985 Peckham 
street, Akron, Ohio. 



The works of two well-known art- 
ists, one of them a Kansan, are on 
display on the second floor of Ander- 
' son hall. The exhibit is sponsored by 
the Department of Art. The exhibi- 
: tors are Isabel Schreiber of Atchison 
I and Frances Gray Elliott of Colum- 
bus, Ohio. 



MARRIAGES 



FRENCH — OTT 

Nancy Genevieve French, H. E. '38, 
was married to LeRoy G. Ott, August 
17, in the Salem Lutheran church at 
Lamartine, Pa., home of the bride. 
She has been teaching home econom- 
ics in the Garden City schools. Mr. 
Ott attended the University of Kansas 
and Williams Institute of Mortuary 
Science, Kansas City. Mr. and Mrs. 
Ott live in Ashland, where he is a 
funeral director. 



Home economics students will re- 
ceive the December issue of the Betty 
Lamp, divisional magazine of the 
Division of Home Economics, next 
Tuesday, according to Virginia Mon- 
ahan, Leavenworth, editor. Articles 
on various phases of home economics 
contained in the magazine are writ- 
ten by students in the division. 



MOON— DeYOE 
Doris Moon, for the past three 
years piano instructor at the College, 
October 19 became the bride of Dar- 
win N. DeYoe, M. Ed. '39. She re- 
cently was appointed pastor's assis- 
tant and choir director of the Trinity 
Methodist church in Hutchinson. Mr. 
DeYoe taught public speaking in the 
Randolph high school. Since June he 
has been associated with KWBG ra- 
dio station in Hutchinson. 



Seven new members of Quill club, 
national organization for promoting 
creative writing, will be initiated next 
Tuesday evening. Those who will be- 
come Quillers are John Parker, Man- 
hattan; Evelyn Stener, Courtland; 
Ellen Peak, Manhattan; Faye Clapp, 
Manhattan; Merry Carroll, Kansas 
City; Margaret A. Massengill, Cald- 
well, and Jean Babcock, Manhattan. 



Hold Colorado Picnic 

The Kansas State College alumni 
association of Colorado held its an- 
nual picnic July 29 at the Montclair 
clubhouse in Denver. 

A pot-luck supper was served, fol- 
lowed by a brief business meeting. 
Introductions were made, and talks 
were given by Dr. and Mrs. J. T. 
Willard, guests at the meeting. The 
remainder of the evening was spent 
in square dancing. Charles E. Lav- 
ender was in charge of the entertain- 
ment. 

New members at the meeting were 
Harry Vaupel, '16, and Neva (Ander- 
son) Vaupel, f. s. They are new 
arrivals in Denver. Mr. Vaupel is 
connected with the Omar Milling j 

company. j 

Others who registered included 
Walter J. Ott. '16, and Millicent 
(Williamson) Ott, f. s., Fort Morgan; 
Louise (Jones) Caddell, '33, Grand 
Lake; William F. Droge, '10, and 
Helen (Myers) Droge, '13, Fort 
Collins; and the following people 
from Denver: Kitty (Smith) Wheel- 
er, '95, George Wheeler, '26, E. L. 
Pound, f. s. '86, and Amy (Jewell) 
Pound, f. s. '85, Ethel (Brown) 
Duvall, '16, Fern Curtis, f. s., Edwin 
Hungerford, '12, and Mrs. Barbara 
Hungerford, H. A. Burt, '05, and 
Larry Burt, Eugene dinger, f. s. '29, 
and Mrs. dinger, W. S. Hoyt, '88, 
Hazel Hoyt, D. W. Working, '88, 
Ralph C. Jones, f. s. '15, Myrtle 
(Aeilts) Jones, f. s., and Betty Anne 
Jones, Edwin H. Snyder, '8 8, Charles 
E. Lavender, f. s. '15, and Mrs. Lav- 
ender. 

♦ 

BIRTHS 



OllER— SANDERS 

LaDonna Jean Ober, M. Ed. '39, 
and James Sanders Jr., f. s. '3 8, were 
united in marriage August 4. 

During Mrs. Sanders' senior year 
at Kansas State College she was 
president of her sorority, Delta Delta 
Delta. She also is a member of En- 
chiladas, sorority women's club for 
social dancing. For the past year, 
she taught music in the high school 
at Maize. 

Mr. Sanders is a member of Delta 
Tau Delta, social fraternity. He is 
employed as surveyor with the Stand- 
ard Oil and Gas company, Fort 
Worth, Texas. 



The College trio — Max Martin, as- 
sistant professor in the Department 
of Music, who plays the violin, Lyle 
Downey, associate professor of music, 
who plays the cello, and Richard Jes- 
son, assistant professor of music, who 
plays the piano — gave its 13th annu- 
al recital Sunday. The personnel of 
the trio has changed several times, 
but this year it is the same as it was 
12 years ago. 



DEATHS 



WILSON 
John Thomas Wilson, D. V. M. '10, 
and Alice (Gaden) Wilson, f. s. '09, 
were killed instantly in an automo- 
bile accident near Alva, Okla.. Oc- 
tober 4. Doctor Wilson had been a 
veterinarian in Oklahoma since his 
graduation, spending the last several 
years at Pawnee, Okla. They are sur- 
vived by a daughter, Urna Mildred, 
and a son, Kenneth. George Heber, 
'05, Winfield, and Ira A. Wilson, '08, 
Winfield, are brothers of Doctor 
Wilson. 



CHRISTMAS?? CHRISTMAS???? CHRISTMAS???? 
We HAVE solved the Christmas Gift problem— 

GIVE the Kansas Magazine 



The Kansas Magazine Publishing Association 

Box 237 

Kansas State College 

Manhattan, Kansas 

Enclosed is $ (check, money order, cash, or stamps). 

I want (check items below) : 

rj copies of the 1041 Kansas Magazine at 60c (50c 

plus 10c postage and tax). 
□ Ten copies of the 1941 Kansas Magazine for $5.00 (in- 
cluding postage and tax). 



□ I want these items sent as gifts. 

□ You may send them directly to me. 



check one 



Elsie (McConky) Kirk and Harold 
Kirk, Ag. '28, are parents of a son, 



MY NAME AND ADDRESS IS: 

Name 

Street 

Town State 






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PHI KAPPA PHI HONORS 
TO 123 ON FROSH WORK 

RECOGNITION GIVEN AT ASSEMBLY 
LAST THURSDAY 



GOVERNMENT HAS LONG RECOGNIZED PRINCIPLE 

THAT AGRICULTURE IS A NECESSITY OF SOCIETY 

— says L. E. Willoughby 



General Science Leads Divisions with 

40 Students, While EnKlneerlnjc 

Has 33, Home Economics, 27, 

Agriculture, 23 

One hundred twenty-three fresh- 
man students were given recognition 
Thursday at an assembly by Phi 
Kappa Phi, national honorary scho- 
lastic society. Names of the freshmen 
were announced by Dr. Mary T. Har- 
man, secretary of the Kansas State 
College chapter of Phi Kappa Phi. 

Each freshman student of the 
1939-40 school year so honored re- 
ceived a certificate in recognition of 
his or her achievement. Each year 
Phi Kappa Phi honors the freshman 
atudents of the previous year who 
ranked in the upper 10 percent of 
their class in each division. Selection 
is based on at least 25 hours of work 
done at Kansas State College. 

GENERAL SCIENCE HAS 40 
The list includes 23 students from 
the Division of Agriculture; 33 from 
the Division of Engineering and Ar- 
chitecture; 40 from the Division of 
General Science, and 27 from the 
Division of Home Economics. 
Those honored include: 
Division of Agriculture— John 
James Gilkison, Larned; Warren G. 
Harris, Havensville; Roger Gregg 
Murphy, Norton; Joseph E. Jagger, 
Minneapolis; Wayne Wilbur Thomp- 
son, Larned; William Bruce Robert- 
son, Barnard; Paul Leo Kelley, Solo- 
mon; Homer Jacob Cornwell, St. 
John; Roscoe Ellis Jr., Havensville; 
James Melvin Nielson. Marysville; 
Darrell Arden Russel, Canton; Gor- 
don Lee Bartholomew, Alton; Max 
Benne, Morrowville; Amos Wilson, 
Manhattan; Lowell Hubert Penny, 
Lawrence; Edward George Buss, Hoi- 
ton- Daniel Durniak, Columbia, N. Y.; 
Norman Leroy Kruse, Barnes; Wayne 
Lawrence Godsey, Netawaka; Don- 
ald Roy Wood, Trousdale; Freeman 
Elmer Biery, Stockton; Roy George j 
Currie, Manhattan; Wilbur Wayne 
Soeken, Claflin. 

THIRTY-THRKE ENGINEERS 
Division of Engineering and Archi- 
tecture—Bernard William Rogers, 
Fairview; Leon Dean Findley, Kiowa; 
Joseph Gerald McDonald, Peabody, 
Mass.; Lawrence Keith Hudson, Wil- 
sey; Robert Chambers Myers, Junc- 
tion City; Kenneth Elwood Palmer, 
Murdock; Warren Schlaegel, Olathe; 
Kenneth Barrett Lucas, Manhattan; 
John Francis McKown, Udall; Era- 
mett Wayne Pratt, Colby; Daryl War- 
ren Hawkins, Cedar Vale; David 
Jesse Blevins, Manhattan; Page Pas- 
chal Wagner, Webster Groves, Mo.; 
Cordon Udelmer Osburn. Chapman; 
Lyman Earl Gessell, Manhattan; Wil- 
liam Alcir Swim, Wichita; Kenneth 
Elmer Rice, Greensburg; Joseph Hall 
Somers, Topeka. 

Audrey Jean Durland, Manhattan, 
Kemble Urban Sitterley, Manhattan; 
John Daniel Bender, Washington, D. 
C • Norman Roy Ross, Manhattan; 
David Arthur Lupfer, Earned; Don- 
ald Phinney, Russell; Donald Kevitt 
Myers, Topeka; Armstead Joseph 
Evans, Valley Falls; Robert Chaffer 
Blount, Jetmore; Ralph Marion 
Atchison, Leavenworth; Charles Ray- 
mond Beardmore, Concordia; Doyle 
Laverne Foss, Edmond; Edward John 
Hellmer, Olpe; Grant Charles Mar- 
burger, Lyons; Glen Francis Doel, 

Topeka. 

Division of General Science— Rex 
LeRoy Pruett, Culver; Mary Mar- 
garet Arnold, Manhattan; Lois Aileen 
Hostinsky, Manhattan; James Wayne 
Hamburg, Marysville; Allen NyBtrom 
Webb Manhattan; Edgar Nicholas 
Glotzbach, Paxico; Dora Mae Hoff- 
man, Haddam; Martha Joanne Baird, 
Manhattan; William Hugh Meredith, 
Lincoln; Robert Junior Smith Man- 
hattan; Thelma Nadene Blackwell, 
Rozel- Kenneth Peter Mitchell, Ax- 
tell' Joyce Allen, Strool, S. D.; Jo- 
seph Charles Prchal, Omaha; Bonnie 
Jean McRill, Peabody; Donald Ross 
Kimball, Lane; Donald McLean Trot- 
ter Dawson. Minn.; Eldon Joseph 
Janson, Clarion, Iowa; George Mer- 
riman, Carsonville, Mich.; Gwendo- 
lyn Lucille Ensign, Garrison. 
HOME EC LISTS 27 
Robert William Burns, Atlantic 
Citv N J.; Harry Oliver Lytle Jr., 
junction City; Marie Louise Brewer, 
Great Bend; Margaret Ellen Robson, 
Waverly; Aleta Faye Clapp, Manhat- 
tan; Pauline Hardy, Silver Spring, 
Md.; Betty Adeline Coon, Meade; 
Judith Elizabeth Ward, Bellevi le; 
Margaret Esther Wunsch, Topeka; 



By L. E. WILLOUGHBY 
Extension Conservationist, Division of 
College Extension 
Agricultural development and im- 
provement is a fundamental neces- 
sity of society. This principle was 
recognized by President Lincoln in 
1862 when he signed an act of Con- 
gress creating the United States De- 
partment of Agriculture on May 15, 
1862, and the Morrill act creating 
the land-grant colleges of agriculture 
and mechanic arts, and the National 
Homestead act under which any citi- 
zen over 21 years of age was entitled 
to a homestead of 160 acres of the 
public domain by complying with cer- 
tain rules as to residence and im- 
provements. 

The Homestead act brought many 
farmers to Kansas from the Eastern 
part of the United States, who had 
but little knowledge of Western agri- 
culture. The Agricultural College 
soon began to teach adapted farming 
practices. Gradually, by education 
and experience, the people developed 
suitable agricultural practices which 
laid the foundation for the agricul- 
tural wealth of the state. 

In 1887, Congress passed the Hatch 
act which created the experiment sta- 



tions. The Kansas Experiment sta- 
tion has developed soil management 
and cropping systems that have cre- 
ated a practical semiarid or Western 
type of agriculture not known by the 
early homesteaders. 

In 1914. the Smith-Lever act cre- 
ated the Extension service, an agency 
to teach people what had been learned 
by research and experience regarding 
a more successful agriculture. The 
educational program sponsored by 
the Extension service was responsi- 
ble for creating a desire for better 
soil management practices. This de- 
sire increased to such an extent that 
it outgrew the demonstrational stage, 
and created a demand for additional 
facilities to establish improved soil 
management practices. 

In 1935, Congress created the Soil 
Conservation service, which made as- 
sistance in improved soil management 
and conservation practices available. 
The other congressional acts, requir- 
ing state approval, were approved by 
the Kansas Legislature; likewise, in 
193 7, after two years of temporary 
cooperation with the newly created 
service, the Kansas Legislature en- 
acted the Soil Conservation Districts 
law. 



Wildcats Win Fifth 

By virtue of the 20 to defeat by 
the University of Nebraska, the Kan- 
sas State College football squad ended 
the season in fifth place in the Big 
Six standings. 

♦ • 

STUDENT GROUPS ORGANIZE 
CAMPAIGN FOR FIELDHOUSE 



BASKETBALL TEAM WINS 
TWICE FROM WASHBURN 

COACH JACK GARDNER'S SQUAD 
SCORES 23-1B, 33-20 VICTORIES 



Norma Adele Gellart, Abilene; Wil- 
liam Valjean Lumb, Manhattan; Leo 
Grant Berg, Harper; Russell Gal- 
braith Minnis, Manhattan; Russell 
Lowell Kershner, Colby; John Jef- 
ferson Porter, Selma; William James 
Foster, Kearny, N. J.; Benjamin 
Brunner Weybrew, Wamego; Richard 
Arthur Doryland, Manhattan; Robert 
Nay Kirk, Topeka; Leslie Orval Foel- 
schow, Manhattan. 

Division of Home Economics — Ina 
Ernestine Palmer, Sabetha; Jean 
Frances Alford, Riverside, 111.; Edith 
Margaret Dawley, Manhattan; Mary- 
anna Lock, Mayetta; Marcile Mary 
Norby, Cullison; Helen Irene Pier- 
point, Benedict; Mildred Arth, Great 
Bend; Carol Margaret Stevenson, 
Oberlin; Elsie Florence Larson, 
Madison; Betty Ann Faubion, Man- 
hattan; Phoebe Lahr Hillmon, Man- 
hattan; Fern Irene Roelfs, Bushton; 
Gladys Love Devore, Haddam; Pa- 
tricia Annabelle Townley, Abilene; 
Joanne M. Aubel, Manhattan; Janice 
Fern Hunt, Blue Rapids; Ruth Bar- 
bara Cocherell, Denver; Ruth Viola 
Simpson, Manhattan; Elizabeth Ruby 
McLeod. Manhattan; Dorothy Fran- 
ces Ratliff, Manhattan; Helen Fran- 
ces Drake. Corbin; Louise Rosella 
Schlicher, Hoxie; Phyllis Luella Mat- 
son, Miltonvale; Lila Faye Rogers, 
Glasco; Wilma Jean Shull, Manhat- 
tan; Marcella Rae Ulrey, West Min- 
eral; Gail Lovene Haley, Great Bend. 
Rabbi Samuel Mayerberg, Kansas 
City, spoke on "Does Scientific Knowl- 
edge Make It Difficult to Accept Re- 
ligious Faith?" at the recognition as- 
sembly. 



SHIRLEY KARNS IS NAMED 

HONORARY CADET COLONEL 

Coffeyvllle Junior Presented nt Annnal 

Military Ball In Gym on 

Saturday Night 

Shirley Karns, a junior in general 
science from Coffeyville and a mem- 
ber of Kappa Kappa Gamma, was 
presented as the honorary cadet 
colonel of the Kansas State Reserve 
Officers Training corps Saturday night 
at the annual Military ball. 

Miss Karns and her attending 
honorary cadets walked through a 
[door at the back of the bandstand, 
down a stairway and through an arch 
! which the officers of infantry and ar- 
I tillery formed with their sabers. The 
honorary cadets were Dorothy Green, 
senior in home economics from Wich- 
ita and a member of Pi Beta Phi, and 
Jane Galbraith, junior in home eco- 
nomics from Cottonwood Falls and 
a member of Alpha Delta Pi. 

In the receiving line were President 
and Mrs. F. D. Farrell, Colonel and 
Mrs. Carl F. McKinney, Dean Helen 
Moore and Cadet Lieut. Robert Wells, 
Manhattan. 

Students taking R. O. T. C. voted 
on the candidates at their regular 
drill period to choose the cadet colo- 
nel. The candidates were selected by 
the advanced military students. 

♦ 
DR. A. D. WEBER CHOSEN 

NATIONAL SOCIETY OFFICER 



Mass Demonstration Is Scheduled for 

Next Monday Afternoon, When 

Pnrade Will Be Held 

The campaign for a new Kansas 
State fleldhouse, culminating last 
year with the presentation of a peti- 
tion, signed by more than 3,500 stu- 
dents, to Gov. Payne H. Ratner, has 
been renewed this fall in anticipation 
of the meeting of the Kansas Legis- 
lature in January. 

Student leaders on the campus 
met last week to formulate plans for 
the campaign which will continue 
until the bill authorizing the appro- 
priation of state funds is introduced 
in the Legislature. 

Last Friday night at the opening 
basketball game with Washburn col- 
lege, cheerleaders carried signs read- 
ing, "We want a crackerjack field- 
house instead of a crackerbox gym." 
Promptly the 2,800 students at the 
game took up the familiar cry, "We 
want a fleldhouse!" 

A mass demonstration is being 
planned for next Monday afternoon 
when a parade of Reserve Officers 
Training corps students, Collegiate 
4-H club members, representatives of 
leading campus organizations, the 
basketball team, K fraternity men 
and several hundred additional stu- 
dents will proceed through the cam- 
pus and Manhattan. The parade will 
be led by the College band. Signs 
carried by students will tell the needs 
for a fleldhouse. 

The initial key committee behind 
the fleldhouse movement is composed 
of Jack Gardner, basketball coach; 
Jack Haymaker, Manhattan, presi- 
dent of Blue Key, senior men's hon- 
orary; HoBart Frederick, Burrton, 
I president of the Collegiate 4-H club; 
i Wallace Swanson, Sharon Springs, 
1 president of K fraternity; Bob Wells, 
I Manhattan, president of R. O. T. C. 
I cadet officers, and Don Makins, Abi- 
lene, Blue Key vice-president and 
publicity director. 

This committee will be broadened 
to include presidents of about 30 
prominent campus organizations, so 
that the drive will become an all- 
school representative project. 



Ichnbods Lend at Half In Topeka Con- 
test, but Tallies by Jack Horacek 
Win Game for the 
Wildcats 

Kansas State College defeated the 
Washburn college basketball team 
Tuesday night in the second of their 
two-game series, 33-29. The College 
squad took a 23-15 decision away 
from the Ichabods in the first game 
Friday evening. 

Although the Topeka boys were 
leading at the half 23-16, Coach Jack 
Gardner's team came back in the sec- 
ond period to score 17 points while 
holding their opponents to only five. 
HORACEK LEADS WAY 
With Jack Horacek, former To- 
peka high star, leading the way, the 
Wildcats put on a scoring show dur- 
ing the last half. They came out fast 
and sent three field goals swishing 
through the basket before Washburn 
could get set. 

With three minutes left Kansas 
State was leading, 29-32, when Yeo- 
man, Ichabod center, fouled Tom 
Guy, Wildcat center from Liberty, 
who converted to make the final 
count 33-29. 

GOOD DEFENSIVE FORM 

The first half of Friday night's 

game the Wildcats showed the crowd 

a good defensive form, holding the 

Ichabods down to five free throws 

for their first-period scoring. In the 

second half, the Washburn cagers 

! began to click and came within four 

| points of the Kansas State score, but 

i the Wildcats drove forward for three 

] more field goals and a comfortable 

! lead at the end of the game. 

George Mendenhall, junior guard 

from Belleville, made the first Wild- 

, cat score early in the game when he 

1 sent the ball through the loop on a 

, long shot from the side. Mendenhall 

made one more field goal during the 

game but Tom Guy, sophomore from 

Liberty, was high-point man with 

three field goals and two free throws. 



COMMITTEE IS APPOINTED 

TO SEEK UNION SUPPORT 



KANSAS LABOR INSTITUTE 

MEETS ON COLLEGE CAMPUS 



Two on Chicago Program 

Prof. F. C. Fenton and Prof. E. L. 
Barger of the Department of Agricul- 
tural Engineering appeared on the 
program of the fall meeting of the 
American Society of Agricultural En- 
gineers in Chicago, December 2 to 6. 
Professor Barger discussed "Power 
Alcohol in Tractors and Farm En- 
gines" December 3, while Professor 
Fenton told of "The Harvesting and 
Storage of Grain Sorghums" on De- 
cember 4 and "Water Conservation 
on the Great Plains" the following 
day. 



Animal Production Group Selects Fac- 
ulty Member as Secretary-Treasurer 

Dr. A. D. Weber of the Department 
of Animal Husbandry at the College 
was elected secretary-treasurer of 
the American Society of Animal Pro- 
duction at the annual meeting in 
Chicago in connection with the In- 
ternational Livestock exposition. The 
society deals with all phases of ani- 
mal production. 

Robert Wagner of Garden City, a 
junior in the Division of Agriculture, 
was elected president of the student 
section of the American Society of 
Agronomy. Wagner was selected for 
one year and will preside at the an- 
nual meeting in Chicago next year. 
He is a member of Farm House fra- 
ternity. 



EVERYDAY ECONOMICS 

By W. E. GRIMES 



Pres. F. IJ. Farrell and Dr. W. E. Grimes 
Address Approximately 150 

A two-day meeting of the Kansas 
Labor institute on the College cam- 
pus was opened by Pres. F. D. Farrell 
last week-end. Dr. W. E. Grimes of 
the Department of Economics and 
Sociology discussed farm legislation 
before approximately 150 persons 
who attended the institute to discuss 
labor problems of the day. 

The relationship of labor to de- 
fense from the military viewpoint 
was discussed by Brig.-Gen. Edmund 
L. Gruber, commandant at Fort Leav- 
enworth. Other speakers were Rufus 
G. Poole, assistant solicitor in the 
Department of Agriculture; Charles 
B. Newell, director of the Kansas 
division of unemployment compensa- 
tion; Edward E. Goshen of the De- 
partment of Labor; and Frank Fen- 
ton of the American Federation of 
Labor. 

The meeting was sponsored by the 
Kansas State Federation of Labor 
and Kansas State College in coopera- 
tion with the Workers Education Bu- 
reau of America. 

♦ 

DUO-PIANO TEAM WILL PLAY 

AT CELEBRITY PRESENTATION 



"Economic forces are more powerful than political parties." 



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Economic forces are more power- 
ful than political parties. Economic 



cal parties modify their programs 
and, when in power, they adapt their 



till t nan political paiuoo. ^v«.. , - ■ - 

forces are the expressions of the de- actions to accord with the trend of 
sires and the actions of the masses these forces. Political parties ch 



of the people. The development and 
use of improved transportation sys- 
tems or of means of communication, 
the improvements in and the in- 
creased use of mechanical power and 
other similar developments are ac- 
tions which set in motion economic 
forces which sweep political parties 
along with them. The desire for 
greater security and action to obtain 
such security set in motion other 
similar economic forces. 

Faced with the overwhelming ef- 
fects of these economic forces, politi- 



as time passes. They tend to retain 
the same names, but their platforms, 
programs and actions change as their 
leaders attempt to interpret these 
sweeping economic forces and to de- 
vise the best manner in which gov- 
ernmental actions may be useful in 
checking or in speeding these eco- 
nomic forces, so that the resulting 
changes in human relations may 
bring a maximum of well-being with 
a minimum of discomfort and dis- 
tress to the people. 



Jacques Fray and Mario BragBiottl 
to Campus for Concerts 

Jacques Fray and Mario Braggiotti, 
duo-piano team, will play Thursday 
afternoon and evening in the College 
Auditorium as the second presenta- 
tion of the College Celebrity series. 

The pianists, who have been ac- 
claimed all over the world as musi- 
cians of outstanding ability, appeared 
on the campus last year with Dave 
Rubinoff, famous concert violinist. 



Mackintosh Talks on Meats 

D. L. Mackintosh, associate pro- 
fessor in the Department of Animal 
Husbandry, went to Sioux City, Iowa, 
to attend a Tri-state Locker associa- 
tion meeting Monday and Tuesday. 



Dr. A. A. Holtz, Men's Adviser, and 

James Kendall. IJwlRht, to Head 

Publicity Group 

Plans for publicizing the Student 
union campaign and the appointment 
of a committee to supervise the pro- 
gram were completed at the last 
meeting of the Student union com- 
mittee. 

The publicity committee is headed 
by Dr. A. A. Holtz, men's adviser and 
YMCA secretary, and James Kendall, 
Dwight, Collegian editor. The gen- 
eral policy committee is under the di- 
rection of Kenney Ford, secretary of 
the Alumni association. The latter 
committee will arrange to meet with 
the State Board of Regents, the gov- 
ernor and the attorney-general to 
discuss the constitutionality of the 
Student union. 

A chapel committee, supervised by 
Martha Wreath, Manhattan, and Jack 
Haymaker, Manhattan, will sponsor 
an assembly in the College Auditori- 
um at 9 a. m., December 20, when six 
student speakers will tell about the 
campaign. 

Doctor Holtz outlined what he con- 
siders the chief uses for such a build- 
ing. There would be a main lounge 
on the first floor, Doctor Holtz said, 
as well as a gathering place for the 
students between classes, and a place 
| for relaxation and rest. Game rooms 
! which would include table games 
j such as checkers and chess, billiards 
and pool and bowling alleys would be 
I placed in the basement. 

A large ballroom on the second 
| floor would relieve Manhattan's 
! crowded dancing conditions, accord- 
j ing to Doctor Holtz. A lecture hall 
'and little theater would provide fa- 
cilities for dramatic groups, debate 
tournaments, lectures and concerts. 
In addition, rooms would be provided 
for club meetings and conferences. 

The committee to promote plans 
for a Student union building includes 
Jack Haymaker, Manhattan; Cruger 
Bright, Junction City; Bill Keogh, 
New York City; Marianna Kistler, 
Manhattan; Martha Wreath, Manhat- 
tan; Fred Eyestone, Wichita; James 
Kendall, Dwight; Dale Rundle, Ax- 
tell; Kenney Ford; Mrs. Bessie 
Brooks West, head of institutional 
management; Miss Erma Murray, 
YWCA secretary, and Doctor Holtz. 



HISTORICAL SOCIETY C 

TOPEKA 

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The Kansas Industrialist 



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Volume 67 



Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, Manhattan, Wednesday, December 18, 1940 



Number 18 



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MANY FACULTY MEMBERS 
TO ATTEND CONVENTIONS 



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APPROXIMATELY SO WILL BE AT 
MEETINGS OVER HOLIDAYS 



American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science Gathering In Phila- 
delphia Attracts Largest Number 
of Kansas State Teachers 

Kansas State College will be well 
represented at national conventions 
during the Christmas vacation with 
approximately 30 faculty members 
traveling to association meetings. 

The largest single group, 10, ten- 
tatively plans to go to Philadelphia 
for the specialized meetings in con- 
nection with the American Associa- 
tion for the Advancement of Science, 
December 28 to January 2. 

PICKETT WILL GIVE PAPER 

Dr. W. F. Pickett, head of the 
Department of Horticulture, will pre- 
sent a paper, "Common Spray Mate- 
rials Alter the Internal Structure of 
Apple Leaves," for the American So- 
ciety for Horticultural Science. Doc- 
tor Pickett is senior author of the 
paper. The junior author, C. J. Birke- 
land, assistant in the department, 
will not make the trip. 

Dr. R. K. Nabours, head of the 
Department of Zoology, will attend 
meetings of the geneticists, natural- 
ists and zoologists. 

Dr. J. E. Ackert, dean of the Divi- 
sion of Graduate Study and professor 
of zoology, will participate in the 
programs of the parasitologists, the 
American Microscopical society and 
the A. A. A. S. council. Giving pa- 
pers at the American Society of Para- 
sitologists will be S. A. Edgar, in- 
structor in zoology, and W. M. Reid, 
graduate assistant in the same de- 
partment. Charles M. Good, gradu- 
ate student, also will attend several 
of the Philadelphia meetings. 

FOUR TO GO TO ST. LOUIS 

Dr. O. H. Elmer, assistant profes- 
sor of botany, will attend the Ameri- 
can Phytopathological society and 
the Potato Association of America. 

Dr. R. H. Painter, professor of en- 
tomology, will attend the meetings of 
the American Association of Eco- 
nomic Entomologists. Dr. George A. 
Filinger, associate professor of hor- 
ticulture, will be delegate to the con- 
vention of Sigma Xi, honorary sci- 
ence group, and will attend meetings 
of the Horticultural Science associa- 
tion. Prof. Roger C. Smith of the De- 
partment of Entomology will repre- 
sent the Science club at meetings 
of the entomology societies. 

Attending the Society of American 
Bacteriologists at St. Louis will be 
Dr. L. D. Bushnell, head of the De- 
partment of Bacteriology, and Prof. 
V. D. Foltz, Dr. T. M. McCalla and 
Dr. H. J. Peppier of the same de- 
partment. 

Dr. R. W. Babcock, dean of the 
Division of General Science, Dr. W. 
T. Stratton, head of the Department 
of Mathematics, and Miss Thirza 
Mossman, assistant professor of 
mathematics, will attend meetings of 
three mathematical associations at 
Baton Rouge, La. Miss Mossman will 
appear on the program of the Na- 
tional Council of Mathematics Teach- 
ers. 

Richard Jesson, assistant professor 
of music, will be in Cleveland for 
the National Music Teachers' asso- 
ciation and the National Association 
of Schools of Music. 

FRYER TO PRESENT PAPER 

Prof. M. F. Ahearn, director of 
athletics, Coach Hobbs Adams and 
Dr. H. H. King, chairman of the Kan- 
sas State College athletics council, 
will go to New York for the National 
Collegiate Athletic association meet- 
ing. 

Dr. H. C. Fryer of the Department 
of Mathematics will present a paper 
"On the Use of the Chi-Square Test 
with Small Expectations" at the 
American Statistical association in 
Chicago. 

Prof. R. I. Thackrey, head of the 
Department of Industrial Journalism 
and Printing, and Miss Helen Hostet- 
ter, associate professor of journal- 
ism, will appear on roundtable dis- 
cussions during a meeting of the 
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Settle Goes to Washington 

Allan E. Settle, I. J. '37, is now 
with the public relations branch of 
the War department in Washington, 
D. C. In this capacity, he is serving 
a year's active duty. Mr. Settle for- 
merly was employed on the city desk 
of the Kansas City Star. 



FARRELL NAMES COMMITTEE 
TO MANAGE 'TOP OF WORLD' 



LEGISLATORS TO SURVEY 
NEEDS FOR FIELDHOUSE 



COLLEGE, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 
INVITE OFFICIALS TO CAMPUS 



Dr. W. F. Pickett, Dr. H. E. Myers and 

F. L. Myers Are Designated 

by President 

Dr. W. F. Pickett, head of the De- 
partment of Horticulture, Dr. H. E. 
Myers of the Department of Agron- 
omy and F. L. Myers of the Depart- 
ment of Physical Education and 
Athletics have been appointed by 
Pres. F. D. Farrell to serve as a com- 
mittee to manage the 160-acre tract 
of land recently given to the College 
by Dr. Charles L. Marlatt, '84, and 
Dr. Abby Marlatt, '88, as a memorial 
to their father, Washington Marlatt. ! 
Mr. Marlatt was one of the founders 
and the first principal of Bluemont 
Central college. 

The committee of management is | 
appointed in accordance with a rec- 1 
ommendation made by a committee 
of which Dr. Roger C. Smith of the 
Department of Entomology was 
chairman and which has recently 
completed a careful study of the tract 
of land, which is known to students 
as the "Top of the World," and of 
the procedures followed by various 
other institutions in the use and man- 
agement of such land. 

The terms of the gifts are described 
in the deed as follows: ". . . as a gift 
to the College from Charles Lester 
Marlatt of Washington, D. C, and 
Abby Lillian Marlatt, his sister, of 
Madison, Wis., as a memorial to their 
father, the Rev. Washington Marlatt, 
one of the founders and the first 
principal of Bluemont Central col- 
lege, chartered in 1858 and accepted 
by the state of Kansas in 1863 as 
the beginning of the state's land- 
grant college. It is understood and 
agreed that the above-described land 
is to be kept as nearly as possible in 
its primal condition as upland or high 
prairie and used as a recreation area 
for the faculty and students of the 
College." 

The committee, of which Doctor 
Smith was chairman, made a series 
of recommendations regarding the 
protection, improvement and use of 
the land. These recommendations 
will be placed into effect as promptly 
as the financial condition of the Col- 
lege will permit. They include fenc- 
ing, the installation of attractive en- 
trances, appropriate marking and in- 
stallation of various recreational fa- 
cilities. 

♦ 

First in Beef Judging 

Eugene Watson, Peck, was high in- 
dividual among 155 students com- 
peting in the beef judging competi- 
tion at the International Livestock 
exposition at Chicago last month. 
Warren Rhodes, McLouth, was sixth 
in beef judging, and Mack Yenzer, 
Saffordville, was eighth. 



Group Expected to See Kansas State 

and K. I . Basketball Game in 

Nichols Gymnasium 

Next Month 

Pres. F. D. Farrell announced last 
Friday that members of the State 
Legislature would have an oppor- 
tunity to see for themselves the 
"acute need for a new fleldhouse" 
at the College when they come here 
for the basketball game with the Uni- 
versity of Kansas on Monday, Janu- 
ary 20. 

The College and the Manhattan 
Chamber of Commerce have made 
arrangements for inviting Gov. Payne 
H. Ratner and members of the State 
Legislature to the basketball game 
in Nichols Gymnasium, President 
Farrell said. 

ASKS STUDENTS TO HELP 

Transportation from Topeka to 
Manhattan and return will be pro- 
vided by the Manhattan Chamber of 
Commerce. 

"It is hoped that Kansas State stu- 
dents, when they are at home for 
the Christmas holidays, will urge 
their senators and representatives to 
accept the invitation, which will be 
issued immediately after the Legisla- 
ture convenes in January," President 
Farrell said. 

CANCEL DEMONSTRATION 

A demonstration in connection 
with the fleldhouse campaign, sched- 
uled for last Monday afternoon, was 
postponed indefinitely because of the 
snow and bad weather. The "Field- 
house Frolic," an afternoon dance 
sponsored by the Students' Govern- 
ing association, Trite held Monday 
afternoon in the Avalon ballroom. It 
was attended by enthusiastic sup- 
porters of the campaign for the new 
campus building. 

A rally to be held during half-time 
at the University of Kentucky-Kansas 
State College basketball game Friday 
night was discussed at a meeting of 
the fleldhouse committee yesterday 
afternoon. 



Annual Christinas Assembly 

A regular Christmas assembly, 
sponsored jointly by the college 
YWCA and YMCA, this afternoon 
will feature a one-act play, "Dust 
of the Road," directed by Mrs. Mary 
Myers Elliott of the Department of 
Public Speaking. Christmas carols 
and special music will be played by 
Richard Keith, Manhattan, organist. 



APPROXIMATELY 1,400 HEAR 
'THE MESSIAH' ON SUNDAY 



STUDENTS TO EDIT CAPITAL 
FOR TWENTIETH KANSAS DAY 



Journalism Faculty Will Select Editors 
for Special Edition 

Journalism students from Kansas 
State College will go to Topeka Janu- 
ary 29 to edit the Kansas day edition 
of the Topeka Daily Capital. 

This is the 20th consecutive year 
that Kansas State students have 
worked on the Kansas day edition. 

The faculty of the Department of 
Industrial Journalism and Printing 
will select the student editors. Dur- 
ing Christinas vacation, students will 
write features from their home com- 
munities. 



Earl Clark Edits Magazine 

"Pulse," house organ of the Occi- 
dental Life Insurance company in 
Los Angeles, is now being edited by 
Earl Clark, I. J. '39. 



Oratorio Is Conducted by Prof. William 

Llndqiiist, Head of the Music 

Department 

The presentation of "The Messiah" 
Sunday night was attended by ap- 
proximately 1,400 as the highlight 
of the College Christmas season. 

A chorus of approximately 170 
men and women, accompanied by the 
College orchestra, was conducted in 
the oratorio by Prof. William Lind- 
quist, head of the Department of 
Music. The soloists who sang in the 
program sponsored by Kansas State 
College and the Manhattan Ministeri- 
al association were Nancy Pat Wil- 
kins, Steelville, Mo., and Arlene 
Mayer, Alta Vista, sopranos; Miss 
Hilda Grossmann, assistant professor 
in music, contralto; Edwin Sayre, as- 
sociate professor, tenor, and Don 
Pricer, Hill City. 

Max Martin, assistant professor, 
was concertmaster; Charles Stratton, 
assistant professor, pianist, and Rich- 
ard Jesson, assistant professor, or- 
ganist. 

Each year the Department of Music 
presents a religious oratorio preced- 
ing the Christmas holidays. "The 
Messiah" and Bach's "Christmas Ora- 
torio" are produced in alternate 
years. 

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NUMBER OP DEGREES GRANTED 
DOUBLES IN PAST 14 YEARS 



EVERY KANSAS COUNTY 

SENDS STUDENTS HERE 



BIENNIAL REPORT SHOWS RILEY 
LEADS WITH 718 



Blcnniiil Itcport Shows Increase In Both 
Graduate. I'ndergrndunte Candidates 

During the past 14 years, the num- 
ber of degrees granted by Kansas 
State College has doubled, according 
to the biennial report of the College 
recently submitted to the Board of 
Regents. 

In 1926, 392 degrees were granted. 
Of these 341 were bachelor's degrees. 
At the completion of the 1940 school 
year, 789 degrees were granted. Of 
these, 710 were bachelor's degrees. 

Advanced degrees numbering 165 
were awarded during 1939 and 1940. 
The corresponding number for 1937 
and 1938 was 182. 



Simpson Assigned to Panama 

First Lieut. William P. Simpson, 
C. E. '36, 62nd Coast Artillery Anti- 
aircraft reserve, will sail shortly for 
the Panama canal. He has been as- 
signed to Fort Totten, N. Y., and is 
at present on detached service at 
Camp Upton, N. Y. Lieutenant Simp- 
son also holds an M. C. E. degree from 
Cornell university. He is a member 
of the Knights of Columbus and of 
Phi Kappa Phi, honorary scholastic 
society. 



John Steuart Curry's Mural 




— Courtesy of Kansas Magazine. 

This picture of John Steuart Curry's mural in the Department of Interior building in Washington, entitled 
"Rush for the Oklahoma Land — 1889," is one of a group reprinted in the 1941 Kansas Magazine which went on 
sale last Saturday. 



Most of States and Nine Foreign Coun- 
tries Are Represented at College 
During 1038-40 School 
Blennlum 

Students from every county in 
Kansas, most of the states in the 
Union and from nine foreign coun- 
tries were enrolled at Kansas State 
College during the 1938-40 biennium, 
according to the biennial report re- 
cently submitted to the State Board 
of Regents. 

During both school years included 
in the report, students from 105 
counties of the state were enrolled. 
During 1938-39, 41 states of the 
Union and seven foreign countries 
were represented, while in the fol- 
lowing school year, students from 43 
states and eight foreign countries 
were present. 

RILEY LEADS ALL COUNTIES 

Seven counties of Kansas sent 100 
or more students each to Kansas 
State College during 1939-40. 

These counties and the number of 
students they sent were Dickinson, 
129; Marshall, 117; Pottawatomie, 
131; Riley, 718; Sedgwick, 157; 
Shawnee, 187, and Wyandotte, 146. 
Of the 105 counties in the state, 65 
sent 20 or more students each and 
33 sent 40 or more each. 

Average enrolment figures for the 
two years ended June 30, 1940, in- 
creased 279 students, or 6 percent, 
over the average for the previous bi- 
ennium. The biennium report showed 
enrolment for the two-year period 
was 4,855 compared with an average 
of 4,576 for the preceding biennium. 

ENROLMENT AT RECORD HIGH 

For five successive years, includ- 
ing 1939-40, student enrolment has 
exceeded all previous records. For 
the year 1938-39, enrolment figures 
totaled exactly 4,800, while during 
the 1939-40 term, a new high of 
4,910 was established. These figures 
include both summer school and 
graduate students in addition to those 
of the regular school semesters. 

Enrolment in summer school ses- 
sions for the biennium ending June 
30, 1940, totaled 1,831, which is an 
increase of 124 students, or 7 per- 
cent, over the corresponding figure 
for the preceding biennium. In 1938 
the figure was 911, and in 1939 it 
increased to 920 students. 

An increase also was observed in 
the Division of Graduate Study. The 
average enrolment for the biennium 
was 476, an increase of 5 2, or 12 per- 
cent, over the corresponding figure 
for the preceding biennium. One hun- 
dred sixty-five advanced degrees were 
awarded during 1939-40. The cor- 
responding number for 1937-38 was 
182. 
MORE UPPERCLASSMEN INCLUDED 

The trend toward an increased pro- 
portion of upperclassmen in the un- 
dergraduate student body here has 
continued since 1925-26, the report 
said. 

Since 1925-26, when the freshman 
class of 1,494 students represented 
4 8 percent of undergraduate student 
body, there has been a decrease of 
13 percent in the proportion of fresh- 
man students enrolled. Since that 
year, sophomore enrolment has in- 
creased 32 percent, junior enrolment 
81 percent and senior enrolment 153 
percent. Of the four classes, the total 
increase during the 14-year period 
has been 986 students, or 32 percent. 
These figures do not include graduate 
students, specials or students en- 
rolled for the summer sessions. 

While this change improved the 
balance among the undergraduate 
classes it also increased the cost of 
instruction. Instruction of upper- 
classmen is more specialized, classes 
necessarily are smaller and more ex- 
pensive apparatus is used, the report 
pointed out. 
INCREASE IN TRANSFER STUDENTS 

A continued increase in the num- 
ber of undergraduate students trans- 
ferring to Kansas State College with 
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1940 



RUBBER AND TECHNOLOGY 

War conditions have thrown the 
spotlight on an interesting drama in- 
volving rubber and technology. At 
one time the world's rubber industry 
was centered in Brazil. Many years 
ago the Brazilian industry was so 
weakened by inadequate technical at- 
tention to plant diseases, insect pests 
and agronomic factors that rubber 
production shifted to the East Indies, 
British and Dutch, where plant breed- 
ers, agronomists, botanists and chem- 
ists gave it such effective technical 
attention that it now accounts for 97 
percent of the world's production of 
rubber. 

The United States imports about 
500,000 tons of rubber annually. Of 
this quantity, about 90 percent comes 
from the East Indies, 10,000 miles 
away. Control of the seas by a power 
unfriendly to the United States would 
jeopardize our supply of rubber and 
endanger the welfare of the owners 
of our 25,000,000 motor vehicles, not 
to mention the consumers of hun- 
dreds of important rubber products 
other than pneumatic tires. We now 
have on hand enough rubber to sup- 
ply our needs for about six months. 

There are three methods by which 
we are endeavoring to reduce our 
dependence on East Indian rubber. 
Each of them is based on technology. 
Each of them, in its relations to blitz- 
krieg, contains dramatic elements. 

One method is to reclaim used rub- 
ber. In 1939 our consumption of this 
product amounted to 170,000 tons. 
A second method is to reestablish a 
large natural rubber industry in the 
Western hemisphere. This involves 
widespread application of genetics, 
agronomy, chemistry, economics, 
plant pathology and entomology. 
Congress has authorized an appro- 
priation of $500,000 to aid in this 
effort. As it requires about six years 
for a rubber plant to come into pro- 
duction, this method is slow. 

The third method is to synthesize 
rubber from natural gas, petroleum 
and even sugar and grain. In 1939 
we produced in this country about 
2,000 tons of synthetic rubber, a 
small fraction of 1 percent of our an- 
nual rubber consumption. At present 
prices, the synthetic method is not 
feasible economically except for spe- 
cial purposes. 

If the war continues for several 
years and the sea lanes become in- 
creasingly difficult for our purposes, 
it is likely that the drama of rubber 
and technology will be intensified — 
and that our motor tires and rubber 
heels will be much more expensive 
than they now are. 
♦ 

BOOKS 

In QueNt of n Middle Way 

"Author in Transit." By Lancelot 
Woe-ben W. W. Norton and Company. 
New York. 1940. J2.50. 

Stranded in Norway when the Nazis 
took over, an English biologist with 
mathematical leanings found himself 
unable to go home by the usual route 
and decided to return by way of Mos- 
cow, Tokyo, Honolulu, San Francisco, 
Madison and New York. Instead of 
merely chafing futilely, as most of us 
probably should have done in a simi- 
lar situation, Lancelot Hogben pro- 
ceeded philosophically to keep his 
eyes and ears open and his mind 
active and to find out what he could 
about the possibilities for a middle 



way of life for human society. 
"Author in Transit" is one delightful 
result. 

"Before the present conflict," he 
says, "a book about travel by a Brit- 
ish author had a guaranteed circula- 
tion among retired empire builders, 
the widows of tea planters, aunts 
with nephews engaged in fitting 
dams to unpronounceable rivers and 
regular subscribers to foreign mis- 
sions. Such people make it possible 
for authors to travel. God bless them 
one and all." One hopes that this 
book, notwithstanding the present 
preoccupations of the aunts and the 
empire builders, will be, as it de- 
serves to be, "a paying proposition." 

One reason why the book is delight- 
ful and stimulating is that the au- 
thor's coefficient of irritability is high. 
This results in some exaggeration, 
but that adds spice and cogency to 
what the author says. For example: 
"In the spacious days of Elizabeth, 
the chief dangers of maritime travel 
were storm and scurvy. Today they 
are English adults and American 
children" and "With the exception of 
bird song in spring, I detest all noises, 
including music, bombs, air raid 
alarms, lectures, and public debate." 
The book is much more serious than 
these excerpts suggest. 

One gathers that the author sees 
two major requirements for the 
achievement of a satisfactory middle 
way: improvements in our philoso- 
phy of life and improvements in our 
education. Our philosophy is defec- 
tive in that it overemphasizes eco- 
nomic values at the expense of what 
the author calls bio-aesthetic values. 
Our education is defective in that it 
is too little related to life and liveli- 
hood. 

He finds, not in Sweden but in 
Japan, the nearest approach to a mid- 
dle way philosophy. "Nobody," he 
says, "has yet discovered how to 
maintain reproduction above the sur- 
vival limit in surroundings in which 
parenthood is an unwarranted intru- 
sion of hospital practice in the 
orderly routine of a mechanical 
existence; and Japan, which is the 
supreme example of bio-aesthetic 
civilization, is the only highly indus- 
trialized country which has main- 
tained a high level of fertility." He 
credits much of Japan's achievement 
in bio-aesthetics to the widespread 
and intelligent devotion of her peo- 
ple to gardening as a fine art. 

As to education, the author dis- 
illusions us about Sweden and 
awards the palm to the United States. 
He condemns the Swedish system of 
education as hopelessly traditional, 
cumbersome and expensive. The book 
closes with the following statement 
about education in the United States: 
"There is no yawning chasm between 
the natural sciences and the humani- 
ties. There is everywhere a lively 
disposition to experiment with new 
techniques of instruction. These 
United States are succeeding in do- 
ing what Europe has never attempted 
to do. They are building an educa- 
tional system which produces the 
maximum yield from the gifts of the 
average man or woman. Education 
with that end in view is the only 
guaranty for the survival of democ- 
racy."— F. D. Farrell. 



SCIENCE TODAY 



By MARTHA S. PITTMAN 

Professor and Head, Department of 
Food Economics and Nutrition 

The iron content of the human 
body is small, averaging only about 
0.004 percent of the body weight. 
This will amount to about three 
grams in the average individual, so 
it becomes evident that the impor- 
tance of iron to the body can not be 
measured by the quantity. The soft 
tissues of the body normally contain 
only traces of iron but the liver and 
other glandular organs are, compara- 
tively speaking, rich in this element, 
serving as storehouses for it. Normal 
infants are born "iron rich" although 
twins and premature babies tend to 
have smaller stores of iron in their 
tissues at birth. 

Iron is essential for formation and 
regeneration of the hemoglobin of 
the blood. It is the iron which en- 
ables the hemoglobin to carry oxygen 
to the tissues. Iron also is concerned 
with the prevention and cure of cer- 
tain kinds of anemia. It appears to 
be an important constituent of the 
chromatin of the cell nuclei and is 
involved in oxidation processes going 
on in the cell. The need for iron is 
increased during growth partly be- 
cause of increase in the volume of 
blood during this period. Hemorrhage 
also calls for a larger intake of 
iron to make the necessary replace- 
ments. 

Copper is associated with the usage 
of iron, apparently being necessary 
for the latter to be formed into hemo- 
globin. Without copper, iron may be 
absorbed and carried to the liver 
where it will remain until copper is 
provided. Formation of hemoglobin 
then begins and the store of liver iron 
is reduced accordingly. Copper does 
not actually enter into the composi- 
tion of hemoglobin; rather it serves 
as a catalyst for its formation. 

Apparently only a part of the iron 
contained in foods can be used by 
the body. Availability of food iron 
has thus become a subject of many 
recent studies. Results of these re- 
searches indicate that seldom more 
than 60 percent of the iron present 
in the ordinary diet is utilized. It is 
believed to be more available if in a 
soluble and readily ionized form. 

Lack of iron, due to insufficient 
consumption or to poor utilization, 
may be a cause of nutritional anemia 
wherein the hemoglobin of the blood 
is low. There may be a decrease in 
the number and size of red blood cells 



WHO UNVESTED PMNTflNG ? 

There is ample evidence to support 
the theory that the Chinese invented 
paper and printing. A piece of paper 
bearing the Chinese equivalent of the 
date A. D. 264 was found at Loulan 
in Chinese Turkestan. It is, so far as 
is known, the earliest dated piece. 
The earliest printed book which has 
been found bears the date A. D. 868 
(two centuries before the Norman 
conquest of England). It was dis- 
covered, in 1907, in the forgotten, 
walled-up library of a Buddhist cave- 
temple carved from solid rock near 
Tun-huang, in the far western Kansu 
province of China. 

Paper was first brought to official 
notice in China sometime before A. 
D. 105. In the central Asiatic desert, 
along the old silk route, archaeolo- 
gists have discovered paper at least 
1,000 years older than any known 
in Europe. Some scraps of this still 
bear legible dates and other writing. 
Much of that found was in the ruins 
of watch towers and fortresses which 
were abandoned by about A. D. 150. 

Significantly, the earliest samples 
were found on the Chinese side of the 
desert, while later ones were suc- 
cessively farther west. Other evi- 
dence indicates that the art of paper- 
making reached Samarkand (Russian 
Turkestan, in Central Asia) about 
A. D. 751. In Bagdad it became 
known about A. D. 793; in Egypt, 



as well. Women and children are 
particularly likely to show symptoms 
of this nature, the condition being 
known as hypochromic anemia. Wo- 
men usually have lower iron intakes 
than men due to smaller caloric 
intakes. Yet their actual need is 
higher, at least during the reproduc- 
tive period. At times of rapid growth 
there is also danger that this type 
of anemia may develop. In this case 
it is due largely to the dilution of the 
hemoglobin as the result of the in- 
crease in blood volume. Such symp- 
toms as listlessness, lack of appetite 
and low vitality often may be attrib- 
uted to a mild case of anemia result- 
ing from shortage of iron. 

A standard of 12 milligrams of 
iron a day is generally accepted as 
sufficient for a 70-kilogram man. 
While some accept this standard for 
women a number of workers believe 
that women should have at least 15 
milligrams daily and that this amount 
should be increased to 18 to 20 milli- 
grams during pregnancy and lacta- 
tion and other times of special strain. 

To obtain as much as 12 to 15 
milligrams of iron daily from the 
diet, it is desirable and almost neces- 
sary to include at least one egg a day, 
a serving of meat (liver and other 
glandular organs are particularly 
rich sources), two servings of a 
whole grain product, a green, leafy 
vegetable and a serving of dried 
fruits, as prunes or apricots. Occa- 
sional use of dried legumes is desir- 
able as a source of iron. Copper fre- 
quently occurs with iron in foods, 
i as in liver, and as it is otherwise 
widely distributed in foods there is 
little danger of shortage of this ele- 
ment in the diet. 

While it is generally possible to 

prevent anemia by eating food high 

: in iron, once anemia is established, 

medicinal iron will generally be nec- 

i essary to correct it. It appears that 

' only in such forms is a sufficiently 

high dosage likely to be obtained. 

Storage of iron by the human body 
is limited. The old slogan "Have 
you had your iron today?" at least 
suggested the daily need for this ele- 
ment. It is never wise to leave it 
I out one day hoping to make it up the 
next as the daily quota of iron is 
j about all that can be conveniently 
obtained from one day's ration. In 
j the case of iron as it is related to 
anemia, it is generally conceded that 
i "an ounce of prevention is worth a 
pound of cure." 



dent Fairchild to the Farmers insti- 
tute in Lawrence. 

Lieutenant Morrison, professor of 
military science at this College from 
1887 to 1890, was promoted from 
second to first lieutenant. He was 
stationed at Fort Assiniboin, Mont. 

On the program of the Riley 
County Teachers association were the 
names of four graduates: A. B. Kim- 
ball, '89; E. M. Paddleford, "89; R. 
U. Waldraven, '89; Emma Secreat, 
'90. 



SIXTY TEARS AGO 

The Hon. T. C. Henry was appoint- 
ed president of the State Fair associ- 
ation. 

Professor Walters lectured before 
the Teachers institute at Salina. His 
subject was "Relation of Art and In- 
dustry." 

The Kansas and Missouri State 
Horticultural societies met in a joint 
session at Wyandotte. Among those 
present were Professor Gale, H. E. 
VanDeman, A. N. Godfrey, Colonel 
Coleman. 



KANSAS POETRY 

Robert Conover, Editor 



ByR. Russell Porter 

I may not write of white stripped birch, 

or oak, 
or mountain water shattering on stone, 
for my Inheritance Is not the bone 
and sturdy flesh of stalwart mountain 

folk. 
Nor may I write of cities and their 

roar, 
their artificial canyons and canals; 
nor of the plains, their cattle and cor- 
rals; 
nor of the ceaseless war of sea and 

shore. 
For on the fringe of city and of farm 
the villages of my existence sprawl, 
groping toward cities with a palsied 

arm, 
yet fed with pride that must sustain 

the small, 
and of this arrogance, deep-fissured 

spring, 
their people drink, and of them I will 

sing. 

R. Russell Porter of Emporia is 
assistant professor of speech at Kan- 
sas State Teachers college. His writ- 
ing interests include poetry, one-act 
plays and radio scripts and adapta- 
tions. 

♦ 

SUNFLOWERS 

By H. W. Davis 

OF GOOD CHEER 

God rest you merry, gentle folk, 

Let nothing you dismay. 



about 900; in Morocco, about 1000; 
in Spain, 1150; in France, 1189; in 
Italy, 1276; in Nuremberg, Germany, 
in 1391, and in England in 1494 
(two years after Columbus' discovery 
of America). — From Field Museum 

News. 

-♦• 

HOW THE EARTH MAY END 
For those who must have some- 
thing more to worry about than mere 
wars and the state of the nation, as- 
tronomers have performed a real ser- 
vice. They have charted the four 
possible ways by which the world 
may end. 

1. Two stars may collide and one 
of the stars rebound into the earth. 

2. The earth may collide with a • 
comet. 

3. The sun may become an explod- 
ing star and burn the earth to a crisp, 
or it might become so cold that the 
earth would freeze. 

4. The destruction of the moon by 
the earth's gravity pull, the moon 
turning into a ring — like that around 
Saturn — which would All our atmos- 
phere with an unbreathable atmos- 
pheric dust. — From Scribner's Com- 
mentator. 

♦ 

m OLDER DAYS 

From the Files of The Industrialist 

TEN YEARS AGO 

Fanny G. Noyes, '99, was a mis- 
sionary in Merzifon, Turkey. 

Dr. J. P. Scott of the Division of 
Veterinary Medicine went to Chicago 
for a meeting of the Association of 
Agricultural Experiment Station 
Workers in Animal Diseases. Doctor 
Scott also attended a meeting of the 
Livestock Sanitary association In 
Chicago. 

Prof. C. H. Scholer of the Depart- 
ment of Applied Mechanics and Prof. 

C. E. Pearce of the Department of 
Machine Design were in Washington, 

D. C, representing the College at a 
meeting of the National Research 
council. Professor Scholer was a 



member of the committee on railway 
steel. He was also chairman of the 
committee on volume changes in con- 
crete, and state contact man for Kan- 
sas. 



TWENTY TEARS AGO 
Dr. Earl M. Dobbs, '16, Las Vegas, 
Nev., was assistant state veterinarian 
of Nevada. 

Willard E. Lyness, '16, took over 
his new job with the Agronomy de- 
partment of the Nebraska Experiment 
station at Lincoln. 

George L. Usselman, '16, was pro- 
moted to engineer in charge of the 
trans-Atlantic station of the Radio 
Corporation of America at Tucker- 
ton, N. J. 



THIRTY YEARS AGO 
Pres. H. J. Waters and Prof. H. F. 
Roberts addressed the Boys Corn 
Contest association of Shawnee coun- 
ty at Valencia. 

J. A. Mellotte, foreman of the seed 
house of the Agronomy department, 
left for Gooding, in southern Idaho, 
where he had taken an irrigation 
claim. 

John W. Calvin, '06, who was a 
member of the Institute of Animal 
Nutrition, Pennsylvania State col- 
lege, was elected to an assistantship 
in the Chemistry department of this 
College. 



FORTY YEARS AGO 
Prof. F. C. Lockwood lectured be- 
fore the North Central Teachers as- 
sociation at Beloit. 

President Nichols went to Ells- 
worth to confer with E. T. Fairchild, 
president of the Board of Regents, on 
College matters. 

Prof. George F. Weida gave an ad- 
dress before the Central Kansas 
Teachers association at the Thanks- 
giving session. 



There is still a silence of stars in 
the blue night, and still a silver of 
the moon on snow-crested cottages 
lived in and loved by good folk at 
peace with man and God. 



Over miracle waves come "Silent 
Night," "Christmas Carol" and sto- 
ries of wise men trudging sandy 
wastes to worship at a shrine in 
Bethlehem, a shrine once a manger. 



Millions of homes are gay with 
crackling Yuletide fires, and millions 
of dazzling trees glow with lights and 
glitter with silver and gold. Innu- 
merable packages — mysterious pack- 
ages — are stowed in every drawer 
and nook and corner, their secrets to 
remain unguessed till early Christ- 
mas morning. Over countless hearths 
hang stockings hungry for toys and 
candies to come — stockings yester- 
day replete with chubby legs and 
dimpled knees. 



Late on chilly Christmas eve into 
all such places come Mother and Dad 
and old Saint Nick; but only Mother 
and Dad are visible to curious, eager 
eyes at forbidden keyholes. And 
when the work of the three is done, 
glistening trees are unbelievably 
more beautiful and bountiful than 
ever before. Tomorrow is the day — 
everyone must be happy. 



So good cheer, good friends who 
believe in great friendships and great 
loves. There are still holly and mis- 
tletoe, jingling bells and gay fes- 
toons of multi-colored lights. There 
are still happy shoutings of "Merry 
Christmas." And there are still mil- 
lions quietly and sincerely wishing 
the world well, and plodding on with 
undaunted hearts till mere might is 
vanquished by the mightier might 
of good will. 



FIFTY TEARS AGO 
Doctor Mayo accompanied Presi- 



Yes, there is still the whispering 
of stars and the silver solace of the 
moon beyond the fog and smoke and 
ugly, flaming death. Bitterness and 
darkness are for a day. The silent 
assurance from somewhere is for al- 
ways. The hope in the heart of you 
will prevail. 



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God rest you merry, everyone. 



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AMONG THE 
ALUMNI 



y 



Walter J. Burtis, B. S. '87, wrote 
a note of thanks for his copy of Dr. 
J. T. Willard's "History of Kansas 
State College." He says that he and 
his wife, Winifred (Brown) Burtis, 
t. s. '88, are enjoying the book. Their 
home is at 1804 El Paso, Manhattan. 
Their son, Orville Burtis, Ag. '16, 
has two children at Kansas State 
College. Cornelia is a junior in home 
economics and dietetics, Orville Jr., 
a senior in agriculture. 

Dr. J. C. Montgomery and Delpha 
(Hoop) Montgomery, B. S. '91, now 
live at 624 Grove street, Wichita. 
Doctor Montgomery was formerly 
with the U. S. Public Health service 
at Farmerville, La. They visited Dr. 
and Mrs. C. O. Swanson, Manhattan, 
on their return from Louisiana. 

Myrtle (Mather) Romine, '02, is 
owner and manager of an apple or- 
chard in Morgan county, Ind. She 
has two children and two grand- 
daughters. Her address is Route 1, 
Mooresville, Ind. 

Mabelle (Sperry) Ehlers, D. S. '06, 
is associate professor and head of 
the Department of Institutional Ad- 
ministration at Michigan State col- 
lege. Her address is 3 20 Ann street, 
East Lansing, Mich. 

Bess (Tolin) Jeffs, D. S. '08, and 
Ben D. Jeffs, f. s. '08, are at Lake 
City, Mich. Mr. Jeffs is a farmer. 

H. Henry Harbecke, E. E. '11, is 
a farmer in Bensenville, 111. He has 
two children, Ruth, 23, and Fred- 
1 erick, 18. He writes that he was 
with the Automatic Electric company 
in Chicago until 1932. He enjoyed 
two years of the World's fair and 
then started farming. He is operat- 
ing a grain and dairy farm, and re- 
tails his milk. He says that he has 
a herd of pure-blood Guernseys and 
too much work. 

Ethel Vanderwilt, Ag. '13, called 
at the Alumni association office on 
December 3. Her home now is at 
Solomon. She has been employed by 
the Seymour Packing company. 



m 



Ralph S. Hawkins, '14, wrote: 
"My job as vice-dean and profes- 
sor of agronomy in the College of 
Agriculture, University of Arizona, 
and vice-director and agronomist in 
the Arizona Agricultural Experiment 
station, coupled with the doctor and 
mister titles that are often used, 
gives me more titles than a Mexican 
general has medals. Some day I am 
going to start a movement to do away 
with this title business and put uni- 
versity and college people in the same 
category as other humans and fellow 
townsmen. 

"In the meantime, my wife, Geor- 
gia Roberts, '15, has to be satisfied 
with plain Mrs. and like it. How is 
that for democracy? 

"We have three boys. Lynn, the 
oldest, is just finishing his prelimi- 
nary trial training at Long Beach, 
Calif., for entrance to the Pensacola, 
Pla., Navy Aviation Training school. 
Keith, the second boy, is with Lock- 
heed Airplane company at Burbank, 
Calif., and Larry, the youngest, is at 
home doing his best to keep his dad 
and mother young." 



fc 4 



< 



John W. Blachly, B. S. '18, Okla- 
homa City, writes that he and his 
wife are doing research work with 
the peach to circumvent the hazards 
of spring frosts. He writes that he 
is working on his master's degree at 
the University of Oklahoma in plant 
physiology. "The Dormancy of the 
Peach" is his thesis subject. 

"We inoculated peach limbs in 
early spring with extract of peach 
leaves the first year by hypodermic 
needle, the second year with light 
pressure into the tissues," he writes. 
"By this method we held the average 
bloom back 10 days to three weeks. 
On these inoculated limbs there was 
a very noticeable increase in the bear- 
ing of fruit. 

"We are thinking of transferring 
our work to an 80-acre breeding and 
fruit farm near Vinita, Okla. There 
we can work on a larger scale. Maybe 
we will not produce the Utopian 
peach but we will have a lot of fun 
and pleasure developing peaches that 
will bear as well as bloom every 
year." 



Mary Fidelia Taylor, B. S. '19, E. 
E. '31, Is association engineer for 
the Rural Electrification administra- 
tion in Washington, D. C. 

Nevels Pearson, Ag. '20, is assis- 



tant state 4-H club leader in Michi- 
gan. His office is in the extension de- 
partment of Michigan State college 
at East Lansing. He is married and 
lives at 401 Butterfleld drive, East 
Lansing. 

Merle J. Lucas, E. E. '21, is super- 
visor of advertising displays and 
demonstrations for Commonwealth 
Edison company, Chicago. He and 
Violet (Andre) Lucas, f. s. '22, live 
at 525 West St. Charles road, Lom- 
bard, 111. They have three children. 

Henry William Schmitz, Ag. '22, 
M. S. '28, and Ruth (Dorr) Schmitz 
of Berkeley, Calif., last summer spent 
a three-week vacation visiting in 
Manhattan, Topeka and Kansas City. 
Mr. Schmitz formerly taught voca- 
tional agriculture in the Manhattan 
high school. He is now assistant 
state coordinator of the Soil Conser- 
vation service in California. 

G. M. Crawford, E. E. '25, and N. 
G. Chilcott, E. E. '25, have been ad- 
mitted recently to practice before 
the Supreme Court of the United 
States. They are both attorneys in 
the patent department for the West- 
inghouse Electric company. Mr. 
Crawford lives at 300 Bevington 
road, Wilkinsburg, Pa. Mr. Chilcott's 
home is at 173 Avenue A, Wilkins- 
burg. 

William L. Howell, E. E. '26, is 
power engineer with the Ohio Edison 
company, Akron, Ohio. He has a son, 
Wilbur, 12. 

E. Jack Coulson, I. C. '27, M. S. 
'30, received his doctor of philosophy 
degree from Georgetown university, 
Washington, D. C, on June 10. He 
is a biochemist with the bureau of 
agricultural chemistry and engineer- 
ing, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 
in Washington, D. C. He and Esther 
(George) Coulson, f. s., have two 
children, Jack Richard, 9, and Janet 
Marie, 6. They live at 105 Carroll 
avenue, Takoma Park, Md. 

Frances Cunningham, H. E. & N. 
*28, is educational director of the 
School of Nursing at the University 
of Tennessee, Memphis. She has been 
there four years. 

W. M. Herren, E. E. '29, is engi- 
neer with Southwestern Bell Tele- 
phone company, Independence, Mo. 
He was married to Sarah Elizabeth 
Bollinger in May. Their home is at 
902 Manor road, Independence. 

Frank Roth, E. E. '30, is assistant 
planning engineer for Commonwealth 
Edison company. His home address 
is 380 Hawthorne, Glen Ellyn, 111. 
Herbert Lee Winston, E. E. '31, is 
electrical engineer for the Texas Oil 
company at Centralia, 111. He was 
formerly with the Kansas Power and 
Light company at Hutchinson. 

W. S. Hemker, E. E. '32, and Ethel 
(Eberhart) Hemker, Ar. '33, visited 
the campus last summer. Their home 
is in Duluth, Minn., where Mr. Hem- 
ker is district representative for sales 
and engineering in the lamp depart- 
ment of General Electric company. 

Mildred K. McBride, H. E. '33, is 
serving her second year as home ad- 
viser of Vermilion county, 111. Her 
residence address now is 433 M: South 
street— office address, 502 Court 
House. 

Donald G. Gentry, C. E. '34, and 
Carolyn (Stark) Gentry, G. S. '35, 
are at 523 Johnson, Little Rock, Ark. 
They have a daughter, Barbara Marie, 
2. Mr. Gentry is junior engineer with 
the U. S. Engineers at Little Rock. 

F. W. Boyd, I. J. '34, and Mary 
(Dexter) Boyd, '34, are in Mankato. 
Mr. Boyd formerly taught in the 
Mankato schools, but now is owner 
of the Western Advocate. He and his 
brother, McDill, f. s., are in charge. 

Norris Edward Miller, E. E. '35, 
and Mary (Williams) Miller, f. s. '35, 
are living at 411 West Eleventh 
street, Wichita. They were formerly 
in Kansas City, Mo., where Mr. Miller 
was employed by Procter and Gam- 
ble. 

Charlotte Penny, I. J. '36, is en- 
rolled at Phil Moore's Institute of 
Art, Philadelphia. Miss Penny was 
awarded a scholarship for a year's 
study there. 

Fred Killian, Ag. '38, is vocational 
agriculture teacher at Wamego. He 
was a teacher in the Tampa high 
school last year. 

George H. Larson, Ag. E. '39, M. 
S. '40, is on full time as an assistant 
in agricultural engineering at the 
University of Wisconsin. His address 
is 214 Breese terrace, Madison, Wis. 
Louis W. Cooper, Ag. '40, is work- 
ing for Bruce Jones Livestock Com- 
mission company. His address is 2317 
East Central, Wichita. 



LOOKING AROUND 

KINNEY L FORD 



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son, '27, and Mrs. Hobson, L. W. 
Baily, '28, and Mrs. Baily, of Drexel 
Hill, Pa.; and Philadelphia was rep- 
resented by Robert Lake, '40, Wil- 
liam Daniels, '38, F. B. Woestemeyer, 
*40, Myrtle Morris, '36, Louise Boyle, 
'40, Betty Jean Jones, '40, Elmer 
Scott, '38, and Mrs. Scott, and Miss 
Lehman. 

"W. E. Forney, '25, and Mrs. For- 
ney from Merchantville, N. J., and 
Justina Kroeker, '35, Hutchinson, 
Kan., were other out-of-state guests 
besides Mr. Ford." 



RECENT HAPPENINGS 
ON THE HILL 






Columbus Alumni Tea 

Kansas State alumni in Columbus, 
Ohio, met for tea Sunday afternoon, 
December 8, from 3 to 5:30 p. m. in 
the Blue Lounge of Pomerene hall 
on the campus of Ohio State univer- 
sity, Columbus. 

Kenney L. Ford, Manhattan, 
showed films of Kansas State College 
activities and talked. 

Columbus alumni and former stu- 
dents at the meeting included Ed- 
mund Marx, '35, and Emma Anne 
(Storer) Marx, '35; M. F. Hulett, 
'93; Maurice C. Moggie, '29, and Mrs. 
Moggie; G. R. Shier, '81, and Mrs. 
Shier; G. E. Ferris, '27, and Ruth 
(Gugler) Ferris, f. s. '28; W. V. 
Buck, '11, and Hester (Glover) Buck, 
'11; O. E. Holzer, '23, and Geneva 
(Cleavinger) Holzer, f. s.; Edith 
(Kelly) Johnson, f. s. '19; Lee R. 
Peterson, '39, and Mrs. Peterson; 
Edna M. Schroeder, '38, and Betsy 
A. Norelius, '37. 



MARRIAGES 

UHL— COULSON 
Dorothy Ann Uhl, H. E. '40, and 
Maurice R. Coulson, C. '38, were 
married August 3. The bride is a 
member of Chi Omega sorority, was 
homecoming queen in 1937 and hon- 
orary cadet major in 1939, and was 
elected to Mortar Board and Omicron 
Nu. Mr. Coulson is a member of 
Kappa Sigma fraternity and presi- 
dent of the Kansas State alumni in 
Wichita. He is associated with Penn 
Mutual Life Insurance company at 
Wichita. Their home is at 326 North 
Yale. 



After a week-end of falling snow, 
Kansas State College students plowed 
through more than a foot of snow 
early this week going to classes. Ski- 
suits and shoes, jodhpurs or boots, 
however, seem to make the snow 
problem a small one. 



The December Kansas State Engi- 
neer appeared on the campus this 
week. Among the writers whose 
articles are in this issue are Ralph 
Lipper, Sterling, and Prof. R. G. 
Kloeffler, head of the Department of 
Electrical Engineering. 



Necklaces made of crawdad pinch- 
ers, or chelipeds of the crayfish, are 
being worn by Gloria Spiegel, To- 
peka, and Dorothy Johnson, Macks- 
ville. The girls collected discarded 
chelipeds from their zoology labora- 
tory class and strung them on heavy 
twine resembling a part of a fish-net. 



PAYNE — FOSSNIGHT 
The marriage of Aldythe Payne to 
Rex L. Fossnight, C. E. '30, took 
place May 30. 

Mrs. Fossnight is a graduate of 
Emporia State Teachers college and 
has done graduate work at the Uni- 
versity of Wisconsin. During the past 
few years she has been supervisor 
of vocal and instrumental music in 
the junior high school at Salina. 

Mr. Fossnight has his master's de- 
gree in civil engineering from the 
University of West Virginia. He is 
affiliated with the Builders Steel 
company in Kansas City, Mo., as a 
sales engineer. They are at home in 
Kansas City at 205 Brush Creek 
boulevard. 



Jacques Fray and Mario Brag- 
giotti, internationally famous piano 
team, awed their audiences here last 
week to such silence that the Audi- 
torium clock could be heard ticking, 
during a pause in one of their selec- 
tions. The team played twice last 
Thursday to an Auditorium packed 
full of people. 

The December issue of the Betty 
Lamp, home economics divisional 
magazine, is being distributed to 
home economics students at the an- 
nual Christmas teas held by the 
Home Economics club and the Betty 
Lamp staff. Between 650 and 700 
students were expected at the teas, 
according to Virginia Monahan, Leav- 
enworth, editor of the Betty Lamp. 



BIRTHS 



Utah-Idaho Get-Together 

Margaret Latshaw, wife of Walter 
Latshaw, M. S. '22, writes that Kan- 
sas Staters at Salt Lake City had a 
party on November 16 at the home 
of Ralph Jennings, '22. 

"It was an evening get-together 
and we had games and light refresh- 
ments," she reported. "Some of those 
there were Ralph Crowell, f. s. '23, 
and Mrs. Crowell; Mr. and Mrs. Arty 
Clark; Mr. and Mrs. Logan Field 
(she was Helen Winne) ; Mr. and 
Mrs. Henry Longfellow from Ogden; 
Glen Sawyer, '24, and Mrs. Sawyer 
from Oneida, Idaho; Frank Randall, 
'26, and his mother from Green 
River, Wyo. ; Henry Melcher, '24, and 
Mary (Capper) Melcher, f. s. '22; 
Mr. and Mrs. Weeks from Provo, 
Utah; Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Jennings, 
'22; and the Latshaws (including 
Walter Jr.). 

"I enjoy reading about the alumni 
meetings in The Industrialist and I 
think it is fine the grads get together. 
I am sure few, if any, of the groups 
can compete with the Utah-Idaho 
group when it comes to distance trav- 
eled to get to a party. The Randalls 
traveled 200 miles each way; the 
Sawyers 125 miles each way; the 
Longfellows 36 miles each way, and 
the Weeks duo traveled 45 miles 
each way. 

"We plan a Founders* day dinner 
in February and it will probably be 
the 15th, since we try to have our 
parties on Saturday." 



John Henry Moehlman, E. E. '36, 
and Mrs. Moehlman are the parents 
of a son, John Henry, born October 
24. Mr. Moehlman is owner of the 
Avenue Grocery store in Manhattan. 
Their home is at 1506 Poyntz avenue. 



Lawrence Norton, Ag. '31, and 
Cora (Oliphant) Norton, '34, have 
named their son, born October 23, 
David Jerry. Mr. Norton is state 
supervisor of the Federal Crop In- 
surance corporation. The Nortons live 
at 1011 Houston, Manhattan. 



New members of Pi Mu Epsilon, 
honorary mathematics fraternity, ini- 
tiated last week were Robert Annis, 
Gypsum; B. H. Buikstra, Manhattan; 
Carl Latschar, Manhattan; Donald 
Moss, Miltonvale; John Newacheck, 
El Dorado; George Packer, Manhat- 
tan; Robert Peterson, Jasper, Mo.; 
James Walker, Emporia, and How- 
ard Zeidler, Girard. 
♦ - 

DEATHS 



John M. Ferguson, Ag. E. '34, and 
Louise (Chalfant) Ferguson, '33, are 
the parents of a son, John David, 
born October 17 at the St. Mary hos- 
pital in Manhattan. Mr. Ferguson is 
an instructor in the Division of Col- 
lege Extension. Their home is at 
1801 Leavenworth, Manhattan. 



CONNER 
Kate (Sumners) Conner, H. E. '16, 
died July 2. Her death was attrib- 
uted to an old tumor for which she 
underwent an operation last March. 
Surviving her are her husband, H. 
M. Conner; two daughters, Harriet, 
13, and Alberta, 9; her mother, Mrs. 
Emma Sumners, and a brother, 
Homer L. Sumners, Ag. '25. At the 
time of her death, she was teaching 
in the Denver public schools. 



CHRISTMAS ? ? CHRISTMAS ? ? ? ? CHRISTMAS ? ? ? ? 
We HAVE solved the Christmas Gift problem— 

GIVE the Kansas Magazine 



Philadelphia Meeting 

Florence Lehman, '39, secretary of 
the Philadelphia division of the Kan- 
sas State Alumni association, reports 
on the alumni meeting at the home 
of Ernest F. Miller, '25, and Mar- 
jorie (Melchert) Miller, '23, in Lans- 
downe, Pa., Tuesday evening, Decem- 
ber 10. 

"Kenney Ford, alumni secretary, 
was present," she said. "He brought 
movies of the Kansas State campus, 
alumni and students. After the pic- 
tures and talk by Mr. Ford, informal 
games were played and refreshments 
were served. 

"Those present included A. J. 
Churchill, '35, Prospect Park, Pa.; 
H. S. Bueche, f. s. '33, and Mrs. 
Bueche, f. s. '29, Berwyn, Pa.; Ernest 
F. Stalcup, '22, and Mrs. Stalcup, 
Lansdowne, Pa.; Edwin H. Kroeker, 
*29, Cheltenham, Pa.; Morgan T. 
Binney, '16, Glenolden, Pa.; John P. 
Rathbun, '16, Charlotte (Hall) Rath- 
bun, '17, and Nathan J. Simpson, '24, 
all of Prospect Park, Pa.; L. S. Hob- 



The Kansas Magazine Publishing Association 

Box 237 

Kansas State College 

Manhattan, Kansas 

Enclosed is $ (check, money order, cash, or stamps). 

I want (check items below) : 

□ copies of the 1941 Kansas Magazine at 60c (50c 

pins 10c postage and tax). 

□ Ten copies of the 1941 Kansas Magazine for $5.00 (in- 

eluding postage and tax). 

□ I want these items sent as gifts. 

□ You may send them directly to me. 



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STUDENTS WILL DISCUSS 
UNION BUILDING FRIDAY 

SIX TO TELL ABOUT PROPOSALS 
AT ASSEMBLY 



Wllllnm Keogh, Ray Hiikuty. Jessie 

Collins, Fred Eyestone, Marlanna 

Klstler and Don Maklns 

to Have Parts 

Answers to the questions concern- 
ing the Student Union building at 
Kansas State College will be an- 
swered at a student assembly Friday 
at 9 a. m. in the Auditorium. 

Four answers to why Kansas State 
College should have a Student Union 
will be given by William Keogh, New 
York City; Ray Bukaty, Kansas City; 
Jessie Collins, Dwight, and Fred 
Eyestone, Wichita. Two other stu- 
dents also will speak. 

WANT PLACE TO DANCE 
William Keogh will tell why Kan- 
sas State College students need a big- 
ger and better place to dance in than 
any place now available. Part of his 
answer, according to Student Union 
committee members, will be that the 
Avalon ballroom is condemned, the 
Community House is too small and 
the Gymnasium is adapted only to 
athletics. 

Ray Bukaty will discuss the need 
of a Student Union because of the 
effect the enlargement of Fort Riley 
will have on campus social life. Fred 
Eyestone will tell of a study he has 
made of the number of organizations 
and the number of meetings held 
weekly and monthly on the campus. 
Jessie Collins will tell how a Stu- 
dent Union will make the campus 
more democratic. A Union would 
give the students a place to come to- 
gether and get acquainted, she will 
say. What a Student Union at Kan- 
sas State College should include will 
be discussed by Marianna Kistler, 
Manhattan. 

ONLY NEED ENABLING ACT 
Don Makins, Abilene, will tell how 
Kansas State College can get a Stu- 
dent Union. The passing of only an 
enabling act by the Legislature would 
give the College permission to con- 
struct the building which would be 
paid by student enrolment fees. 

Matt Betton and his band will play 
during the program, and Eugene 
Fair, Alden, will be master of cere- 
monies. 



Helm Talks to Hort Club 

John F. Helm, professor of archi- 
tecture, discussed Kansas print mak- 
ers at the Horticultural club meeting 
Monday night. He displayed etch- 
ings, wood engravings and block 
prints made by Kansas artists. 



KANSAS STATE TO GIVE 

COURSE IN EXPLOSIVES 

NEW PROJECT WILL BE A PART OF 
DEFENSE TRAINING 



COLLEGE LIBRARY ACQUIRED 
7,018 BOOKS IN BIENNIUM 

Total Number of Volume* Now Amount* 
to 125,723, According to Presi- 
dent's Report 

Accessions by the Kansas State 
College Library numbered 7,018 vol- 
umes during the two-year period end- 
ing June 30, 1940, according to 
Pres. F. D. Farrell's biennial report, 
recently submitted to the Board of 
Regents. 

Of this number, 791 were received 
as gifts and exchanges, and 493 were 
received from the federal govern- 
ment on depository status. The num- 
ber of volumes in the Library on 
June 30 was 125,723. 

Off-campus library service in- 
creased materially during the bien- 
nium. A total of 371 books, 256 
clippings and 340 pamphlets was lent 
to citizens of the state. 

"Average use per student of 52 
books a year was slightly greater 
than during the preceding biennium, 
but still far below what it should be," 
President Farrell said. 

A marked increase in book use 
awaits an increase in the number of 
books and improvement of service, 
both of which await increased finan- 
cial support. 



MANY FACULTY MEMBERS 

(Continued from page one) 
American Association of Teachers of 
Journalism and the American Asso- 
ciation of Schools and Departments 
of Journalism in New York City. 
Hillier Krieghbaum, assistant profes- 
sor of journalism; Miss Jane Rock- 
well, instructor, and C. J. Medlin, 
graduate manager of student publi- 
cations, will attend this convention. 

-♦-- 

KANSAS' NATIVE GRASSES 

CAN BE RE-ESTABLISHED 



THREE COLLEGE COWS WIN 
HONORS IN BUTTERFAT TEST 

Holstelii-Frleslnn Association Plnces 

Them Second Only to State Chnm- 

plons for Clnsses 

Records recently completed by 
three registered Holstein-Friesians 
owned by Kansas State College have 
placed them second only to the state 
champions in officially-recorded but- 
terfat production for their respective 
classes, the Holstein-Friesian Asso- 
ciation of America announced De- 
cember 2. 

Piebe Jubilant becomes runnerup 
for top honors for junior 4-year-olds 
on three milkings daily, 10-months 
division, with a production of 488.2 
pounds butterfat from 13,387 pounds 

milk. 

A herd mate, Piebe Tabitha, takes 
second place among all the state's 
senior 3-year-olds on three milkings 
daily 10-months division, with a 
production of 485.0 pounds butter- 
fat from 12,64 5 pounds milk. 

A third member of the herd, Prilly 
Creator Trilby, takes second place 
for junior 2-year-olds on three milk- 
ings daily, 10-months division, with a 
production of 4 22.4 pounds butterfat 
from 12,971 pounds milk. 

Testing was supervised by the Hol- 
stein-Friesian Association of Amer- 
ica, Brattleboro, Vt. 

♦ 

Beaton Heads A. P. Group 
Fred Seaton, f. s. '31, general man- 
ager and co-publisher of the Hastings 
(Neb ) Tribune, was elected presi- 
dent of the Nebraska Association of 
Associated Press Newspapers, at the 
annual meeting last week in Lincoln. 
- ♦ 
Haymaker Be-clectcd Chairman 
Dr H. H. Haymaker, professor of 
plant pathology, was re-elected chair- 
man of the Pawnee district of the 
Boy Scouts of America at their an- 
nual meeting last week. 

♦ 

Civil Engineers Meet 
The student chapter of the Ameri- 
can Society of Civil Engineers held 
a smoker at the Community House 
Tuesday night. Dr. H. W. Brubaker 
talked on "Water Treatment. 



Extension Conservationist Cites Exam- 
ple of Cloud County Farmer 

"It has long been a wail that native 
grass cannot be re-established on old 
cultivated land but that wail is now 
out of date," said L. E. Willoughby, 
College extension conservationist. 
Native grass can be re-established in 
Kansas, he declared. 

As proof, Mr. Willoughby relates 
the experience of Henry C. Anderson, 
a farmer near Jamestown, who has 
been successful in getting a stand of 
native perennial grass established. 
Mr. Anderson harvested some side 
oats and blue grama grass with his 
own combine from one of his pas- 
tures. He also had some old blue- 
stem hay that did not have any seed 
in it. During May, he spread the hay 
over the ground with a manure 
spreader and broadcast the native 
grass seed and then ran over it with 
a disc harrow, set so that it just 
mussed up the hay a little. 

The summer was dry, but when 
late summer rains set in the grass 
came on and it set seed. The stand 
was quite uniform. Many Cloud 
county farmers are planning to plant 
their rougher land to grass, and un- 
doubtedly there will be quite a bit of 
grass re-established in the next few 
years, Mr. Willoughby said. 



Dr. W. L. Faith, Head of Department 

of Chemical Engineering, Reports 

Only Two Other Schools 

Have Been Named 

Kansas State College apparently 
will be one of the few colleges in the 
nation to offer a course in explosives 
as a part of the national $9,000,000 
program of engineering training for 
defense, reported Dr. W. L. Faith, 
head of the Department of Chemical 
Engineering. 

A recent survey of the national 
program indicated that headquarters 
of the engineering defense training 
program in Washington had approved 
the organization of a course in ex- 
plosives in only three institutions: 
Kansas State College, Case and Pur- 
due. 

ANTICIPATE DEMAND 

With munitions and explosives 
plants being established in St. Louis, 
Kansas City and many other points 
in the Midwest and Southwest, Doc- 
tor Faith believes there will be con- 
siderable demand for the training 
being offered by the Department of 
Chemical Engineering. 

Doctor Faith will supervise the 12- 
weeks course of study. The purpose 
is to provide training for personnel 
to work in explosives and loading 
plants, as inspectors for the Ordnance 
department and for operating per- 
sonnel for the firms which will op- 
erate these plants. 
REQUIRE COLLEGE BACKGROUND 

The work will include studies of 
the chemistry of explosives, the 
manufacture of explosives and muni- 
tions, loading and handling, and the 
inspection and testing of loaded 
components and complete rounds. 
During the final four weeks students 
will specialize in powder, high ex- 
plosives or loading. 

Prerequisites for admission to the 
course are two years in an engineer- 
ing course, or the equivalent, and a 
good course in college general chem- 
istry. The federal government pays 
all fees and tuition. 



Athletes Elect Captains 

Chris Langvardt, Alta Vista, star 
halfback, was elected honorary cap- 
tain of the 1940 Kansas State football 
team and Larry Kelley, Chapman, a 
junior, was elected captain of the 
1941 two-mile team at the annual 
football banquet Tuesday night. 
Langvardt is a senior. More than 300 
persons attended the banquet at 
which Head Coach Hobbs Adams 
was principal speaker. 



BASKETBALL SQUAD WINS 
THIRD GAME OF SEASON 

WILDCATS DEFEAT DOANE COL- 
LEGE SATURDAY NIGHT, 54-27 



SWIMMING TEAM PREPARES 
FOR HEAVY 1941 SCHEDULE 



Coach C. 8. Moll Is Optimistic About 

Prospects of Squad This 

Year 

The tentative swimming meet 
schedule for the 1941 season, an- 
nounced by Coach C. S. Moll, includes 
11 meets. Five, or possibly six, dual 
meets precede the conference meet. 

Coach Moll was optimistic about 
the prospects for the team this year, 
in spite of the fact that the team is 
weak in the breast stroke. He pre- 
dicted that the Wildcats would take 
second place in the conference this 
year. 

The tentative schedule for the com- 
ing season includes: 

Jan. 31 -Feb. 3— Kansas State at Uni- 
versity of Colorado, Colorado State 
Teachers college and Colorado School 
of Mines. (Definite place and time to be 
settled later.) 

Feb. 8 — Grinnell at Manhattan. 

Feb. 11 — Kansas State vs. University 
of Nebraska at Lincoln. 

Feb. 13 — Oklahoma at Manhattan. 

Feb. 14 — Iowa State college at Man- 
hattan. . _ „. 

Feb. 18— University of Kansas at 
Manhattan. , 

Feb. 21 — Kansas State at Tulsa uni- 
versity or at Oklahoma A. and M. 

Feb. 22 — Kansas State vs. University 
of Oklahoma at Norman. 

Feb. 28-March 1 — Conference meet 

a March 7— Kansas State vs. University 
of Kansas at Lawrence. 

Double dual meets with Washing- 
ton university at St. Louis have not 
been definitely scheduled as yet. 
♦ 

1941 WRESTLING SCHEDULE 

INCLUDES 14 OPPONENTS 



QUARTER OF STUDENTS ARE 
FORMER 4-H CLUB MEMBERS 



M. H. Coe Releases Statistics Showing 
Approximately 1,100 on Campus 

Approximately 1,100 Kansas State 
College students are former mem- 
bers of the 4-H club and 403 of them 
are paid-up members of the Collegi- 
ate 4-H club, a campus organization 
of former 4-H club members. The 
1,100 students who are 4-H club 
members represent approximately 27 
percent of the entire student body, 
which totals 4,103. These figures 
were released in a summary com- 
piled by M. H. Coe, state club leader. 

Of the 682 students enrolled in 
the Division of Agriculture, approxi- 
mately 52 percent are former 4-H 
club members. Thirty-six percent of 
the 837 students in the Division of 
Home Economics are former 4-H 
members, and 18 percent of the stu- 
dents in all other divisions are for- 
mer members of the 4-H club. 

The statistical summary compiled 
by Mr. Coe includes the information 
that 343 freshmen, 297 sophomores, 
233 juniors and 220 seniors are for- 
mer 4-H members. 



Coach B. R. Patterson's Team Will 

Open Season with Eastern Trip 

in January 

Coach B. R. Patterson today an- 
nounced a schedule of 14 meets, in- 
cluding five in the East, for his de- 
fending Big Six conference chempion 
Kansas State College wrestling team. 

As in past years, the Wildcats open 
the season with an Eastern trip. 
Their opponents will be Franklin and 
Marshall, Lehigh, Virginia Military 
institute, Virginia Polytechnic insti- 
tute and Vanderbilt. 

The schedule includes: 

Jan. 10 — Franklin and Marshall at 
Lancaster, Pa. •»„*». 

Jan ii— Lehigh university at Beth- 

Ie jan' ll— Virginia Military Institute 

at .Tan Xi lf-virginia Polytechnic Instl- 

tU .Tan at ?.'-vi b n U d r e g rbilt at Nashville, 

T *Jaii 27— Minnesota at Minneapolis. 
Jan'. 28— Iowa State college at Ames. 
Jan 29 — Iowa Teachers college at 

Ce j d a a n. ^-Cornell college at Mount 

Ve Feb ,n '8— Central Oklahoma Teachers 
at Manhattan. , ,_ . „_„ 

Feb. 12— Oklahoma A. and M. at Man- 

ha Fe a ) n ' 15— Michigan State college at 

'Feb' 18— Nebraska at Manhattan. 
Feb! 24 — Oklahoma at Manhattan. 

♦ 

NINE FRATERNITIES PLEDGE 

22 ADDITIONAL STUDENTS 



Team Will Meet University of Ken- 
tucky, Southeastern Conference 
Champs, In Nichols Gymna- 
sium Friday Night i 

After winning its third game of f 
the season with Doane college, 54-27, 
Saturday night, Coach Jack Gard- 
ner's basketball team is now practic- 
ing for its coming contest with the 
University of Kentucky Friday night. 
Led by Tom Guy, sophomore cen- 
ter from Liberty, who made a total 
of 14 points, the Wildcats carried the 
game to their opponents during all 
but the first few minutes of the game. 
During the early part of the game, 
Doane had a 9-8 lead, but the Kan- 
sas State team came back late in the 
first half, outscoring the Crete, Neb., 
squad to lead 26-10 at the half. 
KENTUCKY RATES HIGH 
Playing a tight defensive game, 
guards Gebrge Mendenhall, Belle- 
ville; Don Neubauer, Manhattan, and 
Kenneth Graham of Framingham, 
Mass., held the Doane team to nine 
field goals during the entire game. 
At the same time, Jack Horacek, To- 
peka, and Danny Howe, Stockdale, 
were connecting with the hoop to 
make 13 and 12 points, respectively. 
The University of Kentucky team 
is champion of the Southeastern con- 
ference and is accounted as one of 
the best teams in the nation. Last 
year it defeated the Wildcat quintet 
53-26 at Lexington. Last Friday it •*■ 
defeated Maryville college 53-14 on 
its home court. 

EASTERN HOLIDAY TOUR 
During the holidays, the Kansas 
State team will tour through the 
East, where it has four games sched- 
uled. The games are: 

December 27 — Villanova college, 
Villanova, Pa. 

December 28 — George Washington 
university, Washington, D. C. 

December 30 — Seton Hall college, 
South Orange, N. J. 

January 2 — University of Illinois, 
Champaign. 



EVERYDAY ECONOMICS 

By W. E. GRIMES 



"The real problem is to help those with low incomes to find ways to in- 
crease their incomes by their own efforts." 

Provision of an adequate diet for 
all the people of the United States j 
will not necessarily solve the food j 
problem of the country. The solution 
of the problem will depend upon how 
the people secure the adequate diet. 
If it is furnished to many people by 
public agencies, the problem will not 
be solved unless and until these peo- 
ple can secure an adequate diet of 
their own initiative and as a result 
of their own efforts. 

Merely expanding the provisions 
for public relief does not solve our 
problems. Such action takes care of 
immediate distress or avoids it and 
may prevent the problems of malnu- 
trition from becoming more acute. 
This is a temporary expedient. How- 
ever, the real solution of the prob- 
lem lies in getting those who benefit 
by relief purchases and distribution 



of food and by the two-price system 
into conditions where they can make 
adequate provision for their own 
needs. 

The real problem is to help those 
with low incomes to find ways to in- 
crease their incomes by their own 
efforts. To this must be added knowl- 
edge on the part of these persons of 
how to use their incomes in securing 
an adequate diet and other things 
needed for a desirable standard of 
living. This problem involves the 
production of goods and services not 
now produced but which the people 
of this country would like to have. 
There are many such goods and ser- 
vices. The problem is to get the 
would-be producer of them and the 
would-be consumer together so that 
their products may be exchanged. 



Total for Semester to Date Amounts to 
224 Individuals 

Nine fraternities announced 22 
new fraternity pledges, according to 
Dr. Harold Howe, faculty adviser of 
fraternities. This release makes a 
total of 224 fraternity pledges this 
fall. The men and their fraternities 
include: 

Alpha Gamma Rho — John Ban- 
bury, Plevna; Ned W. Rokey, Sa- 
betha; Wayne Ward, Elmdale. Alpha 
Kappa Lambda — Rodney Beaver, 
Ottawa; Jack Crupper, Hutchinson; 
Millard Fillmore, Emporia. Alpha 
Tau Omega — Roland Burke, St. 
Francis; Kenneth Graham, Natick, 
Mass. Phi Kappa Tau — Kenneth 
Dwyer, Topeka; Bill Krusor, Topeka. 
Pi Kappa Alpha — Adrian Moody, 
Norton; Robert Trotter, Topeka. 

Sigma Alpha Epsilon — Robert M. 
Dunlap, Liberal; Wayne Patterson, 
Junction City. Sigma Phi Epsilon— 
Dene Gober, Kansas City, Mo.; Boyd 
LaMar Rostine, Hutchinson. Tau 
Kappa Epsilon — George Bradbury, 
Minneapolis; Robert F. Gentry, To- 
peka; Bruce Watson, Shawnee; John 
C. Whitnah, Manhattan, Farm House 
— Glenn Thomas, Medicine Lodge; 
Glenn Weir, Hazelton. 



EVERY KANSAS COUNTY 

(Continued from page one) 
credit from other colleges and uni- 
versities was shown in the biennial 
report. 

During the biennium 1938-40, 
transfer students comprised about 
one-fourth of the total undergraduate 
enrolment, exclusive of summer 
school students. Transfer students 
in the junior and senior classes com- 
prised more than one-third of the 
total enrolment in those classes. 

Of the total of 934 transfer stu- 
dents in 1939-40, the Division of En- 
gineering and Architecture claimed 
the highest total with 292. A total 
of 216 was enrolled in physical and 
biological sciences and miscellaneous, 
196 in home economics, 130 in agri- 
culture and 100 in veterinary medi- 
cine. 

These transfer students came from 
22 Kansas junior colleges, from 17 
Kansas four-year colleges and from 
colleges and universities outside the 
state. 

Since the out-of-state fee was 
doubled at Kansas State College in 
1937, enrolment of out-of-state stu- 
dents seems to have become stabilized 
at between 400 and 500 a year, or 
about 8 or 9 percent of the total. 

The biennial report showed 455 
non-Kansas students enrolled during 
the 1938-39 year, which accounted 
for 9 percent of the total enrolment. 
In the following school year, 421 
out-of-state students were enrolled. 
They made up 8 percent of the total. 
States adjacent to Kansas con- 
tributed a large percentage of the out- 
of-state students. During 1939-40, 
Missouri sent 98, Oklahoma 13, Ne- 
braska 30 and Colorado 13. Other 
states with enrolments of 18 or more - 
were California 28, Illinois 25, New > 
Jersey 18 and New York 33. 



Writes Academy Handbook 

"Winter Twigs," a pocket-size 
handbook written by Dr. Frank C. 
Gates, professor of botany, is the first 
published in a series planned by the 
Kansas Academy of Science. Identi- 
fication of Kansas woody plants by 
their twigs is the subject treated by 
Doctor Gates in this booklet. R. J. 
Barnett, professor of horticulture, 
and chairman of the academy hand- 
book committee, praised the illustra- 
tions for their accuracy. 



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HISTORICAL SOCIETY C 

TQPEKA 

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The Kansas industrialist 



Volume 07 



Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Selence, Manhattan, Wednesday, January 8, 1941 



Number 14 



STATE VETERINARIANS 

OPEN SESSIONS TODAY 

KANSAS ASSOCIATION MEETING ON 
CAMPUS TODAY AND THURSDAY 



D<>im L. E. Call Opens GntherlnK This 

MorniiiK with Address of Welcome; 

Other Faculty Members 

on Program 

Kansas State College veterinary 
medicine professors will have a 
prominent place in the proceedings 
of the 37th annual convention of the 
Kansas Veterinary Medical associa- 
tion today and Thursday. Headquar- 
ters are in the Wareham hotel and 
meeting sessions are being held in 
room 13, Veterinary hall, on the Col- 
lege campus. 

L. E. Call, dean of the Division of 
Agriculture, addresses the opening 
session Wednesday morning. A re- 
sponse was to be given by Dr. K. R. 
Dudley of Iola. A colored sound film 
of the formation of a hen's egg was 
to be shown by the College Depart- 
ment of Poultry Husbandry. Also 
appearing on the morning's program 
are Dr. S. L. Stewart of Olathe and 
Dr. T. P. Crispell, Parsons. Wednes- 
day afternoon will be devoted to a 
clinic, pathology exhibits and busi- 
ness meetings. Dinner will be served 
at 6:30 at the Wareham hotel. 

A. V. M. A. PRESIDENT HERE 
Speakers included on the Thursday 
morning session are Dr. J. D. Ray, 
Omaha; Dr. C. G. Cole, United States 
Bureau of Animal Industry, Ames, 
Iowa; Dr. A. K. Wight, president of 
the American Veterinary Medical as- 
sociation, and a member of the 
United States Bureau of Animal In- 
dustry, Washington, D. C, and Dr. 
E. F. Sanders, Kansas City, Mo. 

During the r^ernoon session Dr. 
Hugh E. Curo •«'• the Kansas City 
Veterinary College Alumni associa- 
tion will present paintings of Drs. 
Sesco Stewart, R. C. Moore and A. T. 
Kinsley. Also appearing on the after- 
noon program will be Dr. L. D. Fred- 
erick, chief veterinarian for Swift 
and company, Chicago, and Dr. G. 
R. Moore of Kansas State College. 

In connection with the regular ses- 
sions of the association will be the 
ladies' program. A tea at the Man- 
hattan Country club and an auxiliary 
business meeting will be Wednesday 
afternoon. Dinner will be at 6:30 
p. m. at the Wareham hotel. Thurs- 
day ladies will lunch at the College 
Cafeteria. 

DOCTOR BURT IS DIRECTOR 

Dr. J. H. Burt, head of the Depart- 
ment of Anatomy and Physiology, is 
a member of the board of directors 
and an elective member of the execu- 
tive board for the association. Com- 
mittees for the association appointed 
by Dr. Roy L. McConnell, president, 
for 1941 include a number of Man- 
hattan and College members. 

Included on the committees are: 
Program— Dean R. R. Dykstra, chair- 
man. Dr. J. H. Burt, Dr. J. E. Frick 
and Dr. E. R. Frank. Legislative — 
Dr R. R- Dykstra. Finance — Dr. W. 
M. McLeod and Dr. R. P. Link. Re- 
lations and Publicity— Dr. J. W. 
Lumb. Necrology — Dr. J. H. Whit- 
lock. Arrangements — Dr. N. D. Har- 
wood, chairman; Dr. E. E. Leasure, 
Dr. R. P. Wagers, Dr. Herman Far- 
ley, Dr. C. H. Kitselman and Dr. G. 
R. Moore. Pullorum — Dr. J. W. 
Lumb, chairman. 



Matchers Resigns Potato Post 

Having served 20 years as chair- 
man of the program committee of the 
annual Kansas Potato show, Prof. L. 
E. Melchers, head of the Department 
of Botany and Plant Pathology, has 
asked to be relieved of this position. 
Professor Melchers has served con- 
tinuously on this committee and was 
instrumental in starting the first 
Kansas Potato show. Officers and 
board of directors of this organiza- 
tion of potato growers of the Kaw 
valley will select his successor in the 
near future. 



KANSAS STATE PRESENTS 
WORK IN 1,062 COURSES 

STUDIES ARE DIVIDED AMONG 41 
COLLEGE DEPARTMENTS 



60 KANSAS FARMERS ENROLL 
FOR SHORT-COURSE WORK 



Sears Roebuck Foundation Provides 

$50 Scholarships for Each Man from 

Eastern Part of State 



Sixty young Kansas farmers en- 
rolled Monday for an intensive four- 
weeks short course in the Division 
of Agriculture under sponsorship of 
the Sears Roebuck foundation. 

The Sears Roebuck foundation 
provides 60 short-course scholarships 
of $50 each to cover living expenses 
for the four weeks. The men were 
selected from counties in the eastern 
half of Kansas. Age limits are 21 and 
40 years. The average age of those 
attending is 25. Most of the 60 have 
a high school education and one has 
a college degree. 

Nominations were made by neigh- 
bors and friends. Final selections in 
each county were made by the Farm 
Bureau. Next year, according to Col- 
lege officials, selections will be made 
from the western half of Kansas. 

The 60 young men enrolled this 
year have been divided into two 
classes of 30 each. All departments 
in the Division of Agriculture are 
cooperating in giving the lectures and 
demonstrations which make up the 
short course. 

♦ 

Womer Works in Topeka 

Si Womer, who was graduated in 
agricultural economics last spring, 
began work recently as assistant 
county agent in Shawnee county. 
Mr. Womer headquarters in Topeka. 



Instructors Number 430 and Ench 

Teaching; Group Offers Average of 

20 Different Subjects 

for Study 

The Kansas State College catalogue 
listed 1,062 courses of instruction 
for the academic year 1939-40, ac- 
cording to the statistics included in 
the biennial report of Pies. F. D. Far- 
rell recently submitted to the State 
Board of Regents. 

These courses were divided among 
41 departments in the College, with 
4 39 instructors employed to teach 
the courses. The departments, which 
had an average of 10.7 instructors 
each, averaged 26 courses each. 
DECREASE OVER DECADE 
For the 10-year period ending the 
present academic year, Kansas State I 
College has decreased the number of 
courses offered by 58. 

Since the academic year 1931-32, i 
712 courses have been dropped and 
654 new courses have been adopted. 
KEEP COURSES UP TO DATE 
These figures provide evidence of 
three important efforts of the fac- 
ulty with reference to course offer- 
ings, President Farrell pointed out. 
They are the replacement of obsolete 
courses with up-to-date courses and 
reduction of the total number of 
courses offered. While these efforts 
have not been completely successful 
and while they must be continued, 
definite progress has been made dur- 
ing the past decade, according to 
President Farrell. 



Discusses Grain Grading 

E. L. Betton, inspector in charge 
of the Kansas State Grain Inspection 
and Weighing department at Kansas 
City, spoke at a joint meeting of Al- 
pha Mu, Tri-K and the Agricultural 
Economics club Tuesday night in 
Thompson hall. He discussed grain 
grading, using pictures in connection 
with his speech. 



DEFENSE TRAINING WORK 
STARTS IN ENGINEERING 

FIRST CLASSES UNDER PROGRAM 
MEET MONDAY 



Denver Alumni Dinner 

The annual Colorado alumni meet- 
ing honoring Prof. F. W. Bell and 
the livestock judging team will be 
held January 13 at 6:15 p. m. at the 
YMCA building, Denver. Reserva- 
tions for the dinner may be made 
with Walter J. Ott, '16, Agricultural 
Trade Relations, Inc., Patterson 
building, Denver. Mr. Ott is presi- 
dent of the Kansas State College 
Alumni association in Colorado. 



RESEARCH WORKERS AT COLLEGE SURVEY KAFIR 

AS POSSIBLE SOURCE OF COMMERCIAL STARCH 



KIGKAPOO, HUMOR MAGAZINE, 
HAS SUSPENDED PUBLICATION 



Issue of December 20 Is Last for Cam- 
pus Publication 

*' The suspension of publication of 

* Kickapoo, student humor magazine, 
has been announced by the advisory 
board of the magazine. The issue of 
December 20 was the last appearance 
of the magazine. 

The decision to suspend publica- 
tion resulted from the difficulty in 
getting sufficient material to make 
the magazine representative of the 
campus and because of the maga- 
zine's low financial status. 

The advisory board reserved the 
right to establish another humor 
publication later. 



An experiment to test the possibil- 
ity of using Kafir in the manufacture 
of starch is being conducted at Kan- 
sas State College in the hope of de- 
veloping a new Kansas industry. 

Since July 1, 1937, when J. W. 
Greene, assistant professor of chemi- 
cal engineering, began work on the 
project, numerous advancements 
have been made. Professor Greene 
was brought to the College then to 
work on the problem which was origi- 
nated by Dean L. E. Call, director of 
the Kansas State Agricultural Ex- 
periment station, and Dr. H. H. King, 
head of the Department of Chem- 
istry. 

The fact that Kafir possesses starch 
as a component part was known, but 
to separate it from the rest of the 
grain and develop it for suitable 
commercial use, as is done with corn, ; 
was the problem. 

The Kansas State Agricultural Ex- 
periment station saw from the be- 1 
ginning the great aid which would 
come to agriculture if a new market | 
could be developed for the easily j 
raised Kafir crop. Such a situation 
would permit western Kansas farm- 
ers to plant hundreds of acres of 
wind-swept, arid land where little 
else grows successfully, and at the 
same time tie the soil with its stubble 
and root system. 

A year after the tests began, the 
project was officially organized, with 
the Kansas State Agricultural Ex- 
periment station and the Kansas 
State Engineering Experiment sta- 
tion cooperating on finances. After 
its formation in 1939, the Kansas In- 
dustrial Development commission has 
actively supported the work. 

When the project was set up, the 
Chemical Engineering and the Chem- 
istry departments of the College were 
brought into cooperation, each as- 



suming certain phases of the expert- ] 
mental work. H. N. Barham, asso- 
ciate professor of chemistry, was 
assigned the task of directing the | 
chemistry tests, while Professor 
Greene continued in charge of the 
chemical engineering portion. Sev- 
eral students were enlisted to help. 

At present, Melvin Magilon, Kan- 
sas City, an industrial research work- 
er; Lyman Gessell, Manhattan, and 
George Sklar, Manhattan, under- 
graduates, are working with Profes- 
sor Greene. Assisting Professor Bar- 
ham is Dr. G. N. Reed, a chemistry 
instructor; John Wagoner, Hugoton, 
an industrial research worker, and 
Bill Williams, Topeka, a graduate 
student. 

Professor Greene's group has been 
interested mainly in the processing 
of the starch and finding of new uses 
and commercial application. Those 
under Professor Barham have been 
studying the properties of the starch. 
This work of testing, studying and 
examining the tiny kernels has gone 
on for 2 Ms years. Important discov- 
eries and accomplishments have 
been made, and the success of the 
projects now seems fairly certain, al- 
though many months of work are 
still ahead. 

Advantages of the Kafir over corn 
are cheaper production, possibility 
of processing more cheaply and in- 
creased value per unit of material, 
thus reducing the shipping cost. 

The principal barrier which the 
experimenters had to overcome was 
the difficulty of separating the starch 
from the grain, since the kernel is 
smaller than the corn kernel. With 
proper progress, however, it is be- 
lieved that in a few months every- 
thing will be in readiness for an en- 
terprising manufacturer to develop 
this new Kansas industry. 



MARLATT PORTRAIT IS HUNG 
IN PRESIDENT'S QUARTERS 

Picture of Bluemont College Principal 

Placed In Reception Room of 

F. D. Fnrrell 

A portrait of Washington Marlatt, 
first principal and founder of Blue- 
mont Central college, was hung in 
the President's reception room in An- 
derson hall December 23. The por- 
trait is by W. J. Whittemore of East 
Hampton, Long Island. 

Prof. John F. Helm, Jr., of the De- 
partment of Architecture said, "This 
is one of the finest portraits we have 
on the campus of Kansas State Col- 
lege and is a good addition to our 
art collection. It also is a well-de- 
served tribute to one of the pioneers 
in education in this area." 

The portrait was donated by 
Charles L. Marlatt and Abby Marlatt 
as a memorial to their father, Wash- 
ington Marlatt. 

Mr. Whittemore, the artist, has 
won many prizes in nation-wide ex- 
hibits. He has painted portraits of 
members of the staff of Columbia 
university and of the chief resident 
physician of St. Luke's hospital in 
New York City. He is an associate 
member of the National Academy of 
Art, has done art work in the State 
House in Montpelier, Vt., in the State 
House at Trenton, N. J., and at 
! Franklin Institute in . Philadelphia. 
He was born in New York City. He 
painted the Marlatt portrait from a 
photograph. 

Meanwhile the State Board of Re- 
i gents has approved the recommenda- 
tion that the tract of land recently 
given to the College by Charles L. 
and Abby Marlatt as a memorial to 
their father be named "Washington 
j Marlatt Memorial Park." This name 
j was recommended by a faculty cora- 
mittee, of which Dr. Roger C. Smith 
was chairman, and which made a 
study of the problems to be solved in 
protecting and utilizing the tract in 
accordance with the terms of the gift. 
*The land, located four miles north- 
west of the College, is to be used for 
recreation by faculty and students 
and kept as nearly as practicable in 
its primal condition. 



TWO DEPARTMENTS RECEIVE 
$3,000 FOR RESEARCH WORK 



Keltb Fund of Philadelphia Grants 

#1,000 and Institute of American 

Poultry Industries Presents $2,000 

Two grants, totaling $3,000, have 
been received by the Departments of 
Chemistry and Poultry Husbandry 
for research work on poultry prod- 
ucts, according to Prof. L. F. Payne, 
head of the Department of Poultry 
Husbandry. 

A study will be made of the meth- 
ods of treating egg shells to preserve 
the original quality of the egg. This 
work is made possible by a grant of 
$1,000 from the Keith fund of Phila- 
delphia. Arthur F. Peine, manager 
of a Manhattan poultry packing 
plant, was active in obtaining the 
grant for the project. 

The chemistry of poultry fats will 
be studied under the terms of a 
$2,000 grant received from the Insti- 
tute of American Poultry Industries 
of Chicago. Other animal fats have 
been investigated extensively, but 
little is known regarding the chem- 
istry of poultry fats. 

Dr. R. M. Conrad, poultry and egg 
chemist on the staff of the Kansas 
Agricultural Experiment station, will 
have direct supervision of the re- 
search work, which will extend over 
a two-year period. Professor Payne 
will cooperate in the direction of 
these investigations, to begin next 
semester. 



Initial Enrolment In Drawing Includes 

24 Men and Two Women Students* 

Other Courses Are Now 

Being Orjennlned 

With an initial enrolment of 24 
men and two women in engineering 
drawing, the first of the College's five 
courses in engineering training for 
defense industries began Monday. 

Applications are being considered 
now for the other four courses which 
will tentatively start the end of this 
semester, said Prof. W. W. Carlson, 
head of the Department of Shop 
Practice, who is in charge of the pro- 
gram here. 

WOMEN ARE ELIGIBLE 
Women as well as men are eligible 
for these special 12-weeks intensive 
courses in engineering drawing, ma- 
terials inspection and testing, tool 
engineering, explosives and aeronau- 
tical engineering. The present quota 
for the College is 250. 

The training, which will help meet 
the shortage of engineers with spe- 
cialized training essential to national 
defense, is part of a $9,000,000 na- 
tional project. Members of the Kan- 
sas State College faculty will be in 
charge of the classes here. Each 
course will require from 516 to 600 
hours of class, laboratory and prepa- 
ration. 

Professor Carlson, Prof. G. A. Sel- 
lers and Jacob Smaltz, all of the De- 
partment of Shop Practice, and Prof_ 
F A. Smutz of the Department of 
Machine Design already have made a 
preliminary inspection of the person- 
nel needs in key defense industries in 
the Kansas City area. 

MAY WORK'AT POKT 
One of the most significant courses 
will be explosives, which will be of- 
fered only at Kansas State College, 
Case and Purdue. Open to students 
with two or more years of college 
engineering training or the equiva- 
lent and a course in general college 
chemistry, this instruction is author- 
ized here as part of the national ten- 
dency to centralize munitions manu- 
facturing in the Midwest. Fort Riley 
probably will be used for testing, ac- 
cording to Professor Carlson. 

Professor Smutz is in charge or 
the engineering drawing course open 
to high school graduates with two 
years of mathematics. In this course, 
which began January 6, close correla- 
tion between drafting room work and 
shop work will be maintained. Thirty- 
six hours a week of intensive train- 
ing are required and, on completion 
of the course, the student should be 
eligible for employment as junior 
i draftsman in the federal civil service 
lor for industry where help of this 
j type is generally needed. The quota 
[ is 80 students. 

TO STUDY TOOL DESIGNING 
Materials inspection and testing 
work will be directed by Professor 
Sellers This course will have a 
quota of 40 men and women who 
have had three years of college en- 
gineering credit or high school stu- 
dents with experience in the field. 
Its objective is to provide training 
for inspectors to serve in the Ord- 
nance department, quartermaster, 
air corps and industry- 
Professor Carlson will be in charge 
of tool engineering. This will give 
training in the design of special 
tools so that the required quantity 
and quality of the product can be 
produced in the shortest possible 
time and at the least cost under the 
existing conditions. The government 
contract allows for 40 students who 
have completed three years of an en- 
gineering school study or its equiva- 
lent in training and experience. High 
school graduates with experience 
may be qualified. 

GOVERNMENT WILL PAY FEES 
To train graduate engineers in the 
aircraft industry, Prof. C. E. Pearce, 
head of the Machine Design depart- 
ment and director of civilian pilot 
training here, will head the work In 
(Continued on last pace) 



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Established April 24, 1875 



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Hilueu Khieuhbauh . . . Associate Editors 
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Except for contributions from officers of the 
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chanical work. 

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1941 



ANOTHER PHASE OF 'DEFENSE' 

That young Americans are being 
asked to defend their country and its 
cultural heritage, without having had 
opportunity to learn what that cul- 
tural heritage is, is the subject of 
an article in the December number 
of Common Ground, new periodical 
devoted to improving the basis for 
unity and understanding among 
Americans. 

Courses in the civilization and cul- 
ture of Rome, Greece and of con- 
temporary European nations are of- 
fered in abundance by our colleges 
and universities, but few offer even 
elective courses in the culture of our 
own hemisphere, says M. Margaret 
Anderson, author of the article. Her 
comment is based on a questionnaire 
sent to 300 colleges, of which 60 re- 
plied. Not all the 60 reported that 
they had such courses. 

"Awareness of our American back- 
ground and heritage should be de- 
veloped and developed now," Miss 
Anderson says, pointing out that the 
United States alone is made up of 
people from 60 different races, na- 
tions and religions, of whom 3 8 mil- 
lion have come into the United 
States within the last 100 years. She 
would proceed by developing rather 
than denying the cultures of our im- 
migrants brought with them. 

"No one who denies his heritage is 
quite the full and functioning person 
he might have been," Miss Anderson 
says. 

"Who are we in America? Do we 
really know? We look at each other 
with distrust, weigh names and back- 
grounds, build up walls of fear, sus- 
pect our neighbor of fifth column ten- 
dencies, while he in turn suspects 

us." 

Miss Anderson's plea is for courses 
dealing with American racial-cul- 
tural backgrounds such as New York 
university's course in "Racial Con- 
tributions to American Culture" and 
the work developed at Vassar in "De- 
velopments of American Culture" by 
Kenneth W. Porter, a Kansan. 

Although there are comparatively 
few college courses of the specific 
type mentioned by Miss Anderson, 
substantial progress toward the goal 

she would reach lias I '« made 

through widespread development of 
work in American history and Ameri- 
can literature which frequently em- 
phasizes the diverse cultural back- 
grounds of our people. The problem 
has been to free ourselves of a slav- , 
ish cultural dependence on Europe 
without at the same time becoming 
provincial and isolationist. 

In any event we can all share Miss 
Anderson's fervent hope that "if a 
student can learn to see himself and 
his family and the family across the 
tracks, all as vital parts of the con- 
tinuous and unfinished building of 
America, he may find something posi- 
tive to substitute for his restless and 
rootless cynicism now. ... We might 
find how alike we are in spite of our 
differences, that we are really one 
people from many peoples, that we 
all 'belong.' We might discover what 
it means to be an American." 
♦• 

KANSAS MAGAZINE 

Reflects Kansas 

The 1941 Kansas Magazine. Kansas 
State College Press, Manhattan. 50 
cents. 

The 1941 Kansas Magazine reflects 
Kansas more definitely than does any 



previous issue. This is good. There 
is an abundance of publications that 
appeal to general, or to highly spe- 
cific, tastes, but a surprising paucity 
of periodicals that emphasize the cul- 
ture of small American regions. In 
fact, the only ones of importance, 
aside from The Kansas Magazine, are 
the New Mexico Magazine (subsidized 
by the state) and Robb Sagendorph's 
Yankee. Yet the United States gains 
its distinctive quality largely by rea- 
son of the various cultures that exist 
here side by side. 

Generally speaking, the best mate- 
rial in The Kansas Magazine is strict- 
ly regional. A stranger reading this 
would get an authentic picture of the 
state. To me by far the most inter- 
esting contribution is Charles B. Dris- 
coll's "Notes for an Autobiography." 
It reflects the spirit of Kansas, but 
it goes further: it shows the impact 
of the state upon a highly individual 
family. I know Mr. Driscoll, but I 
never met his parents or brothers and 
sisters — I feel I know them now. I 
hope he will complete his life story, 
for it will make an outstanding 
American book. 

Close to Mr. Driscoll's article I 
should place John P. Harris's realis- 
tic but diverting "Booze and Ban," 
though I consider his estimate of 
3V 2 cases of assorted liquors per 
family, even among the well-to-do 
intelligentsia of Mr. Harris's ac- 
quaintance, a mite high. I was im- 
pressed also by John Ise's thoroughly 
sound "Philosophy for Farm Life," 
Catherine Wiggins Porter's autobio- 
graphical "By Covered Wagon to 
Kansas," William Chase Stevens's 
scholarly article on Kansas wild 
flowers and Avis Carlson's tribute to 
Cora G. Lewis, who was just what 
Miss Carlson calls her — "a great 
lady." The articles in the magazine 
deserve a conclusive A rating. 

As usual, the Action in the maga- 
zine is its weakest feature. While a 
good deal of it is regional, it does not 
add anything to my understanding of 
the region. "Pa and the Devil," by 
Lou Agnes Reynolds, is the most 
original of the stories, but lacks the 
crescendo that a more skilful writer 
of fiction would have given it. The 
bit from Sanora Babb's novel suffers 
inevitably through comparison with 
Steinbeck. William March's fables 
are amusing and some of them are 
penetrating, but hardly reaching the 
level of his realistic fiction. The rest 
of the stories in the magazine are en- 
tirely too slight. Why Kansans do 
not write fuller-bodied fiction would 
be a good subject for psychological 
investigation. 

There are some good essays — 
notably Rachel Maddux's "Now Is It 
April," which is a beautiful piece of 
writing and implicitly as much a 
story as most of what the editors 
label fiction, and Charles E. Rogers's 
"Mountain Asylum," with its wealth 
of emotional suggestion. 

The poetry is good magazine verse, 
showing observation, skill and a 
modicum of emotion. None of it ex- 
cited me very much — Glen Baker's 
"Three Bright Swords" perhaps most. 
My comment may show merely that 
I have grown old and unlyrical, for 
the verse is well up to the current 
literary standard, which no editor's 
lamentations are likely to raise. 

The art in the magazine should he 
— and doubtless will be — discussed 
by a painter, but with my interest in 
the regional I cannot refrain from 
expressing my gratification at the 
power and scope and architectural 
quality of many of the murals inter- 
preting Kansas life. Here is living 
art.- -Nelson Antrim Crawford. 



SCIENCE TODAY 



L. BARGER 



By E. 

Associate Professor, Department of 
Agricultural Engineering 



Campbell, treasurer; Rebecca Co- 
burn, marshal, and Jacob Lund, as- 
sistant marshal. 



When the motorist, owning a car 
of recent model, buys fuel, his prob- 
lem is fairly simple. While there may 
be three or four grades of gasoline 
available at the filling station, he 
knows that low-grade gasoline causes 
the engine to knock, or "ping." It 
runs better on "regular," so regular- 
grade or 70-octane gasoline is com- 
monly used. 

Modern cars have fairly high com- 
pression engines. Compression ratios 
as high as 6.5 to 1 are common. High 
compression engines cause fuels low 
in anti-knock value (called octane 
numbers) to detonate or knock. This 
eliminates from the fuels the motor- 
ist may use, most of the low-grade [ 
gasolines and certainly kerosenes, 
distillates and fuel oils. 

Airplane engines have still higher 
compression engines and frequently 
require premium and special gaso- 
lines of 87- to 100-octane rating. The 
performance and fuel economy of an 
engine are improved by increasing 
the compression, but by so doing the 
engine is made fuel sensitive. 

Tractor engines have not followed 
generally the trend toward higher 
compression ratios. Approximately 
90 percent of the tractors on Kansas 
farms are of a low-compression type 
capable of burning a wide range of 
fuels including the gasolines, kero- 
sene and distillate. Compression ra- 
tios between 3.8 to 1 and 4.5 to 1 
are common in tractors built today. 
There is much variation in the quali- 
ties of low-grade tractor fuels and 
many have been tested at Kansas 
State College with octane numbers as 
low as 0. The use of extremely low 
anti-knock fuels makes low-compres- 
sion engines imperative. A low-com- 
pression engine is basically an engine 
of low efficiency. 

About 75 percent of the fuel con- 
sumed in Kansas tractors is gasoline 
in spite of the fact that 90 percent 
were built for kerosene and distillate. 
It is not unusual to find two farmers 
living on adjoining farms, owning 
identical makes and models of trac- < 
tors, using fuels differing by 70 oc- 
tane numbers. The significance of 
this lies in the fact that it is not pos- 
sible, with methods known today, to 
build a spark-ignition engine to op- 
erate on the lowest grades of fuel 
that will also make use of the poten- j 
daily greater power and efficiency] 
possible with the better grades of, 
gasoline. Since so many tractor own- 
ers prefer to use gasoline, and in view 



of the fact that certain advantages 
are to be gained by burning the high- 
er grade fuels in engines designed 
for their use, a few manufacturers 
are now offering high-compression 
tractors and tractors with high-com- 
pression engines as optional equip- 
ment, and their use requires good- 
grade gasolines. As the situation 
stands, there is competition between 
the type of tractor engine which util- 
izes high-priced gasoline with high 
power and efficiency, but is unable 
to burn cheap fuels, and the type 
which will burn either cheap, low- 
grade fuels or gasoline with relatively 
low power and efficiency. 

Tests have shown that fuel costs 
of operating tractor engines could 
not be reduced by use of high-com- 
pression engines and regular 70- 
octane gasoline below that which re- 
sulted with distillate and low-com- 
pression engines with present Kansas 
fuel price differentials. The difference 
in price between tractor distillate and 
regular-grade gasoline is about three 
cents per gallon. Besides the ad- 
vantage in price, the distillates are 
heavier, weighing nearly a pound 
more per gallon. Since the heat value 
per pound of the two fuels is nearly 
the same, the distillate has about a 
10 percent advantage in heat units 
per gallon of fuel. This about offsets 
the inherently lower efficiency of the 
distillate-burning tractor. 

Why is it then that so many trac- 
tor owners burn gasoline when their 
tractors were built for cheaper fuels? 
The answers to this question rather 
generally sum up the tractor fuel 
problem. The easy starting and quick 
get-away of the gasoline-burning en- 
gine are more nearly in line with 
rubber tires, electric starters and 
other refinements of modern tractors. 
Distillate is too variable and nothing 
has been accomplished toward stand- 
ardizing its quality. Kerosene is uni- 
form in quality due to its use as lamp 
oil, but it is too high in price as com- 
pared with gasoline prices in this 
state. The saving when using distil- 
late instead of gasoline is not always 
great enough to offset the incon- 
venience and closer attention re- 
quired by the operator. 

Tractor operators are not generally 
informed relative to the precautions 
which should be observed for the suc- 
cessful use of distillate. In view of 
these factors, gasoline will no doubt 
continue to be the preferred tractor 
fuel in this state. It would seem that 
higher compression tractor engines 
are in order. 



KANSAS POETRY 

Robert Conover, Editor 



COUNTERSTROBCE 

by Alice Wilson Oldroyd 

I must remember moccasined feet 

That could walk lightly 

Even into the wind 

With the enemy on trail, 

And I shall walk lightly as they. 

I can use the trick of the rabbit 
To make a wide circle 
And my shadow will jump 
To the sheltering hedge, 
Then peril the road again. 

For I must be cautious and ready 
i When I reach the curve 

Where the ugly sign waits, 
! Pointing a certain legend 

That this is the way to take. 

There is a stretch ahead . . . Shall I 
creep, 

Shall I use scurrying feet? 
1 Powers of man, remind me 
1 I am out of the burrow 

And older brother to the savage. 

I might quickly grow wings 

And fly straight over the ugly world! 



Alice Wilson Oldroyd, Arkansas 
City, has written verses practically 
all of her life. Her Grandfather Wil- 
son printed her first poem in a big 
family scrapbook when she was seven 
years old. Mrs. Oldroyd has one pub- 
lished book of verse, "The House of 
Gold," and two brochures, "Mother" 
and "It Was His Birthday." She is 
vice-president and former president 
of the Poetry Society of Kansas and 
has been chairman of literature for 
the Kansas Federation of Women's 
Clubs and chairman of poetry for the 
Kansas Authors' club. 



SUNFLOWERS 

By H. W. Davis 

A CAT'S LIFE 
Living alone, except for the cat, 
is something you ought to try for a 
while now and then. Better make it 
a short while, perhaps. 



Mostly it gives you a high respect 
for the cat's superior ability non- 
chalantly to take the 24 hours of 
the day as they come and go, with or 
without cream and sugar. 



I honestly believe Snuzzy sort of 
likes living alone with me, although 
he hasn't confessed. You see, he is 
granted certain privileges not ac- 
corded at other times, particularly 
the one of sleeping in the needle- 
point chair 22 or 23 hours of the 24 
— if he wishes. 



I'm glad he likes the needle-point 
chair, for it is so antique I don't trust 
it. Besides, it pitches forward at an 
angle unfair to my life insurance peo- 
ple. I never use it except when com- 
pany has occupied all the others, and 
even then I brace myself firmly to 
forestall tumbling forward and 
smashing my lorgnette. 



IN OLDER DAYS 

From the Files of The Industrialist 
TEN TEARS AGO 

Louise E. Reed accepted a position 
as dietitian at the Cedar Lodge sani- 
tarium, Los Angeles. 

B. P. Petrie, '20, planned to leave 
in mid-January for the state of To- 
basco, Mexico, where he was to be 
government agriculturist. His head- 
quarters were at San Juan Bautista. 

Prof. P. A. Shannon of the Depart- 
ment of History and Government at- 
tended the annual meeting of the 
American Historical association at 
Boston during his Christmas vaca- 
tion. 



holidays at their homes in Wichita. 

Dr. F. L. Schneider, '02, was vet- 
erinary inspector, bureau of animal 
industry. United States Department 
of Agriculture, with headquarters at 
Albuquerque, N. M. 

Mark A. Carleton, '87, cerealist, 
Bureau of Plant Industry, United 
States Department of Agriculture, 
spent two days at the College while 
investigating wheat conditions in 
western Kansas. 



But it is of the cat's resignation to 

this troublous existence of ours I 

wish to speak — not of that squatty, 

', forward-passing, inanimate quad- 

j ruped we should have left in Aunt 

: Emma's woodshed. 



Nelson Antrim Crawford, editor of 
Household magazine, was head of the 
Department of Industrial Jouriia ism 
and Printing at Kansas State College 
from 1914 to l»2fi. 



Our American citizens are the best 
informed of any group of readers In 
the world, and only because they have 
a courageous and intelligent press. 
At their worst our American news- 
papers are better than the regimented 
newspapers of Russia and Germany, 
and at their best they are the very 
best known to mankind to date. When 
better newspapers are produced they 
will doubtless be produced by Ameri- 
can capitalists. — Neil MacNeil in 
"Without Fear or Favor." 



TWENTY YEARS AGO 
Dr. Mary T. Harman read a paper, 
"Relative Size of Pig Embryos," at 
the meeting of the American Associa- 
tion for the Advancement of Science 
at Chicago. 

Dr. J. E. Ackert of the Department 
of Zoology accepted an invitation to 
become a member of an expedivion 
to the Island of Trinidad for research 
in parasitic diseases. This expedition 
was under the auspices of the Inter- 
national Health board. 

Waldo E. Grimes, head of the De- 
partment of Agricultural Economics, 
attended the annual meeting of the 
American Economic association at 
Atlantic City. He also attended the 
meeting of the American Farm Eco- 
nomic association at Washington, D. 
C, where he gave his report as chair- 
man of the committee on teaching 
agricultural economics and farm 
management. 



FORTY YEARS AGO 
K. C. Davis, '91, after studying a 
year at Cornell university, was teach- 
ing; biology and botany in the Min- 
nesota State Normal school. 

The Kansas Academy of Science, 
at the annual meeting of the or- 
ganization, made ex-Pres. George T. 
Fairehild an honorary member of the 
academy. 

At the recent meeting of the State 
Board of Education, instructors' cer- 
tificates were granted to Stella Kim- 
hall, '94; Ada Rice, '95, and Albert 
Dickens, '93. 



Snuzzy, so-called because he looks 
and purrs that way, takes living 
alone with me in stride. To him it is 
no worse than having a truck-load of 
company barge in from somewhere 
to spend Thanksgiving a week earlier 
than one's governor thinks one ought 
to. When people cuddle Snuzzy, 
stroke him under the chin and assail 
him with baby-talk, he likes it. When 

j I merely eye him and ignore his 
snoozing in forbidden places, he likes 

: it. So far as I can tell it makes no 
difference to him whether he gets put 

J out of the house or is invited in. 
Imagine a husband that acceptive of 

| fate! He sleeps through Dorothy 
Thompson's most anguished appeals 
— a trick I am going to learn if it 
breaks me. He eats only what he 

! wants to eat, even when I have for- 
gotten to feed him for three or four 
days. 



The inertia of school systems to- 
day is a far more serious threat to 
democracy than any radical ideas 
which a few teachers may cherish. — 
Ordway Tead in Survey Graphic. 



FIFTY YEARS AGO 
S. S. Cobb, '89, was appointed 
postmaster at Wagoner, Indian Ter- 
ritory. 

J. W. Shartel, '84, was a member 
of the law Arm of Hackney, Shartel 
and Asp in Winfleld. 

J. G. Harbord, '86, was transferred 
from Fort Spokane, Wash., to Fort 
Sherman, Idaho, and promoted to be 
regimental quartermaster sergeant, 
Fourth infantry- 



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THIRTY YEARS AGO 
Miss Daisy Zeininger, instructor in 
mathematics, and Miss Charlaine 
Furley, assistant in English, spent the 



SIXTY YEARS AGO 
Newly elected officers of Alpha 
Beta society were W. J. Jeffery, 
president; B. L. Short, vice-presi- 
dent; Mary Quinby, secretary; Emma 



But most of all it is Snuzzy's un- 
concern about people that arouses my 
envy. A house jammed to capacity 
and a house with only the drip of a 
leaky faucet in the kitchen sink are 
one and the same to him. He enters 
either of them with a single, constant 
desire — to find himself a cozy place 
to be, straighten out a few kinks in 
his amber fur, leave all domestic, na- 
tional and international intricacies in 
the hands of God and go to sleep. 



What a price we gragarious, ethic- 
haunted mortals paid once upon a 
time for our consciences. It balances 
the trimming the Indians took when 
they sold Manhattan island for 24 
bucks. 



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AMONG THE 
ALUMNI 



Effle J. Zimmerman, B. S. '91, M. 
S. '96, writes that she enjoys reading 
all alumni and college news. Her 
home is at Bendena. 



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Ula M. Dow, D. S. '05, professor 
of foods and home management at 
Simmons college, Boston, writes: "I 
am very much pleased to claim my 
copy of the 'History of Kansas State 
College.' It is a stupendous task very 
well done. I have examined the Sim- 
mons library copy and I am exceed- 
ingly proud of it. Thank you for 
making it available." 

Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Melick 
are at Rochester, Mich. Mr. Melick, 
M. S. '07, is engaged in real estate 
business and Mrs. Melick is a psychi- 
atric social worker at the Ypsilanti 
State hospital. Their home is at 929 
West Fifth street, Rochester. 

Joe O. Lill, Ag. '09, M. S. '11, is 
an associate agronomist with the 
United States Department of Agricul- 
ture. His address is Box 306, East 
Lansing, Mich. 

Walter Van Buck, C. E. '11, and 
Hester (Glover) Buck, H. E. '11, live 
at 1970 Suffolk road, Columbus, 
Ohio. Mr. Buck is senior highway 
engineer for the Public Roads ad- 
ministration and has his office in the 
postofflce building in Columbus. Their 
daughter, Barbara, is now Mrs. Vance 
T. Locke. 

Charles A. Patterson, Ag. '14, and 
Maude (Marshall) Patterson, H. E. 
'14, have a son, Duane, who is a 
sophomore in mechanical engineering 
at Kansas State College. Mr. Patter- 
son is general manager of the Pear- 
son-Ferguson Chemical company in 
Kansas City. Their address is 1834 
Walker, Kansas City, Kan. 

Dr J. D. Colt Jr., B. S. '15, has 
been made a fellow of the American 
College of Surgeons. Physicians have 
to meet certain requirements as to 
training and experience before they 
are considered for membership in the 
college. Doctor Colt went to Chicago 
in October to attend the meeting of 
the American College of Surgeons, 
which includes prominent doctors 
over the country. 

Charles H. Zimmerman, M. E. '16, 
is manager of special products design 
with the Goodyear Tire and Rubber 
company. He has been with that 
company since 1917. He and Myrna 
(Lawton) Zimmerman live at 1120 
Avon street, Akron, Ohio. They have 
three sons, Charles Jr., 18; Donald, 
15, and Richard, 6. 

C. D. Hultgren, E. E. '17, and 
Blanche (Baird) Hultgren, H. E. '18, 
live at 323 Brush creek, Kansas City, 
Mo. Mr. Hultgren is assistant to the 
outside plant engineer for the South- 
western Bell Telephone company. 

Edith T. Hall, H. E. '19, is dietitian 
at the Missouri Methodist hospital, 
St. Joseph, Mo. 

Morris Evans, Ag. '20, M. S. '25, 
and Dorothy (Woodman) Evans, f. 
s. '16, have two sons. Kendall is a 
junior in industrial journalism and 
printing at Kansas State College. 
Paul Alan is 14. Mr. Evans writes, 
"I am still in charge of flood control 
surveys and keep busy going from 
Blackwell, Okla., to Roswell and Al- 
buquerque, N. M." This position is 
with the bureau of agricultural eco- 
nomics. Their home is at 3104 Har- 
rison street, Amarillo, Texas. 

Charles H. Stinson, Ag. '21, is 
agent for the Metropolitan Life In- 
surance company in the northeast 
and northcentral Kansas territory. 
His home address is 1914 South 
Twenty-Fourth street, St. Joseph, 
Mo He had been county agent in 
Kansas and Missouri counties since 
his graduation and prior to accept- 
ing this job. 

Prof. A. D. Weber, Ag. '22, M. S. 
'26, of the Department of Animal 
Husbandry received his doctor of 
■ philosophy degree from Purdue uni- 
versity last spring. He was on sab- 
batical leave from the College last 
year. 

Elfrieda (Hemker) Geil, G. S. '23, 
represented Kansas State College at 
the inauguration of James Franklin 
Findlay as president of Drury col- 
lege at Springfield, Mo. Mrs. Geil 
lives at 812 South Weller avenue, 
Springfield. 

Mildred (Swenson) Ott, I. J. '24, 
lives at 239 West Russell street, Bar- 
rington, 111. Her husband, Charles 
Ott graduate of Ottawa university, is 



Chicago manager of the Oil Trade 
Journal, Inc. 

Floyd M. Wright, M. S. '25, and 
Mary (Haise) Wright, Ag. '26, are at 
6321 Madrone avenue, Encanto, 
Calif. Mr. Wright is employed as a 
dairy chemist. 

B. A. Rose, M. E. '26, is section 
engineer in charge of the mechanical 
section of the transportation and gen- 
eral engineering department with 
Westinghouse Electric and Manufac- 
turing company in Wilkinsburg, Pa. 
His home address in Wilkinsburg is 
603 Woodside road. 

C. L. Erickson, I. C. '27, and Olive 
(Manning) Erickson, Ag. '27, called 
at the Alumni association office last 
fall. Mr. Erickson was on vacation 
from his duties as engineer for West- j 
ern Electric company, Chicago. 

James C. Bruce, C. E. '28, and j 
Ethel (Crawford) Bruce have two 
daughters. Evelyn Jean is 7, Bar- 
bara Ann, 5. Their home is in Little 
Rock, Ark., where Mr. Bruce is in 
charge of hydrology with the United 
States engineers there. 



LOOKING AROUND 

KENNEY L FORD 



Chanute Meeting 

Plans are being made for an alum- 
ni meeting at Chanute, with Hobbs 
Adams, head football coach at Kan- 
sas State College, as speaker. Janu- 
ary 16 has been set as a tentative 
date. Joe Limes, '29, coach in Cha- 
nute junior college, is in charge of 
arrangements. 



From the Fairview Enterprise: 
"M. M. Ginter (E. E. '29, M. S. '36), 
principal of the Fairview high school, 
has resigned his position to take up 
a year's active duty as captain in the 
Reserve Army corps. 

"He will leave here to be on duty 
at Fort Monroe, Va., for eight weeks 
training and will be permanently 
placed from there. Mrs. Ginter (Ada 
Hoper, f. s.) and two sons will remain 
in Fairview. 

"All Fairview is sorry to have Mr. 
Ginter leave for he has been an asset 
to the community, can adapt himself 
to any occasion or place. He has 
a personality that has won him many 
friends outside the school. He has 
been an excellent teacher and princi- 
pal and will be missed at church, 
where he took an active part." 

He is the son of M. H. Ginter, '00, 
and Mrs. Ginter of McLouth. 



Cleveland Alumni Meeting 

Alumni and former students of 
Kansas State College attended a 
meeting in Cleveland, Ohio, on De- 
cember 8. Kenney L. Ford, alumni 
secretary, showed pictures of Kansas 
State activities and talked on cam- 
pus affairs. 

Those present included Perry A. 
Cooley, '06; Robert A. Fulton, '05, 
and Fanny (Reynolds) Fulton, '05; 
David G. Willich, '38; Ray A. Carle, 
•05; W. L. Enfield, '09, and Mrs. En- j 
field; Helen Hannen, '23; Frank C. 
Harris, '08, and Mrs. Harris; Harry 
Johnson, f. s.; Bernice M. Light, '36; j 
M. Irene Piper, '31; Carl H. Sar- 1 
torius, '34, and Mrs. Sartorius, and 
Edith White, '38, all of Cleveland. 
Dr. E. R. Secrest, '02, and Helen 
(Hoover) Secrest, '04, and J. S. 
Houser, '04, and Bessie (Mudge) 
Houser, '03, all of Wooster, Ohio, 
also were present. W. L. Enfield was 
in charge of the meeting. 



Lacy, '35, and Mrs. Lacy, Jackson 
Heights, N. Y.; and the following 
who live in New York City: Bertha 
Jane Boyd, '29, Pauline (Compton) 
Ernst, '35, Lois Failyer, '07, Carroll 
D. Owensby, '40, and Beulah Thom- 
as, '39. 

— ■♦■ — 

MARRIAGES 

OVERHOLT— NELSON 
Carolyn Overholt, H. E. '40, was 
married to Dr. F. Eugene Nelson, 
graduate of the University of Min- 
nesota, August 3 at Milwaukee, Wis., 
home of the bride. Doctor and Mrs. 
Nelson are now at home in Manhat- 
tan, where he is an assistant profes- 
sor of bacteriology at Kansas State 
College. Mrs. Nelson is a member 
of Pi Beta Phi, social sorority, and 
' Omicron Nu, honorary home econom- 
ics sorority. She attended Stephens 
college before entering Kansas State. 
Doctor Nelson is a son of Frank D. 
Nelson, Omaha, Neb. He has his 
bachelor's and master's degrees from 
the University of Minnesota and his | 
doctor's degree from Iowa State col- 
lege. 



RECENT HAPPENINGS 
ON THE HILL 



With less than two weeks before 
final examinations, students are anx- 
iously figuring out their exam sched- 
ules. 



Dr. Theodore Paullin, instructor 
of history at the University of Kan- 
sas, will speak on propaganda at a 
joint YMCA-YWCA meeting at 7:30 
p. m. Thursday in Recreation Center. 



Birger Sandzen, Lindsborg artist, 
will speak on the campus January 
14 under the auspices of the Ameri- 
can Association of University Women. 
He will discuss the cathedrals of Old 
Mexico. 



During her vacation trip to Pasa- 
dena, Calif., where she saw the Rose 
Bowl game, Mary Marjorie Willis, 
Manhattan, had breakfast with Rob- 
ert Taylor, screen star, on the train's 
diner. 



< 



Pauline Patchin, G. S. '32, is cer- 
tification supervisor of the state de- 
partment of social welfare. Her ad- 
dress is 1313 Tyler, Topeka. 

Harold Lee Anderson, I. C. '33, M. 
S. '34, Mrs. Anderson and their 
daughter, Myrna Sue, have moved 
from Topeka to Baltimore, Md., 
where Mr. Anderson is employed at 
the Edgewood arsenal. He was with 
the Penn Mutual Life Insurance com- 
pany in Topeka. 

Marvin W. Freeland, E. E. '34, is 
electrical engineer in the Navy de- 
partment. He and his wife have a 
daughter, Marilyn Kay, born Novem- 
ber 24. Their address is 5020 Fourth 
street, N. W., Washington, D. C. 

Dwight I. Gillidett, Ar. E. '35, M. 
S. '36, and Esther (Wright) Gilli- 
dett, '36, have a daughter, Ann 
Wright, born May 4, 1940. Their 
home is at 7225 Penn avenue. Kansas 
City, Mo. Mr. Gillidett is with the 
Southwestern Bell Telephone com- 
pany. 

Leonard F. Miller, Ag. '36, M. S. 
'38, is assistant professor in the Eco- 
nomics department at the University 
of West Virginia, Morgantown. He 
was an instructor in agricultural eco- 
nomics at Kansas State College from 
his graduation until last fall. His 
wife is Katharine (Kilmer) Miller, 
I. J. '36. 

Allen E. Settle, I. J. '37, is with 
the public relations branch of the 
War department in Washington, D. 
C. In this capacity, he is serving a 
year's active duty. Mr. Settle for- 
merly was employed on the city desk 
of the Kansas City Star. Mrs. Settle 
(Dorothy Judy) was graduated in 
1938. 

Russell C. Buehler, '38, visited the 
Alumni association office before leav- 
ing for a year's active duty with the 
United States Coast artillery. His ad- 
dress is at Fort Amador, Panama 
Canal Zone. Mr. Buehler's home is 
at Seneca. 

Mary Frances (Davis) Anthony, 
H. E. '39, visited the campus in the 
fall. She was married last spring to 
Dr. Carter Anthony. They will live 
at Fayetteville, Ark, where he is vet- 
erinarian at the University of Arkan- 
sas. 

Joe Redmond, E. E. '40, has moved 
to 62 Nahant street, Lynn, Mass. "I 
shall probably remain here until 
about the last of March," he writes. 
"At present I am assigned to naval 
turbine-generator sets in the river 
works of General Electric here in 
Lynn. There are some seven or eight 
other Kansas State grads on G. E. 
test here, so we all feel quite at 
home." 



Add 18 Life Members 

The number of paid-up life mem- 
bers in the Kansas State College 
Alumni association has been in- 
creased by 18 since the list was pub- 
lished last September 18. 

The new life members have re- 
ceived free copies of Dr. J. T. Wil- 
lard's "History of Kansas State Col- 
lege," and their $50 payment is aid- 
ing students through the alumni loan 
fund. 

The new life members are: Francis 
L. Blaesi, '38, Cedar Falls, Iowa; F. 
M. Coleman, '37, Iola; Homer E. 
Dreier, '37, Kansas City; Henry T. 
Enns, '20, Des Moines, Iowa; Dr. L. 
K. Firth, '33, Akron, Ohio; C. A. 
Frankenhoff, '18, Plainfield, N. J.; 
A. Martin Hanke, '39, Bethlehem, 
Pa.; May Harland, '31, St. John; 
Mary J. Hill, '20, Marysville; Leland 
S. Hobson, '27, Drexel Hill, Pa.; M. 
M. Hoover, '24, and Luella (Schaum- 
berg) Hoover, '20, Arlington, Va.; 
Lieut. Glenn R. Long, '39, Pearl Har- 
bor, Hawaii; Hubert C. Manis, '36, 
Moscow, Idaho; Helen E. Paynter, 
'29, Philadelphia; Ruby Randall, '39, 
Neodesha; Charles Sardou Jr., '29, 
Downey, Calif., and Ted F. Yost, '20, 
Topeka. 



GEBHART— HJORT 
Frances Gebhart, I. J. '39, became 
the bride of A. Wayne Hjort, C. '39, 
August 3 in Salina. The Rev. J. David 
Arnold, pastor of the Christian 
church, Manhattan, performed the 
ceremony. 

The bride is a member of Kappa 
Kappa Gamma, social sorority; Theta 
Sigma Phi, honorary journalism so- 
rority; Mortar Board, honorary se- 
nior women's society, and Who's 
Who in American Colleges and Uni- 
versities. She worked the past year 
in an advertising agency in St. Louis. 
The groom is a member of Delta 
Tau Delta, social fraternity; Alpha 
Kappa Psi, commercial fraternity; 
Scabbard and Blade, military fra- 
ternity, and is now working for the 
A. S. Aloe Surgical Supply company. 
Their home is in Dothan, Ala. 



The new year finds students walk- 
ing to classes in snow, which some 
have found make good snowballs. 
People in ski-suits, boots or heavy 
fur coats seem not to mind the snow 
— or the snowballs. Many have been 
enjoying themselves guiding sleds 
down the hill. 



Pies. F. D. Farrell and Kenney L. 
Ford, alumni secretary, made a trip 
to Topeka December 19 to study 
Supreme Court decisions in connec- 
tion with the student union project. 
They said that a bill authorizing a 
student union fee and the issuance of 
bonds is being drafted and that ar- 
rangements are being made for the 
sponsoring of the bill in the House 
and Senate. 



DEATHS 



New York City Dinner 

Members of the New York Alumni 
association attended a pre-Christmas 
dinner meeting, with Kenney L. Ford 
as guest speaker, at Frances Bell's 
inn, New York City, on December 13. 
Arrangements for the meeting were 
in charge of Ralph W. Sherman, 
president. 

The group began its meeting by 
singing the Alma Mater song. After 
the dinner, each member and guest 
introduced himself and supplied in- 
formation concerning those sitting 
next to him. After these round-robin 
introductions, a reel of colored mov- 
ies was shown, with Mr. Ford de- 
scribing the campus scenes and Col- 
lege faculty as they appeared. The 
meeting was concluded with an in- 
formal talk by the alumni secretary, 
and a discussion among the entire 
group of topics concerning the life j 
of the College and its affairs. 

Particularly gratifying was the at- 
tendance of a number of more recent 
alumni who are now stationed in the 
metropolitan area, officers said. Spe- 
cial attention was called to the bas- 
ketball game between Kansas State 
and Seton Hall college. 

Graduates and guests who regis- 
tered at the meeting were: Grover 

D. Brown, '39, Brooklyn, N. Y.; For- 
est Ellis, '40, Clifton, N. J.; Joseph 
Wetta, '38, Mt. Holly, N. J.; Boyda 
Jo Lacy, '37, Catskill, N. Y.; Francis 

E. Johnson, '29, and Edna (Stew- 
art) Johnson, '28, Mt. Vernon, N. Y.; 
Sidney Mclntire, '31, and Mrs. Mc- 
Intire, Bridgeport, Conn.; Arlie E. 
Paige, '33, and Julia (Davis) Paige, 
'34, East Paterson, N. J.; Ralph W. 
Sherman, '24, and Mrs. Sherman, 
Bloomfield, N. J.; Mary (Brandly) 
Steiner, '26, D. C. Tate, '16, and 
Edith (Findley) Tate, '18, Westfleld, 
N. J.; Vernon M. Norrish, '26, W. C. 



SILKENSEN— McKEAN 
Ruth Silkensen, P. E. '3 2, and Rob- 
ert McKean were married September 
19. The bride is a member of Phi 
Omega Pi sorority. She taught in 
Dell Rapids, Beresford and Sioux 
Falls until in 1938, when she entered 
the School of Physiotherapy at Chil- 
dren's hospital, Hollywood, Calif., 
graduating in December, 1939. Since 
then she has been employed by Hunt- 
ington Memorial hospital, Pasadena, 
in the physiotherapy department. 

Mr. McKean is a native of Cali- 
fornia, attending school in Santa Ana 
and the School of Technology at the 
University of Southern California. 
He is affiliated with the Kappa Sigma 
fraternity. He is employed by the 
American Metal company in Los 
Angeles. 

The couple are at home at 509 
Fair Oaks avenue, South Pasadena, 
Calif. 



BERTSCHE 
Word has been received of the 
death of Frances M. Bertsche, G. S. 
'36, on June 7. Her death was at- 
tributed to cancer. Prior to her 
death, she was a technician at Salina 
clinics. Surviving her are her moth- 
er, Mrs. Walter Keyte, and brother, 
Samuel W. Bertsche. 

-— ■♦• — 
40 ADVANCED DEGREES WON 
BY HORTICULTURE GRADUATES 



BIRTHS 



Forrest Faulconer, '32, and Helen 
(Hughes) Faulconer, '32, have a 
daughter, Joan, born November 14. 
Their home is in Augusta, where Mr. 
Faulconer is with the White Eagle J 
Oil company. 

James Wallace is the name chosen 
by Dorothy (Baldwin) Van Tuyl, '34, 
and Merwin Van Tuyl, '37, for their 
son, born November IS. Mr. Van 
Tuyl is with the Kansas Power and 
Light company In Parsons. 

Roy E. Danielson, '33, and Helen 
(Aich) Danielson, f. s., are parents of 
a daughter, Karen Anne, born No- 
vember 7. Their home is at 1311 
Kellam, Topeka. Mr. Danielson is 
district National Youth administra- 
tion director at Topeka. 



Wilbur G. Heer, M. E. '34, and 
Eva (Wilson) Heer, are parents of a 
son, Kenneth Ray, born November 
11 at St. Mary hospital in Manhattan. 
The Heers live at 415 North Tenth, 
Manhattan. Mr. Heer is employed by 
the State Highway commission and 
works at the College. 



Mr. and Mrs. Merton V. Emmert, 
Cincinnati, Ohio, have a daughter, 
Bonnie Sue, born November 16. Mrs. 
Emmert is the former Twylah Grand- 
field, f. s., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
E H Grandfield of Manhattan. Mr. 
Emmert, '39, is the son of Mrs. Anne 
M. Emmert, Manhattan. Mr. Emmert 
is farm radio announcer for the Cros- 
ley Radio corporation station WLW, 
Cincinnati, Ohio. 



Survey by IJr. W. F. Pickett Shown Five 
Have Received Ph. D. neiereen 

Thirty-three master of science in 
agriculture degrees, five doctor of 
philosophy degrees, one master of 
landscape architecture and one doc- 
tor of osteopathy degree have been 
granted to graduates of the Depart- 
ment of Horticulture in the past 20 
years, according to 97 replies recent- 
ly returned to Dr. W. F. Pickett, head 
of the department. 

The major subjects of the five Ph. 
D. degrees, four of which were grant- 
ed to graduates of the first 10-year 
period, were plant physiology, two; 
entomology, two, and plant breeding, 
one. Of the five Ph. D. degrees grant- 
ed, Cornell university gave two, and 
the University of Chicago, Michigan 
State college and Ohio State univer- 
sity one each. 

The thirty-three M. S. degrees cov- 
ered a wide variety of subjects. Cur- 
ricula for which these advanced de- 
grees were granted include pomology, 
16; entomology, five; landscape gar- 
dening, five; vegetable gardening and 
floriculture, each two, and plant 
breeding, plant pathology and plant 
physiology one each. One graduate 
earned the degree of master of land- 
scape architecture from Harvard 
university. 

Only one, George A. Jennings, '21, 
deserted the biological field to take 
his doctor's degree in osteopathy. 

Although 24 of the M. S. degrees 
I were received from Kansas State Col- 
i lege, other graduates spread out all 
over the United States for their ad- 
vanced work. Michigan State col- 
lege granted three M. S. degrees to 
Kansas State graduates; Purdue uni- 
versity granted two, and the Agricul- 
tural and Mechanical College of 
Texas, University of Wisconsin and 
the University of Illinois each grant- 
ed one. The highest possible degree 
in his field, that of master of land- 
scape architecture, was earned by 
Charles E. Powell, '32, from Harvard 
university. 



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LOANS MORE THAN DOUBLE 
OVER THE PAST DECADE 

STUDENTS BORROW S57,00« DURING 
PAST TWO YEARS 



INFORMATION FROM EUROPEAN LOW COUNTRIES 
INDICATES POSTWAR MARKET FOR LIVESTOCK 



Alumni Association Fund Drawn Upon 

by 357. While 233 Other* Are 

Aided by Other Money 

in l»3»-40 

In the past decade, the number of 
students using student loan funds 
has increased from 183, who bor- 
rowed $21,948 in 1929-30, to 590, 
who borrowed $57,906 in 1939-40, 
according to the biennial report of 
the College recently submitted to the 
State Board of Regents. 

The total amount lent from stu- 
dent loan funds in the 25 years ended 
June 30, 1940, is $451,831. This 
sum was lent to 3,668 students, who 
borrowed an average of $123 each. 
GRIMES IS TREASURER 
During the academic year 1939-40, 
233 students received loans from the 
College loan fund, and 357 borrowed 
from the alumni association fund. 
Dr. W. B. Grimes of the Department 
of Economics and Sociology is trea- 
surer of both funds. 

As the loan funds are administered 
competently they provide for needy 
and worthy students not only pecu- 
niary assistance but also valuable ex- 
perience in the proper use of credit 
and in the discharge of financial re- 
sponsibility, Pres. F. D. Farrell 
pointed out. 

Funds used for student loans are 
made possible by sums contributed by 
alumni of Kansas State College in ex- 
change for life memberships in the 
Alumni association at $50 each and 
from gifts contributed solely for stu- 
dent loan purposes. 

STUDENTS GUARD HEALTH 
The report also showed that more 
than 90 percent of the undergraduate 
students at Kansas State College, 
utilized the service of the Department 
Of Student Health during the bten- 
nium 1938-40. 

The number of dispensary visits 
during the two academic years was 
90,268 as compared with 75,942 dur- 
ing the two preceding academic years, 
an increase of 19 percent. Approxi- 
mately one-half the dispensary visits 
were for medical treatment. 

During the five years ending June, j 
1940, no cases were found of typhoid 
fever, dysentery, diphtheria, polio- 
myelitis, encephalitis or cerebro- 
spinal meningitis. In the same five 
years only two deaths occurred 
among patients under the care of the 
Student Health service. The total 
student enrolment during the five- 
year period exceeds 21,000. 



By FRANK S. BURSON 
Extension Service Economist 

What is the livestock situation in 
the lowland countries of Europe? 

This is a question that interests 
stockmen, since a great decrease in 
livestock numbers might open a new 
outlet for United States livestock 
when the war is over. 

The information received from 
those areas has been rather limited, 
but reports indicate that the livestock 
has already been faced with a feed 
shortage. Reports from the Nether- 
lands, Belgium, France and Norway 
state that much of the livestock, in- 
cluding good dairy cows, is being 
rapidly slaughtered. Those countries 



have in the past depended heavily 
upon imported feedstuffs to support 
their important livestock industries. 
Even a partially effective blockade 
would greatly limit feed supplies. 

According to the Office of Foreign 
Agricultural Relations, not only will 
the reduced imports of feedstuffs 
curtail livestock operations, but 
these operations will be further cur- 
tailed because it has been necessary 
to restrict the use of grain for feed 
to increase the supply available for 
human food. 

A continuation of these conditions 
may mean a very substantial reduc- 
tion in livestock in the low countries 
if the war continues. 



IRVING ROOT SUPERVISES 

NATIONAL CAPITAL PARKS 



FIVE FACULTY MEMBERS 

HONORED BY CONVENTIONS 

Demi Aekert Chosen President of 
American Society of Parasitolo- 
gists at Philadelphia 

Five members of the Kansas State 
College faculty were elected to offices 
or committees at national conven- 
tions during the holidays. 

Dr J. E. Aekert, dean of the Divi- 
sion of Graduate Study and professor 
of zoology, was elected president of 
the American Society of Parasitolo- 
gists at the annual meeting held in 
Philadelphia last week. Doctor Aek- 
ert also was elected to the council 
of the American Society of Biologists. 
Doctor Aekert said that of the 100 
contributors to the programs of the 
American Society of Parasitologists 
10 of the men hold master's degrees 
from the Kansas State College De- 
partment of Zoology. 

A reference was made to Doctor 
Ackert's paper in the magazine News- 
week in its comment on the national 
convention of the American Associa- 
tion for the Advancement of Science. 
Dr. R. H. Painter, professor in the 
Department of Entomology, was 
elected a vice-president of the En- 
tomological Society of America. 
George A. Dean, professor of ento- 
mology, was selected a representa- 
tive on the council of the American 
Association for the Advancement of 
Science for a two-year term. 

Dr. H. H. King, chairman of the 
College athletics council, was chosen 
a vice-president of the National Col- 
legiate Athletic association. 

At the meeting of the American 
Association of Teachers of Journal- 
ism and the American Association of 
Schools and Departments of Journal- 
ism, Prof. R. I. Thackrey, head of the 
Department of Industrial Journalism 
and Printing, was elected a member 
of the association's council on educa- 
tion for journalism. 



Will Talk on Farm Credit 

Dr. W. I. Myers, head of the De- 
partment of Agricultural Economics 
and Farm Management at Cornell 
university and formerly governor of 
the Farm Credit administration, will 
speak at the agriculture seminar in 
the College Auditorium at 4 o'clock 
Thursday. Doctor Myers will discuss 
farm credit. 



28 FACULTY MEMBERS ARE 

RESERVE ARMY OFFICERS 



Survey Shows thnt Four Now Are on 

Leave and Two Others Have He- 

slKiied to Enter Service 

Twenty-eight members of the Kan- 
sas State College faculty are reserve 
officers who have kept their qualifi- 
cations up to date, a survey showed 
this week. The list includes 13 sec- 
ond lieutenants, eight first lieuten- 
ants, four captains, one major and 
two lieutenant-colonels. 

Four of the 28 already have been 
I granted leave of absence and two 
have resigned to enter active military 
1 service. 

They are Maj. H. E. Stover, an in- 
structor in rural engineering in the 
' Division of Extension; Capt. A. O. 
Flinner, assistant professor of me- 
chanical engineering; Capt. D. C. 
Taylor, assistant professor of applied 
mechanics; 1st Lieut. M. J. Peters, 
military property custodian; 1st 
j Lieut. A. S. Holbert. graduate re- 
' search assistant in zoology, and 2nd 
Lieut. J. Edward McColm, county ag- 
ricultural agent. 

In addition to the 28, two faculty 
men are members of the Kansas na- 
tional guard. They are Capt. C. H. 
Kitselman, professor of pathology in 
the Division of Veterinary Medicine, 
and Corp. Corbin White, assistant 
county agricultural agent. 



Library Additions 

Three hundred eighty-three books 
and other documents were added to 
the College Library since the begin- 
ning of the fall semester in Septem- 
ber. The new publications include 
279 books, 10 new periodicals and 
serials, 4 5 unbound documents and 
new subscriptions to four trade jour- 
nals. Two books written by F. A. 
Shannon, a former member of the 
Department of History and Govern- 
ment, are included among the new 
books. Mr. Shannon's books are "An 
Appraisal of Walter Prescott" and 
"America's Economic Growth," both 
published in 1940. 
■♦• 

SEVEN FACULTY CHANGES 

ANNOU NCED BY PRESIDENT 

Five Resignations nnd Four Appoint- 
ments Are Included tn 
Current List 

Seven faculty changes involving 
11 persons have been approved by the 
State Board of Regents. The changes 
which include five resignations and 
four appointments were announced 
by Pres. F. D. Farrell of the College. 
A. H. Zink was appointed instruc- 
tor in the Department of Mechanical 
Engineering, effective January 1. L. 
H Schoenleber was appointed assis- 
tant professor in the Department of 
Agricultural Engineering, effective 
January 1, to succeed Charles K. 
Otis, resigned. 

The resignation of Miss Lillian J. j 
Swenson, of the Library staff, has 
been accepted effective January 31.1 
Miss Martha Cullipher, now assistant : 
in the loan department of the Libra- j 
ry, will be transferred to the refer- 
ence department to assume the duties 
of the position formerly held by Miss 
Swenson. 

Sidney Holbert, graduate research 
assistant in the Department of Zool- 
ogy, resigned December 10. The res- 
ignation of Miss Genevieve Lundvick, 
instructor in the Department of 
Clothing and Textiles, was accepted, 
effective January 31. 

Miss Ruth T. Botz was appointed 
assistant extension editor, effective 
January 1, to succeed Miss Ellen 
Warren, resigned. Miss Mildred E. 
Anderson was appointed assistant 
professor and district agent in home 
demonstration work, effective Janu- 
ary 1, to succeed Miss Rachel Mark- 
well, resigned. 



WILDCAT CAGERS LOSE 
TO CORNHUSKERS, 33-23 

BASKKTBALL SftUAD IS PREPARING 
FOR OKLAHOMA SATURDAY 



College Graduate is Named inperlnten 

dent After 18 Years on Maryland 
PlniiiiinK Commission 

Irving C. Root, '12, assumed the! 
post of superintendent of the national 
capital parks in Washington on Janu- ! 
ary 2. For the previous 13 years, ( 
Mr. Root was chief engineer of the 
Maryland-National Capital Park and, 
Planning commission. 

Mr. Root passed a special civil ser- 
vice examination given to applicants] 
for the position of superintendent, j 
The new superintendent directed 
the establishment of park areas in 
Maryland near the District of Colum- 
bia and played an important role in 
the establishment of zoning regula- 
tions in communities of suburban 
Washington in the state of Maryland. 
Author of several works on zoning 
and community development, Mr. 
Root was associated with city zoning 
projects for nine years prior to ac- 
cepting his position in Montgomery 
and Prince Georges counties of Mary- 
land. 

Mr. Root was born at Topeka, was 
graduated from Kansas State College 
in 1912 with a B. S. degree and ob- 
tained an M. L. A. degree from Mas- 
sachusetts State college in 1918. 
Early in his career he spent three 
years as horticulturist with the Phil- 
ippine Department of Agriculture and 
served in the United States army in 
1918 and 1919. He is married and 
is the father of one child. 

Mr Root is author of the master 
plan for the city of Alexandria, across 
the Potomac river from the District 
of Columbia in Virginia, and recently 
completed a zoning study for that 

city. . . 

As superintendent of the national 
capital parks, he also will serve as 
consultant and ex-offlcio member of 
the District of Columbia Zoning 
board. 



NINE FRATERNITIES LIST 

PLEDGING OP 10 STUDENTS 



Total of 242 Das Been Chosen by Men's 
Organ IzntioiiK This Semester 

Nine fraternities at Kansas State 
College have announced 19 new fra- 
ternity pledges, according to Dr. Har- 
old Howe, faculty adviser of frater- 
nities. This release makes a total of 
24 2 fraternity pledges this fall. The 
men and their fraternities: 

Alpha Gamma Rho— Clarence Hos- 
tetler. Harper; Earl J. Splitter, 
Frederick. Alpha Kappa Lambda — 
Dennis Hemmer, Bushton; Lloyd 
Smith, Great Bend. Alpha Tau 
Omega — James Watkins, Manhattan; 
Max Houston, Colby. Beta Theta Pi 

David Gruver, Augusta. Phi Delta 

Theta — Larry Beaumont, El Dorado; 
Don Coulter, South Haven; Jack 
Greer, Winfield. 

Tau Kappa Epsilon — James Gil- 
more, Atchison; Orville S. Hill, 
Bloom; Leland T. Konz, Indepen- 
dence; Bob Stomp, Chanute. Theta 
Xi — Floyd Burket, Elkhart. Kappa 
Sigma — Tommy Coleman, Wichita; 
Farm House — Clair Parcel, Cold- 
water; Robert Gilchrist, Coldwater; 
Glenn Busset, Manhattan. 
♦ 
Volis Trial Is Postponed 
The trial of Paul Vohs, I. J. '26, 
who was scheduled to be tried at Tel- 
luride, Colo., in December on charges 
of criminal libel, has gone over to the 
April term of court. Mr. Vohs, who 
was called a "modern John Peter 
Zenger," is publisher of the San 
Miguel County Journal and has been 
sued because of publication of infor- 
mation regarding the expenditure of 
county funds by the commissioners. 
John Peter Zenger frequently is 
called the individual whose trial in- 
sured much of the freedom which 
the American press now enjoys. 



Although Kansas State Led by One 

Point nt Hnlf Time, Nebraskans 

Come Back to Pile Up 

HiiKe Lead 

Undaunted by a series of losses, in- 4 
eluding last night's 33-23 defeat by f 
the University of Nebraska's Corn- 
huskers, Coach Jack Gardner's Wild- 
cat cagers now are practicing for 
their game with Oklahoma here Sat- 
urday night. 

Although they were on the long 
end of a 13-12 score at half time, the 
Kansas State team was unable to 
stop the last-period rally of the Corn- 
huskers. Led by Don Fitz, who con- 
nected with a total of 12 points dur- 
ing the game, and Sid Held, forward, 
with nine points, the Nebraskans 
overcame their one-point deficit and 
added 20 more points for good mea- 
i sure. 

BEAUMONT SCORES NINE POINTS 
Larry Beaumont, husky Wildcat 
center from El Dorado, led the Wild- 
cat scoring with nine points. Tom 
Guy, Liberal, managed to connect 
with seven points from the center 
position before he left the game on 
fouls in the last period. Working 
together during the first half, Guy 
and Beaumont scored nine points be- 
tween them to spark their teammates 
to their first-period lead. 

Held of Nebraska broke the scor- 
ing ice during the second period 
when he dropped in a free throw to 
erase the Wildcat lead. A few min- 
utes later, when the Nebraska lead 
had been widened to 21-14, Beau- 
mont dropped in two long field goals 
and a free throw while the Huskers 
were making one goal, leaving the 
score 21-23, Nebraska. Three 
straight free throws by Fitz iced the 
game for the Nebraska team and 
started the final scoring tilt. 

LOSE FOUR EASTERN GAMES 
The Wildcats went into a slump 
while on their vacation tour of the 
Eastern colleges and lost four games. 
Their first game, with Villanova col- 
lege on December 27, they lost 51- 
34. The next evening, George Wash- 
ington university handed the Kansas 
State team a 48-25 beating. 

On the evening of December 30, 
the Wildcats played their closest 
VVT«"r"7vpnDMATinv HPan game of the vacation against Seton 
U. S. D. A. INFORMATION HMD ^ all coIlege , unbe aten in 30 consecu- 
tive games at the time. Larry Beau- 
mont, Kansas State forward, led his 
teammates in scoring, with nine 
points for the game, which the Wild- 
cats lost, 34-28. 

On January 2, the Kansas State 
University of Illi- 



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MORSE SALISBURY IS NAMED 



Milton S. Kisenhower, '24, Ileeomes Land 

Ise Coordinator. Leaving 

Publicity .lob 

Morse Salisbury, I. J- '24, was ap- 
pointed director of information for 
the United States Department of Ag- 
riculture by Sec. Claude Wickard, ac- ; team lost to the 



DEFENSE TRAINING WORK 

(Continued from page one) 
aeronautical engineering. To quali- 
fy for admission, students must have 
been graduated recently from an en- 
gineering course leading to a degree 
in mechanical, civil, electrical, in- 
dustrial or architectural engineering. 
The quota for this training is 40. 

Enrolment and laboratory fees will 
be paid by the government, but costs 
of textbooks, drawing instruments 
and living expenses must be borne by 
the student. Neither the government 
nor the College guarantees jobs upon 
the completion of the work, but the 
need for trained engineers is expected 
to become more acute, according to 
Professor Carlson. 

College credit for some of the 
classes is being considered where 
basic material overlaps, Professor 
Carlson said. 



cording to dispatches from Washing- j nois, 45-29. 

ton yesterday. i ♦ 

Mr Salisbury succeeds "f^^i W1BIIJIB SQUAD LEAVES 
pernXn ' und 'use'loTdmar^ | FOR TRIP THROUGH EAST 

January 1. Mr. Eisenhower previous- \ 

ly had been holding both positions, Conch B. K. Patterson nnd 11 Men Will 

with Mr. Salisbury serving as acting Be Cone for 10 nays; Lehl«h Unl- 

™. . " . verslty Is First Opponent 

Mr Salisbury was born in Cerro i Eleven members of the Kansas 
Gordo county, Iowa, but was reared state College wrestling team, i 



in El Dorado, Kan. He attended Kan- 
sas State College, being graduated in 
industrial journalism. After working 
on Kansas newspapers, he returned 
to the College to teach journalism. In 
19 26, he was a journalism instructor 
at the University of Wisconsin before 
going to the Department of Agricul- 
ture's radio service 10 years ago. 
Until the present appointment, Mr. 
Salisbury had been associate director 
of information for two years. 

Grant Salisbury, a senior in indus- 
trial journalism, is a brother of Morse 
Salisbury. 



EVERYDAY ECONOMICS 

By W. E. GRIMES 



the guidance of Coach B. R. (Pat) 
Patterson, left Monday on a 10-day 
trip through the East. Their first 
opponent will be Lehigh university at 
Bethlehem, Pa., Saturday night. 

Coach Patterson is taking three 
lettermen with him on the trip. They 
are Capt. Glenn Duncan, St. Francis, 
155 pounds; Verle McClellan, Wich- 
ita, 13 6 pounds, and Leland Porter, 
Dellvale, 165 pounds. Keith Collins, 
Junction City, 165-pound letterman, 
was unable to make the trip because 
of an injured elbow. 

Other members of the squad are 

Case, Coldwater, Robert 

Liberal, and Reed Sparks, 

121 pounds; Jim Vavroch, 

136 pounds; Cecil Paulson, 

145 pounds; Ben Tempero, 



" Prosperity and peace go hand in hand." 



War breeds intense nationalism. 
Intense nationalism breeds war. Such 
is the vicious circle in which the 
world has found itself during the 
past 30 or more years. The problem 
of the future is how to break this 
circle and promote conditions that 
will insure more enduring peace. 

The answer, as in all such prob- 
lems of human relations, is in better 
understanding. There needs to be 
better understanding of the relations 
among the peoples of the various 
parts of the world. The fallacy that 
one people can gain by taking ad- 
vantage of another people has been 



Clifford 
Dunlap, 
Wichita 
Oberlin, 
Onaga 



widespread. Short-sighted policies 
and programs designed to help a 
particular country by handicapping 
the people of another country almost 
invariably end in hurting the people 
of both countries. 

Prosperity and peace go hand in 
hand. Both, when enduring, will be 
widespread throughout the world. 
The people of this country should 
glory in prosperity in other countries 
if and when it ever comes again, for 
such prosperity is one of the surest 
ways to bring prosperity to this 
country and enduring peace through- 
out the world. 



Clay Center, and Carleton Cooper, 
St. John, 175 pounds, and John Han- 
cock, St. Francis, heavyweight. 

The other matches scheduled fos- 
the trip include Virginia Military in- 
stitute at Lexington, Va., on January 
13; Virginia Polytechnic institute at 
Blacksburg, Va., on January 14, and 
Vanderbilt university at Nashville, 
Tenn., on January 15. 



r 



A. A. U. P. Meets Today 

The Kansas State College chapter 
of the American Association of Uni- 
versity Professors will meet at 4 p. 
m. today in Calvin 107. Miss Tessie 
Agan, assistant professor of house- 
hold economics, will report concern- 
ing sick leave. 



HISTORICAL SOCIETY C 

TOPEKA 

KAN. 



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The Kansas Industrialist 



Volume 67 



Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, Manhattan, Wednesday, January 15, 1941 



Number 15 



FIELDHOUSE SUPPORTERS 
PARADE THROUGH TOWN 

STUDENT SIGNS TELL OP NERDS 
FOR NEW BUILDING 



Marlatt Portrait Hung in Anderson Hall 



R. O. T. C. Units, Collene Blind and 

Other OrsrnnlBntlons Participate 

In Plea for Structure to 

Replace Gym 

A caravan of between 50 and 75 
gaily decorated automobiles, loaded 
with wildly cheering students waving 
signs and banners, invaded Aggie- 
ville and Manhattan Monday after- 
noon to emphasize the students' plea 
for a new fleldhouse to replace Nich- 
ols Gymnasium. 

Originally scheduled for a month 
ago when it was postponed because 
of snow, the parade was held despite 
a slight mist and cold wind. The bad 
weather only increased the students' 
enthusiasm. 

POSTPONED FROM DECEMBER 
Sponsored by the all-school fleld- 
house committee, the demonstration 
continued from the campus to down- 
town Manhattan and back to Aggie- 
ville. Delegations from many cam- 
pus organizations, several units of 
the Reserve Officers' Training corps, 
cheerleaders, members of pep or- 
ganizations, members of the Manhat- 
tan Junior Chamber of Commerce 
and approximately 500 additional stu- 
dents comprised the parade person- 
nel. 

The College band and R. O. T. C. 
marching units led the parade 
through Aggieville but did not con- 
tinue down town because of the rain. 
A lineup of cars, two or three abreast, 
carried the students through the 
downtown business section, tying up 
all other traffic. 

GIVE CHANT DOWN TOWN 
The group halted at the corner of 
Poyntz avenue and Fourth street 
while cheerleaders led yells and be- 
gan the "We Want a Fieldhouse" 
chant. 

The parade, planned by student 
fleldhouse leaders, climaxed an exten- 
sive campaign on the eve of the con- 
vening of the State Legislature. It 
is through appropriations from the 
Legislature that Kansas State hopes 
to get the new building. 
♦ 

SHAVER AND CRAFT CHOSEN 
FOR CAPPER SCHOLARSHIPS 




Given Bibliography 

The Department of Poultry Hus- 
bandry recently obtained an anno- 
tated bibliography of the various 
vitamins whose chemical identities 
are known, particularly the various 
component parts of vitamin B com- 
plexes such as parthotentic acid, 
nicotinic acid, vitamin B„ vitamin 
B„ and riboflavin. This bibliography 
was presented to the Poultry de- 
partment by Merck and Company, 
Inc., of Rahway, N. J. 
-•■- - 

MILITARY SCIENCE BUILDING 
IS APPROVED BY PRESIDENT 



ENGINEERS' OPEN HOUSE 
IS SET FOR MARCH 1415 

BERT SELLS, WICHITA, SELECTED 
AS SHOW MANAGER 



Proposed Structure Would Cost «125,000 

If Stnte Provides «25,00O 

and PWA Approves 

Pies. F. D. Farrell Tuesday signed 
an application, subject to approval of 
the State Board of Regents, asking 
the Kansas Legislature to appropri- 
ate $25,000 as the sponsor's share 
for a military science building at 
Kansas State College. 

The proposed structure, a Public 
Works administration project, would 
cost approximately $125,000. 

President Farrell had the authori- 
ty of the State Board of Regents to 
make the application. The applica- 
tion was sent by the President to the 
chairman of the State Board of Re- 
gents. 

If and when the State Board of 
Regents approves the application it 
will go to the State Legislature. 



The above-pictured portrait of Washington Marlatt, first principal and a 
founder of Bluemont Central College, by W. J. Whittemore of East Hampton, 
Long Island, has been hung in the President's reception room in Anderson 
hall. The painting is the gift of Charles L. Marlatt and Abby Marlatt as a 
memorial to their father. 



KIRKE MECHEM DISCUSSES 

CORONADO'S ANNIVERSARY 



Dean Justin's Appointment Furthers 

Existing Study of Human Nutrition 

Six Other Faculty Members Are Named by Gov. Payne H. Ratner to Kansas 
Committee Working on Non-Military National Defense Activities 



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M. II. Coe Announce* Selection of Out- 
standing 4-H Club Lenders to 
Study at Kansas State 

Winners of Capper scholarships 
for outstanding 4-H club leadership 
in 104 are Helen Craft, Finney 
county, and James Shaver, Sherman 
county, M. H. Coe, state club leader, 
announced this week. Bach will re- 
ceive a $150 scholarship to Kansas 
State College awarded by Sen. Arthur 
Capper. 

Miss Craft has been a member of 
the Wide Awake club of Finney coun- 
ty for eight years, during the past 
four of which she has been an out- 
standing junior leader. She has been 
outstanding in county activities and 
in home economics projects, having 
completed 26 projects in her club 
career. She was state home econom- 
ics champion in 1939, a member of 
the state dairy foods demonstration 
team which competed at the National 
Dairy show in 1940 and county style 
revue champion in 1940. Her ac- 
complishments are all the more re- 
markable for the fact that she has 
been homemaker for a family of five 
since her mother died some years ago. 

Shaver has been a 4-H club mem- 
ber for 11 years and has completed 
three years of junior leadership 
work. He has assisted in the Beaver 
Valley club of Sherman county by 
supervising sheep projects and coach- 
ing demonstration and judging teams. 
He has completed 25 projects, par- 
ticipated in 12 judging contests and 
has been a member of four demon- 
stration teams. He represented Sher- 
man county in state competition in 
the best groomed boy contest and 
was president of a model meeting 
group which was awarded a blue rib- 
bon in state competition at the round- 
up in 1940. 



When Gov. Payne H. Ratner ap- 
pointed Dean Margaret Justin of the 
Division of Home Economics as chair- 
woman of a 15-member state com- 
mittee on human nutrition in na- 
tional defense last Saturday, he was 
building upon a campus committee 
already in operation. 

Since early fall, Dean Justin and 
six other members of the Kansas 
State College faculty, all of whom 
have been named on the state com- 
mittee, have been working towards 
better nutrition among College stu- 
dents as the first step in health as a 
basis of national defense. 

This group, originally appointed 
by Pies. F. D. Farrell, includes Dean 
Justin; Dr. Martha Pittman, head of 
the Department of Food Economics 
and Nutrition; Miss Georgiana 
Smurthwaite, state home demonstra- 
tion leader; Dr. W. E. Grimes, head 
of the Department of Economics and 
Sociology; Dr. J. S. Hughes, who is 
in charge of animal nutrition, Agri- 
cultural Experiment station; Dr. M. 
W. Husband, head of the Department 
of Student Health, and Dr. Katha- 
rine Roy, head of the Department of 
Child Welfare and Euthenics. 

"National defense is not only 
equipping armies and navies, it is 
also building up the health of all our 
people," said Dean Justin. "The com- 
mittee will probably focus its atten- 
tion upon ways and means of mak- 
ing Kansas people stronger, steadier 
and saner in their daily living to 
help make America strong." 

Of the 130,000,000 persons in the 
United States, 45,000,000 are below 
the safety line in health because of 
improper nutrition, Dean Justin ex- 
plained. This is due to lack of knowl- 
edge as well as to inadequate in- 
comes. To combat this, similar com- 
mittees on nutrition are being ap- 
pointed in many states. 

Preliminary plans for better nu- 
trition among the College students 
include diet clinics to be held by the 
Department of Student Health to 
work out individual diet problems, 
publicity on correct foods and how 



to buy them economically, special bul- 
letins, lectures and emphasis on en- 
rolment in the course in applied nu- 
trition. 

Emphasis on correct diets in rela- 
tion to national health and defense 
already has been made in educational 
material and radio programs spon- 
sored by the Division of College Ex- 
tension. 



C. CUNNINGHAM, '03, 

HEADS KANSAS AG BOARD 



.1. B. Anele, '10, Chosen Vice-President, 

While Gnylord Miinson, '33, 

Named to Board 

C. C. Cunningham, Ag. '03, El Do- 
rado, was chosen president of the 
Kansas State Board of Agriculture at 
its annual convention in Topeka last 
week. J. B. Angle, Ag. '19, Court- 
land, retiring treasurer, was selected 
vice-president for the coming year. 

Gaylord Munson, Ag. '33, Junction 
City, president of the Kansas State 
College Alumni association, was the 
only new member of the board chosen 
at the recent meeting. 

Prof. R. I. Throckmorton, head of 
the Department of Agronomy, spoke 
on the grassland agriculture sympo- 
sium Thursday, voicing a plea for 
more grass lands in the state. 

"Kansas needs more grazing, espe- 
cially on farm pastures," Professor 
Throckmorton said. "It needs graz- 
ing to supplement cash crop agricul- 
ture. It needs grazing to protect 
great areas of the state from erosion 
due to wind and rain and finally, it 
needs more grazing to improve the 
structure of the soil in many areas 
of the state." 

The Kansas State College agrono- 
mist suggested the following methods 
for increasing the quality of the Kan- 
sas grasses: 

(1) Deferred grazing, especially on 
bluestem grasses. 

(2) Rotation grazing, especially in 
short-grass pastures. 

(3) Elimination of noxious weeds 
and brush where possible. 



Social Club Also Hears Presentation 

of "Ballad for Americans" 

on Monday 

Kirke Mechem, Topeka, secretary 
of the Kansas State Historical soci- 
ety and author of the play, "John 
Brown," discussed Coronado at the 
meeting of the College Social club 
Monday afternoon. The quartocen- 
tennial of Coronado's visit to Kansas 
is being observed this year. 

In his talk, Mr. Mechem, who is 
writing a play about Coronado, said 
that it was 400 years ago this week 
that Coronado and his small band of 
about 50 men entered Kansas on 
their trip from Mexico City to the 
Middle West in quest of Quivera, the 
cities of gold. They were the first 
white men to come to this part of the 

country. 

The program included the presen- 
tation of the "Ballad for Americans" 
by Mrs. C. V. Gundy, Miss Mary Pas- 
ley, sopranos; Miss Hilda Grossmann, 
assistant professor of music, con- 
tralto; Edwin Sayre, associate profes- 
sor of music, Leon Findley, tenors; 
i Hal Eyestone, bass; Prof. William 
1 Lindquist, baritone. Charles Strat- 
ton, assistant professor of music, ac- 
companied. 

After the club meeting, Mr. and 
Mrs. Mechem were entertained at an 
informal tea in Kedzie hall by staff 
members and students of the Depart- 
ment of Industrial Journalism and 

Printing. 

•♦ 

MARTIN AND WILLIAMS HEAD 
SECOND-SEMESTER COLLEGIAN 



Present Plnns Provide for "World's 

Pair" Themes Steel Rlnur Again Offers 

Trophy for the Outstanding 

Departmental Exhibit 

The 21st annual Engineers* Open 
House will be March 14 and 15. Rob- 
ert Washburn, Manhattan, publicity 
director, said that a "world's fair" 
aspect will be given the show, ac- 
cording to present plans. 

A trophy will be offered by Steel 
Ring, engineering honorary organi- 
zation, again this year to the most 
outstanding departmental exhibit. In 
recent years the Departments of Ar- 
chitectural and Electrical Engineer- 
ing have won the trophy. 

BERT SELLS IS MANAGER 
Bert Sells, Wichita, Open House 
manager and senior in mechanical 
engineering, announced committee 
heads and reported that many have 
selected their committees. 

The committee heads as announced 
by Sells are George Packer, Manhat- 
tan, chemical engineering; Howard 
Zeidler, Girard, electrical engineer- 
ing; Garland Childers, Augusta, civil 
engineering; Galen Sollenberger, 
Hutchinson, architectural engineer- 
ing; Gerald Van Vleet, Danbury, 
Neb., agricultural engineering; Al 
Schwerin, Kansas City, Mo., mechani- 
cal engineering; James Walker, Em- 
poria, programs; Charles Webb, Hill 
City, assembly. 

SPEAR ACTS AS SECRETARY 
Robert Huffman, Kansas City, Mo., 
aeronautics; Arthur McGovern, Sche- 
nectady, N. Y., shop practice; Robert 
Washburn, Manhattan, publicity di- 
rector; Dennis Murphy, Little River, 
and Walter Singleton, Tribune, pe- 
troleum; Duane Davis, Beloit, and 
Raymond Adams, Manhattan, phys- 
ics; Carl Petti John, Talmo, chemis- 
try; Aubrey Park, Oakley, routing; 
Victor Mellquist, Manhattan, prom; 
Allen Smoll, Wichita, decorations and 
lighting; Victor Stockebrand, applied 
mechanics; Frank Bates, Topeka, 
military; Clyde Bateman, signs; 
Claredon Sigley, Canton, mathemat- 
ics; Neil Vanderwilt, Solomon, de- 
sign, and Bert Sells, Wichita, ad- 
ministration. 

Larry Spear, Mission, junior in 
mechanical engineering, will be sec- 
retary of 1941 Open House. 



JACK CARLIN ELECTED HEAD 
OF SHORT-COURSE STUDENTS 



Pratt Youth Will Be Editor; Parsons 
Boy Named Business MnnnKer 

Walter Martin, Pratt, and John 
Williams, Parsons, have been se- 
lected as editor and business man- 
ager, respectively, of The Kansas 
State Collegian, student semiweekly 
newspaper, for the second semester. 
The new editor and business man- 
ager, selected by the Board of Stu- 
dent Publications, succeed James 
Kendall, Dwight, and Murray Mason, 
Manhattan. 

Martin, a senior in the Department 
of Industrial Journalism and Print- 
ing, has worked on the Collegian staff 
for 2 1-2 years. Last semester he was 
copy editor. He has been employed 
as a reporter on the Pratt Daily Trib- 
une for 15 months. 

Williams is a senior in journalism. 
For the past two semesters he has 
been assistant to the advertising 
manager on the Collegian. Before 
coming to Kansas State, Williams 
was business manager of the Parsons 
junior college paper. 



Sears Hocbuck Foundation Scholars 

Choose Sallnnn as President 

of Group 

Jack Carlin, Salina, has been 
(elected president of the group of 60 
young Kansas farmers enrolled at 
the College for a four-weeks short 
course in the Division of Agriculture. 
Other officers of the recently or- 
ganized group include Robert Jardon, 
j Baldwin, vice-president; Everett O. 
Sweet, Republic county, secretary; 
I Robert Schlagel, Olathe, treasurer. 

The short course in agriculture is 
j under the sponsorship of the Sears 
! Roebuck foundation. The Sears foun- 
j dation provides the 60 short-course 
'scholarships of $50 each to cover 
living expenses for the four weeks. 
The 60 men were selected from coun- 
ties in the eastern half of Kansas. 
Age limits are 21 and 40 years. Next 
year, according to College officials, 
selections will be made from the west- 
ern half of Kansas. 

The 60 young men enrolled this 
year have been divided into two 
classes of 30 each. All departments 
in the Division of Agriculture are 
cooperating in giving the lectures and 
demonstrations which make up the 
short course. 



Speaks at High School 

Miss Louise Everhardy of the De- 
partment of Art at the College talks 
to the art class at the junior high 
school in Manhattan, Wednesday, 
January 15. Miss Everhardy will dis- 
cuss "Costumes of Southwest In- 
dians." 



The KANSAS INDUSTRIALIST 

Kstabli8h.nl April 24, 1875 



R. I. Thackbby Editor 

.lANi Rockwell. Ralph Lashbrook. 

Hilliih K KiBOHBAUM . . . Associate Editors 
Kiimir Fobd Alumni Editor 



Published weekly during the college year by 
the Kansas State College of Agriculture and 
Applied Science. Manhattan, Kansas. 



Except for contributions from officers of the 
college and members of the faculty, the articles 
In Tiik Kansas Industrialist are written by 
students in the Department of Industrial Jour- 
nalism and Printing, which also does the me- 
chanical work. 

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as second-class matter October 27. 1918. Act 
of July 10. 1894. 



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MEMBER I 

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PRESSflSSOCIflTION 



WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1941 



problems is possibly the best. If more 
city folk could read this, they would 
have a more sympathetic understand- 
ing of the difficulties of America's 
farmers. While the authors say that 
"all farm problems either overlap or 
are closely related," they divide, for 
convenience, the field into the three 
subjects of overproduction, unbal- 
ance between agriculture and indus- 
try, and insecurity. 

"Agriculture is something more 
than a job to pick up and lay down 
at will," they write. "Farming is a 
way of life, binding the farmer to the 
soil by a thousand strands which can- 
not easily be broken without also de- 
stroying the farmer, and through 
him the society he feeds and clothes." 
Mr. Beard and Mr. Smith say that 
the New Deal undertook "the com- 
plete reorganization of agriculture." 
They argue that it was necessary and 
that the goal has come near to being 
achieved through "a complete and 
planned control of certain commodi- 
ties from farm to consumer." 

The authors point out that the 
great weakness of the New Deal's ag- 
ricultural program comes from the 
extent to which its execution depends 
upon public moneys. Although the 
Department of Agriculture is work- 
ing, the authors say, to make the 
farm program self-financing and 
self-sustaining, ultimate success rests 
upon an expansion of industrial pro- 
duction to enlarge the farmers' cash 
market. 

American foreign policy since 
1933 is divided by the authors into 
four great sectors: American con- 
tinentalism (1933-1935), competing 
policies (1935-1937), collective In- 
ternationalism (1937 until June, 
1940) and the current "aid to Brit- 
ain" phase. The United States has 
worked itself into a state which ap- 
proaches "an alliance with Great 
Britain, real if only tacit, which was 
likely to be brought into play at any 
moment by events in Europe or Asia 
or both." This is the Charles Beard 
of yore. — Hillier Krieghbaum. 




SHARING THE HAZARDS 

Since 1938 several hundred thou- 
sand wheat growers, under the direc- 
tion of the Federal Crop Insurance 
corporation, have been sharing the 
hazards of wheat production. For the 
past two crop years all-risk insur- 
ance for wheat has been available. 
Winter wheat growers numbering 
375,403 have insurance contracts 
for their 1941 wheat crop. It is ex- 
pected that 100,000 spring wheat 
growers will obtain similar contracts 
for the present year. 

The 1941 winter wheat insurance 
contracts cover more than 9% mil- 
lion acres. The premiums, which may 
be paid in wheat, amount to nearly 
12 4 million bushels, or an average 
of about 1.3 bushels an acre. The 
contracts cover a total production of 
almost 99 million bushels, or an aver- 
age of a little more than 10 bushels 
an acre. The insured farmer, on the 
average, is assured this quantity of 
wheat or its cash equivalent regard- 
less of the fate of his own crop. 

In the two crop years, 1939 and 
1940, that the plan has been in opera- 
tion, indemnity payments have ex- 
ceeded premium payments. In 1940, 
for example, 1.4 bushels were paid 
out in indemnities for each bushel 
collected as premium. The chief 
losses occurred in the hard winter 
wheat states of Kansas, Nebraska, 
Oklahoma and Texas, where crop 
conditions were below average in each 
of the two years. Presumably it is 

expected that better than average j ern democracy, must have educated 
crop conditions in future years will me „ and wome n if it holds its place 
offset the losses of 1939 and 1940. j in tne na tion and world. Grade 
It will be interesting to follow the j s( .h 0O i s are the foundation and must 
progress of this experiment in risk- , he w jthin the reach of all. A high 
sharing. If the experiment is compe- gcnoo i education is the birthright of 
tently managed and free from politi- | eve ,. y country girl and boy. The 
cal domination and if all the hazards, doors of the agricultural college 
including the moral hazards, are ade- anou i d swing open to an ever-grow- 
quately underwritten, il may prove ing number of American farm youth. 
a lasting benefit and warrant exten- School room and text book are not 
sion to other crops besides wheat. enough for proper farm living today. 

♦ I We must have our club leaders, home 

demonstrators, county agents, all a 
part of an extension movement help- 
ing rural life. Equally important is 
vocational education, with its prac- 
tical help upon the farm and in de 



By EUGENE D. WARNER 
Extension Specialist In Architecture 
To one who travels in Kansas, it 
is apparent that many farm buildings 
need paint. These buildings should be 
painted. Painting farm structures not 
only adds to their attractiveness but 
prolongs their life, thereby reducing 
annual cost. Well-painted farm build- 
ings also Increase family pride. 

A good paint job involves far more 
than choosing colors and then apply- 
ing the paint. So often, the cost of 
painting is based on the total cost of 
the job as one large sum. First cost, 
rather than annual cost, has too often 
determined the quality of a paint job. 
The cost of paint maintenance should 
be considered on an annual basis. 

When purchasing paints, it should 
be remembered that house and barn 
paints of the best quality are recom- 
mended for nearly all needs for ex- 
terior painting. Inferior paints made 
to sell at materially lower prices 
must be applied in greater amounts 
to accomplish the same results, and 
may not last as long and are less 
reliable generally. Even when low 
initial cost of painting is the chief 
consideration, it usually proves 
cheaper to use high-grade paint in 
the minimum number of coats be- 
cause the labor for a paint job usual- 
ly costs several times as much as the 
paint. 

The fundamental factor in good 



close of the exercises President Nich- 
ols asked Mrs. St. John and E. T. 
Falrchild to speak to the students. 



fore repainting. In that case any 
loosened parts of the old coating 
should be removed, and two coats 
are then advisable. 

In any discussion of paints, the 
question commonly arises whether to 
use paste or prepared paints. Dr. F. 
L. Browne, Forest Products labora- 
tory, Madison, Wis., says: "Paste 
paints contain a greater proportion 
of pigment than prepared paints and 
must be thinned with more linseed 
oil and turpentine to make them 
ready for application. As a rule, 
paste paints manipulated by a skill- 
ful painter in accordance with the 
particular conditions prevailing on 
the job permit closer adherence to 
the traditional technique of the paint 
craft than is possible with prepared 
paints. On the other hand, unskilled 
or unscrupulous painters can make 
far more serious blunders in manipu- 
lating paste than they can make with 
prepared paint. The manufacturer of 
prepared paint can also make sure 
that a larger proportion of the lin- 
seed oil used in the paint is of the 
type most compatible with the par- 
ticular kinds of pigments he has used. 
"Further advantages of prepared 
paints are that they are commonly 
sold in a much greater variety of 
colors than paste paints, so that tint- 
ing by the painter is often unneces- 
sary, and they are simpler for the 
ordinary home owner to use for gen- 



FIFTY YEARS AGO 
O. L. Utter, '88, was teaching agri- 
culture in the Indian school near 
Arkansas City. 

Lizzie Stingley, second-year stu- 
dent in 1889-90, returned to her 
home in Manhattan after a term in 
the Presbyterian college at Emporia. 
Ex-Governor Glick read a paper 
entitled "Our Agricultural College: 
What It Is, and What It Should Be," 
at the annual meeting of the State 
Board of Agriculture. 



SIXTY YEARS AGO 
Professor Shelton delivered an ad- 
dress at the installation of officers of 
Capital Grange, Topeka. 

At the regular meeting of the Web- 
ster society the following officers 
were elected for the ensuing term: 
W. S. Myers, president; M. T. Ward, 
vice-president; H. L. Call, secretary; 
R. A. Hollenberg, treasurer; Warren 
Knaus, critic; W. C. Palmer, libra- 
rian; George F. Thompson, marshal. 



KANSAS POETRY 

Robert Conover, Editor 



"AT GRAVESEND MARKET TOWN 



paint maintenance is to repaint at eral household painting purposes. 

Since paint dries very slowly at 



the right time. Neglect of repainting 
results in damage that connot be sat- 
isfactorily repaired by mere applica- 
tion of paint. 

Studies at the Forest Products 
laboratory, Madison, Wis., indicate 
that under conditions of exposure, 
paint coatings on wood deteriorate 
most rapidly where the greatest 
amount of sunshine falls and deterio- 
ration proceeds in successive but 



__ i overlapping stages. They are the soil- 
EDUCATEON FOR FARM LIFE ; ing gtage thfl flattenlng stage , the fis- 

The collapse of freedom and liber- sure stage (which is of two general 
ty in most of the world is in large I types, checking and cracking) and the 
part the outgrowth of propaganda in ] last stage of disintegration, which 
education, or the result of ignorance, ma y take place by crumbling or flak- 
prejudice and hate. Among the great J i n g. However, if repainting is neg- 
services that Thomas Jefferson ren- lected until long after flaking sets in 



low temperatures, painting should not 
be done when the temperature is 
likely to fall below 40 degrees Fah- 
renheit. Neither should wood be 
painted when it is wet. Often in new 
construction, faulty methods of dry- 
ing the interior plastering drive 
moisture into the sheathing and sid- 
ing which causes the paint to fail. 



By Nina Htmhting 

The young must evermore displace the 

old - ._ . * 

Time's restless feet are hoofed and 

bold. 
And doubly drear the somber day 
When age to youth gives way — gives 

way. 



inures 



the river 
oarsman 



A dark contrast 

Thames 
That sprightly, youthful 

smoothly stems, 
At Gravesend, market town in Kent. 
Behind them, lives at labor spent, 

former watermen, past 



Are men — the 

work, 
Cast off bv time's unending quirk — 

Paint may be applied by brush or AndTa^iy^erth^r'spirltrm;;!^ 6 . 
On new wood surfaces or 



spray gun. 
on painted surfaces on which the old 
coating has not yet become deeply 
cracked, paint may be applied by 
either method with equally service- 
able results. However, over old coat- 
ings that have passed well into the 



dered the republic was his insistence 
that education should be the corner- 
stone of our democracy. Once it 
was thought that rural people needed 
only the three R's or the eighth 



Assure or the flaking stage of paint 
i difficult ! deterioration, sprayed paint may not 



and uncertain problem in repainting 
unless the old paint is one that stands 
neglect well. The safest procedure 
may be to remove the old coating 



grade. Today we know that success- completely and repaint as for new 
ful farmers need all the education wood. 



that science and research can give 
them. 

The farm woman makes a better 
homemaker because of college train- 
ing. Modern agriculture, like mod- 



BOOKS 

\e»v Denl 



Surveying <!■«' 

Deal and the New." By 
Beard and (Jeorge II. E. 
Macmlllan Company. Now 

2S:: pp. :in<l index. $2. 



"The Old 
Charles A. 
Smith. The 
York. 1040. 

Coining so closely after the 1940 
political campaign, this book by one 
of America's leading historians is a 
refreshing experience because it gen- 
erates more light than heat — in con- 
trast to much of the campaign argu 



Studies further show that those 
who are willing to repaint often to 
maintain the best possible appearance 
should do their repainting sometime 
during the chalking stage of de- 
terioration. They should either have | 
two coats applied fairly thin or else 
have the dirt washed off thoroughly 
and only one substantial coat of paint 
applied. Those who wish to repaint 
as infrequently as is consistent with 
good maintenance usually wait for 
the stage of fissures or the very early 
part of the state of disintegration be- 



They lean upon the railings all day 

And watch the younger fellows, fresh 

and strong, 
Enact the jobs they did so well, 
Lost in duty's languid spell. 

"Bed time, Old Men! 
The western light 

Fades behind the hill. Good night! 
"Good Night." 



prove as durable as brushed paint. 

Spray painting offers great possi- 
bilities on farm buildings. The paint 
job is completed in much less time 
and with less energy. Not many years 
ago, spray equipment was expensive, 
but now, with improved production 
methods and increased use of spray 
equipment, prices of compressors and 
spray guns are very reasonable. 

One Kansas farmer indicated in his intellect, and I know not what to do 
opinion a spray machine was out of about it. 
the luxury class since it could be used 
for the application of disinfectants, 



Nina Hembling of Emporia was the 
winner of the 193!) National League 
of American Pen Women poetry con- 
test with her poem, "Tolerance, 
which was published in the 1940 
Kansas Magazine. 
♦ 
SUNFLOWERS 
By H. W. Davis 
NOTE ON DEMOCRACY 
The bottle-neckedest thing I have 
far discovered is my own little 



so 



spraying of livestock, painting of 
farm structures and farm machinery. 
With ordinary care such equipment 



ments. Charles Beard, however, does I nQt Qeed nftw educatlona i movements 
not give up his American cont - ! |n th , B g] . eat crisis but we do need 

i a little more team work in all branch- 
es and forms of education. Our vast 



veloping Future Farmer activity. The ' of s]eep are pro bably the soundest- 
agricultural college has passed its whetner they come before or after 
75th birthday, coming into existence mid „i g ht.— From the Pathfinder, 
in 18fi2 in a dark hour of the nation s 
history. Extension work has passed 
its 25th anniversary, also born while 
war was shaking the world. We do 



But I am not miserable, for 130,- 
000,000 other Americans are as 
ignorant as I; and that love of com- 
pany — which is the weakness of mis- 
ery — is so overwhelmingly supplied 
should give many years of service and j ^ the mlge) . y . g aH crowded out . 

pay for its original cost several times. gQ x am almoBt downright happy in 

my ignorance of whatever is going 

WHEN TO SLEEP Gaylord Hancock, county agent for to happen to me and you before the 

. , j I .von cnu nt v with headauarters at kinks are all unkinked and we have 

Although it is popularly supposed £™J™ Ut7 ' neadquaiters III three _ ocean nayy 50(000> 000 (or 

E. June Milner, '14, was feeding w » s " thousand?) planes, uncount- 
1.000 people a day at the Blue Tri- »Mf panzer divisions and a national 
angle cafeteria at Youngstown, Ohio. , P ol " v il11 In o rder lnst ead ° f ° n ' 
Miss Milner was director of the cafe- 1 
teria, a downtown branch of the ! 



that sleep before midnight is the 
soundest and best sleep of all, stu- 
dents of the subject assert that the 
supposition has no basis in fact. How- 
ever, they say that the first two hours 



YWCA. 



talism one whit but he does attempt 
to be fair — fairly accurate at least. 

Mr. Beard and Mr. Smith survey 
the conditions which brought the 
world to the boom and bust climax 
under the Old Deal and then go on 
to examine how the New Deal met 
the problems which it inherited. By 
careful study of trends in population, 
mass production, concentration of 
wealth and distribution of the nation- 
al income, the authors show that the 
depression "was not an arbitrary 
break in history; it was a manifesta- 
tion of history." 

Then the writers discuss the New 
Deal's adventures in finance and in- 
vestment, industrial economy, "farm- 
er-government partnership," relief, 
social security and foreign policy. 

While each discussion tends to 
crystallize ideas which many students 
have thought but not so well ex- 
pressed, the chapter on agricultural 



rural educational machinery can 
serve best when all realize that the 
only purpose for existence is to be of 
direct service to rural America. 
Farm organizations should always be 
consulted in the development of ed- 
ucational and extension programs. — 
From an address by Louis J. Taber 
before the National Grange annual 

session. 

♦ 

HOW OUR FARMS GROW 
Since 1860, the number of farms 
in the United States has more than 
tripled, but the size of the average 
farm has steadily decreased. In 1880, 
about 10 per cent of the nation's 
farms were under 20 acres in size. 
Today 18 per cent are less than 20 
acres and 40 per cent less than 50. — 
From the Pathfinder. 



EN OLDER DAYS 

From the Files of The Industrialist 

TEN YEARS AGO 



THIRTY YEARS AGO 
Hiram Conwell, '07, was an in- 
structor in mathematics at the Uni- 
versity of New Mexico. 

Burton R. Rogers, instructor in 



In my early days at school I some- 
how picked up a notion that in a de- 
mocracy the judgment of the people 
at large is something and how. Now 
I don't even know how. My best 
friends explain that the old judg- 
ment is still in the saddle, but it has 
fallen into the habit of expressing it- 
self only one day in every two years 



Herbert M. Low, '24, was stationed veterinary science, attended the sev- j and then in such terms that even the 



at Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was 
in charge of electrical railway con- 
struction work in the Argentine. 

Prof. L. F. Payne, head of the De- 
partment of Poultry Husbandry, was 
in Lincoln, Neb., to take part in the 
annual Farm and Home week pro- 
gram at the University of Nebraska. 

Dr. Esther S. Nelson, '15, of Chi- 
cago was a successful physician and 
a lecturer in the Northwestern uni- 
versity medical college. Doctor Nel- 
son was a graduate of the Rush Medi- 
cal college, Chicago, and then served 
one year as an interne in a Buffalo, 
N. Y., hospital. 



enth annual meeting of the Kansas | beneficiaries misunderstand it and go 



veterinarians at Topeka. Doctor 
Rogers was one of the speakers. 

William H. Andrews, assistant pro- 
fessor of mathematics, went to Belle- 
ville to judge a district high school 
debate. James W. Searson, assistant 
professor of English, was also a judge 
at the debate. 



ahead doing as they intended any- 
how. 



TWENTY YEARS AGO 
James R. Coxen, '07, was assistant 

director of vocational education in 

Wyoming. 

Cecil B. McFadden, '17, succeeded 



FORTY YEARS AGO 
Former Pres. Thomas E. Will was 
located at Trenton, Mo., as general 
secretary of the American Oxford 
movement. 

Prof. F. C. Lockwood delivered an 
address before the University of Kan- 
sas YMCA in Lawrence. He also ad- 
dressed the students of Haskell in- 
stitute while in Lawrence. 

Members of the State Board of Re- 
gents attended chapel, and at the 



But that isn't what I wanted to 
quarrel about at all. What I mean 
is that it is a mighty fine thing we 
the people are not called upon to ex- 
press our opinions very often because 
it takes at least 730 days (which is 
exactly two years, if you care to fig- 
ure it) for a fellow to pick up enough 
bona fide information with which to 
mold a sizable opinion — all on ac- 
count of the millions of bottle-necked 
misinformations inside which the 
government at Washington and else- 
where admits it has to operate. 



Wouldn't a referendum on wheth- 
er and how soon to get all aid to 
Britain be a killer-diller of a refer- 
endum? 



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AMONG THE 
ALUMNI 



A 



Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Burtis, Man- 
hattan, celebrated their golden wed- 
ding anniversary at their home De- 
cember 29. Mr. Burtis, '87, and 
Winifred (Brown) Burtis, f. s. '87, 
were married at Fredonia and made 
their home there until 1918, when 
they moved to Manhattan. 

Mr. Burtis was state representative 
from Wilson county in the 1911 and 
1913 sessions. 

The couple have five children, all 
of whom are graduates of Kansas 
State College. Four of them, Orville 
Burtis, '16, Hymer; Wilma (Burtis) 
Bayer, '16, Manhattan; Phyllis (Bur- 
tis) Howard, '25, Kansas City; and 
Margaret Kirby Burtis, '28, Farm- 
ington, Minn., were present for the 
occasion. Penelope (Burtis) Rice, 
'24, of Reno, Nev., was unable to 
come. Grandchildren of the Burtis's 
who are now in College are Orville 
and Cornelia Burtis, Hymer, and 
Winifred and Burke Bayer, Manhat- 
tan. 



manager of the Cities Service Oil 
company, with his office in the Palm- 
olive building, Chicago. 

Lieut.-Col. L. H. Bixby, f. s. '17, 
is in command of Dakota district 
Civilian Conservation corps, Fort 
Lincoln, Bismarck, N. D. Mrs. Bixby 
was Sara Janet Marty, H. E. '16. 

Dr. Thomas O'Reilly, D. V. M. *18, 
has been transferred by the Bureau 
of Animal Industry from Oklahoma 
City to Topeka, Kansas, on tubercu- 
losis eradication. 

E. M. Hiestand, Ag. '19, M. S. '36, 
and his wife, Mildred (Herder) Hie- 
stand, have a son, Winton Don, 9. 
They live at 1200 Overton park, 
Memphis, Tenn. Mr. Hiestand does 
commercial research in commodities 
for the Wilson Fly company, Mem- 
phis. 

R. Robert Hinde, Ag. '20, is agron- 
omist in the Salina area for the Soil 
Conservation service. His address is 
876 South Ninth street, Salina. 

Tracy E. Johntz, M. E. '22, is em- 
ployed by General Electric company, 
Chicago. The Johntz family lives 
at 840 Park avenue, Wilmette, 111. 
Their children, Mary Josephine and 
Tracy Jr., are 10 and 7, respectively. 



LOOKING AROUND 

KINNEY L. FORD 



Wichita Alumni Dinner 

Alma (Halbower) Giles, '14, 228 
South Meridian, Wichita, secretary 
of the Wichita alumni group, writes 
that the date for the annual dinner 
of the Wichita Alumni association 
has been set for Friday, January 24. 
It will be held at Droll's English 
grill, 3120 East Central, at 6:30 p. 
m Tickets are 65 cents. Mrs. W. G. 
Case (Bessie Cole, '21) is chairman 
in charge of the dinner. 

Programs for Founders' Day 

Would you like to have an alumni 
meeting in your city or county? If 
so, why not go ahead and have it? 

February 16 is Founders' day. 
Therefore, the dates February 15, 16 



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Dr. A. T. Kinsley, '99, M. S. '01, 
Kansas City, Mo., donated to the vet- 
erinary reading room at the College 
a large collection of pictures and 
paintings of former veterinary events 
and scenes. Doctor and Mrs. Kinsley 
(Anna Smith, '01) live at 616 East 
Fifty-Ninth street. Doctor Kinsley 
has just retired as manager and con- 
sulting veterinarian of the Kinsley 
laboratories in Kansas City. 

Dr. M. G. Smith, D. V. M. '08, is 
in the life insurance business. He and 
Grace (Streeter) Smith, '07, live at 
945 San Pablo, Fresno, Calif. 



graduated from the American Con- 
servatory of Music in Chicago, and 
have almost completed my M. M. de- 
gree now." 



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Gertrude McCheyne, H. E. '09, re- 
cently wrote the Alumni association 
office about her activities in Home 
Economics Extension service and 
other fields. 

After her graduation until 1912 
she was foods demonstrator at 
Purdue university, Lafayette, Iud. 
She then accepted a position with 
the Utah Agricultural college, giv- 
ing home demonstrations and talks 
for teachers' institutes. In 1914, 
the Smith-Lever act was passed and 
she took a position as state leader 
in women's work at the Utah Agri- 
cultural college. She resigned that 
position in 1919 to accept a similar 
job with the College of Agriculture, 
Kentucky university. After taking 
work at Columbia university, New 
York, in 1920, she taught branches of 
home economics in Summer School 
normal at Hampton Institute, Va. In 
1921, she went to Hillsboro county, 
N. II., where she was home agent for 
three years. She resigned there to 
take special studies in rural church 
and social service. 

In 1925 and 1926. she did social 
work in southern Kansas mining! 
camps and in the tenement district] 
in St. Louis, Mo. In 1927 she became 
paator of the Congregational Rural j 
church, Rockland, Idaho. From 19 29 I 
to 1936, she was in McCall, Idaho,) 
doing similar work. After that time, ' 
she spent until October, 193 8, in Kan- j 
sas City and California. Then she 
took up residence in Boise, Idaho, 
where she was offered work as sub- 
stitute in the Southern Idaho Con- 
gregational conference. Her address 
in Boise is 1207 Hays street. 



Leland O. Sinderson, E. E. '23, 
Chicago, with General Electric com- 
pany, has been traveling in connec- 
tion with the defense plan. His wife, 
Ruth (Skinner) Sinderson, wrote to 
a friend in Manhattan: 

"Things have been happening to 
us this past year, mostly, though, to 
Leland. Last spring he started out 
on submarine work and came home 
from Schenectady, N. Y., to take us 
back with him to stay in Portsmouth, 
N. H., for the rest of the summer. 
We drove through and stayed there 
two days, during which time we 
learned that Leland would be on the 
go the most of the time so we turned 
around and drove home, the week- 
end of Memorial day. He was there 
at Portsmouth for a couple of weeks 
and went to New London, Conn., 
where they were stationed while the 
Sea Lion had target practice. He 
made 99 dives with them while there 
and when they made the trip to Pana- 
ma. He came home from Panama on 
the Clipper which took 24 hours 
against six days going down on the 
sul). He later flew to Key West to 
meet the Sea Raven and rode it 
through Panama canal and up to San 
Diego, Calif. He flew home from San 
Francisco and reached here by the 
time the telegram saying he was com- 
ing arrived. 

"His last trip was on Tantog from 
Mobile, Ala., to Brownsville, Texas; 
to Savannah, Ga.; to Annapolis, Md., 
where they lay over for about a week 
and he got to go to Philadelphia to 
see the Navy and Penn State play 
football. After going to New London | 
he beat it for home. 

"Next summer we expect to move • 
to Manitowoc, Wis., where he will be 
resident engineer for G. E. company 
while they build submarines there. 
It will probably mean that we will 
live there about three years. 

"The boys aren't sure whether they | 
like the idea of changing schools, but | 
Bob will be the only one affected, as 
Tom goes into high school and Lee 
just starts first grade." 



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Clif Stratton, Print. '11, has been 
Topeka Daily Capital correspondent 
in Washington, D. C, for 12 years. 
Previous to that time, he held vari- 
ous jobs from reporter to managing 
editor of the Capital in Topeka ex- 
cept for two years* absence in 19 20 
to 19 22 to serve as the first full- 
time secretary of the Kansas State 
College Alumni association. Mr. 
Stratton's address is 33 8 Woodlawn, 
Topeka. A son, Lee, is a freshman in 
industrial journalism at Kansas State 
College. 

C. W. Tucker, f. s. '12, is an engi- 
neer with the Southwestern Bell 
Telephone company, Kansas City, 
Mo He has been with that company 
since 1927. The Tuckers have one 
daughter and live at 8001 Manor 
road, Kansas City. 

j H. Young, M. E. '14, and Mil- 
dred (Morse) Young, f. s. '12, live at 
370 Jefferson drive, South Hills, 
Pittsburgh, Pa. Mr. Young is vice- 
president and general manager of 
the H H Robertson Steel company 
of Pittsburgh. He is in charge of 
American operations for the com- 
pany. 

J. G. Phinney, E. E. '16, is sales 



Dr. E. R. Frank, D. V. M. '24, M. 
S. '29, professor of veterinary sur- 
gery, Kansas State College, appeared 
on the program of the 21st annual 
veterinary conference held at the 
University of Illinois October 22. He! 
is also on the program of the Iowa I 
Veterinary Medical association in ] 
Des Moines, January 28, 29 and 30. 

Willis W. Fruddeii, Ar. E. '25, is | 
salesman for Vincent Clay Products | 
company, Fort Dodge, Iowa. Mrs. 
Frudden was Lucile Heir, f. s. '25. 
Their home is at Ackley, Iowa. 

Helen (Hale) Tanner, G. S. '26, 
and Carl C. Tanner, E. E. '28, have 
two children, a girl and a boy, and 
live at 1109 Martin, Jackson, Mich. 
L. S. Hobson, E. E. '27, is man- 
aging engineer of the Power Circuit 
Breaker division of General Electric 
company in Philadelphia, according 
to a letter from him received by Prof. 
R. G. Kloeffler, head of the Depart- 
ment of Electrical Engineering. This 
promotion places Mr. Hobson in 
charge of 150 engineers, designers 
and draftsmen, and 450 persons in 
the manufacturing group of his divi- 
sion. 



Esther (Dizmang) Cluts, H. E. '28, 
writes: 

"I am still teaching in Franklin 
Grove, 111., which makes seven years 
here. Since leaving Kansas State, I 



T. R. Freeman, Ag. '29, and Ruth 
(Benningfield) Freeman have a 
daughter, Cora Nell, who was born 
November 18. Their home is at Col- 
lege Station, Texas. 

Emil E. Larson, C. E. '29, is asso- 
ciate engineer for the Kansas High- 
way commission. He is stationed at 
Leavenworth, where his address is 
702 Cherokee street. 

William W. Coffman, Ag. '30, is 
with the Farm Security administra- 
tion at Syracuse. 

Bernice Bender, I. J. '30, M. S. 
'34, is teaching English and journal- 
ism in Lincoln high school, Lincoln, 
Kan. 

William M. Fitzgerald, M. E. '31, 
is junior mechanical engineer in the 
air corps, Wright field. This is near 
Dayton, Ohio, where he lives at 249 
North Robert boulevard. 

Don C. Baldwin, Ar. '31, and Bea- 
trix (Charlton) Baldwin, H. E. '30, 
and children are at San Angelo, 
Texas, where Mr. Baldwin has a posi- 
tion as scout executive in the Concho 
valley area. He was formerly field 
executive of the Kansas City council 
of the Boy Scouts of 1 America. 

A. H. Stephenson, Ag. '32, recent- 
ly has been appointed county agent 
of Sedgwick county and has moved to 
Wichita. F. W. Castello, Ag. '33, 
succeeeds Mr. Stephenson in Abilene, 
going there from his position as 
county agent in Ellsworth. 

Howard C. Edinborough, Ag. '32, 
is doing contract gardening. He also 
is working on research with herbi- 
cides as a personal project. He is 
married and has one son Philip, near- 
ly 2. His home is 160 South Orange 
Grove avenue, Pasadena, Calif. 

Kenneth J. Ekdahl, C. '33, M. S. 
'38, visited relatives and friends in 
Manhattan during the Christmas 
holidays. He is a research fellow in 
rural sociology at the State College 
of Washington at Pullman, Wash. 
His address there is 1212 Maple. 

W. Harley Chilson, Ag. '34, is 
working for the Farmers' United 
creamery at Morrisville, Vt. 

George L. McColm, Ag. '3 5, is area 
soils technician in the Salt Lake area. 
His address is Box 122, Morgan, 
Utah. He and Mrs. McColm have a 
daughter, Carol Ann, who was born 
last April. 

Russell T. Daulton, Ag. '36, is 
rural resettlement supervisor for the 
Farm Security administration at 
Grayson, Ky. He and his wife, Ruth 
(Linscott) Daulton, '36, have two 
children, Tommy, 3V 2 , and Sue Lynn, 
who is 2. They visited the campus 
last fall. 

Ivan J. Wassberg, '3 7, and Ger- 
trude (Tobias) Wassberg, '3 8, are at 
1835 Fairchild avenue, Manhattan. 
Mr. Wassberg is territorial manager 
of the Firestone Tire and Rubber 
company. 

Edna Marie Gaston, I. J. '38, is 
teaching at Downs. 

Ralph Sherer, Ag. '39, and Vir- 
ginia (Douglas) Sherer, f. s., are 
parents of a son, Paul Vernon, born 
November 2. Their home is in Mul- 
linville. 

John Earl Bullock, C. E. '39, is 
civil engineer for Natural Gas Pipe- 
line Company of America. He is at 
4001-20 North Wacker drive, Chi- 
cago. 

Freddie Joe Galvani, C. E. '40, is 
draftsman for the McNally Manufac- 
turing corporation. His address is 
2022 South Broadway, Pittsburg. 



or 17 would be an ideal time to have 
a meeting of Kansas State alumni to 
celebrate the 78th anniversary of the 
College. 

Assuming that the area in which 
you live does not have an organized 
alumni club, here are some sugges- 
tions which may be helpful in or- 
ganizing a club or at least a success- 
ful alumni meeting: 

(1) Decide in your own mind that 
you should have a meeting and that 
alumni in your city can hold alumni 
meetings just the same as alumni do 
in many other communities through- 
out the country. 

(2) Write to the College Alumni 
office and obtain a list of alumni liv- 
ing in your locality. The list which 
we send out includes only graduates. 
Former students and former faculty 
members should also be invited. Such 
a list can be prepared by the local 
committee. 

(3) Invite five or more alumni 
friends to meet with you at luncheon 
or some convenient place to make 
plans for the meeting. 

(4) Decide when and where to hold 
your alumni meeting. 

(5) Make plans for circularizing 
all alumni in your locality. Double 
post-cards or letters may be used, also 
newspapers and radio. Divide the 
lists among the members of your 
committee and have each of them ob- 
tain reservations by personal ticket 
sales or by telephone. 

(6) Always plan delightful meet- 
ings. If a dinner is held, arrange for 
a good dinner with appropriate deco- 
rations. 

(7) In financing alumni meetings, 
the cost of mailing out the invitations 
should be included with the cost of 
the dinner. One charge should cover 
all expenses. Never guarantee the 
hotel management a certain number 
of plates. 

(8) The program should be care- 
fully planned and not too long. It 
may be possible to obtain a speaker 
from the College or motion picture 
films. If this is impossible, success- 
ful programs can be arranged by 
using alumni quizzes, a local speaker 
or other local talent. Some form of 
entertainment is desirable. Copies of 
College songs may be obtained from 
the College Alumni office. 

(9) The main object of an alumni 
meeting is personal acquaintance- 
ship. Give each one present a lapel 
card on which he can write his name 
and class. Each person should intro- 
duce himself at the meeting or in- 
troduce the person on his right. In- 
laws, husbands and wives of alumni 
should participate in all activities at 
the meeting. Ask each person at- 
tending the meeting to sign the regis- 
ter giving his name, class and ad- 
dress, also business address and title 
of his job. Include a copy of the reg- 
istration list in the report to the 
alumni office. 

(10) Make plans for the future. 
Elect officers for one-year terms, at 
least a president and secretary-trea- 
surer. We recommend two meetings 
a year: a dinner meeting may be held 
each fall or winter, possibly Found- 
ers' day or Kansas day, and one in 
the summer, perhaps a picnic. The 
Los Angeles picnic is one of the most 
successful summer meetings in the 
country, partly due to the fact that 
the group meets on the same day and 
at the same place each year. They 
I meet the last Saturday in June at a 
Pasadena park. Other alumni groups 
have adopted the Los Angeles plan. 
Additional meetings may be held 
when representatives from the Col- 
lege are in the community. 

It is hoped that the above sugges- 
tions will stimulate alumni in various 
communities to organize meetings 
around Founders' day this year. If 
you will assume the responsibility 
of seeing that a meeting is held in 
your city or county, you will be doing 
a great service for all alumni living 
there and also for Kansas State Col- 
lege. 



RECENT HAPPENINGS 
ON THE HILL 



Democracy's Volunteers, student 
organization, will meet today to ap- 
point committees and make further 
plans for a membership drive with a 
goal of 2,000 members. 

Kansas State College's new song 
which Fred Waring, orchestra leader, 
was petitioned to write will not be 
heard over the radio by students un- 
til the current A. S. C. A. P.-B. M. I. 
radio music controversy has been set- 
tled. Mr. Waring is a member of the 
American Society of Composers, Au- 
thors and Publishers. 



At the annual inspection of the Re- 
serve Officers' Training corps units 
next spring, the Mortar and Ball, 
honorary society for advanced R. O. 
T. C. students, will award the out- 
standing second-year basic cadet in 
each coast artillery battalion in rec- 
ognition of his interest and scholar- 
ship in military subjects. 

A journalist's language, as "bro- 
mide," "dummy" and "hell-box," 1b 
explained in a dictionary of common 
newspaper terms recently compiled 
by Prof. R. I. Thackrey, head of the 
Department of Industrial Journalism 
and Printing, Hillier Krieghbaum and 
Jane Rockwell, assistant professor 
and instructor in journalism. 



New president of the Athenian 
Literary society is Orville Burtis, 
Hymer. Other officers elected last 
Friday are Paul Brown, Sylvan Grove, 
vice-president; Paul Kelley, Solo- 
mon, secretary; Rollin Starosta, Po- 
mona, treasurer; George Cochran, 
Topeka, parliamentarian; Paul San- 
ford, Milford, marshal, and Gordon 
West, Manhattan, reporter. 



DEATHS 

POUND 

Byron Pound, f. s. *90, was burned 

o death at his home near Manhattan 

n early morning of December 15. 

VIr Pound was 82 and was born in 

5au Claire, Wis. He had lived in 

Manhattan 60 years, where he at- 

ended Kansas State several semes- 

ers He was mail carrier in Man- 

mttan for 27 years, retiring from 

hat position 19 years ago. He was 

eceiving a pension for his service at 

he time of his death. Surviving him 

s his brother, Elias, f. s. '83, now of 

Denver. 



The 21st annual appearance of 
Y-Orpheum, stunt program sponsored 
by the YMCA, will be in the College 
Auditorium March 7 and 8. Among 
the noncompetitive acts will be Matt 
Betton's orchestra and the Kansas 
State College women's glee club. Chi 
Omega, Pi Beta Phi, Delta Delta 
Delta and Phi Delta Theta, social or- 
ganizations, will compete for two 
trophies. 

Helen Chambers, 1940 Kansas 
State College graduate, is now work- 
ing in a radio station in Orlando, Fla., 
as a result of an unusual method she 
employed in getting a job. Shortly 
before Christmas she began sending 
every day a post-card written in red 
or green ink to each station in Flor- 
ida that she wanted to work for. The 
radio manager at Orlando was in- 
trigued by her applications and called 
her long distance and offered her a 
position on that station. She was for- 
merly with WHB in Kansas City. 

Thirteen junior and senior women 
will be pledged into Phi Alpha Mu, 
honorary society for women in the 
Division of General Science, Thurs- 
day evening. Those to pledge, chosen 
on a basis of scholarship, are Helen 
Virginia Holbert, Manhattan; Reva 
King, Council Grove; Mary Belle 
Morris, Chapman; Marjorie Rogers, 
Manhattan; Marjorie Spurrier, King- 
man; Jeanne Marie Tarvin, Marys- 
ville; Dorothy Triplett, Humboldt, 
and Virginia Delano, Hutchinson, ju- 
niors; Betty Lou Davis, Severance; 
Mary Dillin, Fort Worth, Texas; 
Bernice Horton, Wayside; Eloise 
Morris, Wichita, and Ellen Peak, 
Manhattan, seniors. 



BIRTHS 

Recently received is news of the 
birth of a son, Joe Harold, to Harold 
Kenneth Engleman, C. E. '36, and 
Mrs Engleman of Houston, Texas. 
Mr. Engleman is civil engineer with 
Phillips Petroleum company there. 

F. F. Schmidt, D. V. M. '32, and 
Helen (Baird) Schmidt, Box 373, 
Douglas, Ariz., have won a "baby 
sweepstakes." The name of the little 
"prize" is Frederick Lawrence, who 
crossed the finish line on September 
11. Doctor Schmidt is a veterinarian 
in Douglas. 

Richard E. Omohundro, D. V. M. 
'37 and Mrs. Omohundro have an- 
nounced the birth of a son, Richard 
Eugene, November 16. Doctor Omo- 
hundro is with the Federal Bureau of 
Animal Industry in Bang's disease 
eradication, with headquarters at 507 
Federal building, Little Rock, Ark. 



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AG EXPERIMENT STATION 
HAS 84 MAJOR PROJECTS 

RESEARCH WORK TOUCHES MANY 
PHASES OP RURAL LIFE 



Sliill of 145 Members Wrote 20 Bulle- 
tins, 230 Articles In Technlcnl Papers 
and 3,530 Popular Articles 
During Dlennlum 

In the conduct of scientific re- 
search at Kansas State College, the 
work of the staff of the Agricultural 
Experiment station during 1938-40 
included 8 major research projects 
and a large number of minor projects 
relating to the physical, biological, 
economic and social problems of ag- 
riculture and rural life, according to 
the 38th biennial report of the Col- 
lege recently submitted to the State 
Board of Regents. 

As one of the four units of research 
organization at the College, the 
Agricultural Experiment station has 
145 members on the scientific staff. 
Results of their work were made 
available to the public during the 
1938-40 biennium through the issu- 
ance of 26 bulletins and circulars, 
230 articles in technical journals, 
3,536 popular articles in the farm 
press and the newspapers, addresses 
given at approximately 1,600 public 
meetings and broadcasting of 1,141 
radio talks. In addition, members of 
the station staff wrote 202,472 let- 
ters in response to inquiries from in- 
dividuals. 

NEW VARIETY OF OATS 
A few of the specific major results 
of station work that reached fruition 
during the biennium include (1) a 
new variety of oats called Fulton and 
distinguished by its high resistance 
to oats smut and its high yield, not 
only in Kansas but at other points 
distributed from Colorado to Vir- 
ginia; (2) a valuable selection of 
Madrid Yellow sweet clover that is 
important because of its leaflness, 
late seed maturity and long grazing 
season; (3) a selection of winter bar- 
ley called Reno and valuable for 
prompt and accurate determination 
of baking quality in wheat; and (4) 
a reliable method for identifying 48 
species of grasshoppers by means of 
the markings on the eggs. 

Since its establishment in 1910, 
the Engineering Experiment station 
has performed useful service, the re- 
port said. 

During the 1938-40 biennium, the 
publications of the Engineering Ex- 
periment station included bulletins 
on tractor fuels, low-cost homes, 
rural electrification surveys and 
many popular articles published in 
newspapers. 

STUDY FARM REFRIGERATION 
Active research projects included 
studies of durability of concrete, 
farm refrigeration, storage of grain 
crops and wind electric plants. 

More than 20,000 persons come to 
Kansas State College or its branch 
experiment stations each year to re- 
ceive short-course instruction for 
groups having specialized interests. 
This instruction carries no college 

credit. 

AVERAGE TWO WEEKS 

In 1938-39 there were 116 of these 
schools or meetings, and in 1939-40 
there were 126, an average each year 
of more than two a week. 

Among larger meetings during the 
year were the 4-H club annual round- 
up, Farm and Home week, Home 
Economics Hospitality Days and the 
High School Agricultural Judging 
school. The groups that receive short- 
course instruction are in addition to 
even larger groups that receive in- 
struction in extension schools and 
other local meetings throughout the 
state under the auspices of the Divi- 
sion of College Extension. 



Wins National Award 

James M. Bowyer Jr., a student in 
mechanical engineering at the Col- 
lege, received national recognition in 
a drawing competition conducted by 
the national Society for the Promo- 
tion of Engineering Education. Bow- 
yer's drawing was given first place 
in competition with 155 similar draw- 
ings submitted by 29 American col- 
leges and universities. Bowyer's 
drawing was made in his regular 
Machine Drawing II class and under 
the instruction of Prof. G. F. Brani- 
gan. A certificate awarding first place 
to Bowyer was received recently by 
Prof. F. A. Smutz of the Department 
of Machine Design. The competition 
was held at a national meeting of the 
society at the University of Cali- 
fornia, Berkeley, June 24 to 28. 



Appointed to Iowa State Job 

James Koepper, graduate assistant 
in the Department of Botany and 
Plant Pathology who has just com- 
pleted his work for his master's de- 
gree, has been appointed to a gradu- 
ate research assistantship at Iowa 
State college. Mr. Koepper's thesis 
was on studies on the problem of al- 
falfa rust. He and Mrs. Koepper left 
Manhattan this week for Ames, 
where he will start on work for his 
doctor's degree in plant pathology. 



KITSELMAN, SUMMERS 

ARE GRANTED LEAVES 

PRESIDENT FARRELL ANNOUNCES 
FACULTY CHANGES 



EXPLOSIVES COURSE BEGINS 

AT COLLEGE FEBRUARY 1 



Kansas State Will Be One of Three 

Schools Ottering- This Defense 

Instruction 

A course in explosives, the second 
of five proposed courses to get under 
way here in connection with the na- 
tional training defense program, will 
begin February 1, Prof. W. W. Carl- 
son, College representative for the 
program, announced this week. 

Dr. W. L. Faith, head of the De- 
partment of Chemical Engineering, 
will supervise the course in explosives 
which will be offered only at Kansas 
State College, Case and Purdue. An 
enrolment of from 20 to 25 students 
is expected. 

Prerequisites for the course in ex- 
plosives as described in a bulletin 
from the United States Office of Edu- 
cation are "two years of an engineer- 
ing course of study (graduation 
with an engineering degree pre- 
ferred) and a good course in general 
college chemistry." 

Professor Carlson asked women as 
well as men to consider the course 
because many women are employed 
in the industry. 

The course in Engineering Draw- 
ing, which opened January 6, now 
has an enrolment of 27, including 
two women. 



list 
one 



COLLEGE BULLETIN REPORTS 
FARM WOODLOTS PROFITABLE 



Prof. L. F. Smith Tells of Tracts in 
Eastern Third of State 

Since Kansas produces only about 
6 per cent of its annual lumber con- 
sumption, growing a farm woodlot 
may become a profitable enterprise 
for farmers in the eastern third of 
the state, reports Prof. L. F. Smith 
of the Department of Horticulture in 
his recently published circular dis- 
cussing the advisability and methods 
of growing wooded tracts in Kansas. 
Many farms in eastern Kansas have 
small, irregular tracts of land which 
could be used profitably for growing 
trees for lumber, fence posts or fuel, 
Professor Smith believes. Woodlots 
on rocky, sandy or rough lands will 
also greatly reduce the erosion losses 
on such lands. In addition such lands 
are likely to yield a greater return in 
wood than from any other type crop, 
he says. 

Species of trees for planting, how 
to plant and the care of the woodlot 
are among the subjects discussed in 
the circular. He also tells how to 
harvest and market the lumber and 
what measures must be taken to con- 
trol insects and other pests of trees. 



Pathology Resenrch Worker Called Up 
for Natlonnl Guard Duty, While Pub- 
lic Speaking Professor Joins 
Broadcasting Company 

Dr. C. H. Kitselman, professor of 
pathology in the Division of Vet- 
erinary Medicine, and Dr. H. B. 
Summers, professor of public speak- 
ing, have been granted leaves of ab- 
sence, according to an announcement 
last week by Pres. F. D. Farrell. 
Also included on the present 
of changes are two appointments, 
resignation and one promotion. 
CALLED INTO SERVICE 
Doctor Kitselman, a captain in the 
Kansas national guard, has been 
i called into active federal military 
service, effective January 6. 

Doctor Summers of the Department 

of Public Speaking has been granted 

' leave of absence from January 1 to 

; May 31. During Doctor Summers' 

leave, Sherwood Keith will serve as 

1 substitute teacher in the department. 

Professor Summers has accepted an 

executive position with the National 

Broadcasting company. Mr. Keith, 

who comes here from New York, has 

been in summer theater work. 

Miss Gertrude Lienkaemper has 
been appointed instructor in the De- 
partment of Clothing and Textiles to 
succeed Miss Genevieve Lundvick, 
resigned. Miss Lienkaemper's ap- 
pointment is effective February 1. 
Miss Lienkaemper holds a bachelor's 
degree from Oregon State college and 
a master's degree from the University 
of Washington. She also has studied 
at Stanford university and in Munich. 
During the past semester, she has 
been teaching at a girls' school at 
Palo Alto, Calif. 

SAGESER IS PROMOTED 
Miss Rachel Martens, instructor in 
home furnishings, Division of Col- 
lege Extension, has resigned effective 
December 31. 

Dr. A. B. Sageser, associate pro- 
fessor in the Department of History 
and Government, has been promoted 
to the professorship made vacant by 
the death of Prof. E. V. James, the 
promotion to be effective January 27. 
To succeed Doctor Sageser, Dr. Verne 
S. Sweedlun has been appointed as- 
sociate professor, effective Janu- 
ary 27. Doctor Sweedlun received 
his bachelor's degree from Bethany 
college, his master's from the Uni- 
versity of Kansas and his doctor's de- 
gree from the University of Nebraska. 
During the past semester, he has been 
teaching at Luther college, Wahoo, 
Neb. 



Lancelot Hogben to Speak 

Lancelot Hogben, professor of 
natural history at the University of 
Aberdeen and author of "Science for 
the Citizen" and "Mathematics for 
the Millions," will speak at a College 
assembly at 9 a. m. January 31. 



INSPIRED CAGERS UPSET 
OKLAHOMA TEAM, 41-36 

LANGVARDT'S LAST-SECOND SHOT 
PUTS GAME INTO OVERTIME 



STATE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE 
WILL MEET HER E IN APRIL 

Prof. Roger C. Smith, Stnte Secretary, 

Announces Tentntlve Plans for 

Manhattan Sessions 

Plans for the 73rd annual meet- 
ing of the Kansas Academy of Science 
in Manhattan April 3, 4 and 5 are be- 
ing formulated, according to Prof. 
Roger C. Smith, secretary of the 
academy. The local committee of ar- 
rangements has released a tentative 
program of the meeting to be con- 
ducted on the Kansas State College 
campus. 

Arrangements again will be made 
for the exhibition of apparatus or 
equipment by firms and individuals. 
These exhibits, especially those of 
the Junior academy, have in the past 
attracted wide interest and have been 
an outstanding feature of the annual 
meetings. 

For the first time in the history of 
the academy there will be a sectional 
program for college and advanced 
high school students. Discussions 
will make up a major part of the 
program. 

This year's program calls for reg- 
istration and general reception the 
first day. Sectional meetings on geol- 
ogy, botany, chemistry, zoology, phys- 
ics and sociology and the Junior 
academy will be conducted during 
the second day. The final day will be 
devoted to reports, addresses and 
further sectional meetings. 

The Junior academy will have its 
first meeting April 4. The meeting 
will include lecture-demonstrations, 
by individuals or groups, of a hobby 
of scientific value, an interesting sci- 
entific experiment, an experience 
discovery, a collection or similar sub- 
ject of school interest. A special 
room will be provided on the campus 
for Junior academy exhibits. 

Members of the local committee of 
arrangements are L. D. Bushnell, 
chairman; Frank Byrne, Allen Olsen, 
J. C. Frazier, E. H. Herrick, L. E. 
Hudiburg and Ralph Rogers. All are 
College faculty members with the ex- 
ception of Ralph Rogers who is a 
faculty member of Manhattan high 
school. 



SCIENTIFIC FARMING PAVES 
WAY TO HIGHER EFFICIENCY 



LIVESTOCK JUDGING TEAM 

WINS FOURTH AT DENVER 



Wildcats Hold Opponents Scoreless in 

Extra Period While Making Five 

Points to Capture 

Contest 

An inspired Kansas State College 
basketball team won from the favored 
University of Oklahoma quintet Sat- 
urday night in a thrill-packed con- 
test which had to go an overtime pe- 
riod. The score was 41 to 36. 

Chris Langvardt, Alta Vista, tak- 
ing the ball after a surprise intercep- 
tion by Norris Holstrom, Topeka, 
tossed a one-handed bucket with less 
than a second of regular playing time 
remaining to tie the game. This bas- 
ket came after the Sooners elected 
to take the ball out of bounds rather 
than take a free throw and risk giv- 
ing the Wildcats a chance to score. 
The interception by Holstrom re- 
sulted and the Wildcats scored any- 
way. 

OKLAHOMA HELD SCORELESS 
In the five-minute overtime period, 
the Wildcats held their opponents 
scoreless while they were making five 
points. The first bucket was made by 
Holstrom within a few seconds after 
the extra period had started. Larry 
Beaumont, El Dorado, guard, shot a 
field goal and then stretched the 
Wildcat lead to five points with a free 
point. 

The Wildcats held a lead of from 
three to nine points during most of 
the game. With forward Jack Hora- 
cek, Topeka, carrying the scoring 
load, they were ahead at half-time, 
21-15. 

Horacek was high-point man for 
the game with 12 points. 

During the second period, the Kan- 
sas State cagers held their lead un- 
i til, with five minutes to play, Hugh 
j Ford, six-foot, seven-inch Sooner 
! center, racked up five points to start 
the Oklahomans on their finish drive 
which almost netted them the victory. 
TIMES BLAMES TUCKER 
According to the Kansas City 
Times, the victory over Oklahoma can 
be partly attributed to the team's 
reaction after Gerald Tucker, much 
publicized Winfleld high school star, 
transferred from Kansas State Col- 
lege to the Norman campus last No- 
vember. 

The Wildcats will meet the Uni- 
versity of Nebraska Cornhuskers, 
who are leading in the Big Six title 
race, in a return game in Nichols 
Gymnasium Friday night. 



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Two Attend Conference 

Miss Vida Harris of the Depart- 
ment of Art and Miss Thirza Moss- 
man of the Department of Mathe- 
matics attended an Inter-American 
Institute at the University of Kansas 
City, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. 



Students Are Second in Cattle Competi- 
tion at National Western Show 

College livestock judges placed 
fourth in the National Western Stock 
show in Denver Saturday. Ten teams 
competed in the contest. Class plac- 
ing included cattle, second; breed- 
ing, second, and marketing, sixth. 

Of the 50 contestants, individual 
honors in the contest included Frank 
L. Marcy, Milford, first in breeding 
and fourth in sheep class; George C. 
Wreath, Manhattan, fifth in fat 
classes; Harold E. Peterson, Bridge- 
port, fourth in hog class. Wreath 
was high man on the team. 

The team was accompanied by 
Prof. F. W. Bell. 



EVERYDAY ECONOMICS 

By W. E. GRIMES 



" Human resources are used too little at present." 



Human resources are the most im- 
portant of all the resources of any 
region. They are more important 
than soil, minerals, oil and the other 
natural resources. High standards of 
living may be built on rather meager 
natural resources by making full use 
of human resources. 

Human resources are used too lit- 
tle at present. A family may need 
health services but not have them. 
Perhaps one member of that same 
family is unemployed or only partial- 
ly employed but would welcome the 
opportunity to be a doctor, a nurse, 
a dentist or to render service in some 
other essential or desirable profes- 
sion. If the unemployed person were 
trained to use his human resources 
in rendering such services, he could 
care for the people who need Buch 



services. He would be doing some- 
thing useful which would raise the 
standards of living for those served. 
If his maintenance were shifted from 
those on whom he now is dependent, 
their incomes would be relieved of 
the expense of his maintenance and 
to that extent they would have funds 
which might be used to employ ser- 
vices such as he would render. 

This is merely a simple illustra- 
tion of the many ways in which hu- 
man resources might be put to work. 
By putting them to work, standards 
of living may be raised and poverty 
driven from our land. This will be 
done by putting our resources to 
work, and the most important re- 
source to be put to work is the hu- 
man resource. 



Stimulates Poor to Do Retter and Also 

Encournges All Groups, 

Says Expert 

By WALTER G. WARD 
College Extension Service 

Scientific farming paves the way 
to efficient farming. It stimulates the 
poor to become better, it encourages 
the better to become more improved. 
Once science becomes a part in 
one's managerial plans, there is 
greater certainty for the farm opera- 
tor. After planting his crops, he 
knows that he can control plant dis- 
eases and divert disaster from in- 
sects. Returns from livestock are 
more certain. Animal diseases can be 
checked, completely controlled or 
even eradicated. 

Fertile crop lands "stay at home" i 
by the scientific control of runoff 
water through the use of terraces, 
farming on the contour and the plant- 
ing of crops that increase the water- 
holding capacities of crop lands. 
Dams scientifically built provide 
reservoirs for thirsty crops and live- 
stock. 

Then, too, with greater certainty 
for a livelihood from farm enter- 
prises, the rural home becomes more 
stable. It becomes modernized, with- 
in and without. New buildings re- 
place the old. Remodeling and paint 
provide a prosperous appearance. 
The attitude of the occupants toward 
life within the home, within the com- 
munity and in county, state and na- 
tional government is changed to 
active participation in agricultural 
building. Industries dependent upon 
farming are more assured of pros- 
perity. 



WILDCAT SWIMMING TEAM 

MEETS K. U. ON FRIDAY 



Coach C. S. Moll Is Building Squad 
Around Four All-Big Six Vet- 
erans of Last Season 



Win Third Place 

Kansas State College won third 
place in the national Students' All- 
American Holstein-Friesian Judging 
contest sponsored by the extension 
service of the Holstein-Friesian As- 
sociation of America, Brattleboro, Vt. 
Jim F. Cavanaugh, Dodge City, 
was second, and Edward Reed of Rice 
won honorable mention in the inter- 
collegiate division. 



Kansas State's swimming team, 
second in the Big Six conference a 
! year ago, will open its 1941 season 
| in a dual meet with the University of 
I Kansas at Lawrence Friday after- 
] noon. 

Coach C. S. Moll is building his 
team around four boys who were 
picked on the all-conference team at 
the end of last season. They are 
Marshall Stover, Manhattan, Big Six 
champion in the 220- and 440-yard 
free-style races; Charles Lamer, 
Hays; Harold Novak, Ottawa, and 
Leo Yeo, Manhattan. 

Kansas State's tentative lineup for 
Friday's meet: 

Medley relay — Bill Foster, Arling- 
ton, N. J., or Jack Garrett, Joplin, 
Mo., back stroke; Tom Ellis, Topeka, 
breast stroke, and Wayne MacKirdy, 
Manhattan, free style. 

220-yard free style — Stover and 
Lamer. 

50-yard free style — Yeo and Gar- 
rett or Foster. 

Diving — Novak and Stover. 

100-yard free style — Novak and 
Yeo. 

150-yard back stroke — Foster and 
Garrett. 

Breast stroke — Ellis and Morris 
Barrett, Dodge City. 

440-yard free style — Stover and 
Lamer. 

400-yard free style relay — Novak, 
MacKirdy, Foster and Yeo. 



New Registration Schedule 

Vice-Pres. S. A. Nock has an- 
nounced that registration for the sec- 
ond semester will take place January 
28-30. Registration on Thursday 
morning of the third day is a new ar- 
rangement this semester. Classes of 
the second semester will begin at 1 
p. m. Thursday, January 30. 



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HISTORICAL SOCIETY C 
TOPEKA 



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The Kansas industrialist 



Volume 67 



Kansas 



State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, Manhattan, Wednesday, January 22, 1941 



Number 16 



FARM -HOME WEEK SET 

FOR FEBRUARY 4 TO 7 

PRESIDENT FARRBLL INVITES ALL 
RURAL, FOLK TO CAMPUS 



Livestock Day Speaker 



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Program Opens with Poultry Bay Tues- 
day Morning nnil Concludes with 
Annual Achievement Bnnq.net 
on Friday Night 

Hundreds of farm folk from all 
sections of Kansas are expected to 
attend the 1941 Farm and Home 
week here February 4 to 7. 

Work on the farm, In many of its 
phases, forms the basis for the week's 
program. In addition to talks by 
farming experts, there will be group 
discussions. Exhibits and inspection 
tours also have been arranged. 
FARRELL INVITES FARMERS 
An invitation to attend this an- 
nual event has been extended to all 
rural people by Pres. F. D. Farrell. 

"In the 72 years in which, under 
various names, there has been an an- 
nual Farm and Home week at Kansas 
State College this annual event has 
developed great folk significance," 
the President said. "It is a pleasure 
to invite you. You may be sure that 
you will receive a hearty welcome." 
Poultry day will open the week's 
program Tuesday morning, February 
4. Daiiy day is Wednesday while the 
rural electrification program also 
will be discussed February 4. 

A discussion of crops has been 
planned for Thursday. Livestock day 
has been scheduled for Friday, with 
John H. Moninger of the American 
Meat institute, Chicago, as a speaker. 
WOMEN'S PROGRAMS TUESDAY 
Farm homemakers will meet for 
programs dealing with homemaking 
subjects on Wednesday morning and 
continuing through Friday. 

"So many women have expressed a 
desire to attend the poultry and the 
rural electrification meetings on Tues- 
day that we decided to begin home 
economics sessions the second day," 
explained Miss Georgiana Smurth- 
waite, state home demonstration 
leader of the College Extension ser- 
vice. Miss Smurthwaite and Miss 
Margaret M. Justin, dean of the Divi- 
sion of Home Economics, have chosen 
"Mobilizing for Living" as the theme 
of the homemakers' sessions. 

Many attractive features have been 
scheduled for this year's Farm and 
Home week, in addition to regular 
farming and homemaking sessions, 
said L. C. Williams, assistant direc- 
tor of the College Extension service 
and in charge of program and ar- 
rangements. One of the most popular 
is expected to be the home talent fes- 
tival on Wednesday and Thursday 
evenings, when selected groups of 
rural Kansans present short plays. 
Another outstanding attraction will 
be the annual livestock and dairy 
show on Thursday evening. 

BANQUET IS ON FRIDAY 
Special breakfasts, luncheons and 
dinners for particular groups have 
been planned throughout the week, 
beginning with the dairymen's din- 
ner Tuesday evening and ending with 
the Farm and Home Week Achieve- 
ment banquet Friday evening. At 
that time, official presentation of the 
master farmers and master farm 
homemakers of Kansas will be made. 
R. I. Thackrey, head of the Depart- 
ment of Industrial Journalism and 
Printing, announced that the fourth 
annual journalism conference will be 
held February 6 and 7. The journal- 
ism conference program is a part of 
Farm and Home week. 

WILL, DISCUSS PICTURES 
Thursday afternoon will be de- 
voted to photography. The Friday 
forenoon program will include a dis- 
cussion of photo engraving, picture 
transmission and examination of ex- 
hibits. Friday afternoon will be de- 
voted to country correspondence. 



Co-ed May Reign as Queen 

Several Kansas State College co- 
eds have been nominated for Man- 
hattan's "Personality Queen" who 
will reign at the annual President's 
Birthday ball on February 1. 




REGISTRATION TO BEGIN 
NEXT TUESDAY MORNING 

COLLEGE OFFERS 1,738 CLASSES 
UNDER 383 INSTRUCTORS 



JOHN H. MONINGER 
John H. Moninger, a member of the 
staff of the American Meat institute, 
Chicago, will be the principal speaker 
on the livestock day program, Febru- 
ary 7, (luring Farm and Home week. 
Mr. Moninger will discuss the meat in- 
dustry's campaign to stimulate con- 
sumption of meat and meat by-prod- 
ucts. 



PRELIMINARY UNION BILL 
IS ENDORSED BY COMMITTEE 



StnilentH mid Faculty Members Will 

Confer with Regents In Tonekn 

Next Tuesday 

The Student Union project com- 
mittee has endorsed a tentative bill 
which may be introduced soon in the 
Kansas Legislature by Sen. Frank O. 
Oberg of Clay Center and Rep. I. M. 
Piatt of Junction City. The bill was 
prepared under the direction of the 
State Board of Regents. 

The bill, if passed, would enable 
any state school to construct a stu- 
dent union building or dormitories 
and pay for them without creating 
state indebtedness by charging rent- 
als and fees. 

Several student and faculty mem- 
bers of the committee, headed by 
Prof. Paul Weigel of the Department 
of Architecture, plan to go to Topeka 
Tuesday, January 28, to confer with 
the State Board of Regents regarding 
the bill. 

The committee also expects to be 
active during the present session of 
the Legislature seeking to obtain ap- 
proval of the proposal. 

A new member of the Student 
Union committee will be selected to 
represent the Division of Engineer- 
ing and Architecture in place of Wil- 
liam Keogh, New York City, who as 
an army reserve officer was called for 
active duty recently. 



Department of Chemistry Has Lnrgest 

Number of Sections, 114, While 

Physics Ranks 

Next 

Old and new students will register 
for spring-semester classes beginning 
Tuesday, January 28. Registration 
will extend to Thursday noon, Janu- 
ary 30. 

The number expected to enroll next 
semester is about the same as that 
of the spring semester last year. 
DO NOT EXPECT INCREASE 
Vice-Pres. S. A. Nock estimated 
that the new students will not num- 
ber much more than for the com- 
parable semester last year. Last 
spring a total of 3,725 students en- 
rolled. 

Classes numbering 1,738 are sched- 
uled under 383 instructors for next 
semester. Of this number, 114 of 
them are in the Department of Chem- 
istry, headed by Dr. H. H. King. This 
department also has the largest staff, 
numbering 30. The Department of 
Physics, under the direction of Prof. 
A. B. Cardwell, has 92 scheduled, the 
next highest number of classes. The 
Department of English, headed by 
Prof. H. W. Davis, comes next with 
8 2 classes. 

TWO NEW COURSES 
Among the 1,73,8 classes are two 
new ones being offered for the first 
time this semester, Trade and Tech- 
nical Writing in the Department of 
Industrial Journalism and Printing 
and Fundamentals of Demonstrations 
in the Division of Home Economics. 



Dean to Topeka 

Miss Helen Moore, dean of women, 
will be a member of the reception 
committee of the Women's Kansas 
Day club at its annual meeting in To- 
peka January 28 and 29. She also 
has been invited to be in the receiv- 
ing line of the club reception the eve- 
ning of January 28 at the Executive 
mansion. 



LEGISLATURE STUDIES 

NEED FOR FIELDHOUSE 



MORE THAN 250 MAKE TRIP FROM 
TOPEKA TO CAMPUS 



ALUMNI AT CHANUTE DINNER 
SIGN FIELDHOUSE PETITION 



Potato Show Gives Money 

The Kansas Potato Show, Inc., an 
organization of the state's leading 
producers and exhibitors, has estab- 
lished a unit of $477.17 in the alum- 
ni loan fund. All Kansas State Col- 
lege students are eligible, but sons 
and daughters of Kansas potato 
growers will receive preference. The 
fund will be administered by the 
alumni loan fund committee under 
the same rules that govern all stu- 
dent loans. Prof. L. E. Melchers, 
head of the Department of Botany 
and Plant Pathology, was instrumen- 
tal in obtaining the money. 



Joins Shorthorn Journal Staff 

Glenn H. Beck, instructor in the 
Department of Dairy Husbandry, re- 
cently was added to the staff of the 
Milking Shorthorn Journal, monthly 
publication of the Milking Shorthorn 
Society of the United States. He will 
edit the page entitled "Science Stud- 
ies Farm Problems." On this page 
popular scientific articles and publi- 
cations are abstracted by Mr. Beck, 



Conch II. .M.s Adnms and Kenney Ford 
Spenk Before Those Attending Ban- 
quet on Thursday Night 

Three petitions asking support for 
the much-needed fleldhouse at Kan- 
sas State College were signed by 56 
enthusiastic Kansas State alumni at- 
tending a dinner meeting at the 
Tioga hotel in Chanute Thursday 
night. 

One was sent to Gov. Payne H. Rat- 
ner and one each to the local senator 
and representative. 

Coach Hobbs Adams gave the main 
talk and showed moving pictures of 
the University of Kansas-Kansas 
State and of the University of Okla- 
homa-Kansas State football games. 
Kenney L. Ford talked to the group 
about legislative needs of the Col- 
lege. 

In addition to Mr. Adams and Mr. 
Ford, those present included: 

J. W. Massey, '32, and Mrs. Massey; 
Ralph Alexander, '27; Margery Lou 
Olson, '41; Glen Evans, '26; Evelyn 
Stout, '38; Harold Engle, '39; E. W. 
Grigg, '37; V. R. Weathers, '31, and 
Vada (Burson) Weathers, '31; Begly 
and Dorothy Gardner; E. J. and Mrs. 
Ackerson; Paul F. Warner, '34, and 
Mrs. Warner; Robert B. Perry, '33; 
Elery L. Collins, '32; Aubrey Con- 
row, '13, and Dorothy (Heartburg) 
Conrow, '17; Ralph Huffman, '41; 
Don Williams, '33; D. A. Finney, '26, 
and Mrs. Finney, f. s.; Dr. L. L. Rush, 
'33, and Leona (Maas) Rush, '31; 
Carter Brookhart, f. s.; Joe K. Limes, 
'29, and Mrs. Limes; E. S. Schultz, 
'31, and Opal (Porter) Schultz, '32; 
Mildred (Loy) Hawkins, f. s. '24, 
Ben Stott, f. s. '38, all of Chanute. 
Mr. Stott was toastmaster of the ban- 
quet. 

Others present were: Ernie Miller, 
'41, Independence; Ruby Randall, 
'39, William Proudflt, '38, Neodesha; 
John C. Crawley, '38, L. E. Moody, 
'28, Glen Cline, '40, Fredonia; Clark 
B. Stephenson, '37, and Mrs. Ste- 
phenson, Mildred Dodge, '40, La 
Harpe; Richard L. Henderson, '38, 
and Mrs. Henderson, Jack Works, 
'40, George Works, '38, Humboldt; 
K. E. Johnson, '39, and Mrs. John- 
son, f. s., of Parsons; William E. 
Paske, '39, of Toronto; Frances M. 
Heaton, '3 8, Stark; Mr. and Mrs. C. 
E. Crews, '28, Iola; Elizabeth (El- 
ledge) Fanatia, '35, and Loren Fa- 
natia of Shaw. 



NEW SWEET POTATO IS SO RICH IN VITAMIN A 

THAT, LIKE APPLE, IT MAY KEEP DOCTOR AWAY 



A new variety of sweet potato, 
Nancy Gold, may, like the apple, be- 
come a food to "keep the doctor 
away," plant breeders at the Kansas 
Agricultural Experiment station be- 
lieve. 

The vitamin-A rich new variety is 
a selection from the Nancy Hall va- 
riety, long a favorite among Kansas 
sweet potato growers and consumers. 
It is much higher in its vitamin A 
content than the parent variety, how- 
ever. The development of the new 
variety was started in 193 2 by Dr. 
O. H. Elmer, a member of the botany 
staff of the Agricultural Experiment 
station, while he was seeking a va- 
riety that would be resistant to the 
stem rot disease that attacks sweet 
potato plants. 

In his tests of different plants, 
Doctor Elmer observed that sudden 
variations in characteristics occurred j 
between the parent plant and the new j 
offspring plant. The new potato had | 
a much more orange-colored flesh 
and skin than did the Nancy Hall, 
the parent variety. Single hill selec- 
tions of these new variations were 
propagated separately the following 



MISS HYDE WILL PRESIDE 

AT STATE COUNCIL SESSION 



Cheering Students Chant Traditional 

Cry for New Building as Governor 

and Others See Wildcats 

Lose to K. U. 

(Sports Story on Page Four) 
Shouting, cheering students Mon- 
day night screamed Kansas State 
College's requests for a new field- 
house to a delegation of more than 
250 legislators, their wives and 
friends who saw the University of 
Kansas defeat the Wildcat basketball 
team. 

Gov. Payne H. Ratner and Lieut.- 
Gov. Carl E. Friend, '88, Lawrence, 
head the delegation from Topeka 
at the game, although the governor 
did not arrive with the others for 
dinner at the College cafeteria. He 
went directly to the Gymnasium. 
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE HELPS 
Kenney L. Ford, alumni secretary, 
said that approximately 25 senators 
and 100 members of the House of 
Representatives were in the group 
that came to Manhattan in seven spe- 
cial buses. The Manhattan Chamber 
of Commerce and the College co- 
operated in entertaining the delega- 
tion. Hal Harlan, president of the 
Chamber of Commerce, headed the 
Manhattanites that went to Topeka 
to bring the legislators to the cam- 
pus. 

Governor Ratner was quoted as 
saying after the game that the stu- 
dents had shown the legislators the 
need for a change in conditions as 
they existed. He added that he be- 
lieved the demonstrations would be 
of some help. 

The Gymnasium was crowded even 
beyond the traditional "Standing 
Room Only" stage. No seats were 
left and one student climbed up on 
the practice basket board so that he 
could see the game from a hazardous 
perch. 

DROP DUMMY AT HALF 

Led by cheer leaders, the students 
chanted "We Want a Fieldhouse." 
Between halves, a dummy was 
dropped from the rafters with an ac- 
companiment of gasps. Because of 
the scant space available, even under 
normal conditions, many students are 
forced to sit on the precarious places 
on the rafters if they desire to see 
the basketball games. 

In addition to Governor Ratner, 
Lieutenant-Governor Friend, Pres. F. 
D. Farrell, other guests included 
Hubert Brighton, Topeka, secretary 
of the State Board of Regents; Willis 
( Kelly, '12, Hutchinson, newly named 
member of the State Board of Re- 
gents; Clarence Nevins, director of 
the Works Progress administration 
for Kansas, and Mr. and Mrs. Frank 
W. Boyd, Topeka. Mr. Boyd is a 
member of the State Board of Ad- 
ministration. 



year, and by continued selection and 
increase the Nancy Gold variety has 
been developed. 

"There is sufficient vitamin A in 
an average serving of Nancy Gold 
sweet potato to meet the average in- 
dividual's daily vitamin A require- 
ments," Doctor Elmer said. "The high 
vitamin A content of the Nancy Gold 
variety is due to the potato's orange 
color, or presence of 'carotene,' one 
of the plant pigments." 

Carotene is readily converted into 
vitamin A. It is the same pigment 
that is responsible for the yellow 
color of egg yolks, butter, carrots and 
other yellow or orange-colored foods. 
The pigment was first found in car- 
rots, from which it gets Its name. 

Plants of the Nancy Gold variety 
i were distributed to commercial sweet 
[ potato growers during the last grow- 
ing season. Doctor Elmer reports 
that the growers who planted Nancy 
Gold last spring were "intensely in- 
terested" in the new variety and in- 
dicated they would use their entire 
1940 crop for seed stock the coming 
season. 



Mathematics Professor Is Head of Wo- 
men's Organization In Kansas 

Miss Emma Hyde, associate profes- 
sor of mathematics, will preside at 
the annual meeting of the Kansas 
Council of Women at the Hotel Jay- 
hawk in Topeka Saturday. 

Miss Hyde, as president, is one of 
four members of the Kansas State 
College faculty represented on this 
council of presidents and past presi- 
dents of 19 affiliated women's clubs 
in the state. She represents the Kan- 
sas division of the American Associa- 
tion of University Women and the 
Kansas Dinner club. 

Corresponding secretary of the 
council is Mrs. Lucile Rust, professor 
of home economics education, repre- 
senting the Home Economics associa- 
tion; chairman of the housing com- 
mittee is Miss Margaret M. Justin, 
dean of the Division of Home Eco- 
nomics, representing the Kansas 
Dinner club, and chairman of the 
resolutions committee is Miss Helen 
Moore, dean of women, who is a past 
president of the Kansas Association 
of Deans of Women and Advisers of 
Girls and of the Kansas division of 
the American Association of Univer- 
sity Women. 



BARNETT SEES REVIVAL 

OF ORCHARD PLANTINGS 



Hortleulture Professor Predicts that 
Loss of Trees and Increased De- 
mand Will Bring Activities 

"Loss of orchard trees and the 
probable rise in consumer demand 
for fruit in Kansas indicate the time 
is not far in the future when plant- 
ing of apple, cherry, peach and plum 
trees will be resumed in the state," 
predicted R. J. Barnett, professor of 
horticulture. 

When this time comes, it will be 
the task of present growers and work- 
ers from the College to aid in keep- 
ing the boom on a reasonable basis 
and to encourage the new fruit men 
to follow the best practices, he said. 

Correct choice of location, site and 
varieties will remain fundamental 
and, as in the past, growers who fail 
to make a study of these subjects will 
fail in their undertakings. 

Professor Barnett also indicated 
that the next generation of orchards 
in Kansas will not prove profitable 
unless they have better care than 
have the orchards of the past 25 
years. 



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The KANSAS INDUSTRIALIST 

Established April 24, 1876 



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JANB ROCKWELL. RALPH LASHBROOK. 

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the Kansas State College of Agriculture and 
Applied Science. Manhattan, Kansas. 



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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1941 



THIO STORY THE FIGI'RKS TKM, 

Few volumes of uninviting appear- 
ance have more fascinating "between 
the lines" stories to tell than the 
pages of the annual volumes of "Ag- 
ricultural Statistics" issued by the 
United States Department of Agricul- 
ture. 

Take, for example, the pages bear- 
ing the useful and informative but 
scarcely colorful titles "Horses and 
Mules: Number and value on farms, 
United States, Jan. 1, 1867-1940" 
and "Farm tractors manufactured 
and sold for use in the United States, 
1909-38." 

The story of a tremendous revolu- 
tion in farm life is told in those 
close-set pages of statistics. It is a 
continuing story which has been 
building to a climax in recent years. 
In 1867, the first year for which 
figures are given, there were 6,820,- 
000 horses and 1,000,000 mules on 
the farms of the United States. Slow- 
ly but steadily the numbers increased 
for almost a half-century. By 1909 
there were 19,731,000 horses and 
4,085,000 mules reported as farm- 
owned. That was not the peak year, 
but it is mentioned because it is the 
first year for which an estimate on 
the number of farm tractors manu- 
factured and sold (2,000) is avail- 
able. 

By 1914 tractor production had 
risen to 15,000, and two years later 
it was up to 29,670. War conditions 
came dramatically into the picture in 
1917, when production skyrocketed 
to 62,472. 

Production doubled again in 1918 
to reach 132,697, of which 96,000 
were sold at home. That cycle reached 
its peak in 1920 with a total United 
States production of 203,207, a ten- 
fold increase in half a decade. 

The 1921 depression saw a produc- 
tion drop to 68,000. Again there was 
a buildup to a new high of 223,081 in 
1929, followed by another drop and 
another increase to an all-time high 
of 272,439 produced in 1937, of which 
237,618 were sold in the United 
States. 

As for totals: In 1920 an estimated 
246,083 tractors were on U. S. farms. 
In 1930 there were more than 920,- 
000, and a trade journal estimate 
for 1939 was 1,652,654. 

Meanwhile, the number of horses 
on farms continued to increase stead- 
ily up to and through 1915 when they 
reached an all-time high of 21,431,- 
000. Since that time they have de- 
clined steadily in numbers. With 
never a change in the trend the total 
has gone down year by year. The 
1940 preliminary estimate was for 
10,616,000 horses on U. S. farms, 
less than half the 1915 peak. 

Por Kansans. the story of mecha- 
nization may be highlighted by the 
story of the four years from 1936 to 
1940, in which the horse population 
dropped from 554,000 to an esti- 
mated 390,000. 

The neat rows of figures tell other 
stories of interest, such as the fact 
that in 1935 there were 14 percent 
of tractors sold with rubber tires, 
while in 1938 no less than 68 percent 
were so equipped. 

Behind the columns of figures is 
the story of farm surpluses caused in 
great part by production for feeding 
animals no longer there (corn pro- 
duction in 1937-38-39 was greater 
than that for 1914-15-16, when there 



were twice as many horses on farms 
as now). The story is an old one, of 
course, to agricultural leaders, but 
is one that can stand retelling often 
to impress it on the whole population 
as one of the great fundamentals of 
our "agricultural problem." 
— ♦ — 

BOOKS 

KukIiiiiiI In Few W«rdn 

••The White Cliffs." By Alice Duer 
Miller. Coward-McCann. New York. 

1'.I40. II. 

Here in 70 small pages of light 
verse is a description of what is per- 
haps most significant in the customs 
and the character of the people of 
England. The description is in the 
form of a story of an American wo- 
man, Susan Dunne, who went to En- 
gland for a week's visit shortly be- 
fore the outbreak of the first World 
war and has lived there ever since. 
She had not expected to prolong 
her stay but England captivated her 
as it has captivated many another 
American of British ancestry. She 
says of the arrival — 

"I had no thought then of husband 

or lover, 
I was a traveler, the guest of a 

w o <? k * 
Yet when they pointed 'the white 

cliffs of Dover,' 
Startled I found there were tears 

on my cheek." 
In no time at all she was in love 
with an Englishman. He intercepted 
her at Southampton as she was about 
to sail for America, took her back to 
his family's country home in Devon, 
married her and left for the war 
front shortly afterward. He was 
killed in action just before the Ar- 
mistice in November, 1918. 

Susan stayed on in Devon, where 
her son was born and where he was 
reared in the English fashion — 
trained in courtesy and self-control, 
disciplined, conditioned to represent 
his class in the government and de- 
fense of his country. She was great- 
ly impressed with English citizen- 
ship 



SCIENCE TODAY 



By RUTH LINDQUIST 

Head, Department of Household 
Economics 



"The English love their country 
with a love 

Steady, and wimple, wordless, dig- 
nified; 

I think it sets their patriotism 
above 

All others. . . . 

Once I remember in London how I 

saw 
Pale shabby people standing in a 

Line in the twilight and the misty 
rain _, 

To pay their tax. I then saw En- 
gland plain." 

She found a painful contrast in 

America when she came home for a 

visit in the 1920's — 

"Was this America — this my home 

Prohibition and Teapot Dome — . . . 

Hold-ups, kidnappings, hootch or 
booze — ,. 

Everyone gambling — you just can t 
lose." 

Events in Europe between the wars 
are briefly sketched. Her own per- 
sonal and family experiences are re- 
counted. Then comes her son's turn 
to die, if need be, for England. It is 
difficult for Susan to reconcile her- 
self to the country's demands upon 
her son but she understands when 
she remembers that even Queen 
Elizabeth never — 

"Dared to oppose the sullen might 
Of the English, standing upon a 
right." 
And she sees in the English the spirit 
of her American forefathers, who 
valued liberty above all else. She 
concludes — 

•I am American bred, 
1 have seen much to hate here, 
much to forgive, . 

nut in a world where England is 
Finished and dead, 

1 dci not wish to live." 

To read this little book is to gain 
increased understanding of England 
and added appreciation of what the 
spirit of the English people means 
to the human race. — F. D. Farrell. 



One of the significant trends dur- 
ing the 1930's was the increase in in- 
vestigations regarding families in the 
United States. This began with the 
1930 census inquiries which made 
possible, for the first time, a separate i 
volume on families. The White j 
House Conference on Child Health 
and Protection in 1930, and the 
President's Conference on Home; 
Building and Ownership in 1931 pro- 
vided additional information. In 
1933, a project of the Civil Works 
administration furnished nation-wide 
facts on rural housing and the im- 1 
provements desired. 

More recently the study of con-! 
sumer purchases has given the first 
comprehensive picture of consumer 
incomes and expenditures. This 
study, a project of the Works Prog- 
ress administration in 1935 and 1936, 
was conducted by the Bureau of 
Home Economics of the United States 
Department of Agriculture and the 
Bureau of Labor Statistics of the 
United States Department of Labor, 
with the cooperation of the National 
Resources committee and the Central 
Statistical board. 

In an era when science and inven- 
i tion have increased greatly produc- 
tivity in agriculture and industry, 
such a study is of more than passing 
interest. For all interested in the 
widely proclaimed American stand- 1 
ard of living, it replaces abstractions 
with concrete facts. 

In 1935-1936, according to the 
findings of this study, the United 
States had 29 V 2 million families with 
a total income of 4 8 billion dollars. 
Haf of them received less than $22 
a week and half received more. Four- 
teen percent of the entire number 
had less than $500 for the year. 
! Nearly half had less than $1,000 and 
1 approximately two-thirds had in- 
comes that did not reach $1,500. 
Only 13 in each 100 received more 
than $2,500. The 42 percent at the 
bottom of the income ladder had less 
than 16 percent of the total and the 
3 percent at the fcop received 21 per- 
cent. Fifteen out of every 100 fami- 
lies found it necessary to turn to some 
source of help, other than friends 
and relatives, in order to make both 
ends meet. 

The spending patterns of these 
families bear out the findings of 
those who have been familiar recent- 
ly with family account books. Food, 
housing and household operation 



take half or more of the income. Of 
those, the food is the most costly for 
all income groups until the $10,000- 
$15,000 income level is reached, 
when housing is comparable. The 
percentage used for food decreases 
gradually as the income increases 
but the expenditure in dollars in- 
creases. Among rural families, home- 
produced food is valued at approxi- 
mately half of the total used for food 
on all levels and points conclusively 
to the importance of home produc- 
tion. The percentage of total expen- 
ditures used for housing tends to 
remain constant with changes in in- 
come, and averages 18 percent at all 
I levels. The percentage for household 
operation expenses also tends to re- 
! main the same but averages only 1 2 
> percent. In comparison with home- 
produced food, fuel and ice are minor 
j items for farm families. The amount 
j used for clothing varies from $35 — 
I 7.5 percent — on incomes of under 
$500 to $2,177—15 percent — on in- 
comes of $20,000 and above. Auto- I 
! mobile expenditures are found on all | 
! income levels, and vary from 3 per- 
cent on the lowest income level to 
12 percent on the $20,000 level. 
Other expenses for transportation ap- 
proximate 1 percent. 

Remaining expenditures include 
those for medical care, recreation, 
furnishings, personal care, tobacco, 
reading, education and other living 
expenses. Gifts and taxes are sources 
of expenditures for which there is a 
gradual increase. The average used 
by families for personal taxes — ex- 
clusive of inheritance, estate, and 
property — was 2 percent on incomes 
of less than $1,2 50; in the income 
class above $20,000 the percentage 
was 14. 

Savings of American families, ac- 
cording to this study, occur only in 
the income levels above $1,250. The 
percentage increases from one for 
families having $1,250-$1,500 to 21 
for those with incomes of $4,000- 
$5,000 and to more than 50 percent 
for those with incomes of $20,000 
and over. In this comparison, the fact 
that a small number of families is in- 
cluded in the highest income groups 
needs to be considered. An added 
consideration is the wide range in 
the amount of income for these fami- 
lies. 

A growing number of publications 
presenting the findings of this com- 
prehensive investigation makes pos- 
sible detailed information for differ- 
ent regions, occupations and types of 
families. 



of the Women's Christian Temper- 
ance union at Brisbane, Queensland. 

Miss Lora Waters, '88, passed the 
examination for admission as one of 
the teachers in the Omaha, Neb., city 
schools. 

President Fairchild and Professors 
Popenoe and Lantz represented the 
College at the Golden Belt Farmers' 
institute at Peabody. 



SIXTY YEARS AGO 
President Fairchild went to Topeka 
on College business. 

At the annual meeting of the Man- 
hattan Horticultural society the fol- 
lowing officers were elected: T. C. 
Wells, president; Professors Walters 
and Failyer, vice-presidents; Profes- 
sor Popenoe, secretary; S. D. Moses, 
treasurer. 



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KANSAS POETRY 

Robert Conover, Editor 



By May Sterens Isaacs 
We used to gather grasses in the early 

F*a 1 1 

To blend with princess feather, smart 
weed, coxcomb; , 

Add leaves the frost had turned to yel- 
low, red, and all 

The brown-toned hues, to make bou- 
quets for school and home. 

These often graced the shelf which held 
the kitchen clock 

Or stood beside the stairway in the en- 
trance hall. , . ., 

Sometimes a basket held the spray, 
again a crock, . 

Or tinsel-covered stems were fastened 
to a wall. 

The teacher of the "District School," 

ambitious, young, 
Assisted by the girls, cut colored plates 

so gay 
From catalogs. In cardboard frames 

this art was hung 
About the room, and in each corner a 

bouquet. 

We used to gather grasses in the early 

Fall 
In all those years of golden school days 

I recall. 

May Stevens Isaacs, Canadian, 
1 Texas, is a native of Kansas. She has 
' had poems published in a few maga- 
zines, a great many newspapers and 
eight anthologies. She also has had 
one book of verse published. 



SUNFLOWERS 

By H. W. Davis 

BLUE FUNK NUMBER .00000 

No matter what you wish to be- 
lieve, you suspect this old world and 
its peoples are jockeying around for 
a start in the most unguessable 
"hoss" race ever pulled off on this 
flattened-at-the-poles planet. 



000 registered. In the United States 
and her territories, there are 4,348,- 
5 06 motor trucks. 

Over a 10-year period, motor- 
vehicle operation has increased 26.5 
percent, or almost 10,000,000 vehi- 
cles, an improvement of 16.5 percent 
occurred in the United States and 57 
percent in other countries of the 
world.— From Highway Highlights. 
••- 

Who holds a power but newly 
gained is ever stern of mood. 

— Aeschylus. 



(Eula D. McDonald), '12, were liv- 
ing in Isabella, Porto Rico, where Mr. 
Orr was treasurer of the Presbytery 
of Porto Rico. 



There are 45,422,411 motor ve- 
hicles in the entire world and 68.5 
percent or 31,104,118 of them are 
in the United Staes and territories, 
according to the Department of Com- 
merce. There is one automobile for 
every four persons in the United 
States, while the world ratio is one 
to 47 persons. 

Motor vehicle registrations present 
some interesting comparisons: Spits- 
bergen has two vehicles — a passenger 
car and a truck. Even in Bermuda, 
where cars are prohibited, there are 
68 registered — two cars, seven buses 
and 59 trucks. 

New Zealand has a motor vehicle 
for every six persons, while Australia 
and Canada have one for every eight 
persons. In contrast, China totals 
6,288 persons per car. 

Outside of the United States, the 
Soviet Republic has the greatest 
truck ownership — there being 699,- 



m OLDER DAYS 

From the Files of The Industrialist 

TEN YEARS AGO 

Prof. L. E. Conrad, head of the De- 
partment of Civil Engineering, rep- 
resented the Kansas Engineering so- 
ciety at the two-day session of the 
American Engineering council in 
Washington, D. C. 

C. M. Miller, M. S. '27, Topeka, 
state director of vocational education 
in Kansas, was elected president of 
the American Vocational association 
at the annual convention of the or- 
ganization held in Milwaukee. 

Thomas J. Leasure, '30, was prac- 
ticing veterinary medicine in Law- 
rence. 



THIRTY YEARS AGO 
H. J. Waters, president of the Col- ; 
lege; W. S. Gearhart, highway engi- 
neer; A. R. Losh, assistant, and L. 
E. Conrad, professor of civil engi- 
neering, attended the State Good 
Roads meeting at Wichita. 

E. C. Butterfield, '98, superinten- 
dent of the Arlington Experiment 
station farm, Arlington, Va., stopped 
in Manhattan for a few days. Mr. 
Butterfield had been on the Pacific 
coast for six weeks studying sugar- 
beet problems. 

Lieut. Glen Edgerton, '04, a mem- 
ber of the Army Engineering corps, 
spoke at student assembly. He told 
of the numerous principalities near 
the Panama canal and of the charac- 
; ter of laborers employed by the 
United States government in Panama. 
Lieutenant Edgerton was on his way 
to Alaska, where he was to be en- 
, gaged in government engineering 
I work. 



Just at present we hope it looks 
like Anglo-Saxon against the field, 
with German a too-strong contender 
— too strong to allow mention of 
favorites. Russian, a stocky black- 
as-night dark horse, is also in the 
race. (Don't overlook him because 
he hasn't been doing a lot of neigh- 
ing.) And don't forget Jappie, the 
yellowish bay jackrabbit from across 
the Pacific, who has enough ambition 
to make running skill sort of un- 
necessary. 



If and when they get away from 
the barrier, it won't be in an ordi- 
nary cloud of dust. It will be a cloud 
of dark red mud, dealing death and 
raining blood; and this age that has 
forgotten its former gods of philoso- 
phies and ethical approvals and 
trusted its all to science and gadgets 
will have a good, lively try at de- 
stroying itself plus whatever else is 
close. 



TWENTY YEARS AGO 
Dr. C. C. Wolcott, '13, and Mr. and 
Mrs. J. C. Christensen, '94, were 
among the 50 Kansans who attended 
a dinner in honor of Gov. Henry J. 
Allen at the University of Michigan, 
Ann Arbor. 

Ina E. Holroyd, '97, instructor in 
mathematics, was on the program of 
the Kansas Mathematics association. 
Her subject was "Results of Experi- 
ence with Classes in Generalized 
Mathematics." 

William M. Orr, '10, and Mrs. Orr 



FORTY YEARS AGO 
Miss May Secrest attended a farm- 
ers' institute at Gardner. 

Professor and Mrs. Metcalf and 
Miss Josephine Berry went to Topeka 
to hear Elbert Hubbard's lecture. 

Professor Hitchcock received a let- 
ter from the secretary of the Inter- 
national Botanical society, whose 
headquarters were in Paris, France, 
informing him that he had been 
awarded a silver medallion for effi- 
cient work as president of the asso- 
ciation. 



The minor skirmishing now going 
on in Libya, Albania and over the En- 
glish channel is only the beginning, 
folks. Reserved seats for the main 
; performance under the big blue can- 
opy of heaven are now being sold to 
; the highest bidders, and barkers 
i everywhere are dishing out the bally- 

I hoo as it never was dished out before. 
Only a miracle can prevent the draw- 

| ing back of the main-entrance cur- 
! tains and the fanfare of bugles an- 
nouncing the most stupendous of all 
'chariot races to the death. (You see, 

I I had to get back to that "hoss-race" 
idea somehow. Anyway, my metaphor 
is no more mixed than the world is.) 



FIFTY YEARS AGO 
Mrs. Shelton was elected president 



I know of nothing you and I can 
do about it except to pray for that 
miracle. The champion steeds have 
the bits in their teeth, and what 
reins, if any, we have in our hands, 
if any, are not so strong as a last 
year's spider web. 



\ 



Hamlet's advice to poor, distraught 
Ophelia was: "Go pray!" It might not 
be so bad for the poor, distraught 
world. 



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AMONG THE 
ALUMNI 



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Fannie (Waugh) Davis, B. S. '91, 
will represent Kansas State College 
at the celebration of the 75th anni- 
versary of Fisk university at Nash- 
ville, Tenn. Mrs. Davis' home is at 
1714 Villa place, Nashville. 

John H. Oesterhaus, B. S. '01, is a 
veterinarian in charge of the Farm- 
ers' Vaccine and Supply company, 
Kansas City, Mo. The company has 
a complete line for cattle, horses, 
sheep, hogs and poultry. Doctor 
Oesterhaus' address is 1619 West 
Sixteenth street, Kansas City, Mo. 
He recently gave $100 to the College 
Alumni Loan fund and said that he 
is making plans to attend the reunion 
of his class this spring. 

The Rev. F. L. Courter, Agron. '05, 
of the Covert Methodist church has 
received the 52nd number of a chain 
letter which he and nine other mem- 
bers of the class of 1905 at Kansas 
State College began writing to each 
other 3 5 years ago. At first they 
wrote twice a year, but later reduced 
it to once a year. Nine members of 
the group still are living, but are 
scattered from Maryland to Colorado. 



located at Camp Robinson, Little 
Rock, Ark. His family moved from 
Cape Girardeau, Mo., to join him. 

Orville M. Deibler, E. E. '26, vis- 
ited the College recently. Since leav- 
ing College, Mr. Deibler has been an 
engineer in the American Telephone 
and Telegraph company and was sta- 
tioned in New York City. He recently 
was promoted to the position of staff 
supervisor of the Western area and 
has been moved to the headquarters 
of this area in Chicago. The Western 
area comprises the states of Michi- 
gan Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, North 
Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, 
Montana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Colo- 
rado, Idaho, Utah, Washington, Ore- 
gon and Nevada. Mr. Deibler's work 
covers the service methods and re- 
sults in the long lines department. 



LOOKING AROUND 

KENNEY L. FORD 



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Manhattan's Santa Claus is Har- 
vey G. Roots, Ag. '11, who after the 
Christmas season returns to his origi- 
nal role as a local insurance man. 
For the past 16 years, he has ap- 
peared from 25 to 35 times each year 
at Christmas affairs without charge. 
Playing Santa has been a tradition 
in his family, and it started a half 
century ago, with the duty being 
handed down to him from his older 
brother who had succeeded his fa- 
ther. 

Mr. Roots groomed himself for the 
task by playing football on the Kan- 
sas State varsity squad back in 1908, 
'09 and '10. 

Mrs. Roots (Pearl Smith, '11), 
like Mrs. Santa, plays a large part in 
Mr. Roots' success, as she has the 
job of keeping his very real suit in 
condition and chauffeuring him to 
the parties. 



James F. Price, R. C. '27, has been 
named dean of Washburn college law 

school. 

Mr. Price is now professor of law | 
at the University of San Francisco. , 
After making plans in Topeka during j 
a two-week stay there, he returned to 
San Francisco to finish his work. He j 
went to Chicago during the Christmas 
holidays, where he represented both 
the University of San Francisco and 
Washburn college at the convention 
of the American Association of Law 
Schools. He holds degrees from Le- 
laud Stanford university and has 
studied at the University of Paris 
and Swarthmore. 

Mr. Price is married and has three 
children. He is the son of Prof, and 
Mrs. R. R. Price of Manhattan. Pro- 
fessor Price is head of the Depart- 
ment of History and Government at 
Kansas State. 



Washington Alumni Gathering 

Kieth Harrison, '40, who is em- 
ployed in agricultural economics with 
the United States Department of Ag- 
riculture at Washington, D. C, re- 
cently wrote: 

"A group of Kansas Staters now 
working in Washington, D. C, spent 
a pleasant evening January 4 at the 
home of Hubert L. Collins, '23, M. S. 
•29, and Lois (Richardson) Collins, 
•2 5 in nearby Alexandria, Va. Libbie 
Smerchek, '32, won high score in 
the varied games. Her reward was a 
color photograph of the cherry trees 
in bloom around the tidal basin with 
Washington monument in the back- 
ground. Earl Miller, '38, who is now 
doing graduate work at the Univer- 
sity of Maryland, was most accurate 
at guessing the number of popcorn 
grains in a milk bottle. 

"Others present included William 
Ackley, '40; Floyd Berger, '40; Gay- 
lord Green, '40; Gordon Green, '40; 
Marjorie Gerkin; Kieth Harrison, 
I '4 0; Lester Hoffman, '40, and Lucille 
I (Spring) Hoffman, f. s.; Edward Le- 
lland, '39; Wayne Morgan, '40; Ed- 
Iward Smerchek, '40; Alfons Stiebe, 
| '39; Waldo Tate, '40, and Mrs. Tate, 
land the Collins children, Roberta 
and Norman." 

Mr. Collins, the host, is a crop spe- 
cialist for the 1940 census while on 
leave from his position as Kansas 
state statistician. Most of those at 
the party are employed at the Census 
bureau. 



having to go somewhere else at that 
time. 

"The excuse of short notice cannot 
be given because this is a lot of notice 
and even earlier we sent notices out 
at our meeting in 1936 that we would 
have a reunion this year. Every- 
member present pledged himself to 
be present in 1941 and to bring any 
of his neighboring members who 
might have been absent that year. 

"Let's get our plans under way 
so that we will be right at 100 per- 
cent 'when the roll is called this com- 
ing May'." — L. H. Fairchild, '16. 



RECENT HAPPENINGS 
ON THE HILL 



In an overtime intramural game, 
the Kappa Sigma basketball team, 
champions of the fraternity league, 
won the all-school basketball cham- 
pionship last week, 22 to 18. 



MARRIAGES 



NUDSON — McCOY 

Mary Marjorie Nudson of Topeka 
was married to Edward L. McCoy, B. 
A. '40, October 12. They are at home 
at 2920 Kenwood avenue, Los An- 
geles, Calif. 



Whether the nations of the West- 
ern hemisphere should form a per- 
manent union or not was debated by 
Frank Rickel, Manhattan, and Merrill 
Peterson, Manhattan, against the 
University of Nebraska last week. 



WILLIAMS— CANNON 

The marriage of Lucille Williams 
of Salina to James H. Cannon, C. '38, 
also of Salina, took place October 13. 
Mr. Cannon is a member of Beta 
Theta Pi, social fraternity. 



Influenza cases in the College hos- 
pital number approximately 30 now. 
Last week between 50 and 55 cases 
were reported, according to Dr. M. 
W. Husband, head of the Department 
of Student Health. The "flu" epi- 
demic is evidently subsiding. 



Frances G. Robinson, H. E. '28, is 
home economics teacher at West- 
minster high school, Denver. West- 
minster is a suburb of Denver. Her 
address is 64 40 North Federal. 



DAVIS — PATTON 

Valoris Davis, H. E. '39, and Kent 
L. Patton were married October 19. 
They are living at 1321 Anderson, 
Manhattan. Mr. Patton will gradu- 
ate from the College in agriculture 
this month. 



New chairman of the committee in 
charge of Home Economics Hospital- 
ity Days is Dorothy Beezley, Girard. 
a junior in the Division of Home Eco- 
nomics. Dorothy replaces Nita Strick- 
lin Biery, who resigned. The theme 
of the home economics open house 
this year will be "Echoes of Home 
Economics." 



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J. Homer Sharpe, Ag. '16, was 
elected president of the Kansas State 
Horticultural society at its annual 
meeting in Kansas City last week. He 
is a fruit grower at Council Grove. 
His father has been president of the 
society also. His son, James Sharpe, 
is a freshman in general science here. 
Harriett Morris, H. E. '18, mis- 
sionary at Ewha college, Seoul, Ko- 
rea returned to her home in Wichita 
December 3. She wrote to Dean Mar- 
garet Justin, "How wonderful Amer- 
ica looks — in comparison to Korea in 
its present situation." 

R N. St. John, M. E. '20, is direc- 
tor of the liquid fuel testing labora- 
tories for heating, lighting and cook- 
ing appliances of the Coleman Lamp 
company, Wichita. He and Mrs. St. 
John (Estelle Meisner, f. s. '17) live 
at 225 North Martinson street. Their 
son, James, is a junior in mechanical 
engineering at Kansas State College. 
Myra B. Scott, G. S. '21, is assis- 
tant professor in the Department of 
English. Her residence is 1116 
Thurston, Manhattan. 

Hobart S. Van Blarcom, G. S. '22, 
recently moved to 7816 Forest av- 
enue Hammond, Ind. He was for- 
merly with the Sinclair Refining com- 
pany at Lansing, HI- 

Victor J. Englund, C. E. '23, and 
Prof. C. E. '32, has been employed 
by the Department of the Interior, 
Bureau of Reclamations, for the past 
seven years. For five years he was as- 
sistant engineer during the construc- 
tion of Seminole dam and powerhouse 
and transmission lines leading to 
northern Wyoming, western Nebras- 
ka and northern Colorado. The last 
two years Mr. Englund has been em- 
ployed in the Denver office in the 
spillway section of dam design. On 
lanuary 1 he went to Altus, Okla., as 
associate engineer in the construc- 
tion of the Altus-Lugert project— a 
6 000,000 irrigation project. 



S. M. Miller, G. S. '29, and his wife, 
Phyllis (Toews) Miller, f. s., now live 
at 34 46 Margarita avenue, Oakland, 
Calif. Mr. Miller wrote to friends at 
the College: 

"I left the army in May and took 
a job with Pan-American airways as 
instrument flying instructor for their 
Pacific division. Their base is on 
Treasure island (fair site) in San 
Francisco bay, so that we are living 
in Oakland. My work places me on 
the staff of the chief pilot and in- 
cludes all phases of flying training 
for their pilots, and has been mostly 
training them in instrument and ra- 
dio flying. They have just hired an 
assistant for me, who happens to be 
an old army buddy. I spent a month 
in Detroit going to school and then 
made an inspection trip of their other 
divisions in New York, Miami, 
Brownsville and Mexico City, and 
used up the most of the summer 
there. Then I just returned from a 
Clipper trip across the Pacific and 
hope to get down to New Zealand and 
Australia before long. 

The kids go back to school to- 



Class of '10 Notice 

"As was its custom in its under- 
graduate days, the class of 1916 con- 
tinues to keep up on its toes, even 
after having been away from Man- 
hattan 25 years. Plans are being laid 
for the reunion to be held commence- 
ment week this year. 

"Kenney Ford reports that the 
class of 1916 receives The Kansas 
Industrialist. However, occasional- 
ly we find one of the 16'ers who does 
not get The Industbiakst regularly; 
consequently, he might be slighted if 
only such notices as those in The 
Industrialist columns were sent out. 
"Shortly, notices will be sent to 
every member in the class of 1916 
whose address is available. These 
notices will carry the story about the 
fine reunion we are going to have 
this coming commencement. There 
will be no excuse for our not getting 
back almost 100 percent strong for 
our get-together. 

"Business is booming — that ought 

to make it possible for us to have 

enough money to pay carfare and 

| that hotel bill. Although there is a 

! war in prospect, we are all so old 

1 that they wouldn't want us in the 

army. That ought to keep us from 



STIUNGER— LEENDERTSE 
The marriage of Evelyn Stringer 
to Peter H. Leendertse, Ag. '37, took 
place October 13. Last year Mr. 
Leendertse was city milk inspector 
in Manhattan. The couple's address 
is Route 8, Wichita. 



PATTERSON— JOHN 
Margaret Patterson, H. E. '34, and 
LeRoy John of Kansas City were 
married October 15 in Kansas City. 
The bride, a member of Alpha Delta 
Pi sorority, has been teaching since 
her graduation at the high schools in 
Bushong and Merriam. Mr. and Mrs. 
John are addressed at 4736 Summit, 
Kansas City, Mo. 



Robert Rathbone, Manhattan, has 
been selected as the associate editor 
of The Kansas State Collegian, an- 
nounced Walter Martin, Pratt, next 
semester's Collegian editor. Depart- 
ment editors are Kendall Evans, 
Amarillo, Texas, copy desk editor; 
Fred Parris, Burlington, sports edi- 
tor; Jack James, Mayetta, assistant 
sports editor; Richard Baird, Hunter, 
intramural sports editor; Phyllis 
Patrick, Omaha, Neb., society editor; 
Jack Curtis, Garden City, and Robert 
Rathbone, photographers. 



SMITH— LUNDBERG 
The marriage of Chauncey Karl 
Lundberg, G. S. '40, to Ruth Smith, 
R. N., Long Beach, Calif., took place 
in Bristol, Conn., October 5. Mr. 
Lundberg is employed as draftsman 
in the "new departure," a Bristol 
branch of the General Motors cor- 
poration. They are at home at 456 
West street, Bristol, Conn. 



morrow -Margie is in first year high 
school and Jerry is in the seventh 
grade. Phil looks as young and is as 
pretty as ever." 



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Construction, the first of its kind for 
'J Oklahoma, involves 70,000 acres of 
land Water will be stored in a ma- 
sonry dam to be constructed across 
the north fork of the Red river in 
the Wichita mountains near Lugert, 
Okla. 

Velma Mary Lawrence, I. J. '24, is 
teaching history and community civ- 
ics at the Theodore Roosevelt junior 
high school, Topeka. Her address 
is 1114 Wayne, Topeka. 

Maj. Hal Irwin, Ag. '25, is now 



Beatrice Oliphant. H. E. "30, re- 
signed last spring as home economist 
with the Farm Security administra- 
tion where she has been employed six 
years. She was married to Glenn W. 
Boory, '23, graduate of Southwestern 
college, on June 1. Their home is at 
207 North Second, Arkansas City. 
Mr. Boory has charge of the United 
States Division of Labor Employment 
service for Cowley and Sumner coun- 
ties. 

George D. Oberle, B. S. '31, M. S. 
'36, visited the campus December 19. 
Doctor Oberle, after obtaining his 
Ph. D. degree in 1938 from Cornell 
university, was employed by the Ge- 
neva station, Geneva, N. Y., as plant 
breeder, with the grape as his spe- 
cial problem. Doctor Oberle's home 
is at Carbondale. He drove from 
there to meet his old K. S. C. friends 
who might be here. 

Zula Gladys McDonald, H. E. '32, 
is an assistant at the Wichita Chil- 
dren's home. Her address is 810 
North Holyoke, Wichita. 

Anne E. Washington, G. S. '33, Is 
doing graduate work in home eco- 
nomics at the College. 

H Orin Dutton, C. E. '34, is a civil 
engineer with the State Highway 
commission in Mankato. He is stay- 
ing at the Mankato hotel. 

John Leo Flentie, M. E. '35, Is 
mechanical engineer for Allis-Chal- 
mers at La Crescent, Minn. He was 



formerly with that company at La 
Porte, Ind. 

Effective January 1, Royal F. 
Shaner, M. E. '36, severed his con- 
nection with the Oil Well Supply com- 
pany at McPherson to become asso- j 
elated with the Cozine-Galley Ma- 
chine company of Wichita. His work 
consists of general machine shop 
work, metallizing, heat treating, en- 
| gine repairing and formulating bids 
| for repairing and overhauling. 

Vida (McDaniel) Covey, H. E. '36, 

was married in August to Paul R. 

1 Covey, a mortician with Gausse and 

! company, Peoria, 111. Their home is 

at 201 Moss avenue, Peoria. 

Hobart G. Mariner, C. E. '37, is 
junior engineer with Stanolind Pipe- 
line company, Tulsa, Okla. His ad- 
dress is 1810 East Fifteenth street, 
Tulsa. 

John Minis, G. S. '38, after gradu- 
ating with a forestry major at the 
University of Idaho, has started his 
second year in the regular army as a 
lieutenant. Lieutenant Minis visited 
friends on the campus and in Man- 
hattan recently on his way from Fort 
Benning, Ga., where he had been at- 
tending an officers' school, to San 
Francisco, where he will be stationed 
with his company. 

D. C. Creighton, M. I. '39, is proc- 
essing engineer with General Foods 
corporation, Battle Creek, Mich. 

Kenneth W. Randall, C. E. '40, 
is engineer on paving of runways at 
naval air station for Virginia Engi- 
neering company, Inc. He and Mrs. 
Randall (Betty Lou Maupin, f. s. 
•40) live at 1065 West Forty-Eighth 
street, Norfolk, Va. 



DONEZ — TOWNSEND 
Dolores Donez, Emporia, became 
the bride of Fred F. Townsend, C. E. 
'40, October 6. The couple are now 
in New Orleans where Mr. Townsend 
has a civil service job in civil engi- 
neering. Mrs. Townsend is a gradu- 
ate of Kansas State Teachers' college 
at Emporia, which Mr. Townsend at- 
tended for three years before coming 
to Kansas State College to get his 
degree last June. 



Students are in the midst of se- 
mester finals today. Tuesday after- 
noon the exam blanks formally ap- 
peared. An article in last Friday's 
Collegian told how to keep these 
frowns from becoming permanent. 
Dr. Roy C. Langford, associate pro- 
fessor in the Department of Educa- 
tion, advocated spaced reviewing as 
the best method of studying for ex- 
aminations. This requires an entire 
study of the subject, with intervening 
space of time between the first study 
and the next one. Doctor Langford 
also recommended light eating, a 
good night's sleep before the dead- 
line and coffee or cokes as "pickups" 
during the day. 



BIRTHS 

Rodney McCammon, Ag. '38, and 
Vesta (Beam) McCammon, H. E. '40, 
are parents of a daughter, Barbara 
Sue, born December 7. Their home is 
at 924 Bertrand, Manhattan. 



DIEHL— TRENKLE 

Marriage vows were read October 
12 for Lois Diehl, f. s.. and William 
Trenkle, C. '39. Mrs. Trenkle is the 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Diehl 
of Manhattan. She graduated from 
Manhattan high school and attended 
Marymount college at Salina and 
Kansas State College. Mr. Trenkle, 
a member of Phi Sigma Kappa fra- 
ternity, was employed in the general 
accounting office auditing division 
here until he went to Los Angeles 
I last spring, where he is employed as 
I an auditor for an electrical sign com- 
! pany. Their home in Los Angeles is 
at 14 25 Alvarado terrace. 

ATKINS— CULBERTSON 
Wanda Atkins, f. s. '39, and Wal- 
ter L. Culbertson, M. E. '39, were 
married September 29 at the First 
Christian church in Manhattan. The 
Rev. J. David Arnold read the mar- 
riage service. Mrs. Culbertson is a 
member of Kappa Delta, social so- 
rority; Enchiladas, dancing sorority, 
and Kappa Beta, Christian church 
girls' organization, which she now 
serves in the capacity of national 
vice-president. For the past year she 
has been secretary in the office of the 
President of Kansas State College. 

Mr. Culbertson is a member of Phi 
Kappa Phi, national honorary scho- 
lastic fraternity, and Sigma Tau, 
honorary engineering fraternity. 

Their home is at 805 Northeast 
Twenty-Fourth street, Oklahoma 
City Okla., where Mr. Culbertson is 
an engineer with Phillips Petroleum 
company. 



To Dr. and Mrs. Melvin Ralstab, 
Hyattsville, Md., a daughter, born 
December 3 in Washington, D. C. 
Mrs. Ralstab is the former Louise 
Sklar, D. V. M. '34, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Harry Sklar of Manhattan. 



A daughter, Sue, was born Decem- 
ber 2 to Alvin Hostetler, C. '3 2, and 
Ruth (Helstrom) Hostetler, I. J. '31. 
The Hostetlers live at 1000 North 
Manhattan avenue, Manhattan. Mr. 
Hostetler is employed by the First 
National bank. 



Edwin H. Kroeker, I. C. '29, and 
Edith (Donat) Kroeker have sent a 
scientific notice of the appearance of 
a phenomenon called birth which they 
have studied quantitatively and have 
recorded properties such as molecu- 
lar weight, color, vapor pressure, 
probable cost of the phenomenon. 
They suggest that the new composi- 
tion of matter be called Russel Donat 
Kroeker. His birth was November 9. 
♦ 

DEATHS 

KIRKWOOD 
Caroline (Fischer) Kirk wood died 
November 17. Survivors in addition 
to her husband, Loren R. Kirkwood, 
E. E. '30, include two children, Bob- 
by, 4, and Stephen, 1 month old. 



Talks to Camera Club 

W. G. Rogers, print expert from 
the Eastman Kodak company, spoke 
on "More Quality in Your Prints," 
at the College Camera club meeting 
Monday afternoon. 



1 



HOLLINGER IS SELECTED 
AS KANSAS DAY EDITOR 

JOURNALISM STUDENTS WILL, TAKE 
OVER DAILY CAPITA!. 



TWO GRADUATES OF CLASS OF '24 ASSUME 

IMPORTANT AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT JOBS 

Milton Eisenhower and Morse Salisbury Are Named to Permanent Adminls- 
iatirPoVitions by Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard 



Department HM Sponsored Trip to To 
pekn for 30 Consecutive Years so 
thnt Prospective Reporter* May 
Get Added Practice 

Herbert Hollinger of Chapman, se- 
nior in journalism, has been selected 
by the Department of Industrial Jour- 
nalism and Printing faculty to head 
the staff of students who will edit 
the Kansas day edition of the Topeka 
Daily Capital on January 29. 

Announcement of the selection of 
Hollinger and other major student 
staff members for the Kansas day 
edition, dated January 30, was made 
last week by Prof. R. I. Thackrey, 
head of the Journalism department. 
EDITED 20 YEARS 
Other staff members, chosen from 
advanced students at the College, in- 
clude James Kendall of Dwight, state 
editor; Mary Margaret Arnold of 
Manhattan, woman's page and so- 
ciety, and Robert Rathbone of Man- 
hattan, sports editor. Miss Arnold is 
a sophomore. Kendall and Rathbone 
are seniors. 

This will be the 20th consecutive 
year that journalism students have 
taken over a major part of the edi- 
torial duties of the Capital on Kansas 
day Professor Thackrey, in announc- 
ing the 1941 staff, said he believed 
this annual field trip to Topeka, made 
possible through the cooperation of 
the management and staff of the Capi- 
tal is one of the most valuable activi- 
ties of the year for students of the 
department. 

MARTIN HEADS CITY DESK 
The major staff members will be 
assisted by approximately 30 other 
students who will assist in assembling 
and editing the Kansas day news and 
the Kansas news of general interest. 
The students and their home towns 
and the departments in which each 
will work include: 

City desk — Walter Martin, Pratt; 
Kendall Evans, Amarillo, Texas; 
Harry Bouck, Manhattan; Gordon 
West, Manhattan; Jack James, May- 
etta; Jack Thomasson, Belleville; 
Virgil Whitsitt, Phillipsburg; Don 
Makins, Abilene; Terry Dougherty, 
Manhattan; Grace Christiansen, Co- 
lumbus; Glenn Williams, Manhattan; 
Victor Volsky, Pittsfield, Mass.; Lee 
Stratton, Topeka; Roy Thompson, El 
Dorado; Mary Frances Sauder, Madi- 
son; Jean Campbell, Coffeyville; 
Margaret Wunsch, Topeka; Nancy 
Williams, Topeka, and Margaret 
Mack, Manhattan. 

PAKRIS HEADS SPORTS STAFF 
Woman's page and society — Kath- 
arine Chubb, Topeka; Frances Ruhl, 
Hiawatha; Faye Clapp, Manhattan; 
Mary Jean Grentner, Junction City; 
Ruth Weigand and Mack Lattimore, 
both of Topeka. 

Sports— Fred Parris, Burlington; 
Jack Cramer, Gardner. 

Editorial page— Marianna Kistler 
and Hurst Majors, both of Manhat- 
tan. 

-# — - — — — 

Will Write Novel 
Kenneth Davis, Ag. '34, son of C. 
D. Davis, associate professor of 
agronomy, has a contract with 
Houghton Mifflin company for a novel 
that he is now writing. A former as- 
sistant Collegian editor, Mr. Davis is 
now working with the Soil Conserva- 
tion service at Milwaukee. He plans 
to come back to .Manhattan with his 
wife to live for several months this 
spring while completing his novel. 



, ,. . , „, iqi i two mem- 1 from Abilene. Both taught journal- 
With the start of 1941 ^ two mem iroi ^^ ^ ^ BlB ^ hower 

bers of the same graduating class at ^ campus t( 

Kansas State College assumed— on a 



permanent basis— two of the most 
Important administrative positions in 
the United States Department of Ag- 
riculture. 

They are Milton S. Eisenhower and 
Morse Salisbury, both I. J. '24, named 
respectively as land use coordinator 
and as director of the Office of In- 
formation, by Secretary of Agricul- 
ture Claude Wickard. 

Both have the distinction of hav- 
ing served under three Presidents 
and four secretaries of agriculture 
and of having policies they estab- 
lished for their work maintained in 
as marked a period of change as 
Washington has seen. 

• BRING LITTLE CHANGE 
To both men Secretary Wickard's 
announcement of permanent appoint- 
ment brought little change in Imme- 
diate duties. In July of 1937 Mr. 
Eisenhower was asked by Sec. Henry 
A Wallace to set up the Office of 
Land Use Coordination while continu- 
ing to serve as director of informa- 
tion, a post Mr. Eisenhower had held 
since December, 1928. 

The new office was set up at the 
request of the heads of all the land 
use agencies of the Department of 
Agriculture— the Agricultural Ad- 
justment administration, the Soil 
Conservation service, the Farm Se- 
curity administration and the Forest 
service. A staff agency, its function 
is to assist the secretary in directing 
toward common goals the work of all 
these and other department agencies 
which deal with land use and in cor- 
relating the land use work of the de- 
partment with that of other govern- 
ment agencies. The head of this of- 
fice the land use coordinator, serves 
as chairman of the U. S. D. A. pro- 
gram board and as a member of the 
administrative council of the depart- 
ment 



left the campus to enter the United 
States Foreign service, serving as 
vice-consul at Edinburgh, Scotland, 
before going to Washington to do 
information work. Mr. Salisbury 
was manager of the press bureau and 
instructor in journalism at the Uni- 
versity of Wisconsin at the time he 
was named head of the radio service 
of the Office of Information. While 
on the campus Mr. Eisenhower was 
editor of The Kansas State Collegian 
and of The Brown Bull, student hu- 
mor magazine. 

IN INTEREST OF PROGRESS 
In announcing Mr. Eisenhower's 
appointment on a permanent basis 
Secretary Wickard said: 

"Under Mr. Eisenhower's manage- 
ment of the office much progress has 
been made in bettering the service 
of government land use programs to 
citizens. In the interest of sustained 
progress, I am now asking him to 
devote full time to this important 
work and continue permanently in 
charge of it." 

In a farewell letter to members of 
the staff of the Office of Information 
Mr Eisenhower said, in part: 

"No one would lightly give up the 
job of director of information. Lately 
I have reflected a great deal on the 
fact that I have had the glorious 
privilege of serving as director under 
four secretaries of agriculture. Sec- 
retary Jardine, Secretary Hyde, Sec 



the '40's will bring changes and the 
need for adjustment much more 
swiftly, I think, than did the decade 
of the '30's, or for that matter, any 
previous period in the history of the 
Department of Agriculture. I doubt 
that we shall be worth our salt unless 
in our thinking, our attitudes, and 
our ways of doing things we are able 
to adjust rapidly to the world about 
us and yet cling to the unchanging 
fundamentals of Americanism. One 
of these is our democratic way. As 
I see the Office of Land Use Coordi- 
nation its task is to help the secre- 
tary in any way it can, though princi- 
pally in the field of land use program 
and policy coordination and adapta- 
tion, to mold the public programs to 
modern needs. First among these 
needs is that each of us and all of us 
make the preservation and strength- 
ening of democracy the guiding prin- 
ciple of our work and our lives." 



WILDCATS LOSE, 46-41, 

IN CLOSE K. U. BATTLE 

KANSAS STATE NOW IS TIED FOR 
THIRD PLACE IN BIG SIX 






retary Wallace, Secretary Wickaid— 
all have viewed information not as a 
mere device for selling programs and 
policies, but as a function that per- 
meates all the processes of the de- 
partment as it works to serve the peo- 
ple on the land and the public gen- 
erally. . • • 

PUBLICITY HELPS BUREAUS 
"I should like to repeat to you 
something I put down in one of my 
first annual reports to the secretary. 



bV December, 1938, pressure of Then. « .no, , man, .who ^had no more 



Mr Eisenhower's double administra 
tive responsibility had grown so great 
that Mr. Salisbury, who had been 
chief of the radio service of the Office 
of Information since 19 28, was made 
associate director of information and, 
later, also acting director. 

SET UP BY CRAWFORD 
Secretary Wickard's succession to 
the secretaryship to succeed Henry 
A Wallace brought discussion by ob- 
servers as to whether or not the 
established policies of the Office of 



than a superficial knowledge of gov- 
ernment information work were say- 
ing 'Propaganda: Give a bureau a 
shot of publicity and watch it grow. 
And so I said in the annual report 
that information workers of the De- 
partment of Agriculture are not in- 
terested in gaining prestige for them- 
selves for scientists, for administra- 
tors or for the institution as such; 
they are interested in helping meet 
the needs of a democratic people in 
ways charted by the Congress. 



DR. H.M. SCOTT RESIGNS 

TO TAKE CONNECTICUT JOB 

Faculty Member Will Be Hend of Poul- 
try Department nt Eastern 
Institution 

Two resignations and two appoint- 
ments are included in a list of faculty 
changes at Kansas State College ap- 
proved by the State Board of Regents 
and announced last week by Pres. F. 
D. Farrell. 

Dr. H. M. Scott, associate profes- 
sor in the Department of Poultry 
Husbandry, has resigned, effective 
February 15, to become head of the 
poultry department at the University 
of Connecticut, Storrs, Conn. 

Doctor Scott received his B. S. de- 
gree from Kansas State College in 
1924. In 1926 he became a graduate 
assistant at the College and a year 
later received his M. S. degree. He 
received his Ph. D. degree from the 
University of Illinois in 1938. Doc- 
tor Scott is a member of Alpha Zeta, 
Gamma Sigma Delta, Phi Kappa Phi 
and Sigma Xi. 

James M. Koepper, graduate as- 
sistant in the Department of Botany 
and Plant Pathology, has resigned, 
effective January 15, and will be suc- 
ceeded January 27 by Travis Brooks, 
a graduate of the College last year. 

Miss Dorothy H. Peters has been 
appointed loan assistant in the Col- 
lege Library, effective February 1, to 
succeed Miss Martha Cullipher, pro- 
moted to succeed Miss Lillian Swen- 
son, resigned. Miss Swenson becomes 
head librarian at New Mexico State 
college on February 1. Miss Peters, 
Valley Falls, was graduated from 
Emporia State Teachers' college last 
year, majoring in library work. 



established policies of the Office of hag ^^ and . g the splrit f infor- 
Information would be continued, and matlon work in the Department of 
Mr. Salisbury's permanent appoint- ' lculture . 

ment to succeed Mr. Eisenhower was ,. since 1933> especially since the 
taken to indicate they will be con- j reorganlzatio n of 1938, and with a 
tinued. 'vengeance in the years immediately 

The Office of Information is of par- anead all of you have faced and will 
ticular interest to Kansas State Col- facg e ' ver . br0 adening duties, greater 



FOUR STUDENTS FIND ARMY 

DIFFERENT FROM COLLEGE 



lege, since it was set up on its present 
basis by Nelson Antrim Crawford, 
who took leave from his position as 
head of the Department of Industrial 
Journalism and Printing to go to 
Washington when former Pres. W. 
M. Jardine of Kansas State College 
became secretary of agriculture. Al- 
though informational activities have 
been carried on by the U. S. D. A. 
almost from the time of its establish- 
ment, the present Office of Informa- 
tion thus was established by a mem- 
ber of the Kansas State faculty and 
has been headed by Kansas State 
graduates since that time. 

Mr Salisbury came to Kansas State 
from El Dorado and Mr. Eisenhower 



KANSAsT-H CLUB MEMBERS EARN $1,000,000 

WITH THEIR 1940 PROJECTS, DEAN CALL SAYS 



By H. UMBERGER 
Dean, College Extension Service 
A million-dollar business! That 
figure represents the monetary re- 
turns to Kansas 4-H club members 
for their efforts in 1940. More spe- 
cifically, these boys and girls pro- 
duced $1,091,752 worth of goods. 

More than a dozen projects were 
conducted. The making of clothing 
and preparation of food occupied the 
major part of members' time, since 
the largest number of projects was 
completed in these two groups. 

Many projects showed more than 
^percent profit. In the cloth tag 
project, garments valued at : $52 350 
were produced at a cost of $23,926, 
showing a profit of $28,424. 

Quart jars of food canned by mem- 



bers were valued at $20,067, and rep- 
resented a profit of $11,893. 

Some of the largest figures are 
found in livestock and poultry proj- 
ects. Almost a quarter of a million 
fowls owned by 4-H members brought 
a profit of $54,7 28. And the raising 
of 16,383 farm animals — beef, swine, 
sheep, colts and dairy cows— totaled 
a profit of $156,504. 

These figures give some measure 
of the monetary returns to rural 
youth for their 4-H club endeavors. 
They are not indicative of the un- 
measured value to these youth in 
leadership training, aesthetic values, 
training in ability to cooperate one 
with another and training in good 
citizenship. 



and more significant jobs. This de- 
partment must help American agri- 
culture adjust its whole functioning 
—socially, economically, physically— 
to ever new, almost strange condi- 
tions The forces and circumstances 
that shape the character of American 
farming are on the move, and so must 
we be. People in information must 
take part in policy formation, in pro- 
gram development, in program co- 
ordination, in program effectuation. 
You must participate in every function 
that the political scientist can devise 
a name for. And you will, of course, 
because only then can you really meet 
your responsibility of serving the 
general welfare in hundreds of ways 
and fashions, as the Congress, the 
secretary and the public expect you 

TOWARD COMMON GOALS 
"111 a way, it is only a short step 
from the job of director of informa- 
tion to that of land use coordinator. 
In our jobs here too we must take 
an intimate part in all the intricate 
processes of this great department if 
we are to be at all effective in help- 
ing the secretary and administrators 
direct public programs toward com- 
mon goals' out there on the land. 

"I wish to express special thanks 
to Morse Salisbury, who has done a 
magnificent job in carrying most of 
the load of the head office while I 
have been engaged with other things. 
Few persons could have worked un- 
der such trying circumstances and 
still have accomplished so much. 

"Finally, I should like to say some- 
thing to you about the Office of Land 
Use Coordination. ... The decade of 



Four Write Letters to Friends Here 
About Lite In Various Camus 

Four former Kansas State College 
students are finding naval and mili- 
tary life different from life on the 
campus, according to letters written 
to friends here. 

Eddie Mauck, Lyons, is becoming 
acquainted with the Arkansas drawl 
while in camp with the national 
guard at Camp Robinson. 

Richard Hernlund, who attended 
the College two years ago, is now sec- 
ond lieutenant in the Army Air corps 
at Fort Douglas, Utah. 

Louis Raburn, Manhattan, and 
Verne Holman, Wichita, both en- 
rolled as seniors in electrical engi- 
neering this fall, are now with the 
Naval reserve in San Diego. 



Howard Fugleman, Blond Mt. Oread 
Forward, Makes 23 Points In Bril- 
liant Exhibition to Tally Halt 
of Team's Points 

Vying for first-place honors in the 
j Big Six conference, the University of k 
I Kansas and Kansas State College re- ^ 
newed their old rivalry Monday 
night. The University of Kansas led 
I most of the time and finally edged 
lout the Wildcats, 46-41. 

Paced by Howard Engleman, blond 
! Mt. Oread forward, the Jayhawkers 
gained an early lead of three points. 
During the first half, their lead was 
never more than that. At half-time, 
the Wildcats had cut the lead to one 
point, the score standing at 23-22. 
TIE UP SCORE TWICE 
In the first minutes of the second 
period, the scoring remained about 
even, with Kansas State tying their 
opponents twice. About eight min- 
utes after the period started, the Uni- 
i versity of Kansas team staged a 10- 
point scoring spree which assured 
j victory for them. The Wildcats ral- 
j lied in a desperate effort to win the 
I game, but were able to cut the lead 
1 to only five points. 

Engleman exhibited his deadly eye 
I for the basket during the game, mak- 
i ing 23 points, exactly half of the total 
i Jayhawker score. Allen was runner- 
! up for scoring honors with 11 points. 
High scorers for Kansas State were 
Chris Langvardt, Alta Vista, and Tom 
Guy, Liberty, with nine points each. 
The loss Monday night was the 
second conference loss for the Wild- 
cats. Friday night the Wildcats were 
hosts to the University of Nebraska 
team and beat them 35-32 in revenge 
for their defeat at Lincoln two weeks 

before. 

GUARD DON FITZ 

Fighting for a first-place tie after 
their surprise win over Oklahoma, 
Coach Jack Gardner's team took an 
early lead over the Nebraskans and 
kept the advantage during most of 
the game. Throwing a tight guard 
around Don Fitz, who contributed 
most to their earlier defeat, Kansas 
State managed to hold him to three 
points. Danny Howe, Stockdale, was 
high-point man for Kansas State 
with nine points, but Fitzgibbon, 
Husker forward, took advantage of 
the heavy guard on Fitz to gain 11 
points for game scoring honors. 

The loss Monday night put Kansas 
State back from a first-place tie to a 
third-place tie with Iowa State col- 
lege and the University of Nebraska. 
The University of Kansas now leads 
the conference with three games won 
and one lost. Oklahoma is second 
with a win and a loss. 



Captain Talks to Draftees 

Capt. D. C. Taylor, assistant pro- 
fessor of military science and tactics 
at the College, told three Riley coun- 
ty draftees at an induction ceremony 
at the court house Saturday after- 
noon that he believed they would en- 
joy the army after they became used 
to its discipline. He said they were 
fortunate in being among the first 
from the county to go into service. 
♦ 
President, Adams on Program 
Pres. F. D. Farrell and Coach 
Hobbs Adams will be speakers at the 
22nd annual Chamber of Commerce 
banquet Thursday night. 



EVERYDAY 

By W.E. 



ECONOMICS 

GRIMES 



"In our thinking we too frequently 

his own 

Most people think of the banker as j 
one who invests funds. Most bankers 
do invest funds. But in investing j 
funds they are acting for the rest of 
us. Of the funds invested by bank- 
ers, a comparatively small part con- 
sists of the funds owned personally 
by the banker making the investment. 
He makes investments of the funds 
in savings accounts, of temporary in- 
vestments of ordinary bank deposits 
and of other funds which come to 
him to be invested. In our thinking 
we too frequently assume that the 
banker is investing his own funds. In 
reality, this usually is not the case. 
He is acting for all of us who may 
have funds, even in small amounts, 
in banks. 



assume that the banker is investing 

funds." 

The banker acts in accordance 
with rules or laws that are set up by 
the representatives of the people — 
our representatives — for his guidance 
in making such investments. If we 
do not like the way in which the \ «. 
banker does these things, perhaps the 
rules should be changed so that he 
could or would act more in agree- 
ment with what we think is best. 
However, in making such changes 
there are many people concerned, 
and their interests have been given 
consideration by legislators in setting 
up the rules. It would need to be 
shown quite clearly that any change 
would be in the interest of most of 
those concerned before changes 
would be made. 



HISTORICAL SOCIETY C 

TOPEKA 

KAN, 



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The Kansas Industrialist 



Volume 67 



Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, Manhattan, Wednesday, February 5, 1941 



Number 17 



A ENROLMENT FOR SPRING GENETICIST, ENROUTE TO WAR-TORN BRITAIN, 

SLIGHTLY BELOW 1940 SEES POSSIBLE SOLUTION OF WORLDS PROBLEMS 



1* 



h 



DIVISION OF 
MO A US 



GICNRRAI, SCIKNCE 
A LI, OTHEBS 



Prof, 



Lancelot Hogben, Who Escaped Nazis in Norway, Visits Campus for 
Lectures Before Assembly Audience and Science Club Meeting 



Defenne Training nnil Selective Servlee 
Have Tnken StudentN Who Other- 
wine Might Ilnve RegUtered for 
Seeoiid-HemeMter Work 

Enrolment at Kansas State Col- 
lege for the second semester of the 
present school year totaled 3,636 
Tuesday, a slight decrease from the 
all-time high of 3,713 at the cor- 
responding period a year ago. 

Late enrolments, however, may in- 
crease the total for the present se- 
mester considerably, according to 
Miss Jessie McDowell Machir, regis- 
trar. 

GENERAL SCIENCE LEADS 

Defense training, with the more 
immediate possibility of a job, and 
the selective service have taken many 
students who otherwise would have 
remained in college, officials believe. 

According to an initial breakdown 
made of enrolment last week the 
Division of General Science again led 
the other divisions with an enrolment 
of 925. The Division of Engineering 
and Architecture was a close second 
with 892 and the Division of Home 
Economics had a total of 783. 

In the Division of Agriculture 607 
enrolled; in the Division of Veteri- 
nary Medicine, 221, and in the Divi- 
sion of Graduate Study, 152. 

THUEE-DAY REGISTRATION 

Enrolment for the first semester 
was 4,108, a slight increase over that 
of the previous fall semester. 

Tuesday was the busiest day for 
those in charge of registration when 
1,615 students passed through Nich- 
ols Gymnasium, where the usual pro- 
cedure of registration and enrolment 
was carried on. On Wednesday 1,525 
were enrolled and on Thursday morn- 
ing 4 4 2. 

PROF. B. 3. BGGERT VISITS 

EASTERN LAMB MARKETS 



BconomM I* OB Two \Veekn' Tour with 
Group of Midwestern Parmer* 

R. J. Eggert, assistant professor 
of economics and sociology, left for 
Chicago Saturday for a two weeks' 
tour, with all expenses paid, through 
the Eastern part of the United States 
to study the marketing of lambs. 

This trip was organized and spon- 
sored by Swift and company, and in- 
cludes 30 to 40 Midwest sheep grow- 
ers and raisers as well as Professor 
Eggert. The group will visit plants 
and sales offices in Chicago, Boston, 
New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore 
and Washington, D. C. 

Professor Eggert will return Feb- 
ruary 17 to continue his research in 
livestock and marketing. 



Human problems frequently are 
solved when the need to solve them 
is greatest, Dr. Lancelot Hogben, En- 
glish author and geneticist, told an 
assembly audience Friday morning. 
He spoke Friday night before the 
Science club. 

The optimism of the professor of 
natural history at the University of. 
Aberdeen, Scotland, in this war- J 
crazed world was especially pointed 
because his visit to the United States 
was due to the Nazi invasion of Nor- 
way. Doctor Hogben was enroute to 
the Oslo airport for a return trip to 
Britain after a lecturing engagement 
when he looked up to see German 
bombers in the sky above. He escaped 
to Sweden and eventually visited the 
Soviet Union, Japan and the United 
States. Later this month he will sail 
for his homeland. 

Discussing the genius theory, Doc- ; 
tor Hogben said in part: 

"The history of technology abun- 
dantly shows that the main driving 
force behind the progress of man's 
technical knowledge, and therefore 
the main formative agency which 
fashions new social superstructures 
built on a foundation of new techni- 
cal accomplishment, has been the 
emergence of new needs dictated by 
local conditions, circumscribed by lo- 
cal resources for satisfying them and 
preconditioned by the level of train- 
I ing transmitted from the past by lan- 
', guage and secondary by-products of 
man's unique neuromuscular equip- 
ment. 

"It is pure hypothesis to assert 
that this or that would not have hap- 
pened if a particular individual with 
a particular equipment of genes had 
not been born, or that the distinctive 
achievements of successive civiliza- 
tions are due to unique characteris- 
tics of different races of mankind. On 
the other hand there is much to show 
that human problems get solved 
where the need to solve them is great- 
est, where the materials for solving 
them are at band and where the iner- 
tia of tradition which opposes inno- 
vation is least." 

In conclusion, Doctor Hogben said: 

"It seems to me that three positive 

conclusions emerge from this general 

discussion of what we know today 

about the nature of man. 

"The first that concerns the future 



Semester of Farm and Home 

Mrs. Neil Wishart will vir- 
tually complete a semester's at- 
tendance at annual Farm and 
Home week as she attends the 
1941 sessions. This Riley coun- 
ty farm woman has attended 
every day of every Farm and 
Home week for the past 16 
years, with the exception of 
two afternoon sessions. Mrs. 
Wishart is one of the rural wo- 
men who will stage a demon- 
stration of home industries 
Wednesday afternoon in the 
Extension Annex building. She 
will show the weaving of rugs 
and the use of feathers for bed- 
ding. 



OF COLLEGE MILITARY UNIT 



we shall know much more as the im- 
portance of studying heredity in its j 
relation to medicine is advanced. In I 
this field America which leads the 
world by a large stride in plant and 
animal genetics is far behind the ! 
Scandinavian countries. 

"The second conclusion which 1 1 
venture to suggest is that if we hope 
to get a deeper understanding of the I 
way in which man makes and molds 
his own changing environment, we 
must bring the work of the political 
scientist and the researches of the 
economic historian into closer rela- 
tion to the history of science and „. _-, 
technology. A few of our more pro- CAM 
gressive universities have begun to' 
see this and to act upon it. Needless 
to say I do not mean the tiresome 
pot-pourri of anecdotage and hero- 
worship found in most of the serial 
obituaries called histories of science 
on our library shelves. I mean a con- 
spectus of discoveries which have 
emerged in man's day-to-day struggle 
with nature as a prelude to the in- 
ventory of resources available for the 
satisfaction of human needs in a ra- 
tionally planned economy of human 
welfare. 

"The other conclusion suggested 
by this discussion is that there is a 
large and virgin field for cooperation 
between linguists and sociologists to 
explore together the relation of lan- 
guage habits to social institutions. 
Needless to say I do not mean the 
worthy and much-publicized cult of 
semantics. What I do mean is a study 
of how the language habits of man- 
kind have been molded by other so- 
cial agencies and their impact on 
social institutions. European scholar- 
ship is too deeply entrenched in the 
past to undertake such a task, but it 
is not impossible to hope that the 
more congenial relations between 
natural science and the humanities 
on this continent will prove to be 
propitious to such an undertaking." 



FARM AND HOME GUESTS 
MAY APPROXIMATE 2,000 

I,. C. WILLIAMS, ASSISTANT DEAN, 
IS GENERAL CHAIRMAN 



SIX CHANGES IN FACULTY 

ANNOUNCED BY PRESIDENT 



Three I.enven of AhHenee, One Reslgnn- 

ti Two Appointments 

Are Included 

Three leaves of absence, one resig- 
nation, one appointment and one 
continuation of an appointment are 
included in the faculty changes at 



Col. Cnrl F. McKlnney, Retiring Officer, 

Ordered to Ft. Hniichncn to 

Coinnuind Regiment 

Lieut. -Col. James K. Campbell has 
been appointed to succeed Col. Carl 
F. McKinney as head of the Depart- 
ment of Military Science and Tactics 
at Kansas State College, according to 
Washington newspaper reports. Offi- 
cial word of the appointment as yet 
has not been received by Pres. F. D. 
Farrell. 

Colonel Campbell will replace Colo- 
nel McKinney, who has been ordered 
to Ft. Hauchuca, Ariz., where he will 
command the newly organized 165th 
infantry regiment. He had been at 
Kansas State College for a year and 
five months. 

A graduate of the Culver Military 
iicademy in 1905 and the Infantry 
school at Ft. Benning, Ga., in 1926, 
Colonel Campbell joined the College 
unit in 1937, holding the rank of 
major. He was promoted to the rank 
of lieutenant-colonel last spring. 

In the World war, Colonel Camp- 
bell was in the 42nd "Rainbow" divi- 
sion. 

♦ 
Housemother Dies 

Mrs. Grant Mathias, Phi Delta 
Theta fraternity housemother at Kan- 
sas State College, died the morning 
of January 22 from heart disease. 
Mrs. Mathias came to Manhattan in 
the fall of 1937. Her home was for- 
merly in Kansas City, Mo. Survivors 
include three sons: Harold, Kansas 
City, Mo.; Robert, Evanston, 111., 
and William, Chicago. Funeral ser- 
vices were in White Church, Kan. 



Program BegliiN Tuesday Morning with 
Talks on Marketing, Hoaxing. Pro- 
diietlon. Brooding nnd Breed- 
ing of Poultry 

A vanguard of the approximately 
2.000 people expected for this year's 
Farm and Home week already Is 
registered. L. C. Williams, assistant 
dean of the Division of College Ex- 
tension, is general chairman of Farm 
and Home week. 

The farm visitors are taking in 
their second day of talks and discus- 
sions today. The marketing, hous- 
ing, production, brooding and breed- 
ing of poultry were the subjects heard 
in the Tuesday morning poultry pro- 
gram. Dairy men held directors' 
meetings of state breed associations 
Tuesday. 

WILSON DISCUSSES POULTRY 
Peairs Wilson, instructor in the 
Department of Economics and Sociol- 
ogy, told the poultry audience that 
the highest income over feed costs 
on chicks hatched before April 1 
usually may be obtained by market- 
ing them at 3% to 4 pounds. For 
chickens hatched after April 1, the 
most desirable policy, so far as in- 
come over feed costs is concerned, is 
to carry the chickens through the sea- 
sonal low price during the summer 
and market them between September 
10 and 30, regardless of weight, he 
said. Early-hatched chicks return a 
larger income over feed costs than 
later-hatched chicks, he added. 

The Kansas open-front, straw-loft 
poultry house, originated at Kansas 
State College in 1921, is still the most 
desirable type for this state, accord- 
ing to Walter G. Ward, extension en- 
gineer. He stated that more than 
20,000 new poultry houses have been 
constructed or old ones remodeled, 
using the straw-loft and other fea- 
tures from the Kansas plan. 

HAZARDS OF INBREEDING 
C. L. Gish, manager of the College 
poultry farm, warned against pur- 
chasing cheap chicks, cheap brooding 
equipment or cheap rations. He 
stressed that only by production of 
good, strong, vigorous chicks can 
well-developed high producers be 
grown. Stunting and poor develop- 
ment cause undersized pullets and 
usually lowered egg production, he 
commented. 

Dr. D. C. Warren, professor in the 
(Continued on last page) 



of the biological sciences is how lit- 

^SSHSJSnSfTZZ IS^^S.'SiiS'lS^rrS LIMESTONE IN FATTENING RATIONS PROVIDES 

know little, the advances of the past day by Pres. F. D. Farrell and 
15 years encourage us to hope that 



COLLEGE WILL CELEBRATE 17 YEARS ON AIR 

WITHOUT ANNIVERSARY CEREMONIES TUESDAY 



► v 



< 



Kansas State College will celebrate 
its 1 7th birthday on the airways next 
Tuesday but station KSAC officials 
do not plan any special anniversary 
program. 

Operated by the College, KSAC is 
now familiar to many Kansas farm 
homes because, through the College 
Extension service, advice on crops, 
homemaking hints and other items 
of interest are broadcast to rural 
listeners. 

Radio broadcasting began at Kan- 
sas State College when the Depart- 
ment of Physics started to experiment 
with wireless telegraphy, as it was 
first called, in 1901. Years of re- 
search led to actual broadcasting in 
1924. Beginning on February 11 of 
that year, the College regularly used 
the facilities of KFKB at Milford, 
by remote control, until December 1, 
1924. On that date, KSAC came into 
being with its own transmitter and 
studio on the College campus. 

Since radio is classified as one [ 
phase of extension work carried on j 
by the College, general responsibility j 
for the station falls to Dean H. Ura 



program director. James Chapman, 
KSAC station announcer, also assists 
in planning the programs. 

Supervising the activities of KSAC 
is the all-College radio committee ap- 
pointed by Dr. F. D. Farrell, Presi- 
dent of Kansas State College. 

The Homemakers' hour is broad- 
cast daily except Sunday over KSAC 
from 9:30 to 10:30 a. m. From 12:30 
until 1:30 p. m. daily except Satur- 
day and Sunday is the Kansas Farm 
hour. Students in radio classes get 
broadcasting experience as they pre- 
pare and present their own programs 
on Monday, Wednesday and Friday 



proved by the State Board of Regents. 

The changes included: 

F. E. Davidson, assistant in agron- I 
omy in charge of the southeast Kan- , 
sas experiment fields, has been j 
granted sabbatical leave of absence 
from March 1 to May 31, to pursue j 
graduate study. During Mr. David- 
son's absence, Arthur Stiebe will be 
employed as assistant to serve on the 
southeast Kansas experiment fields. 

F. W. Matting, instructor in me- j 
chanical engineering and a reserve 
officer in the United States army, 
having been called into active mili- 
tary service, has been granted leave 
of absence beginning January 21. 

J. E. Stevens, graduate assistant 
in the Department of Civil Engineer- 
ing, resigned effective January 25. 

B. W. Beadle, assistant chemist, 
who has been on leave of absence, 
has been granted an extension 



FAST AND ECONOMIC GAINS, RESEARCH SHOWS 



at 1:30 p. m., and on Tuesday and 

Thursday at 4:30 p. m. The College I leave from February 14 to June 30. 

of the Air program is presented daily Dr. Albert Hanke's appointment i 



except Saturday from 4:30 until 
5:30 p. m. This hour is a modified 
version of the station's original plan 
of conducting classes by radio. 

For the benefit of Kansas' thou- 
sands of 4-H club boys and girls, the 
state club officers present a special 
program every Saturday at 
12:30 p. m. 



temporary assistant chemist during 
Mr. Beadle's leave will be continued. 



President, Adams Speak 

Pres. F. D. Farrell told the annual 
banquet throng of the Manhattan 
Chamber of Commerce Thursday 
night that both the College and the 
community now were suffering from 
growing pains. As the final speaker 
of a panel of five, Hobbs Adams, foot- 



■Prirer iirector of the Division of I KSAC also occasionally broadcasts 
Colfege Extension. L. L. Longsdorf, football games, all-school parties 

head of extension's publicity and in- 1 from Nichols Gymnasium and pro- 1 ball coach, gave his impressions of 
formation work serves as KSAC's | grams from the College Auditorium. ! Manhattan as a newcomer. 



The addition of one-tenth of a 
pound of ground limestone per head 
daily to the fattening rations of steer 
calves, when alfalfa is not included 
in the ration, insures faster and more 
economical gains, according to a test 
by Dr. A. D. Weber, cattle specialist 
at the Kansas Agricultural Experi- 
ment station. 

In one phase of the test, two lots 
of 10 steers each were fed the same 
basal ration consisting of shelled 
corn, Atlas sorgo silage and cotton- 
seed meal. One lot was fed, in addi- 
tion, one-tenth of a pound of ground 
limestone per head daily. The lot 
receiving the calcium required 98 
pounds less corn, 101 pounds less 
silage and 13 pounds less cottonseed 
meal to produce 100 pounds of gain 
than did the steers without the cal- 
[ j cium, according to Doctor Weber. 

Practically the same results were 
obtained with a different group of 
steers that were fed individually in- 
stead of group-fed. Mineral balance 
and digestion trials were conducted 
with the group fed individually. 

The lot-fed steers receiving the 
ground limestone in addition to the 
basal ration weighed about 75 pounds 
per head more than the "low-cal- 
cium" group at the end of the trial. 

"The results of these tests show 
that the addition of calcium to the 
ration increased the gains in weight, 
caused more efficient utilization of 
feed, increased the retention of cal- 



cium and phosphorus, resulted in 
higher slaughter grades and heavier 
bones," Doctor Weber said. 

When sold on the Kansas City mar- 
ket, those in the "high-calcium" 
group brought 50 cents per hundred- 
weight more on the hoof because of 
their generally better appearance, 
heavier bone and apparent better fin- 
ish. No significant differences were 
observed, however, when the car- 
casses were graded. The dressing 
percentages of the two lots were prac- 
tically the same. Doctor Weber stated. 

The addition of ground limestone 
did not have any effect upon the ap- 
petite, thirst, mineral content of the 
blood of the steers or digestibility of 
nutrients. 

"The results do indicate," Doctor 
Weber added, "that the fattening calf 
needs more than one-half ounce of 
calcium daily for higher and more 
economical gains." A good quality of 
ground limestone is about four-tenths 
calcium. 

Results of the tests are reported 
in detail in Technical Bulletin No. 
51, "Calcium in the Nutrition of the 
Fattening Calf," recently published 
by the Kansas Agricultural Experi- 
ment station. The bulletin was writ- 
ten by Doctor Weber and Dr. C. 
W. McCampbell of the Department of 
Animal Husbandry and Dr. J. S. 
Hughes and Dr. W. J. Peterson of 
the Department of Chemistry. 



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MEMBER 

Mot 

PRESSflSSOUflTION 



WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1941 



SOCIKTY AND HIGHER EDUCATION 

In the 35th annual report of the 
Carnegie Foundation for the Ad- 
vancement of Teaching, Dr. Walter 
A. Jessup, president of the founda- 
tion, comments interestingly upon 
the effects of social moods upon high- 
er education and describes some in- 
teresting contrasts provided by Ger- 
many, France, Great Britain and the 
United States. Quoting Anatole de 
Monzie's dictum, "Society demands 
that the school shall be in its image," 
he calls attention to some significant 
developments in society and in higher 
education during the past 20 years. 

In Germany, under the Republic, 
higher education increased in popu- 
larity and freedom of teaching was 
maintained. But since 1933, when 
National Socialism came to power, 
university attendance has been re- 
duced, admission of students has been 
based upon political expediency, the 
curriculum has been reorganized for 
the purpose of political indoctrination 
and freedom of teaching has been 
abandoned. According to the prevail- 
ing mood in Germany every student 
exists solely for the state. In France, 
up to the time of the German occu- 
pation, although education was sub- 
jected to centralized governmental 
control, freedom of teaching was pre- 
served. Higher education in France 
was not democratized; its purpose 
was to select and train an intellectual 

elite. 

Great Britain differs widely from 
both Germany and France. There is 
no centralized governmental control 
of higher education. Through open 
competition for scholarships oppor- 
tunities are provided for exceptional- 
ly able young persons of all classes 
to attend the universities. The Brit- 
ish deliberately and stubbornly op- 
pose educational standardization and 
maintain complete freedom of teach- 
ing. The theory that the state exists 
for the benefit of the people domi- 
nates higher education in Great Brit- 
ain as it does here. 

In the United States higher educa- 
tion involves virtually no centralized 
governmental control. Its extensive 
democratization expresses the pre- 
vailing public conviction that every 
youth is entitled to an opportunity to 
go to college, and admission require- 
ments are not difficult. It is exten- 
sively subsidized by both public and 
private agencies. The present annual 
enrolment of 1,300,000 college stu- 
dents in the United States is six times 
as large as the combined college en- 
rolments of Germany, Fiance and 
Great Britain in 1938-'39. Freedom 
of teaching, while perhaps more often 
challenged here than in Great Brit- 
ain, is upon the whole maintained. 

It is too early to ascertain the ef- 
fects of the present defense program 
on higher education in the United 
States It is probable that they will 
be considerable. The dictum of de 
Monzie undoubtedly will prevail 
here as elsewhere. We shall have 
the kind of higher education that our 
society demands. The nature of the 
social demand can be, and is, influ- 
enced by the colleges and universities. 
But higher education cannot for long 
be very far ahead of the public mood, 
or very far behind it. 
-♦• 

MUSIC 

Str»«ton-WnlHnnford Recital 

It is always encouraging, even in- 



spiring, to see an audience measure 
up to the demands which an artist 
makes upon it. Charles Stratton, as- 
sistant professor of music, and Keith 
Wallingford, Manhattan student, 
were not exactly conservative in the 
demands which they made upon their 
audience in their program of modern 
music for two pianos Sunday after- 
noon in the College Auditorium. 

A sonata by Arnold Bax, one by 
Paul Hindemith and three incidental 
pieces by McPhee, Octavio Pinto and 
Milhaud would hardly be considered 
"light"; and the program notes, with 
their reference to "exotic scales, new 
rhythms and new tonal resources" 
were hardly reassuring. 

However, any apprehension which 
one might have had before the Strat- 
ton-Wallingford recital was entirely 
gratuitous. When the audience broke 
into spontaneous applause at one of 
the suertas in the middle of the Oc- 
tavio Pinto suite, one was convinced 
that the audience was taking the 
moderns of the modern in its stride. 
A good two-piano team must be 
something more than just two good 
instrumentalists: the necessary "en 
rapport" is not so much the result 
of the equality of technique as it is 
a kindred sense of musical values. 
As teacher and pupil, Professor Strat- 
ton and Mr. Wallingford seem to 
possess this identity to a marked de- 
gree. 

Professor Stratton, as usual, played 
in a masterly and commanding style. 
There is in his playing never the 
slightest uncertainty of tone line. He 
seems always to have the talent, gift, 
genius — call it what you will — of dis- 
covering surprising nuances in any 
score that he touches. What under 
the hand of others seems to fall apart 
in a cacophony of weird intervals 
and dissonances, under his hand 
somehow shapes itself into something 
new in music. Mr. Wallingford 
seems to have no little share of the 
same gift. He reads with amazing 
rapidity. His tone is always clean- 
cut and sure. He is refreshingly free 
of mannerisms, and he has that 
greatest of all virtues — that of never 
permitting Self to dominate over the 
composer he is interpreting. 

The Stratton-Wallingford program 
seemed to foreshadow the coming of 
an inter-American cultural unity. 
The works of McPhee, a Canadian; 
Octavio Pinto, a Brazilian, and Dari- 
us Milhaud, a Frenchman, with a 
fondness for Brazilian motifs, make 
one feel that, musically, America is 
coming of age. During our genera- 
tion, the world has come to appreci- 
ate the paintings of Rivera, Orozco, 
Covarrubias and Atl. One wonders if 
the present generation will also come 
to appreciate the music of Chavez, 
Villa-Iobos and Pinto. The Stratton- 
Wallingford program was an evidence 
of what can be done in that direction. 
— C. W. M. 



SCIENCE TODAY 



By LOYAL F. PAYNE 
Head, Department of Poultry Husbandry 
The proper timing of a scientific 
fact is important if it is to gain popu- 
lar favor. It seems to make little 
difference how revealing a new dis- 
covery might be if the public mind 
is occupied with other matters. In 
such instances a new idea may lie 
dormant for years or decades. Occa- 
sionally, in the development of hu- 
man events, there comes the time 
when public opinion will accept and 
popularize ancient discoveries. The 
value of grass in the diet affords an 
example. 

For centuries the public pitied 
Nebuchadnezzar who "did eat grass ] 
as oxen." Today dehydrated young] 
tender grass is a commodity in human 
nutrition accepted by nutritionists 
for its high vitamin content and by | 
the medical profession for its thera- j 
peutic value, and it is sold by many 
drug stores. 

Early in his career, John J. In- 
galls of Kansas wrote his famous 
essay on "Blue Grass" which was re- 
corded in the proceedings of the Sen- 
ate and House of Representatives. 
Among other things he said, "Grass 
is the forgiveness of nature, her con- 
stant benediction . . . grass deter- j 
mines the history, character, and 
destiny of nations." Even this burst 
of literary enthusiasm did not, so 
far as we know, materially change 
the public attitude toward so com- 
mon an herbage as grass. 

Early in 1914 Dr. C. O. Swanson, 
Kansas State College chemist, suc- 
cessfully preserved green alfalfa in 
small jars by the use of molasses. 
Since most high-protein green feeds 
are deficient in acid-forming mate- 
rials, such as sugar, it was found 
necessary to add an inexpensive 
sugar-bearing substance, such as 
molasses, in order that bacteria 
could act upon the sugars and thus 
produce acids which preserve the 
; green feed. Even this fundamental 
discovery "fell on stony ground," as 
I the public was not yet vitamin con- 
i scious. 

It was not until the years 1925-28 
i that Dr. A. I. Virtanen, a Finn, per- 
fected a method of using mineral 
acids to preserve young grass for ani- 



mal feeding. By this time the public 
was keenly interested in both animal 
and human nutrition and especially 
the vitamins. Hence the Virtanen 
process became popular in both 
Europe and America — and more re- i 
cently the Swanson method has come 
Into general use. 

Cereal grasses are rich in proteins, 
minerals, carotenoid pigments, the 
precursor of vitamin A, and vitamins 
B, E, K and the G complex. Culti- 
vated grasses reach their maximum 
nutritive value at about the first 
jointing stage or approximately six 
weeks after protruding through the 
ground. Their nutritive value de- 
clines rapidly after this stage. The 
j nutritive value of young grass can 
I now be preserved as grass silage. Its 
j chief value lies in the fact that the 
I vitamins are retained in the silage. 
| When fed to animals, such as cows 
; and hens, it enables them to produce 
1 milk and eggs of greater value in 
human nutrition than would be pos- 
Bible for animals deprived of green 
feeds. While the scientist does not 
create he does continue to find new 
uses for materials nature has pro- 
vided. 

The Department of Poultry Hus- 

] bandry at Kansas State College has 

! been experimenting with grass silage 

I for poultry since 1934. A method has 

' now been evolved, as a result of the 

early work of Doctors Swanson and 

Virtanen, whereby "June pasture" 

can be provided the laying flock 

throughout the fall, winter and 

spring months. 

To make silage, oat grass is mowed 
the middle of May, put through an 
ensilage cutter, mixed with 8 percent 
of an equal part solution of molasses 
and water, and tramped into metal 
"fat" barrels. These have lever fast- 
eners for the barrel head and rubber 
gaskets can be obtained to make a 
tight seal. About 350 pounds of si- 
lage is placed in each barrel. At pres- 
ent 4 pounds of grass silage is fed 
daily per 100 hens. It may be used 
as one of the principal sources of 
vitamins A and G in the ration. There 
i is now much interest in grass silage. 
However, it is still in the experi- 
mental stage and additional research 
will be necessary before its full value 
and its limitations are known. 



Florence and Carrie Donaldson and 
J. F. Strieker were proposed for mem- 
bership. 

At the third meeting of the Parlia- 
mentary Drill club, George E. Hop- 
per was elected president; A. A. 
Stewart, marshal, and M. H. Mark- 
cum, reporter. 



KANSAS POETRY 

Robert Conover, Editor 



f 



FROM CQRONADQ HEIGHTS 

By Marian Sleek Stanley 

Hark, restless glance of Coronado, 
That swept this virgin plain, 
What did you see? (O swift to be 
A-flash with high disdain!) 

"Flat land that stretched unendingly 

To north. . south. . east. . and west. . 

Dull, grassy seas' monotonies — 

Ah, argosy and quest!" 

Blue, steady northland gaze that 
scanned 

This self-same virgin plain, 

What did you see? (So eagerly 

And oft you looked again!) 

"Sun gold in largess, beckoning land, 
Proud of its destined loam, 
In place of stress and wilderness, 
The dear, lush fields of home." 

Mrs. Ernest P. Stanley has lived 
since early childhood in Sallna. She 
taught history and English in the 
' Salina schools and was for several 
years society and music editor of the 
Salina Journal. Her verse has been 
published in Sunset, the Lyric West, 
the Harp, the Kansas City Star and 
other newspapers; and has been 
awarded second place and honorable 
mention in the annual poetry contests 
conducted by the Kansas Authors 
club. 



SUNFLOWERS 
By H. W. Davis 
TABLE SERVICE NOTE 
I hate to seem cantankerous and 
disagreeably insistent when I'm real- 
ly not; but I can't hold in any longer. 



Maybe it's my error, and maybe 
I'm hurtling headlong toward an- 
other term in the dog-house, but 
after more than 30 years of home- 
cooked meals I hereby assert, without 
fear of logical and convincing con- 
tradiction, that I have been shame- 
fully under-salted, under-peppered, 
under-creamed, under-sugared, and 
under-spooned. 



There, if that be mental cruelty 
and gross neglect of dutiful apprecia- 
tion, make the least of it, please. 



for the commerce of this nation. It 
is essential to our national unity. — 
Wilburn Cartwright, member of Con- 
gress from Oklahoma and chairman 
of the house committee on roads, in 
Highway Highlights. 



BATTLE OF THE STATES 
If this country is to have a uni- 
form program of preparedness there 
can be no such thing as highway bar- 
riers between the states. This is no 
time for establishing or maintaining 
ports of entry between neighboring 
commonwealths. How can we move 
produce, materials and other neces- 
sities of a great nation if our own 
states are surrounded by walls, if 
motor vehicles must halt their much- 
needed loads at state lines to be 
checked for weight and length, and 
perhaps delayed or refused admit- 
tance? 

The fields of the South and West ; 
must move crops to the homes and 
factories of the North and East. Fin- ! 
ished goods may have to be rushed 
from one section of the land to an- 
other. If they travel by motor truck, 
they must not be halted or hindered 
by these restrictions that have sprung 
up in the last few years. There was 
no such thing as a state highway bar- 
rier in 1917 when federal aid in high- 
way construction began. In building 
our defenses to keep out of future 
conflicts, we must have uniformity 
of rules and regulations governing 
interstate traffic within our own 48 
states. 

Today there are 48,492 communi- 
ties in this nation served only by 
motor vehicles. These towns and 
hamlets are vital to American life, 
for they represent a population of 
7,844,509 — as many people as are in 
the entire state of Illinois, and 2% 
times the whole population of Nor- 
way. 

These miles of highways which 
connect our farms and factories, pass 
through our villages and cities, cross- 
ing state lines on the way to markets, 
must be kept open free from barriers 



A passive form of waging economic 
warfare against an enemy by means 
of a charm for destroying crops was 
long ago conceived by tribes of New 
j Guinea. Contrariwise, they had 
I charms for increasing crops for their 
own benefit, and for producing a 
! host of other boons, such as fatten- 
j ing pigs, winning a girl's love, stimu- 
lating a dog's hunting abilities and 
i extending a small supply of food to 
i make it suffice for any number of 
guests. — From Field Museum News. 



cation and dean of the summer 
school, was elected president of the 
Kansas Schoolmasters' club and was 
appointed associate editor of the Kan- 
sas Teacher. 

Frances L. Brown, '09, state leader 
of home demonstration agents for 
Kansas, resigned her position to take 
charge of club work and home dem- 
onstration agents in the Extension 
division of the Oklahoma Agricul- 
tural and Mechanical college, Still- 
water. 



I'll admit I'm peculiar. I can't 
; taste salt and pepper that is not shak- 
en by my own hand. I always take 
both cream and sugar in coffee any 
time of day twice around the clock. 
And I prefer lifting jelly, preserves 
and other sweets from their contain- 
ers into my own personal service 
plates with spoons especially com- 
missioned for the purpose. Nor do I 
like, as occasion sometimes would 
seem to necessitate, furtively to stir 
sugar into my coffee with the gentler 
end of a fork. 



Highways of the world have in- 
creased from 6,582,001 to 10,036,233 
miles in the past 10 years. — From 
Highway Highlights. 

IN OLDER DAYS 

From the Files of The Industrialist 
TEN YEARS AGO 

Dr. Howard T. Hill, head of the De- 
partment of Public Speaking, was on 
the program at the meeting of Native 
Sons and Daughters in Topeka. 

Dean R. R. Dykstra, Dr. J. H. Burt 
and Dr. C. H. Kitselman, all members 
of the Division of Veterinary Medi- 
cine, attended a meeting of the Kan- 
sas Veterinary Medical association in 
Topeka. 

Herbert Helmkamp, '18, was trans- 
ferred from Topeka to Denver, where 
he was state agent for the American 
Fire Insurance companies. He was 
to supervise their business enter- 
prises in Colorado, Wyoming and 
New Mexico. 



THIRTY YEARS AGO 
Carl Mallon, '0 7, was a traveling 
salesman for the C. Hoffman and Son 
Milling company, Enterprise. 

W. A. McKeever, professor of phi- 
losophy, returned from New York 
where he addressed the child con- 
ference. 

S. R. Tilbury, '07, was employed in 
the testing department of the Santa 
Fe railway with headquarters in 
Bakersheld, Calif. 



There may be a few other husbands 
like me, husbands whose hearts bulge 
upward when the salt and pepper, 
sugar and cream and a full comple- 
ment of spoons glitter prominently as 
they (the husbands, of course) sit 
down to eat. If so, they will applaud 
me in their hearts, at least. And 
maybe we together can work up a 
sentiment that will blossom into a 
propaganda that will ultimately get 
something about spoons and sugar 
and cream et cetera written into mar- 
riage ceremonies. 



FORTY YEARS AGO 
John Holland, '96, was assistant 
cashier at the custom house at Ma- 
nila. 

Professors Willard and Hitchcock 
attended the meeting of the Kansas 
Academy of Science in Topeka. 

While returning from the Gardner 
farmers' institute, Miss May Secrest 
of the Domestic Science department 
visited the Kansas City Manual Train- 
ing school. 



I don't know. It may be that I 
consume more salt and pepper, and 
camouflage my coffee with more sugar 
and cream than the best interests of 
my health and figure would call for, 
if they had any say in the matter. 
And it may be that I am rough on 
spoons, and wear them out at an 
alarming rate. But any or all of these 
things, including the depreciation on 

j the spoons, seem to be shamefully 
little, but in toto and the long run, to 
make a fuss about, or to try to effect 

' a substantial saving on. 



TWENTY YEARS AGO 
F. W. Christensen, '09, was profes- 
sor of animal husbandry at North 
Dakota Agricultural college, Fargo. 
Edwin L. Holton, professor of edu- 



FIFTY YEARS AGO 
Professors Kellerman and George- 
son attended the farmers' institute at 
Hiawatha. 

Professors Graham and Mayo rep- 
resented the College at a farmers' 
institute at Stockton. 

Professor Walters' lecture on "In- 
dustrial Education" was heard by the 
Manhattan division of the Riley 
County Teachers' association at Og- 
den. 



SIXTY YEARS AGO 
At the regular meeting of Alpha 
Beta society the names of Misses 



I have tried everything short of 
belligerent, tyrannical invasion of 
the kitchen and the dining room, to 
bring about a steady flow of these 
consumer utilities to my table, but 
nothing works. Therefore I have de- 
termined to carry my fight to the pub- 
lic in the hope that other husbands, 
similarly underprivileged, will rally 
round my droopy colors and really do 
something about them. 



1 



As I said in the beginning, maybe 
I should not have mentioned it. But 
only Time can tell that, and Time is 
tight-lipped up to the very last sec- 
ond. 



AMONG THE 
ALUMNI 



4 



a 'pidgin' English used over here 
through necessity due to the mixture 
of nationalities and languages. So 
Instead of battling with 'ain't got' 
we struggle to get little Himalay 
Pacifico to say 'My father has gone' 
instead of 'My fadder he bin stay go,' 
or 'Me I no can nemo dat pohaku' 
(I can't move that rock). And what 
a job it is! 

"My Aloha, and best wishes to you 

for 1941." 



Ruth (Harrison) Breithaupt, H. 
E. '22, is a housewife. She and her 
husband, Edward B. Breithaupt, live 
at 712 Newton street, Lansing, Mich. 

Donald B. Ibach, Ag. '23, who is 
with the Soil Conservation service at 
Washington, D. C, recently wrote: 
"Last evening Zepherine (Towne) 
Shaffer, H. E. '11; Homer J. Henney, 



R. J. Barnett, B. S. '95, M. S. '11, 
and Flora (Day) Barnett, B. S. '95, 
M. S. '01, live at 1203 Thurston, Man- 
hattan. Mr. Barnett is professor and 
formerly was head of the Department 
of Horticulture at Kansas State Col- 
lege. He is horticulturist of the ex- 
periment station connected with the 
College. 

Elizabeth Jane Agnew, D. S. '00, 
is dean of women at Fort Hays Kan- 
sas State college at Hays. She has 
held this position for several years. 

Harry V. Harlan, Ag. '04, is princi- 
pal agronomist in charge of barley in- 
vestigations in the division of cereal j TTTji' and myself met at Mrs. Shaf 
crops, Bureau of Plant Industry, with fa »;_ hnma fm , ft v1bU with Deal 
the United States Department of Ag- 
riculture. Mrs. Harlan (Augusta 
Grifflng, '04) and he live at 5329 
Forty-Second place, N. W., Washing- 
ton, D. C. 

Ed'ith (Forsyth) McCrone, D. S. 
•06, writes that she is "just a farm- 
er's wife." She and her husband, 
Donald M. McCrone, live on a farm 
at Milan, Mich. 

R. H. Wilson, D. V. M. '09, is se- 
nior veterinarian with Parke, Davis 
and company. He and Mary (Haney) 
Wilson, f. 8., may be addressed at 
1214 North Main street, Rochester, 
Mich. 

Scott R. McDonald, Ag. '12, is cat- 
tle salesman for the Cassldy Commis- 
sion company, Kansas City, Mo. He 
and Mrs. McDonald have three chil- 
dren, Roger, Barbara and Margaret, 
* 17 15 and 7, respectively. Their 
home is at 3818 East Fifty-Ninth 
terrace, Kansas City. 



LOOKING AROUND 

KINNEY L. FORD 



Status of Student Union, Bill 

The enabling act for thp Student 
Union building encountered rough 
sailing in the Senate, Tuesday, Feb- 
ruary 4. However, friends of the bill 
are still confident that it will be 
passed. The bill has been reported 
out favorably in both houses of the 
Legislature. After about 30 minutes' 
debate on the floor of the Senate, it 
was withdrawn and referred back to 
the committee. Lack of information 
regarding the operation of the bill 
seems to be the main difficulty. 



present included Ralph Snyder, '90, 
and Mrs. Snyder; G. H. Weckel, '24, 
and Alice (Patterson) Weckel, '25; 
H. M. Denison, '33; C. W. Currie and 
Virginia (Carney) Currie, f. s. '26; 
George Harkins, '27; Neil McCor- 
mick, '35; A. C. Maloney, '17; Ellen 
Hall Ambler, '12; Edith Payne Mc- 
Millan, '12; Fred Carp, '18, and Mrs. 
Carp; W. G. Case and Bessie (Cole) 
Case, '21; E. C. Bowers and Gail 
(Tatman) Bowers, '14; Alma (Hal- 
bower) Giles, '14; Wayne Ewing, '32, 
and Ruby (Nelson) Ewing, '31; L. 
K. Mock, '37, and Mrs. Mock; John 
F. Huff, '27, and Emma (Schull) 
Huff, '27. 



RECENT HAPPENINGS 
ON THE HILL 



Colorado Annual Banquet 

The Kansas State College Alumni 
'er's home for a visit with Dean , aBSO ciation of Colorado held its an- 
Seaton We discussed the possibility | nua i banquet Monday evening, Janu- 
of holding some sort of a meeting | ary 13. Roy M. Green, president of 
here on the anniversary of Founders' | the Colorado Agricultural college, 
day, which I believe is February 16. | talked on the subject, "What Can 



Because of the current radio mu- 
sic controversy, school dances at Kan- 
sas State College cannot be broadcast 
this year. 

Mrs. Elizabeth Kidd, national 
president of Mu Phi Epsilon, wo- 
man's honorary music organization, 
visited the Kansas State College cam- 
pus last week to inspect the local 
chapter. 



While we are not in a position to an 
nounce the plans, we probably will do 
something in connection with that 
event." 

John H. Tole, M. E. '24, sales en- 
gineer for Westinghouse Electric and 
Manufacturing company, Memphis, 
Tenn., has recently been to Kansas, 
where he and his wife, Helen (Crow) 
Tole) f. s. '23, visited her home at 
Dighton. Their home In Memphis is 
at 99 South Holmes. 



Alumni Associations Do?" 

The people present introduced 
each other in a novel way, each in- 
troducing the one to his left. Prof. 
F. W. Bell then introduced members 
of the stock judging team and told 
of their activities while here and the 
recognition they had received. 

Prof. Bruce Taylor, Ag. '31, M. S. 
•34, coach of the winning judging 
team of the National Western con- 
test, from Oklahoma Agricultural and 



A„« (M4M**') wood, IJ. ■»■ hCSCo^Kl. »' 

other than housekeeping and the old omceri 



care of her child, Lauralee, 3 V 2 , con- 
sist of many church and community 
activities. At the time she had just 
completed a pageant to be produced 
i at Christmas. 

Dr. L. A. Spindler, G. S. '26, M. S. 
•27, and Dorothy (DeWolf) Spindler, 



Jay W. Stratton, Hort. '16, and 
Gussie (Johnson) Stratton, '19, have 
two children, both of whom are en- 
rolled at Kansas State College. Clyde j f g are at 770 l Georgia avenue, N. 
R. is a sophomore in civil engineer- 
ing and Mary C. is a freshman in 



elected were: President, Walter J. 
Ott '16; vice-president, Charles E. 
Lavender, f. s. '15; secretary-trea- 
surer, Fern Curtis, f. s. '21. 

Harry Eustace, vice-president of 
the Agricultural Trade Relations, 
gave a brief review of the book, "The 
World Is My Garden," written by 
David Fairchild, son of one of the 



home economics and nursing. The 
Strattons live at Celina, Ohio. Jay 
is a field man for the Pet Milk com- 
pany, Coldwater, Ohio. 



W., Washington, D. C. Doctor Spind-|~-- - ' jdentB of Kansas State Col 
ler is a zoologist with the Bureau of [ ea ' l J » re 
Animal Industry, United States De- 



partment of Agriculture 

Helen (Batchelor) Pierson, H. E 



Al Bade conducted a floor show in 
which a quartette of boys and five 
girll entertained with musical and 






Miss Jessie McDowell Machir, Col- 
lege registrar, recently received a let- 
ter from Jessie (Evans) Brown, '21. 
"After 20 years it isn't to be ex- 
pected that you will remember a 
'19 21 model' grad, but here I am as 
if back in main office hanging over 
the desk for a favor. I used to be 
Jessie Evans but now it's plus a 
Brown due to matrimony with a 
Scotsman some years ago. 

"Here's the reason for this note 
(I seem to have true Hawaiian lazi- 
ness in never writing people unless 
I want something badly): One of my 
former pupils visited Kansas State 
last October and was so taken with 
the school that he plans to enroll as 
a freshman in agriculture, perhaps 
in the summer. As territorial presi- 
dent of the Future Farmers, he went 
to the convention in Kansas City last 
fall. It was on this trip that he made 
the stop in Manhattan and was so 
well treated by people whom he met 
that he's eager to come back. 

"It was almost like a visit home 



'2 7, may be addressed at Rua Estados J danclng numbers. The group sang a 
Unidos (United States street), 166, | number f songs, including the 
Sao Paulo, Brazil, South America. .. Alma Mater," with Glenn Slaybaugh 
Her husband directs social research ftt the pian0 

for the city and teaches sociology in . Members and guests present other 
the university there. She writes: | than those mentioned above included 
"Besides keeping house I am teach- F T p ar ] tgi >io, and Minnie (Force 
ing a class in English at the Escola 



man) Parks, '09; Hazel Hoyt, f. s. 
Livre de Sociologia e Politica of Sao an(J w g Hoyt { s > 88; T ne z Hjort, 
Paulo. Our students who do not f g >05; B c Kohrs, '35; Charles E. 
know English find themselves greatly , La vender, f. s., and Mrs. Lavender; 
handicapped in their study of the Edwin H Hungerford, '40; Jasper 
social sciences, due to the scarcity of Pallesen and Marie (Forceman) Pal- 
materials in Portuguese. Many of ]e3en f s - 40; H A Burti '05, and 
them also hope eventually to continue Mary ' (strite ) Burt, '05; Glenn D. 
their studies in the United States." , S i ayua ugh ,'28; Mr. and Mrs. Eugene 
Ralph L. Helmreich, M. E. '28, is oiinger; Hazel Hedstrom, all from 
district plant superintendent for Denver. 

Southwestern Bell Telephone com- Ml , g w j (Millicent Williamson) 
pany at St. Joseph, Mo. He and Caro- Qu f g Fo) . t Morgan, Colo.; L. C. 
i line (Sheetz) Helmreich, f. s., have l Ajcher - 10 Hays; Walter M. Lewis, 
a son, Robert, 3. They live at 1915 ,. j5 La rned; j. j. Moxley, '22, Man- 
Lover's lane, 'hattan; Louise (Jones) Caddell, '33, 
Capt. Ned H. Woodman, L. Ar. ] and Mrs. R. C. Blasongame, Grand 
'29, is district contracting and pur- 1 Lake, Colo.; Sherman Hoar, '28, 
chasing officer for the Civilian Con- 1 sterling, Colo.; B. M. Anderson, '16, 
servation corps at Little Rock, Ark. Kansas City, Mo., and E. E. Sund- 
He and Margaret (Barrett) Wood- greni -35, Brookville. 



"Vance M. Rucker, '28, and Anna- 
lou (Turner) Rucker, '27; William 
Sweet, '30, and Mrs. Sweet; Paul 
Hutchinson, '29, and Katherine (Ful- 
linwider) Hutchinson, '31; P. J. 
Dominick and Esther (Beachel) 
Dominick, M. S. '38; Loyal H. Davies, 
'29, and Leone (Wilson) Davies, '30; 
Dr. J. A. Bogue, '21, and Mrs. Bogue; 
Neva (Colville) McDonnall, '13 and 
'26; Lucy (Piatt) Stants, '12; K. O. 
Houser, '22, and Mrs. Houser; H. A. 
Swim, '25, and Bula (Wertenberger) 
Swim, '20; Arthur J. Rhodes, '05, 
and Elma (Brubaker) Rhodes, '14; 
Albert E. Blair, '99, and Jennie 
(Smith) Blair, f. s.; Minnie Smith, 
f. s.; Ruth (Gilbert) Burns, '14. 

"Alta (Taylor) Smith, '18; Eleanor 
Davis, '24; Pearl Miltner, '19; Ella 
(Miltner) Parli, '15; C. F. Morris, 
'21, and Mrs. Morris; O. F. Fulhage, 
•24, and Georgia (Daniels) Fulhage, 
f. s.; Miles George, '31, and Lois 
(Windiate) George, '33; J. L. Rader, 
f. s. '22; Dr. L. G. Grandfield, '23, 
and Mrs. Grandfield; Mark Abild- 
I gaard, '12, and Olive (Wright) Abild- 
gaard, f. s.; C. J. Dauner and Mar- 
garet (Rochford) Dauner, '24; Frank 
iBergier, '14, and Crystal (Kelly) 
Bergier, '15; R. V. Christian, '11; 
! Lloyd Cole, '10; Nannie (Carnahan) 
Cole, '12; T. L. Shuart, '18, and Helen 
! (Hunter) Shuart, '18; Louis Cooper, 
! '40; Anelda Runnels, '39; Lyle Pyke, 
'*40; Wayne Hartman and Helen 
(Martin) Hartman, '39; George Cas- 
per, '29, and Mrs. Casper; Helen 
Culver; Morris Phillips, '39; Arleen 
Glick, '28; Elizabeth Hullinger, '29; 
Ina Belle (Wilson) Mueller, '15; 
Mary (Tunstall) Aufderhar, '16; and 
R. S. DeLaMater, '32. 

"Those from towns outside Wichita 
were Harold Crawford, '30, Ottawa; 
A. D. Wise, '12, and Mrs. Wise; 
George Venneberg, '26, and Mrs. 
Venneberg, from Clearwater; E. E. 
Gilbert, '21, Arkansas City, and 
Betty Lint, '40, Little River." 



Sherwood Keith, new director of 
Manhattan Theatre productions, an- 
nounced that the first presentation of 
this semester will be "Death Takes 
a Holiday," by Walter Ferris. The 
play will be given March 21 and 22. 



Martha Wreath, Manhattan, a se- 
nior in the Division of Home Eco- 
nomics, has her photograph in the 
current issue of Successful Farming. 
Her picture and an article by her on 
4-H clubs appear In the issue for 
February. 



The moving picture, "Come Live 
with Me," with James Stewart and 
Hedy Lamarr, which is coming to the 
Sosna theater Sunday, is being spon- 
sored by Theta Sigma Phi, honorary 
journalism sorority. Proceeds from 
the ticket sale will be used to send 
a representative to the national con- 
vention next summer. 



Eight members of Kansas State 
College recently received their com- 
missions as second lieutenants in the 
Coast artillery reserves. They are 
Carl T. Besse, Clay Center; Carl F. 
Beyer, Glen Elder; Clair Ewing, Blue 
Rapids; Bill Geery, Burton; Harry 
House, Cheyenne, Wyo.; Shelby Lane, 
Bucklin; Walter Singleton, Tribune, 
and Carlyle Woelfer, Manhattan. 
♦ 

MARRIAGES 

COOTWAY— ABBOTT 
Mercedes Cootway and John E. 
Abbott, D. V. M. '39, were married 
November 30 at Wrightstown, Wis., 
the home of the bride. They are now 
at home at 507 Fourth street, West 
De Pere, Wis., where Doctor Abbott 
has a practice in veterinary medicine. 



DEATHS 



GRATTAN 
Word recently was received by the 
College Alumni office of the death of 
Ruth (Blevins) Grattan, D. S. '13, 
June 10, 1938, of a serious heart ail- 
ment. Surviving are her husband 
and two daughters, all of Tulsa, Okla. 



WEBB— HORNBUCKLE 
The marriage of Grace Webb, Buf- 
falo, Mo., formerly of Manhattan, 
and Cecil Earl Hornbuckle, Ag. '39, 
took place June 1. The Rev. B. A. 
Rogers, Manhattan, officiated at the 
ceremony. They are now at Clay 
Center, where Mr. Hornbuckle is in 
sales work for Swift and company. 



to hearTim tell about his two days' man '28 have £0 **%£%£ 
stay in Manhattan My husband and 5%. «^« »« p ,. eBidellt of the 
Lr^^ScoUa;!d^mtTtTa t sn•tj r erican Association of University 

nearlv long enough to see everything. Women. 

•We live on a sugar plantation on Lowell Treaster, I. J. '30, is man- 
the Island of Hawaii— the largest of aging editor of the Manhattan Tnb 



the group. It is 200 miles from Hono- 
lulu—a night's boat trip or two hours 
by plane. My husband is assistant 
manager and, as the production and 
transportation of cane to the sugar 
mill depends upon plenty of rain, our 
main topic of conversation is usually 
the weather. 

"We have three children — Wilma 
(after my sister, Wilma Evans, '09) 
who is just past 13 and in the eighth 
grade of the local school; Jimmy, 11 
and a seventh grader, and the wee 
one, Charles Winslow, aged 1%. 
There are very few white children on 
the plantation or in school so that is 
^one of the drawbacks of living in 
'.t rural Hawaii. 

' "We have a local high school in 

which I sometimes teach English. 
There are 23 teachers, six of them 
white and the rest Chinese, Japanese, 
Hawaiian and Portuguese. The 500- 
odd students are also of the same 
races plus Filipino, Porto Rican and 
such mixtures as may ensue from in- 
termarriage. One gets a Jesus Dias, 
Cupid Matoon, Blossom Hamasaki 
and such-like names on the register. 
Our greatest problem is getting them 
to speak English properly, as there is 



uiie and Manhattan News. He and 
Mrs. Treaster have one child, Joleen, 
6. Their address is 1218 Bertrand, 
Manhattan. > 



Wichita Alumni Meeting 

Alma (Halbower) Giles, '14, sec- 
retary of Wichita group of Kansas 
State College Alumni association, 
sends this report of a recent meeting 
there: 

"Over 100 people attended the an- 
nual dinner of the Alumni associa- 
tion in Wichita on January 24. The 
dinner was at Droll's English grill 



LOGAN 

Services were conducted in Man- 
hattan for Daniel Andrew Logan, B. 
S. '05, former resident of Manhattan 
who died November 30, 1940, in Chi- 
cago, where he had resided the past 
20 years. 

Mr. Logan was a brother of Mrs. 
R. C. Barr of Manhattan. He had 
been an employee of the Rock Island 
railroad for the past 35 years. 

Other survivors include the widow 
and two children. 



HART— LANCASTER 
Zurilda Hart, M. '30, and Leslie 
K. Lancaster, C. '3 5, were married 
Tuesday, October 22, at Benham, Ky. 
Mrs. Lancaster, a member of Pi Beta 
Phi sorority, has been teaching in 
Junction City, where they are at 
home. Mr. Lancaster is manager of 
the Western Auto Supply company 
there. 



BIRTHS 



J. A. Shellenberger, M. S. '31, is j an d the large crowd proved that Kan- 
head of the biochemical laboratory ; sa8 State has some loyal supporters 
for Rohm and Haas company, Bris- 
tol, Pa. He now has his doctor of 



philosophy from the University of 
Minnesota. 

Glen H. Boyles, Ag. '36, is city 
milk and sanitary inspector for Man- 
hattan, succeeding Pete H. Leen- 
dertse, Ag. '37, who resigned because 
of poor health. He is living with his 
parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. O. Boyles, 
at 10 23 Laramie, Manhattan. 

W. J. Pfeffer, E. E. '39, visited 
at the College last fall. At that time 
he was working with a gravity meter 
party in Alabama. Since graduation 
he has worked with the company in 
Louisiana, Oklahoma, Mississippi and 
Alabama. His home address is at 
Clifton. 

Louie Marshall, C. E. '40, is assis- 
tant area engineer for the Works 
Progress administration at Garden 
City. His address is Box 237, Garden 
City. 



"New officers elected for the com- | 
ing year were: President, Clifford W. | 
Currie, f. s. '2 5; vice-president, J. L. j 
Rader, f. s. '22, and secretary-trea- 
surer, Lois (Windiate) George, H. E. 
•33. 

"Coach Hobbs Adams was the j 
speaker of the evening and showed 
moving pictures of the K. S. C.-K. U. 
and K. S. C.-Nebraska football games. 
Those present from Manhattan be- 
sides Coach Adams were Asst. Coach 
Chili Cochrane, '32, BiJU Schutte, 
Kenney L. Ford, '24, and Harvey 
Roots, '11. -v 

"The oldest class represented at 
the dinner was that of 1890. The rep- 
resentative was Ralph Snyder who 
gave a short talk. A. E. Blair, '99, 
represented the next oldest class. 
Each graduating class from 1910 to 
1940 was represented with the excep- 
tion of the classes of '34 and '36. 
"Those from Wichita who were 



Marvin J. Twiehaus, '36, and Doro- 
thy (Washington) Twiehaus, '36, are 
the parents of a son, John Marvin, 
born December 8 in Manhattan. Doc- 
tor Twiehaus is an instructor in bac- 
teriology at the College. 

John B. Roberts, Ag. '33, M. S. 
•35, and Mary Alice (Schnacke) Rob- 
erts, '33, announce the birth of a son, 
Robert Charles, December 19. Mr. 
Roberts is assistant in markets, De- 
partment of Marketing and Rural Fi- 
nance, University of Kentucky. The 
Roberts home is 112 Iroquois court, 
Lexington. 

To Capt. W. H. Murray, '29, and 
Mrs. Murray, a son, David Taylor, 
born December 14 at Topeka. Mrs. 
Murray is the former Beatrice Brown, 
•29, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. 
Brown, Manhattan. The Murrays, 
with their new son and their two 
daughters, Joan and Nancy, have 
moved to Ft. Monroe, Va., where Mr. 
Murray has been called. 



HERRICK — BALWANZ 
The marriage of Genevieve Her- 
rick, Washburn f. s., and Clarence 
Balwanz, M. E. '38, was November 
23, 1940. The bride is a member of 
Delta Gamma sorority. Mr. Balwanz 
is a member of Phi Delta Theta fra- 
ternity. He is a mechanical engineer 
with the Topeka Gas Service com- 
pany. The couple live in Topeka. 

COOK— HOFMANN 
Catherine Cook, f. s., Eskridge, 
and C. Edwin Hofmann, D. V. M. '40, 
were married October 25 at North 
Rocky Mount, N. C. Mr. Hofmann 
was a member of the Independent 
Party council, and drum major of 
the College band during his four years 
in school. He is now employed by 
the veterinary division of the state 
of North Carolina. The couple's home 
is in Nashville, N. C. 



MACMURRAY— MAYDEN 
The marriage of Marguerite Mac- 
Murray, Dela Vista, Canal Zone, to 
Lieut. James Daniel Mayden, G. S. 
•35, took place October 5. Mrs. May- 
den is a graduate of the Oldfleld 
school in Baltimore. Mr. Mayden, a 
member of Sigma Nu, national social 
fraternity, received his flying train- 
ing at Kelly and Randolph field, 
Texas. He is stationed with the Air 
corps, United States army, at Albrook 
Held, Panama, where they are at 
home. 



SUMMER SESSION OFFERS 
NEW EDUCATION COURSES 

RECOMMENDATIONS OP FEDERAL 
AGENCY ARE FOLLOWED 



Recreational Sports by Coach Jack 

Gardner and Guidance Work Are 

Two New Subject* Being 

Added Thin Year 

Summer school at Kansas State 
College, beginning May 28, will In- 
clude two new courses being intro- 
duced this year in line with the 
United States Office of Education 
recommendations for education and 
national defense. 

Dean E. L. Holton of the summer 
school announced this year's summer 
Bchool would follow the Office of 
Education's recommendations by of- 
fering a course in recreational sports 
and a course called practicum in 
guidance. 

FOR HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS 
Recreational sports will be taught 
by Jack Gardner, assistant professor 
in physical education and head bas- 
ketball coach. It will include recrea- 
tional activities for all summer school 
students, such as basketball, volley- 
ball and badminton. In addition to 
furnishing recreation for all summer 
school students, the class will furnish 
training for teachers and principals 
in small high schools who have to 
coach basketball and other sports, 
with no gymnasium or equipment. 
Professor Gardner said the class will 
be open to any male student but can- 
not be taken for credit. 

Practicum in guidance will be 
taught by Royce E. Brewster, special- 
ist in guidance, of the Office of Edu- 
cation, Washington, D. C, and W. T. 
Markham, state supervisor of occu- 
pational information and guidance,] 
Topeka. This course proposes to give 
a short overview of the problems of 
guidance and an intensive study in 
special fields of guidance practices. 
Another course that will attract 
summer school students is the bas- 
ketball coaching class to be taught 
by Professor Gardner. The class is 
to be offered for basketball coaches 
and can be taken for credit in physi- 
cal education. 

PLAN 175 COURSES 
During the two months of summer 
school approximately 175 courses will 
be taught. According to Dean Hol- 
ton, also professor in the Department 
of Education, the summer schedule 
of classes will be similar to last sum- 
mer's with the addition of the new 
education courses. 



Wrestlers Get Around 

Coach B. R. Patterson and the 
Wildcat wrestling team have driven 
5,000 miles in the East and North so 
far this season for nine meets in 
Pennsylvania, Virginia, Tennessee, 
Minnesota and Iowa. 



DIRECTOR AHEARN ASKS 
FUNDS FOR FIELDHOUSE 

NEW BUILDING WOULD BE AID TO 
NATIONAL DEFENSE 



GRADUATE IS REELECTED 

HEAD OF ART FEDERATION 



Jane Rockwell Honored 

Jane Rockwell, instructor in jour- 
nalism and former Topeka newspaper 
woman, was elected president of the 
Kansas Newspaper Women's associa- 
tion in Topeka last Wednesday. 



TWO GIRLS ARE ENROLLED 

FOR EXPLOSIVES COURSE 



Dorothea Klein and Dorothy DoerlnK 

Taking CUum Work in Engineer- 
ing Defense Work 

Dorothea Klein, Topeka, and Doro- 
thy Doering, Garnett, are the only 
two girls among the 24 students en- 
rolled in a course in explosives at 
Kansas State College. The class, one 
of five courses outlined under the en- 
gineering defense program, met for 
the first time Saturday. 

Miss Klein, who has operated a 
cosmetics business in Topeka for the 
past eight years, received her B. B. 
degree from Kansas State College in 
1931 and her M. S. degree in physical 
chemistry in 1932. 

Miss Doering received her A. B. de- 
gree from the University of Kansas 
and has been studying recently in 
Girl Scout executive work in Wash- 
ington. . 
The explosives course is the second 
of live courses to be started on the 
campus for persons interested in en- 
gineering training in defense work. 
The first course, Engineering Draw- 
ing, began in January. Each course 
is a 12 weeks' intensive study period. 
The course in explosives will be di- 
vided into eight weeks of basic study 
and four weeks of advanced work. 
♦ 
Alford Visits Campus 
j B Alford, who was graduated 
from Kansas State College in elec- 
trical engineering in 1938 visited 
the College last week. Mr. Alford is 
field engineer for Rural Electrification 
administration in Washington, D C, 
and was sent to Kansas to make a 
report on the REA line in the state. 
♦ 
Miss Ruth T. Bats Employed 
Miss Ruth T. Botz has been em- 
ployed as assistant extension editor 
of the College Extension service. Her 
duties in this capacity include work- 
ing with home demonstration of the 
College Extension service and with 
4 H club leaders and 4-H club agents. 



Charles Marshall. '27, Topeka, Chosen 

at Annual Meeting in Hutchinson 

on Jnnunry 31 

Charles Marshall, Ar. '27, Topeka, 
was re-elected president of the Kan- 
sas State Federation of Art at its an- 
nual meeting in Hutchinson Janu- 
ary 31. 

Other officers for the coming year 
include Dr. Birger Sandzen of Linds- 
borg, vice-president; Lloyd Foltz, 
Wichita, treasurer; Gladys Hen- 
dricks, Wichita, assistant director; 
and Prof. John F. Helm, Jr., of Kan- 
isas State College, director. This is 
Mr. Helm's fifth term as director of 
the federation. 

Attendance at the annual meeting 
and circulation of exhibitions both 
increased substantially over previous 
years. During the current college 
year there are three main exhibitions, 
including those of the Prairie Print 
makers, the Prairie Water Color 
1 painters and an exhibition of draw- 
, ings and water colors by New Mexican 
artists. The federation also cooper- 
ates with the Kansas Art Teach- 
' ers' association in circulation exhibi- 
tions of the work of students in the 
grades, junior and senior high schools 
and junior colleges. 

Next year an individual member- 
ship may be added to the federation 
memberships which will carry with it 
a gift print by a well-known Kansas 
artist. This membership probably will 
be $2 a year. Other classes of mem- 
bership are for organizations. 

The main exhibition for next year 
will be a Coronado Quartocentennial 
exhibition of oil paintings by well- 
known Kansas artists living within 
and without the state. There will also 
be exhibitions of water colors, prints, 
sculpture, crafts and photographs. 

New members of the Board of 
Trustees are Miss Marjory Whitney 
of Lawrence, Howard Church of To- 
peka, Bernard Frazier of Lawrence. 
Other members of the Board of Trus- 
tees are Prof. Paul Weigel of Man- 
hattan, R. W. Potwin of McPherson, 
Mrs. Arthur Runbeck of Lindsborg, 
and the president of the Kansas Art 
Teachers' association. 

Those attending the meeting from 
Manhattan included Professor Wei- 
gel, Eugene Mackey, assistant prof, 
of architecture, and Professor Helm, 
all of the Department of Architecture, 
and Mrs. Mary Eck Holland and Miss 
Rose Marie Darst of the Department 
[ of Art. 

Professor Mackey presented a pa- 
per at the Kansas State Art Teachers' 
association meetings on February 1 
on training students for architecture 
and Industrial art. This was part of 
' the program of the university-college 
i section. 



COLLEGE AIDED IN FILLING 

:tl8 TEACHING POSITIONS 



i us* it u i ion Cooperate* with Local 

Board* I" Selection of Instructors 

Kansas State College assisted local 
school boards in Kansas fill 318 teach- 
ing positions during the biennium 
1938-40, according to the 38th bien- 
nial report prepared by Pres. F. D. 
Farrell. 

The College performs a variety of 
miscellaneous services such as this 
during the year upon request for in- 
dividuals, groups, firms and commu- 
nities. 



Nichols Gymnnslum, Bnllt 30 Years Ago 
Is Called "Totally Inadequate" to 
Meet Collegiate Ath- 
letic Program 

Director of Athletics M. F. Ahearn 
has urged approval of a requested 
appropriation for a physical educa- 
tion fleldhouse as "an important step 
in the national defense effort." 

The proposed building would re- 
place Nichols Gymnasium, a 30-year- 
old structure which Mr. Ahearn de- 
scribed as "totally inadequate to meet 
the agricultural college's program of 
physical education and athletics for 
4,100 students." 

PHYSICAL FITNESS IMPORTANT 
"The importance of universal 
physical fitness probably never 
loomed larger than today," declared 
the veteran director. "Military offi- 
cials, educators and leaders in inter- 
collegiate athletics endorse physical 
education and recreation programs 
more strongly than ever before be- 
cause of their need in building and 
maintaining health. 

"Last winter, directors of athletics 
of the Big Six conference adopted a 
resolution pledging support to the 
national defense program," Mr. 
Ahearn pointed out. "Yet, Kansas 
State College is unable to contribute 
its share to the Kansas youth because 
of totally inadequate facilities. 
ASKS "CAREFUL CONSIDERATION" 
"It is bad enough that a fourth 
of Kansas State's students must be 
turned away from basketball games 
because of cramped facilities. But 
this is minor to the extreme need for 
more indoor space to carry out our 
physical education and all-College 
sports programs. I ask members of 
the Kansas Legislature to give their 
most careful consideration to this 
condition — one that affects the health 
and physical fitness of hundreds of 
our youngsters." 

Approximately 2,000 Kansas State 
College students are taking two years 
of required physical education work. 
In addition, 1,700 participate in the 
all-College sports or intramural con- 
tests. These figures do not include 
between 400 and 500 boys on varsity 
squads in intercollegiate sports. 
MUST PLAY AT NIGHT 
Congested conditions force intra- 
mural games to be played at night, 
Mr. Ahearn said, virtually preventing 
the freshman basketball team from 
practicing "except during the evening 
meal hour." Track, football and base- 
ball workouts indoors during bad 
j weather are prohibited. Physical edu- 
I cation classes, he said, are so crowded 
they must be divided into groups — 
each group taking turns in the use of 
the gymnasium floor. 

Many uses of the present gymna- 
sium were recounted by Mr. Ahearn. 
"It houses the Department of Military 
Science and Tactics with storeroom 
and staff of 15 officers, the College 
radio station, literary society rooms, 
music studios and the Department of 
Public Speaking classrooms. It also 
inadequately serves as living quar- 
ters for 1,400 boys and girls during 
the annual state 4-H club roundup 
and is in demand for dances and large 
banquets." 



FROZEN FOOD REGULATIONS 
DRAFTED WITH COLLEGE AID 



Proposed Code Will Be Submitted to 

State Board of Health in 

Nenr Future 

A code of sanitary regulations for 
frozen food locker plants in Kansas 
will be submitted to the State Board 
of Health soon, according to Prof. 
D. L. Mackintosh of the Department 
of Animal Husbandry. Professor 
Mackintosh is secretary of the Kan- 
sas Frozen Food Locker association. 
The regulations were drafted at a 
recent meeting of the executive com- 
mittee of the association, with the 
assistance of a representative of the 
State Board of Health. 

The proposed rules should insure 
the sanitation of Kansas locker 
plants, according to Professor Mack- 
intosh. One of the regulations speci- 
fied that all food products to be 
stored in a locker shall be inspected 
by the plant operator before being 
stored. 

Regulations also specify that ap- 
proved wrapping paper shall be used, 
that all plant operators shall provide 
adequate facilities for cleaning and 
sterilizing tools and utensils and that 
all products must be completely fro- 
zen before being packed in the storage 
locker. 

There are 160 frozen food locker 
plants in Kansas having a total of 
56,000 individual lockers and more 
than 200,000 people in Kansas are 
consuming food from storage lock- 
ers, Professor Mackintosh said. 
♦ 

FARM AND HOME GUESTS 



Yeo Chosen Swimming Captain 

Leo Yeo, a Manhattan junior, re- 
cently was elected captain of the 
1941 Kansas State College swimming 
team. Yeo won all-Big Six conference 
recognition last season for his per- 
formances in the dashes. 



EVERYDAY 

By W. E 



ECONOMICS 

GRIMES 



" Taxation is one weapon which may be used to check inflation." 



Taxation is one weapon which may 
be used to check inflation. Inflation 
of the price level results from in- 
creased demand for consumption 
goods. This increased demand usual- 
ly occurs because people have more 
money to spend. With more money 
they endeavor to secure more goods 
and services than they previously 
have enjoyed. As a result, more 
goods and services are demanded and 
prices tend to rise. 

If taxes are increased so that they 
absorb a portion of the increase in in- 
comes, the demand for goods and 
services is correspondingly reduced 



since the amount which people have 
to spend is reduced by the amount 
of their taxes. This influence already 
is at work in the United States. Taxes 
have beeff increased. Income taxes 
to be paid on 1940 incomes are higher 
than they were in 1939. This increase 
in taxes takes a portion of the funds 
of people and reduces their buying 
power. This curbs the forces which 
tend to bring about inflation. Still 
further use of this power may be re- 
! sorted to if taxes are further in- 
creased to help pay for the national 
defense program. 



(Continued from page one) 
Department of Poultry Husbandry, 
said in his talk that inbreeding is 
admittedly a hazard in breeding op- 
erations but is not as great a hazard 
as ordinarily believed. 

Among the speakers on the Farm 
and Home week rural electrification 
program Tuesday were Walter M. 
Carlton, Kansas State College exten- 
sion engineer, and E. D. Warner, 
College extension engineer. Mr. Carl- 
ton told his audience that a 150- 
pound man who climbed to the top of 
the 500-foot Washington monument 
would have performed less than 3 
percent of one kilowatt hour of work, 
which would be worth about one- 
eighth of one cent in terms of elec- 
trical energy valued at four cents per 
kilowatt hour. A one-fourth horse- 
power motor will do as much steady 
work in a day as five men, at a cost 
of one cent per hour where elec- 
tricity can be obtained for three cents 
per kilowatt hour, he said. 

Mr. Warner recommended careful, 
advance planning for a complete and 
1 adequate plumbing system for the 
\ farm home before beginning any in- 
I stallation in his talk on "Plumbing 
I and Sewage Disposal" Tuesday. 

J. C. Nisbet, executive secretary of 
the Ohio Dairy Products association, 
told a Farm and Home week dairy 
I audience that three steps in building 
I up the producing ability of stock in- 
cluded (1) proving of the bull at the 
head of the herd, (2) eliminating of 
all low-producing dams from the herd 
and (3) selling as seed stock only 
such registered animals as result 
from the mating of proved sires, or 
sires being proved, and dams that 
have evidenced their ability to pro- 
duce profitably. 

The following Kansas poultry 
champions for 1940 were announced 
Tuesday: Certified flock champions, 
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Considine, Alton; 
approved flock champions, Mr. and 
Mrs. Oliver Klein, Clay Center; flock 
management champions, Mr. and 
Mrs. S. S. Hynes, Arlington; poultry 
brooding champions, Mr. and Mrs. C. 
C. Whitsitt, Phillipsburg; approved 
turkey flock champions, Mr. and Mrs. 
Curt Benninghoven, Strong City. 

Six farm women have been invited 
to demonstrate such home crafts as 
rug making, carding of wool and 
knitting in an exhibit of home in- 
dustries this afternoon. 

Thursday and Friday Kansas edi- 
tors, country correspondents and 
amateur news photographers and ex- 
tension workers will attend the fourth 
annual journalism conference. The 
two-day program will include discus- 
sions on news photography, news 
cameras and equipment for the small 
daily or weekly newspaper as well as 
country correspondence. 



CAGERS BUSY DRILLING 

FOR MISSOURI CONTEST 

OKLAHOMA DEFEATS BASKETBALL 

Sl|l \l). 46 TO 38 

Coach Jack Gardner Says That Entire 

Team Survives Final Examinations 

and Physical Condition 

Is Good 

The Kansas State College basket- 
ball team is busily drilling for its con- * 
test with the University of Missouri f 
here Thursday while the squad re- 
covers from the 4 6-3 8 loss suffered at 
the hands of the University of Okla- 
homa last Friday night. The Wild- 
cats are now in fourth place in Big 
Six standings. 

Missouri, with no conference vic- 
tories as yet, now is handicapped by 
the loss of two members of the squad. 
Arch Watson, high-scoring pivot man, 
recently has dropped from school be- 
cause of low grades. Herb Gregg, 
left-handed forward, pulled a leg 
muscle in a game with Nebraska last 
week and probably will not play. 
WILDCATS ARE ELIGIBLE 
The Wildcats are all in good physi- 
cal condition, according to Coach 
Jack Gardner, and none was forced 
to quit because of low grades. 

The Sooners won the game last 
Friday night through their ability to 
make their free throws. Both teams 
scored 16 field goals, but the Wild- 
cats were able to make only six free 
throws out of 18 tosses. Oklahoma, 
on the other hand, was able to make 
14 points out of 20 chances. 

Led by 6-foot, 7-inch Hugh Ford, 
the Oklahomans started the game 
with an attack which netted them a 
17-5 lead in the first 10 minutes. Be- ■ 
fore the half was over, Chris Lang- 
vardt, Wildcat forward from Alta 
Vista, found his mark, and at the 
half, Oklahoma's lead had been cut 
to 22-17. 

JACK HORACEK SCORES 

Early in the last period, the Soon- 
ers again stretched their lead to 10 

i points. Although Jack Horacek, To- 

i peka, who had not scored during the 
first half, was able to make five field 
goals, the Wildcats were never able 
to catch their opponents. 

Monday night the Wildcats will 
play the Iowa State college Cyclones 
in Nichols Gymnasium for their last 

! home game of the season. The Cy- 
clones have won one game and lost 
three and are now in fifth place in 

, Big Six standings. 



PRIMARY FLYING COURSE 

LIMITED TO 30 STUDENTS 

Quota for Spring Semester Is Same as 

Past but Number for Advanced 

Work Not Yet Announced 

Students taking the primary stu- 
dent flying course will number 30, 
according to a proposed contract re- 
ceived this week by C. B. Pearce, pro- 
fessor in the Department of Machine 
Design, from the Civil Aeronautics 
authority in Washington, D. C. The 
quota is the same as that for past 
semesters. 

The class, for which many students 
already have applied, according to 
Professor Pearce, will begin the lat- 
ter part of this week. 

Of the 3 students who were in the 
primary course last semester, 23 
passed the work. On failed because 
of overweight, one of injury and five 
because they failed to pass the final 
examinations. 

Results of the final examinations 
taken by the advanced flying group 
last semester have not yet been re- 
leased. The quota of students that 
may take the advanced flying course 
this semester has not been received 
by Professor Pearce. 

♦ 
SWIMMING SQUAD DEFEATS 

THREE COLORADO SCHOOLS 



Leo Yeo Sets New Pool Record at Boul- 
der In 100-Yard Event 

Kansas State's swimming team, un- 
der the guidance of Coach C. S. 
(Coony) Moll, won three victories 
while on tour through Colorado last 
week. 

Friday, at Greeley State college, v 
the swimmers were the victors in a 
dual meet, 67-13. Saturday after- 
noon, at Boulder, Colo., they won 
over Colorado university, 59-24, and 
over Colorado School of Mines, 63- 
21, in a double-dual meet. 

Leo Yeo, Wildcat dash man, set a 
new pool record at Boulder Saturday, 
when he covered the 100-yard route 
in 56 seconds. "Smoky" Stover, Kan- 
sas State distance swimmer and diver, 
won three first places in the 440-yard 
free style, the 220-yard free style and 
in the diving competition. 



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HISTORICAL SOCIETY C 

TOPEKA 

KAN. 



The Kansas Industrialist 



Volume 67 



Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, Manhattan, Wednesday, February 12, 1941 



Number 18 



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ASTRONOMER DESCRIBES 
DATA OF OUR UNIVERSE 

dh. harlow shapley discusses 
knowledge: of sky 



Science Club, Sigma XI, College Ansein- 

hly Committee Bring Harvard Pro- 

fi'NNor for < iinipuM Talk and 

Motion Picture* 

Our present incomplete knowledge 
of the universe was compared with 
the mystery of civilization's turmoil 
today in a talk by Dr. Harlow Shap- 
ley, director of the Harvard univer- 
sity observatory and Paine professor 
of astronomy there, at the College 
Auditorium Friday night. 

The lecture was sponsored by the 
College assembly committee, the Sci- 
ence club and Sigma Xi, honorary sci- 
ence fraternity. The title of his talk 
was "In Defense of the Universe." 
SHOWS UNIQUE FILM 

Doctor Shapley said that if we 
knew more about either the organiza- 
tion of the universe or better under- 
stood our own civilization, we might 
know more about the other. 

The Harvard astronomer showed a 
black-and-white motion picture of 
storms on the surface of the sun. 
These pictures were taken by M. Ber- 
nard Lyot, a Frenchman who per- 
fected a telescope with which it is 
possible to study the streamers shoot- 
ing out from the sun without the 
previous requirement of a total 
eclipse. 

The film, which shows the long 
Angers of flames licking out from the 
surface, is the only one of its kind 
in the United States and is consid- 
ered a valuable scientific document. 
DESCRIBES SKY CENSUS 

Describing the procedure for tak- 
ing a census of the stars in the sky, 
Doctor Shapley said that small seg- 
ments of the sky were examined in 
detail and then they were pieced to- 
gether to obtain information on the 
entire heavens. He also told how 
astronomers used the period of lumi- 
nosity relationship to measure the 
distance of remote stars and galaxies. 

Doctor Shapley told stories about 
the Harvard university observatory 
and how its staff worked. He said 
that 15 nationalities cooperated in 
the observatory's activities, thus 
demonstrating the internationalism 
of contemporary scientific achieve- 
ment. 



To Work in Clay Center 

Norma Lee Quinlan of Lyons, I. J. 
'39, will start to work Monday as a 
reporter for the Clay Center Dispatch 
in Clay Center. Miss Quinlan has 
been employed by the Kansas Power 
and Light company in Lyons the past 
several months. 



FARM AND HOME WEEK VISITORS PASS RESOLUTION 

SUPPORTING STUDENT UNION, RESIDENCE HALLS 



REGISTRATION FIGURE GOES 
TOTAL OF 1,050 



TO 



A. A. U. P. RESOLUTION SAYS 
STATE SHOULD KNOW OF ISMS 



Two GraduateH of College Included 
Among Tho»e Receiving Recogni- 
tion hn MaHter Farmers 
of Kamia 
A total of 1,9 50 people registered at 
college Chapter want* Kmisaim to «n- one or more sessions of the Farm and 
derotnnd Mennces to Democracy Home week program here last week. 

from ideoiogien The attendance was approximately 

The Kansas State College chapter 300 over last year's figure, 
of the American Association of Uni- L. C. Williams, assistant dean of 
versity Professors last week passed a the Division of College Extension 
resolution asking the State Legisla- who was general chairman of Farm 
tare, "in their admirable endeavor to and Home week, said the four-day 
combat the dangers of national social- meeting of farmers and homemakers 
ism, fascism and communism, to en- went off very well. He stated that 
sure to the people of the state of Kan- he wished to compliment the people 
sas their right to know and under- of Manhattan for cooperating with 
stand the dangers that threaten them, the College in making rooms avail- 
so that they may most successfully able for the campus visitors, 
attack and overcome them." HONOR TWO GRADUATES 

The resolution in full follows: Tne R Ura i Pastors' conference, 

"Whereas, the Kansas State Col- wn j cn wa s introduced for the first 
lege chapter of the American Associa- time in tne p a ,. m and Home week 
tion of University Professors, and pi . og ,. ami wa8 we ll attended and will 
every individual member thereof, do ))e con tinued in the future, the gen- 
abhor and execrate the systems and eral cna irman said. 

At the banquet Friday night, which 
climaxed the Farm and Home week 
activities, two Kansas State College 
graduates, Merle G. Mundhenke, '29, 
Lewis, and Fred p. Strickler, '25, 
Hutchinson, were awarded the title, 
"Master Farmer of Kansas." Arthur 
Christiansen, Columbus; Ralph Horn- 
baker, Stafford, and August Dietrich, 
Carbondale, were also given master 
farmer honor. 

Mrs. Winifred Meers Parcel, Cold- 
water, and Mrs. Gladys Lillian 
Dawes, Colby, were named Master 
Farm Homemaker at the same ban- 
quet. 

Thomas county achieved perma- 
nent possession of the Farm and 



Challenge to Farm Women 
Mrs. J. R. Reigart, Baxter 
Springs, member of the State 
Board of Regents, told a Farm 
and Home week audience Fri- 
day that American women were 
"a race of sleeping giants," at- 
tributing the phrase to Gen. 
Hugh S. Johnson, columnist. 
She said that Americans had 
taken democracy for granted 
for many prosperous years and 
now, in time of crisis, the 
American people should prove 
anew that they are fit to govern 
themselves and wish to do so. 



SEVEN FACULTY CHANGES 

ANNOUNCED BY PRESIDENT 



n 



Four Appointment* mid Three Lenvea 

of AbHcnce Are Included In Lint 

Approved by Regents 

Faculty changes involving seven 
persons have been approved by the 
State Board of Regents and were an- 
nounced yesterday by Pies. F. D. 

Farrell. 

The announcement included these 

changes: 

During the leave of absence of F. 
W. Matting, instructor in the Depart- 
ment of Mechanical Engineering, to 
serve in the United States army, Mel- 
vin Estey is appointed assistant in 
mechanical engineering, effective 
February 1. 

Al L. Neal, instructor in the De- 
partment of Chemistry, who has been 
on leave of absence during the pres- 
ent school year, has been granted an 
extension of leave from February 1 
to May 31; the appointment of E. H. 
Huffman to serve as instructor in 
that department during Mr. Neal's 
absence is continued to May 31. 

For the period February 1 to May 
31, Miss Laura Pettis Davis has been 
appointed part-time instructor in 
S household economics. 

During the sabbatical leave of ab- 
sence granted Miss Jennie Williams 
of the Department of Child Welfare 
and Euthenics, for the period Febru- 
ary 1 to May 31, Mrs. H. K. Work 
has been appointed part-time as- 
sistant. 



the deeds of national socialists, of 
fascists, and of communists; and 
would do everything possible to stop 
the spread of these systems and their 
doctrines, as pernicious and abomina- 
ble and incongruous with human dig- 
nity and intelligence; 

"And whereas, as has been shown 
for example in the field of human 
health, where education of the public 
has been most effective in combating 
cancer and tuberculosis and other 
scourges, education of the public to 
its own dangers is a highly effective 
method of combating dangers; 

"And whereas, maintenance of ig- 
norance is a method of enslavement 
employed by national socialists, fas- 
cists, and communists, and is conse- 
quently a process to be avoided in a 
democracy; 

"Therefore be it resolved, that the 
Kansas State College chapter of the 
American Association of University 
Professors, and every individual mem- 
ber thereof, do urge the Legislature 
of the state of Kansas, in their ad- 
mirable endeavor to combat the dan- 
gers of national socialism, fascism, 
and communism, to ensure to the peo- 
ple of the state of Kansas their right 
to know and understand the dangers 
that threaten them, so that they may 
most successfully attack and over- 
come them." 

Copies of the resolution were sent 
to Gov. Payne Ratner and to both 
houses of the Kansas Legislature. 
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Gets Nebraska Job 

Katharine Chubb, who majored in 
journalism at Kansas State College, 
has a position at the University of 
Nebraska at Lincoln as assistant ag- 
ricultural editor. Miss Chubb went 
to Lincoln February 1. 



TWIN BROTHER OF '40 CHAMP 
TAKES LITTLE ROYAL HONORS 

Merrill Abraham* of Wayne Wins Live- 
stock Recognition with Polnnd 
China Hog 

Merrill Abrahams, Wayne, fol- 
lowed in his twin brother's footsteps 
last Thursday night when he was 
named grand champion in the live- 
stock division of the Little American 
Royal held in connection with Farm 
and Home week. Last year, his broth- 
er, Maynard Abrahams, won the same 
award. 

Charles Repstine, Cummings, a 
freshman, was chosen grand cham- 
pion in the dairy division. 

The Abrahams twins each won in 
the division showing hogs. Merrill 
won last week with a Poland China, 
while his brother won last year with 
a Duroc Jersey. Both have had con- 
siderable previous show-ring experi- 
ence. 

Reserve champions for each divi- 
sion included Ralph Bonewitz, Meri- 



O. O. WOLF AND MRS. MeKINNEY 
OFFER STATEMENT 



Dean Helen Moore Says Need for Center 

for Social Life Is More Important 

ii» City's Population 

Expands 

A resolution approving the pro- 
posed Student Union building and 
new residence halls was passed by 
Farm and Home week visitors at the 
banquet Tuesday night. 

Dr. O. O. Wolf, Ottawa, president 
of the Kansas Farm bureau, made 
the motion, and Mrs. J. C. McKinney, 
Hartford, legislative chairman, home 
demonstration council, seconded the 
motion for the passing of the resolu- 
tion. 

URGE ENACTMENT 

The resolution read: 

"We, the Kansas Farmers and Kan- 
sas Farm Homemakers in attendance 
at the annual Farm and Home week 
conferences, wish to express our ap- 
proval of the proposal for construct- 
ing residence halls and student union 
building at the state-owned schools 
as outlined in Senate Bill No. 25 and 
House Bill No. 38 before the Kansas 
Legislature now in session. 

"We further urge the enactment 
of this legislation by the present leg- 
islature as means to providing ade- 
quate facilities for students at state 
schools without any burden on the 
tax payer." 

Discussing the Student Union build- 
ing, Miss Helen Moore, dean of wo- 
men, said this week that the need 
for centering social life on the cam- 
pus, under college supervision is be- 
coming more and more necessary. She 
pointed out that the population of the 
College community has increased rap- 
idly the past few months. The pros- 
pective continued increase in popula- 



nent possession of the Farm and den , n the dairy division) lowing tIon , a major part of which is due to 
Home week attendance trophy at the an Ayrsnire C0W| and Clarence Shan- the j. ap i d growth of nearby Ft. Riley 
annual Achievement banquet. It was ■ dy Wakefleldj showing a Southdown and Camp Funston, is making the al 

the third successive year in which I , K ___.»_ t j #„„mn=« a ™ n io» 

the county has led all others in the 

annual attendance contest, in which 

county scores are computed by mul- formatory at Hutchinson, and Fran- 

tiplying the registered attendance, . Arnold _ Dre8 ident of the Kansas 



lamb. 

E. E. Germain, superintendent of 
i the dairy at the State Industrial re- 



from that county by the distance from 
the county seat to Manhattan. 

INTRODUCE SIX STUDENTS 
Six outstanding students were an- 
nounced at the annual Achievement 
banquet which closed the 72nd an- 
nual Farm and Home week. The five 
seniors and one graduate student 



cis Arnold, president of the Kansas 
Livestock association, presented rib- 
bons to the winners of the various 
contests. 



SECOND DRAWING COURSE 

WILL START FEBRUARY 17 



seniors and one graduate siuaem j aiiesllollI1 „ lre( , Be ,„ K sent to Appii- 
were selected on a basis of their | camin who Want Schooling Under 



scholarship and extracurricular ac 
tivities during their four years of col- 
lege work. They were introduced to 
an audience of more than 1,000 by 
Dean Margaret M. Justin of the Divi- 
sion of Home Economics. 

The six students and their divi- 
sions were Ray Adams, Manhattan, 
Division of General Science; Dorothy 
Green, Wichita, Division of Home 
Economics; Howard M. Zeidler, Gi- 
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BIENNIAL REPORT OF EXPERIMENT STATION 

TELLS RESULTS OF MORE THAN 100 PROJECTS 



Will Talk at Hutchinson 

Prof. L. R. Quinlan of the Depart- 
ment of Horticulture will go to 
Hutchinson Friday to speak on "The 
Art of Landscape Gardening." 



Results obtained during the past 
two years in more than 100 projects 
of the Kansas Agricultural Experi- 
ment station are reported in the 10th 
biennial report of the director, pub- 
lished recently by the station. 

Projects reported upon include 
those conducted at the central sta- 
tion at Manhattan, at four branch 
stations located at Garden City, Col- 
by, Tribune and Hays and on numer- 
ous outlying farms and experimental 
fields. 

All of the work is conducted upon 
a project basis and is presented in 
the report in five distinct fields of 
activity: agricultural economics, soil 
conservation, the plant industries, 
the animal industries and home eco- 
nomics. 

The exchange of information be- 
tween research workers is the pri- 
mary purpose of the biennial reports 
of the station. 

"Much progress has been made 
during the past biennium in coopera- 



tive attack on a regional basis by the 

state experiment stations upon re- . 

search problems that transcend state courses offered here. It is necessary 



Defense Program 

The second course in engineering 
drawing in connection with the en- 
gineering training defense program 
will begin February 17, according to 
an announcement this week by Prof. 
M. A. Smutz, supervisor of the course. 

Questionnaires are being sent to 
more than 100 applicants from which 
50 students will be selected to enroll 
on the 17th. It is assumed that there 
will be a third course in engineering 
drawing started later in the year for 
those students who were unable to 
come for the second course and others 
who are interested. 

Requirements for admission to the 
course in engineering drawing are 
fewer than for other defense training 



lines," Dean L. E. Call, station direc- 
tor, states in the introduction to the 
report. 

"These problems are common to 
a region, and the state experiment 



that the student be a graduate of an 
accredited high school and have two 
years of mathematics. C. E. Roper, 
assistant to W. W. Carlson who is 
head of the defense training here 



stations in the 13 northcentral states j said the course is popular because of 
have recognized that these states the low entrance requirements and 
have many mutual problems, and because of the great demand for 
have perfected a loose organization qualified draftsmen in defense indus- 
of these states for cooperative attack | tries, 
upon some of them. Special atten- Professor Smutz said t would be 



tion has been given to the marketing 
of agricultural products, and projects 
are now being formulated to study 
cooperatively some of the more acute 
problems in the marketing of live- 
stock and poultry products in this 
region." 

Abstracts of station publications 
are included in the report as well as 
a list of all articles written by staff 
members and published in the vari- 
ous technical journals. 



necessary to hire two new men to 
teach the course. These men will be 
hired directly from industry because 
the course is one of practical experi- 
ence, he added. 

Close correlation will be main- 
tained between the shop and draft- 
ing-room work. Shop courses re- 
quired in connection with the drawing 
course will be shop process, shop 
mathematics and gauges and mea- 
surements. 



ready overtaxed facilities even less 

adequate to accommodate the needs 

of the approximately 4,000 students. 

UNION WOULD HELP 

A Student Union building would go 
a long way toward providing the bad- 
ly needed facilities. Miss Moore ex- 
plained. She pointed out that the only 
available ballroom has a capacity of 
600 persons. 

The need is not entirely for social 
facilities. Miss Moore's office has a 
record of more than 1,000 meetings 
of College student organizations on 
the campus last year. Most of these 
were conducted in rooms which are 
inadequate and poorly adapted to 
the purpose. The proposed Student 
Union building would provide rooms 
for all types of organization meet- 
ings on the campus. 

Of greatest importance, in the 
opinion of the dean of women, is the 
need on the campus of a wholesome 
place for students to meet their 
friends. Under present conditions the 
only places for students to meet are 
public. That means that the students 
who do not have money, and there 
are many who must keep expenses 
at a minimum, have no place to meet 
friends or to make new friends. 
PENDING IN LEGISLATURE 

Miss Moore said the need could be 
met with the proposed Student Union 
building. Enabling legislation is 
pending in the State Legislature. The 
College is not asking for an appropri- 
ation for the Student Union building. 
It would not increase the tax levy. 
The building would be paid for by 
students through fees and rentals for 
social functions. All the College is 
asking, Miss Moore emphasized, is 
enabling legislation which will per- 
mit the State Board of Regents to 
proceed. 

Dean Moore revealed that 24 or- 
ganizations of Kansas women, with a 
total membership of approximately 
100,000, are behind an effort to pro- 
vide dormitories and better housing 
for the approximately 1,200 women 
students enrolled here. The 24 Kan- 
sas women's organizations which al- 
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In The Kansas Indusi malist are written by 
students in the Department of Industrial Jour- 
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chanical work. 

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taking efforts of Carl Sandburg and 
others. 

A folk art which the researchers 
had overlooked until now is the carv- 
ing of American figureheads. These 
ornamental figures were carved in 
wood. American packets, whalers, 
ships-of-the-line, clippers and frigates 
carried them proudly on their prows. 
Throughout more than a century, 
when the art flourished in the United 
States, many hundred 



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KKWKR ANI> LARGER FARMS 

In the United States as a whole, 
farms are declining in number and 
increasing in size. In the past 10 
years, according to the 1940 census, 
the number declined about 3 percent 
to a total of 6,096,789. The largest 
decline in number of farms, 12.6 per- 
cent, was in the West South Central 
states, Arkansas, Louisiana, Okla- 
homa and Texas. In the West North 
Central states, to which Kansas be- 
longs, the decline was 2 percent. 
Kansas now has 156,327 farms, com- 
pared with 166,042 10 years ago. 
In Minnesota, another West North 
Central state, the number of farms 
increased by about 12,000. 

In general, the size of farms has 
increased and the number has dimin- 
ished in those areas where economic 
pressure and production difficulties 
have been acute. The number has 
increased and the size has diminished 
where conditions have favored a type 
of farming based on the farm as a 
place to live. In New England, for 
example, the number of farms in- 
creased 8 percent and the average 
size of farm declined corresponding- 
ly. In Connecticut in 1930, the av- 
erage size of farm was 8 7 acres, but 
in 1940 it was only 71 acres. Ohio 
shows a similar trend, the average 
size of farm having declined from 9 8 
acres to 93 acres. In Kansas, on the 
other hand, the average size of farm 
increased from 283 acres to 308 acres. 
Farming primarily as a way of life 
is feasible on small farms with favor- 
able prices and weather conditions. 
Fanning primarily as a business re- 
quires comparatively large farms, 
particularly if weather conditions or 
prices are unfavorable. In the past 
10 years in the United States as a 
whole, economic and weather condi- 
tions have encouraged or required 
special emphasis on the pecuniary 
aspects of farming and the average 
size of farm has increased. 

It may be too early in our agri- 
cultural evolution to determine 
whether in the United States major 
emphasis finally is to be placed upon 
farming primarily as a business or 
primarily as a way of life. In the 
older countries, fanning as a way of 
life usually has come to predominate. 
That kind of fanning seems to have 
greater survival value in the long 
run than the kind in which farming 
is regarded primarily as a business. 

BOOKS 

Story of a Folk Art 
"American Figureheads and Their 
Carvers." By Pauline A. Pinckney. vv. 

W. Norton and Company. New York. 

22:1 piiKiw- 

When I was a boy growing up in a 
small town in southern Missouri, 
there was a loafer who contrived the 
most delicate and lovely objects out 
of wood, and put them together in 
bottles. These were folk art. 

I remember how as a boy I thought 
something should be done to capture 
these creations of the artistic impulse 
and put them in permanent form, so 
that others might delight in them as 
I did. As everybody knows this has 
been done by patient research work- 
ers for some of the folk arts of Amer- 
ica. We already have in permanent 
form, for example, many of the bal- 
lads that the folk artists of older days 
spoke or sang, thanks to the pains- 



were carved by trained workers in 
Boston, Philadelphia and other ship- 
building centers. Fortunately, a good 
many fine examples have been pre- 
served, and the best of these are re- 
produced in 3 2 full-page plates in 
this volume. 

Miss Pinckney asserts that ship 
carving was one of the first expres- 
sions of the plastic arts in this coun- 
try and therefore represents an im- 
portant epoch in American sculpture. 
Her book is the result of careful re- 
search, though the presentation is in 
popular language. 

It tells the story of ship carving in 
easy-to-read narrative, tracing the 
art from its beginnings to the end. 
The end came with the general use 
of steel and iron steam vessels, when 
there was no longer the need of ship 
carving. 

Miss Pinckney is a former art 
teacher in Texas and Kansas. She 
was a member of the art faculty of 
Kansas State College. 



By M. W. FURR 
Professor of Civil Engineering 
The highway system is the func- 
tion of a public roads administration 

local, state, municipal and federal. 

The problem of providing adequate 
figureheads I highways for modern traffic is one of 



tremendous scope and high order 
Briefly, it involves planning, design, 
improvement, maintenance, financing 
and administrative control. 

The development of roads, streets 
and highways is rendered possible 
only by collecting, compiling and 
analyzing all sorts of information. 
The data may deal with physical 
features, the volume, character and 
distribution of traffic — and related 
subjects of military uses — the co- 
ordination of transportation and the 
effect of tourist movements, agricul- 
ture and industry on highway traffic. 
It is noteworthy that the systematic 
compilations of data, imperative for 
use in the development of highway 
facilities, are of recent origin. 

The advent of motor transport gave 
added impetus to the value of engi- 
neering science and research investi- 
gations in road-building programs. 
Rational planning of highways and 
the determination of the priority of 
improvement has been made possible 
because of the completion of road 



There is a special appropriateness | and traffic inventories giving the es 



in a Pinckney's working with a sub 
ject that is associated with distinc- 
tive art form which flourished when 
the country was developing an in- 
dividuality and winning indepen- j for example 
deuce. For Miss Pinckney belongs to 
the family of those same Pinckneys 
of North Carolina who were promi- 
nent as founding fathers of the 
United States. Her present home is 
in Washington, D. C, where she is 
continuing her researches in the 
American folk arts. 

— Charles E. Rogers. 



sential facts relative to the use of 
highways. 

Compare the modern method used 

to transport commodities, groceries 

with that of pre-motor- 



truck days. Also, visualize a system 
of highways which will be satisfac- 
tory for the movement of military 
traffic necessary to execute a plan of 
national defense. There are many 
links in a system of roads — military 
each of these requir- 1 



Another important problem at the 
present time is to provide highway 
facilities that will be of use in the 
national defense program. Obviously, 
a program of highway improvement 
prescribed for national defense must 
be based on an assumption or concep- 
tion of the use to be made of the high- 
way system contemplated for this pur- 
pose. A lack of uniform judgment 
on the matter of the use of the high- 
ways for defense, or in time of war, 
would result in a wide assortment of 
recommendations. If an emergency 
exists, if war is imminent and inva- 
sion is probable, civilian evacuations, 
a gigantic movement of troops, equip- 
ment and supplies would be essential. 

Is the demand, therefore, for a net- 
work of super-highways; for a rather 
extensive program of adjusting and 
improving the existing facilities; or, 
because of the urgent need, for the 
rapid completion of the peace-time 
program to be constructed as planned 
for public use? 

It is now certain that important 
changes are taking place in the use 
of highways. The mechanization of 
armies and the extensive develop- 
ments in motor traffic necessitate 
much scientific study to determine 
what measures ought to be taken by 
highway administrative agencies. 
Such a program of improvement is 
in potential preparation — many miles 
of strategic highways, designated by 
and constructed to the standards of 
the War department, should be built. 
Reconstruction and improvements 
I will suffice on the accepted existing 
routes. Many bridges will need to be 
built and old ones will require 
strengthening to meet the loading 
standards. Road surfaces will re- 
quire rebuilding in many localities 
•oads will be neces- 



SUNFLOWERS 
By H. W. Davit 
A DIGEST TO END ALL DIGESTION 
Recent expert conclusions laid be- 
fore congressional committees look- 
ing into lease-lend proposals have 
been reported to the best-informed 
nation on earth by super-newshawks 
with such clarity as to make a suc- 
cinct digest of the world situation 
practically mandatory. Knowing of 
no brain better qualified than my own 
for such a task, I have decided to 
lay my mathematical and compensa- 
tory genius and reputation for logic 
on the altar of my country, even at 
the risk of summary incarceration in 
whatever lunatic asylum seems best 
fitted to handle me. 



Here is the situation in a nutshell 
as I get it from headlines and the 
summaries of commentators — all av- 
eraged up, boiled down, seen through, 
and concentrated to within less than 
one-tenth of one degree of the van- 
ishing point of comprehension, if not 
considerably further. 



Germany has 49,374 bombing and 
fighting planes and 38,169.28 pilots 
to hurl across the channel against 
England's 5,621.82 planes and 5,000 
pilots, as soon as the fog lifts. (These 
averages are snatched from the testi- 
mony of 19 confessed experts, some 
of whom have years of political ex- 
perience and office holding back of 
them.) The flow of material aid to 
England from America, as of today, 
will neutralize this German advan- 
tage in 14 years, 8 months and 23 
days provided all of Germany's fac- 
tories are immediately smashed by 
the insignificant Royal Air Force and 
not reopened. These figures also pre- 
suppose that all labor strikes crip- 
pling airplane production in America 
are settled by the first of next week. 



Mr. Rogers was for 20 years a teach- 
er in the Department of Industrial 
Journalism and Printing at the College. 
For 13 years, he was head of the de- 
partment. He re-signed December 31, 
1939, to become head of the Department 
of Technical Journalism at Iowa State 
college. 



I and otherwise, eacn 01 u.eae i^u.,-, additlonal 

tag construction according to present | ^ movement8 

land potential uses by intrastate and * y V m reservations, 

interstate travel. Oftentimes, the aajaceni to iuiuum? 
bridge on account of its high cost, Also, numerous other pertinent high- 
is the barrier to through traffic. This ! way elements will be required to be 
is one of the important problems of built to enhance the road system and 
the civil engineer. ' simplify its operation. 



During the middle ages animals, 
as well as men, could be brought to 
trial for crimes they had committed. 

In Falaise, France, in the year 
13 86, a sow which had attacked a 
baby, and eaten part of the child's 
face and arm, was formally sentenced 
by the court to have its snout and 
foreleg chopped off by the execution- 
er. The punishment was intended to 
correspond to the injuries done to 
the child. In 1389, at a locality not 
exactly known, a horse was sentenced 
to die because it had kicked a man to 
death. 

These sentences, and many others 
of a similar nature, offer but a super- 
ficial resemblance to modern court 
procedures in which animals are in- 
volved, of which the most common is 
that of a dog sentenced to death be- 
cause of repeated attacks on humans. 
In the latter case, the dog's extermi- 
nation is ordered because he is dan- 
gerous and a menace to the populace; 
whereas, in the ideology of the mid- 
dle ages the animal was regarded as 
consciously responsible for its deeds 
and therefore liable to punishment on 
moral grounds in the same way as 
human malefactors. — From Field 
Museum News. 

♦ 

EDUCATION AND DEMOCRACY 
If our democracy fails, our system 
of education will fail. If our system 
of education fails, our democracy 
will fail. Colleges and universities 
must provide leadership and training 
for national defense and also for our 
very national existence during the 
years to come. — Kenney L. Ford of 
the American Alumni council in a 
paper given at a Columbia, Mo., con- 
ference of district alumni officers. 
December 5, 1940. 
-*■ 

IN OLDER DAYS 
From the Files of The Industrialist 

TEN YEARS AGO 
Dr. John S. Houser, '04, in charge 
of the work in entomology at the 
Ohio Experiment station, Wooster, 
Ohio, was elected president of the 
American Association of Economic 
Entomologists at Cleveland. 

Miss Emma Hyde of the Depart- 
ment of Mathematics went to Joplin, 
Mo., to attend the meeting of the 



American Association of University 
Women. She was president of the 
Kansas division. 

Pres. F. D. Farrell returned from 
a trip in the East. He attended a 
meeting of the advisory council of the 
National Broadcasting company in 
New York and in Plainsboro, N. J., 
spent a day visiting the Walker- 
Gordon dairy farms. He also spoke 
at the annual Farm and Home week 
at the Ohio State university, Colum- 
bus, Ohio. 



KANSAS POETRY 

Robert Conover, Editor 



In addition to completely obliterat- 
ing England and all Englishmen 
within the next 30, 60, 90 or 180 
days, Germany will starve them to 
death 18 months later by her U-boat 
campaign unless we swap 20 modern 
destroyers for the battleship King 
George V at once as evidence of our 
intent to keep on until all of our 
52 destroyers are bartered away. 



TWENTY YEARS AGO 
Mrs. J. R. (Elizabeth Cox) Kregar, 
'80, was fifth district chairman of the 
Kansas Federation of Women's Clubs. 
Mrs. Kregar's home was in Junction 
City. 

Prof. George Dean, head of the 
Department of Entomology, was 
called to Chicago to confer with rep- 
resentatives of the American Special- 
. ty Manufacturing association and the 
I Southwestern Millers' league. Pro- 
fessor Dean was entomologist for the 
latter organization. 

Dr. George A. Young, '12, was ap- 
pointed on the state board of veter- 
inary examiners for Nebraska for a 
three-year term. Doctor Young's 
home was in Syracuse, Neb., where 
he owned his own hospital. He was 
also vice-president of the State Vet- 
erinary Association of Nebraska. 



GHOST TOWN 

By Irma Wassail 

Below the .sky of peacock blue lie rain- 
bow hills: 

The farthest deeper blue with distance, 
and nearer, purple 

And pink and coral, bright green and 
gray and faded turquoise, 

With dull mauve streaks of twilight- 
colored sage. 

And nearer still a bowl of yellow desert 
sand, 

Strewn with white skulls of cattle, a 
lone pale-eyed owl, 

Dark green cacti, prairie dogs and scur- 
rying brown 

Jackrabbits; and the ruined remnants 
of a town . 

Once rowdy, booming, now desertefl in 
the dusk: 

Each weathered, doorless house and 
store an empty husk. 



Six months after the unavoidable, 
immediate conquest of the British 
empire and the consequent acquisi- 
tion of His Majesty's navy and our 
destroyers, Hitler will have air bases 
operating in Argentina, Brazil, Mexi- 
co, Newfoundland and Iceland that 
will hinder the preliminary surveys 
of our new bases in these same coun- 
tries as well as in Bermuda, the Ba- 
hamas and Puerto Rico. This will 
also make possible massed air raids 
on Sandusky, Ohio, and Lubbock, 
Texas, not to mention Ginger Blue, 
Ark. Of course if Lindbergh's pro- 
posed 10,000 active and 10,000 re- 
serve planes can be got ready two 
years sooner than possible, this dan- 
ger may be discounted 27 percent. 



A ghost of the dead town rises 
white mirage, 



Floating pale 
ored lulls. 



and cold 



a misty 
igainst the col- 



Inna Wassail (Mrs. Fred Wassail) 
of Wichita has contributed verse to 
many leading publications. Among 
her new markets during the past year 
were Common Sense, Mexican Life, 
Commonweal and Good Housekeeping. 



England has only $1,978,233,651 
to pay for the $17,000,000,000 worth 
of stuff she must have by March 1 but 
cannot get before June, 1946. Unless 
we raise our debt limit four or nine 
billions at once to compensate for 
that $15,000,000,000 discrepancy the 
Treasury department may develop a 
headache. 



as topographer in a surveying party 
working on the line of the projected 
Kansas City, Mexico and Orient rail- 
way. 



THIRTY YEARS AGO 
J. L. Pelhain, '07, was superin- 
tendent of the Underwood orchards 
at Hutchinson. 

It. J. Barnett, assistant professor 
of mathematics, spoke in chapel on 
"Everyday Business Pointers." 

W. A. McKeever, professor of 
psychology, addressed the Kansas 
Bible institute of Topeka on "New 
Ideals of Christian Manhood." Ar- 
thur Capper, a member of the State 
Board of Regents and owner of the 
Topeka Daily Capital, spoke on "The 
Modern Newspaper." 



FIFTY YEARS AGO 

Professors Failyer, Georgeson and 
Mayo were on the program of the 
Wabaunsee Farmers' institute. 

A. F. Cranston, '90, was studying 
law at Parsons, his home. 

J. B. Brown, '87, was temporarily 
in charge of the United States Signal 
service office in Wichita. When re- 
lieved he expected to be ordered to 
Nashville, Tenn., where J. S. Hazen, 
'88, was stationed. 



Winston Churchill, who will very 
; probably be among the exterminated 
by April 1, 1941, will have no need 
I for the army and the navy of the U. 
S. A. earlier than 1942, at which time 
he will reincarnate himself and an- 
nounce his war aims other than 
counter-exterminating Hitler and 
keeping democracy afloat. 



FORTY YEARS AGO 
President Nichols spent a day in 
Topeka on College business. 

Miss Gertrude Williams, the new 
instructor in calisthenics, took charge 
of her department on February 1. 

H. C. Avery, second-year student 
in 1897, after graduation from the 
University of Kansas was employed 



SIXTY YEARS AGO 
President Fairchild spent two days 
in Topeka on College business. 

At the meeting of the Alpha Beta 
society, Miss Kennet and Mr. Striek- 
er were initiated. 

At the February meeting of the 
Scientific club, the following papers 
were read: "Electrical Fish," by M. A. 
Reeve; "Geological Notes on Wood- 
son County," by W. Knaus, and 
"Building Stone," by W. Ulrich. 



Now, please keep in mind that these 
presumptions and figures are not my 
own. Any likenesses they bear to the 
results of my personal thinking are 
purely coincidental, I hope. They are 
merely an exact and exhaustive com- 
pendium of what headline writers 
and newscasters have flashed to me 
about the expert testimony given be- 
fore congressional committees during 
the past two or three weeks. 



What can you do about it? Well, 
certainly the least you can do is write 
your congressman and senators cheer- 
ful little letters assuring them that 
you understand how confused they 
must be and promising them your 
vote if we ever get around to having 
another election. This will calm them 
down so they can think the whole 
delirium through and emerge with a 
lease-lend bill that will make the re- 
turn of happy days as easy as settling 
a strike with a substantial increase in 
wages. 



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AMONG THE 

ALUMNI 



/ 



Christine M. Corlett, B. S. '91, ad- 
justment clerk for the division of 
loans and currency, Treasury depart- 
ment, Washington, D. C, writes: 

"Some time ago I received an auto- 
graphed copy of Doctor Willard's 
newly printed history of our College. 
I imagine I was more thrilled in read- 
ing it than most of the more recent 
graduates, for my memory goes back 
to the day I entered as a student, late 
in the fall of 1887. 

"Harry Gilstrap and I took our 
'exam' at the same desk, entered the 
same (advanced) classes and were 
friends until his death. He was a fine 
boy, a fine man and the son of a fine 
mother, whom I also knew. 

"In the pictures of older days, I 
saw many whom I recognized. Many 
of the buildings pictured brought 
pleasant memories. The book will be 
placed with my treasures." 



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Bryant Poole, Ag. '01, is a member 
of the Poole-Dempsey-Rutherford 
Livestock Commission company. The 
office is in the Livestock Exchange 
building, Kansas City, Mo. 

Leon V. White, C. B. '03, Prof, in 
Engrg. '18, is associate professor in 
civil engineering at Kansas State 
College. He and Florence (Hug) 
White live at 1832 Anderson, Man- 
hattan. 

William Ljungdahl, f. s. '05, re- 
cently changed his address in Topeka 
to 1163 Randolph. He is a member 
of the commission of revenue and 
taxation. 

Lois Failyer, B. S. "07, is home 
economist with the Federal Bake 
shop, 25 Prospect place, New York 
City. 

Dr. J. W. Harner, '09, 642 Spring 
street, Memphis, Tenn., is on yard 
inspection work for the United States 
Bureau of Animal Industry. He vis- 
ited relatives and friends in Manhat- 
tan and at the College the latter part 
of October. 

Martha (Linn) McKinstry, H. E. 
•12, and her husband, Gilbert Mc- 
Kinstry, are at Oyen, Alberta, Can- 
ada. 

Harold T. English, Ar. '14, is a 
partner of the firm Smith and En- 
glish, architects, at Hutchinson. He 
and Mary (Lemon) English, '14, live 
at 203 West Ninth, Hutchinson. 

Hachiro Yuasa, B. S. '15, M. S. '17 
and Ph. D. '20 from the University 
of Illinois, is an honorary associate 
of the American Board of Commis- 
sioners for Foreign Missions. He is 
president of Doshisha university at 
Kyoto, Japan. 

Faith (Earnest) Soller. H. E. '16, 
is at Washington, Kan. Her husband. 
Walter A. Soller, is vice-president of 
the Washington State bank. They 
have a daughter, Ernestine, 15. 

Frank O. Blecha, Ag. '18, M. S. '27, 
and Hazel (Pierce) Blecha, '17, live 
at 1507 Leavenworth, Manhattan. 
Mr. Blecha is a district agent in ex- 
tension at the College. 

John S. Gulledge, E3. B. '20. is St. 
Louis district manager of mechanical 
sales for the B. F. Goodrich company. 
His home is at 10 58 South Vande- 
venter avenue, St. Louis, Mo. 

Married in August. 1940, were 
Grace Van Scoik. H. E. '2 2. and An- 
drew Laurence Haag. Their home is 
at 2218 East Anaheim street. Long 
Beach, Calif. 

The Department of Industrial Jour- 
nalism and Printing recently received 
a folder with this notation at the top: 
"From Lois Burkhart Clark, f. s. '23, 
now a four years' resident of En- 
gland, greetings. We could use a lit- 
tle cooperation in the Far East, and 
by the time this reaches you I hope 
it will be forthcoming." The folder 
which she sent is published by Ameri- 
cans in Britain who have organized 
into a committee to defend America 
by aiding the Allies. 

Capt. E. E. Howard, C. E. '2 5, 
Prof, in C. E. '31, reserve officer in 
the United States army, who was 
called to Ft. Snelling, Minn., for a 
few weeks' training, is now at Camp 
J F. Robinson, Little Rock, Ark. His 
wife, Phyllis Burtis, '25, and his chil- 
dren have joined him at Little Rock. 
Paul E. Chappell, f. s.. and Kath- 
ryn (King) Chappell, G. S. '26, have 
purchased the property at 415 North 
Fifth street. Manhattan, and will re- 
side at that address. Mr. Chappell, 
who has been employed in New York 
City, will be associated with his fa- 



ther and brothers in the Chappell 
creamery. 

Harry E. Reed, M. S. '28, is assis- 
tant chief in the Agricultural Mar- 
keting service, U. S. D. A., Washing- 
ton, D. C. He and Florence (Evans) 
Reed, '17, are living at 5420 Con- 
necticut avenue, Apt. 402, Washing- 
ton, D. C. 

Joe Shenk, E. E. '29, is engineer 
with the Southwest Telephone com- 
pany, Kansas City, Mo. The Shenks 
live at 3 24 East Seventieth street 
and have three children, Janice Lee, 
6, and twins, Jean and June, 3. 

Orpha Brown, H. E. '30, is on a 
leave of absence from her work as 
county extension agent in Montana, 
to complete her master's degree at 
Columbia university. Her address is 
1230 Amsterdam avenue, New York 
City. 

Richard G. Vogel, C. '31, and Thel- 
ma (Waterman) Vogel, f. s. '31, live 
at 2701 Burlingame road, Topeka. 
They have a daughter, Virginia Ann, 
5. Mr. Vogel is treasurer and secre- 
tary of Washburn college, Topeka. 

Edith G. Lauck, H. E. '32, lives at 
the King Edward apartments, Craig 
at Bayard, Pittsburgh, Pa. She has 
been food supervisor of the King Ed- 
ward dining room for four years. 



LOOKING AROUND 

KINNEY L FORD 



Ames, Iowa, Dinner 

Philip T. Allen, Ag. '39, who is in 
the Economics and Sociology depart- 
ment at Iowa State college, Ames, 
wrote: "You will be interested to 
know there were several K-State 
graduates and former faculty mem- 
bers at a Kansas day dinner in Me- 
morial Union, January 29. Among 
those present were C. E. Rogers, M. 
S. '26, formerly head of the Kansas 
State Department of Industrial Jour- 
nalism and Printing; J. C. Cunning- 
ham, '05; Marcia Turner, '06; lone 
(Clothier) McNay, '36; Bill McDan- 
el, '38; Dale McCarty, '39; Leo 
Hoover, '4 0; Wallace Kirkbride, '40; 
Don McCoy, '40, and Charles Curtiss, 
M. S. '40." 



ington, where Mr. Shull is the county 
agent. 



FRAUENFELDER— JOHNSON 
The marriage of Lora Frauen- 
felder, Riley, and Vinton G. Johnson, 
G. S. '36, took place November 3 in 
Manhattan. The couple are at home 
at 1331 Poyntz. He is employed by 
Edd Marden Cleaners. 



PALMER— SIMPSON 
Doris Palmer of Norwich and Carl 
Simpson, Ag. '40, of Norwich were 
married Sunday, December 1, by the 
Rev. B. A. Rogers at the Methodist 
Student parsonage. The couple will 
reside in Milton. 



Ruth E. Crawford, H. E. '3 2, 
writes: 

"On January 1, I came to Grants 
Pass, as a member of the Oregon Ex- 
tension service staff. I feel quite for- 
tunate in being located here. It is 
beautiful country located in the heart 
of the mountains, just a few hours 
from the coast, Crater lake and the 
Oregon caves. Grants Pass is quite a 
resort place noted for the fine fishing 
on the Rogue river, and for the fruit 
production. It relies a great deal on 
tourist trade. Each day that I go to 
a new community holds a new thrill 
of beautiful scenery. The mountains 
here are covered with fir, pine and 
ferns, and it isn't far on this Red- 
wood highway to the actual redwoods. 
"I enjoyed my graduate work at 
Oregon State last term. A number 
of nationally known people are on the 
staff, including Maud Wilson in home 
economics research, and Mrs. Azalea 
Sager, state home demonstration 
leader. I shall always remember the 
fine associations in Kansas, and will 
look forward to the bits of news in 
Tiik Industrialist that are a big help 
in keeping in touch. 

"My address is Home Demonstra- 
tion Agent, Grants Pass, Ore." 



Thanks for Alumni Loan 

The Alumni association last week 
received this note from the parents 
of a boy aided in getting his educa- 
tion by the Alumni Loan fund: 

"It was your association that made 
it possible for him to go on with his 
studies and make good the trust that 
you and I had placed in him. We ap- 
preciate your help more than words 
can express. 

"In gratitude to alumni for their 
fine work, we say long may the asso- 
ciation live in its endeavor to help 
others just as you helped our boy, 
so that others may get your support 
to appreciate it as we have appreci- 
ated — rather prized. 

"We wish to thank all the alumni 
who have made this fund possible, 
many times." 



MURPHY— DOWNER 
Barbara Murphy, Topeka, became 
the bride of Merrill Downer, B. A. 
'40, November 16. Mrs. Downer was 
employed for the past year in the 
office of the Riley county engineer. 
Their address is 136 South Minne- 
apolis avenue, Wichita. Mr. Downer 
has a position with the Beech Air- 
craft corporation in Wichita. 



RECENT HAPPENINGS 
ON THE HILL 



The first copy for the 1941 Royal 
Purple, Wildcat prize-winning year- 
book, was sent to the printers last 
week, Don Makins, Abilene, editor of 
the publication, announced. 

Motion pictures of life in the United 
States Coast guard and at its academy 
at New London, Conn., were shown 
by officers of the guard Monday after- 
noon in Nichols Gymnasium. 



Official confirmation was received 
last week of the appointment of 
Lieut.-Col. James K. Campbell to be 
head of the Department of Military 
Science and Tactics at the College. 



MOORE— LAW 
In a ceremony performed Novem- 
ber 27 at Madison, Wis., Roberta 
Moore, Manhattan, became the bride 
of Alvin G. Law, Ag. '38, M. S. *40. 
The bride has been employed in the 
Division of College Extension at Kan- 
sas State College for the past four 
years. Mr. Law is now research as- 
sistant in agronomy at the University 
of Wisconsin. Mr. and Mrs. Law will 
make their home at 112 North Or- 
chard, Madison, Wis. 



A student radio forum, in which 
campus leaders discuss their opinions 
of current events, was started last 
Monday afternoon. It is planned to 
make it a regular feature of KSAC's 
radio program from 4:30 to 5 p. m. 
Monday. 



Sina Faye Fowler, M. S. '33, who 
was in charge of the College tea room 
from 1935-193 8, is now director of 
the Butler university cafeteria, In- 
dianapolis, Ind. 

W. F. Waddell, D. V. M. '35, is with 
the United States Bureau of Animal 
Industry at Grand Rapids, Mich. He 
has a daughter, Patty Lou, 2%. 

John L. Noble, C. E. '37, visited 
the campus January 10 and told of 
his work for the Portland district for 
the United States Engineers. He had 
been at the Central Concrete labora- 
tory, West Point, N. Y., for six weeks 
and was returning to his work in 
Oregon. His address there is 2046 
Northwest Irving street, Portland. 

Maynard M. Furney, M. E. '38, is 
a flier in the U. S. navy on the air- 
craft carrier, U. S. S. Ranger. His 
address is V. F. 4, N. A. S., Nor- 
folk, Va. 

Howard R. Stover. M. E. '39, is 
half-time graduate research assistant 
in mechanical engineering at the Uni- 
versity of Illinois. His work is in the 
Held of heating and air conditioning 
in connection with the warm air heat- 
ing research residence. He expects to 
receive his master's degree in June. 
His residence is 1108 West Stough- 
ton, Urbana, 111. 



Form Chicago Unit 

A group of Kansas State men with 
the Western Electric company in Chi- 
cago have established a regular meet- 
ing date, the third Monday in each 
month except in the month of July. 
The group held its first meeting 
January 21. 

Those present were F. M. Adair, 
•30; J. L. Brubaker, '30; C. L. Erick- 
sen '27; W. T. Foreman, '20; H. W. 
Gar'be, '27; S. H. Heath, '26; E. W. 
Larson, '25; H. W. Larson, '22; P. 
M McKown. '22; K. P. Nowell, '25; 
N. V. Platner, '23; W. C. Ernsting, 
'17; F. E. Henderson, '24; H. W. 
Phelps, '35; C. E. Cole, '35; A. B. 
Colman. f. s.; R. W. Strohm, f. s.; 
J. R. Bily. f. s. '17; and C. L. Zim- 
merman, '21. 

Mr. Zimmerman, who wrote the 
report of the meeting, said that 
they had no way of contact with for- 
mer students at Hawthorne station, 
where the plant is located in Chicago. 
He would appreciate being told of 
any other former students there so 
that they may be invited to the meet- 
ings. 



GLENN— DOUGHERTY 

The marriage of Florence Ann 
Glenn, G. S. '30, and Maurice V. 
Dougherty took place November 30. 
Mr. Dougherty is employed by the 
Union Pacific railroad. Their home 
is at 820 Fremont, Manhattan. Mrs. 
Dougherty has taught in the high 
schools of Lillis and Ogden, Kan., and 
Sundance, Wyo. For the past two 
years she has had a position in the 
Department of Household Economics 
at Kansas State College. 



As part of a campaign for addi- 
tional membership, the Independent 
Student union is sponsoring a free 
dance in Recreation Center tonight. 
The I. S. U. also announced that it 
was working up a skit for the Y- 
Orpheum program this spring. 

Prof. L. E. Melchers of the Depart- 
ment of Botany and Plant Pathology 
said this week that Milo J. Warner, 
national commander of the American 
Legion, was planning to visit the cam- 
pus later this month. Professor 
Melchers and Mr. Warner, a Toledo, 
Ohio, lawyer, were schoolmates. 



TEICHGRAEBER— AICHER 

The marriage of Maribelle Teich- 
graeber, f. s. '40, and George W. 
Aicher, Ag. '39, was December 8. The 
bride is affiliated with Pi Beta Phi 
sorority and the groom with Sigma 
Phi Epsilon and Phi Kappa Phi, hon- 
orary fraternity. He was a Student 
Council member while in school. 

The couple resides in McCook, 
Neb., where Mr. Aicher is associated 
with the Great Western Sugar com- 
pany as field man. 



Guests at the Mortar Board tea in 
Van Zile hall Sunday afternoon were 
entertained by Mario Braggiotti of 
the piano team of Fray and Brag- 
giotti. The pair appeared on the cam- 
pus earlier in the school year on the 
Student Governing association's ce- 
lebrity series and the pianist returned 
to visit a co-ed that he knew here. 



Students enrolled in the Division 
of Engineering and Architecture, this 
week have an opportunity to order 
their green shirts for the traditional 
period before the annual Engineers' 
Open House. Orders are being taken 
today, Thursday and Friday at a desk 
in the Engineering building. The 
Open House will be held March 14 
and 15. 



Lieut. Walter E. Burrell, M. E. '40, 
writes: 

"At the present time I am on duty 
as a reserve officer at Ft. Richard- 
son near Anchorage, Alaska. At this 
post there are two other K. S. C. 
alumni, Lieut. Fred M. Crawford, '38, 
and Lieut. Ovitt M. Wells, '34. We 
are officers in the 75th Coast artil- 
lery (anti-aircraft) which was sent 
here in November, 194 0. 

"Since I have been in the service 
1 have met several other K-Staters. 
Lieut. Charles Manspeaker, '40, and 
Lieut. Fred Gardner are on duty at 
Ft Worden. Wash. Lieut. Louis 
Rotar, f. s. '39, is in the Canal Zone. 
"I have enjoyed reading The Iw- 
i.i sTiiiAi.isT and hope to keep in 
touch with the school through it in 
the future." 



Washington Alumni See Game 

Kansas State alumni got together 
at the Kansas State College-George 
Washington University basketball 
game, December 28. Homer J. Hen- 
ney, '21. M. S. '28, sent the following 
report : 

"We had around 40 people out for 
the game but didn't get the names of 
all of them. Arrangements had been 
made for all of us to be together in 
one section, but some of them left 
before the group met after the game 
for a little tete-a-tete. 

The names of those whom we were 
able to get as attending the game 
were: R. A. Seaton. '04; Mr. and 
Mis. Massengill; Libbie Smerchek, 
'3 2; Edward Smerchek, '40; Floyd 
Berger, '40; Tom Neill, '40; C. A. 
Logan, '25, and Mrs. Logan; Harold 
Allen, '27, and Mrs. Allen; Waldo 
Tate, '40, and Mrs. Tate; H. H. 
Brown, '28; Metta L. Baxter, '40; 
Katherine Wadley; Earl E. Miller, 
'39; M. L. Du Mars, '33; E. Jack 
Coulson, '27; G. S. Douglass, '16; 
Hubert L. Collins, '23, Lois (Richard- 
son) Collins and two children; Lester 
J. Hoffman, '21, and Lucile (Spring) 
Hoffman; Mrs. John L. Wilson; Gay- 
lord Green, '40; Gordon Green, '40; 
Edward Leland, '39; Swanna Lee 
Suits, '40; Pauline Hardy, f. s. '40; 
Keith Harrison, '40; Mr. and Mrs. 
Henney and their son, Edward. 
♦ 

MARRIAGES 

KENSLER— SHULL 

Geneva Kensler and Harold D. 
Shull, Ag. '39, both of Manhattan, 
were married December 8 at the 
Methodist Memorial temple in Man- 
hattan. They are at home at Wash- 



MARTIN— SNIDER 
Prof, and Mrs. Max Martin an- 
nounce the marriage of their daugh- 
ter, Maxine Jeanne, I. J. '40, to Dr. 
Charles H. Snider, D. V. M. '40. 

Since graduation Mrs. Snider, 
member of Alpha Xi Delta social 
sorority, has been employed in the 
advertising department of Fanchon 
and Marco. Fox Film corporation, in 
St. Louis, Mo., and plans to continue 
with this firm. 

Doctor Snider is a member of Phi 
Kappa Tau, of which he was presi- 
dent during his junior year. Since 
graduation, he has been employed as 
field representative for the Corn Belt 
Serum company, East St. Louis, 111. 

Doctor and Mrs. Snider are at home 
at the Biltmore hotel, North Grand 
boulevard, St. Louis, Mo. 



BIRTHS 



A photograph of Kingsley Given, 
former Kansas State College faculty 
member and now director of public 
relations at Park college, Parkville, 
Mo., was printed in last Friday's 
Kansas State Collegian less than 12 
hours after it was taken at the jour- 
nalism conference of Farm and Home 
week. The photograph was sent to 
Kansas City by telephoto by Richard 
Gould, manager of the Kansas City 
bureau of Acme News photos, and 
then the cut was sent back to Manhat- 
tan the same night for use in the Col- 
lege newspaper. 

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DEATHS 

DeARMON I > 
Robert W. DeArniond, f. s. '02, 
who had been working with the Sitka 
Cold Storage company at Sitka, Alas- 
ka, died June 23 at his home there. 
Surviving him is his wife, the former 
Elizabeth Davidson. 



Eleanor (Dempsey) Griffith, '25, 
and Tom J. Griffith, f. s., have a 
daughter, Martha, who was born De- 
cember 29 in Manhattan. Mr. Griffith 
is associated with the E. E. Griffith 
Coal and Lumber company in Man- 
hattan. They live at 622 Humboldt, 
Manhattan. 



Charles E. Funk, '32, and Winifred 
(Wolf) Funk, '35, are parents of a 
daughter, Barbara Ellen, born De- 
cember 28. Mrs. Funk is a daughter 
of Dr. and Mrs. O. O. Wolf of Ottawa. 
Mr. Funk is director of Wesley foun- 
dation, University of Oregon. Their 
home is at 1284 East Thirteenth av- 
enue, Eugene, Ore. 



To M. L. (Duke) Du Mars, I. J. '33, 
and Fern (Collins) Du Mars, f. s., a 
daughter, Beth, December 2 2. She 
is a sister to twin daughters, now 4 
years of age. Mr. Du Mars is with 
the press department of the Agricul- 
tural Adjustment administration at 
Washington, D. C. The family lives at 
7615 Eastern avenue, Takoma Park, 
Md. 



MOEHLMAN 
John Henry Jr., 2-month-old son 
of John H. Moehlman, E. E. '36, and 
Mabel (McGehee) Moehlman of 1506 
Poyntz, Manhattan, died December 
30. Other survivors besides the par- 
ents are three sisters and one brother. 
Mr. Moehlman is owner of the Avenue 
grocery in Manhattan. 

JUSTIN 

Jessie (Harrington) Justin, f. s. 
'08, was killed in an automobile ac- 
cident on New Year's day near Michi- 
gan City, Ind. She was enroute from 
La Fayette, Ind., to spend New Year's 
with her daughter in St. Joseph, Mich. 

Mrs. Justin, wife of Miner Justin, 
Ag. '07, M. S. '17, was a sister-in-law 
of Dr. Margaret M. Justin, '09, head 
of the Kansas State College Division 
of Home Economics. Besides the hus- 
band, three children, Frank, Doro- 
thea and Florence, survive. 

Mr. Justin is senior agricultural 
statistician of the Bureau of Agricul- 
tural Economics with the experiment 
station, Purdue university, La Fay- 
ette, Ind. 



CHRISTIAN WORLD FORUM 
WILL BEGIN ON FRIDAY 



Selected Outstanding Students 



DOUGLAS IIOH I ON Will, BE INITIAL 
SPEAKER AT ASSEMBLY 



Other* on Program for Meeting 'Will 

Include Frances P. Greenough, Dr. 

George Irving nnil the Rev. C. 

w. Kegley of Chlcngo 

The three-day session of the an- 
nual Christian World forum spon- 
sored by the YWCA and YMCA will 
begin with the College assembly Fri- 
day morning when Douglas Horton, 
initial forum speaker, will talk on 
"Ships." 

Three speakers besides Mr. Hor- 
ton, who is minister and general sec- 
retary of the Council of Congrega- 
tional and Christian Churches of the 
United States, will take part in the 
21st annual forum. Each will discuss 
problems of importance to the aver- 
age American college student as he 
sees it. 

MISS GREENOUGH TO TALK 

Frances P. Greenough, student 
secretary of the board of education 
at the Northern Baptist convention, 
is the second World forum speaker 
to appear on the campus program. 
She will speak at a student forum 
Friday noon. 

Dr. George Irving, director of the 
Department of Faith and Life of the 
Presbyterian Board of Christian Edu- 
cation, will talk Friday afternoon on 
"What the War Does to the Diction- 
ary." 

CLIMAX SUNDAY EVENING 

The fourth speaker, the Rev. C. W. 
Kegley, pastor for Lutheran students 
in Chicago, will first appear on the 
campus Friday evening. 

The program on Saturday and Sun- 
day will consist of dinners, panel dis- : 
cussions and mass meetings. Doctor 
Horton'8 talk on "The Fascinations: 
of Trifles" Sunday evening will cli- j 
max the Christian sessions. 
♦ 

EXTENSION PROGRAM AFFECTS 
MORE THAN MILLION ACRES 




These six Kansas State College students were chosen from the entire 
student body as the most outstanding at the annual Achievement banquet 
which terminated Farm and Home week on the campus here last week. Pic- 
tured above from left to right, top row, are George Cochran, Topeka, Divi- 
sion of Agriculture; Dorothy Green, Wichita, Division of Home Economics, 
and Raymond Adams, Manhattan, Division of General Science. In the lower 
row from left to right are Howard Zeidler, Girard, Division of Engineering 
and Architecture; Arlene Waterson, Dighton, Division of Graduate Study, 
and Bernard Busby, Wakefield, Division of Veterinary Medicine. 



Drainage, Terracing, Contour-Farming 

and Building Poola Are Included 

In Work of Blennlum 

The land reclamation and soil con- 
servation program conducted by the 
Division of College Extension in- 
cluded the draining of 57,557 acres, 
terracing of 103,960 acres, contour- 
farming of 1,043,110 acres and build- 
ing of 3,408 farm ponds during the 
biennium 1938-40, according to the 
biennial report of the College recent- 
ly released by Pres. F. D. Farrell. 

This means that one out of every 
45 acres of land in the state was di- 
rectly affected by the Extension ser- 
vice program. 

A staff of 336 persons is employed 
in the Extension service to carry to 
every Kansas community up-to-date 
information for use in the solution of 
problems of the farm and the rural 
home. The staff is supplemented by 
24,000 rural men and women who 
serve without pay as project leaders. 

Other projects of the Extension 
program for the biennium included 
demonstrations of the value of sum- 
mer fallow in western Kansas on 
3,458 farms, grasshopper poisoning 
on more than 3,000,000 acres each 
year, construction of 54 3 new poultry 
houses and remodeling of 1,387 old 
ones, construction of poultry self- 
feeders, silos, milk houses and re- 
modeling of farm dwellings and many 
other items, supervision for 1,074 
4-H clubs in 105 counties with a total 
membership in 1939 to 22,962, in- 
struction in foods and nutrition at 
5,300 community meetings and les- 
sons for correspondence study stu- 
dents. 

These are only a few of the services 
offered by the Extension service, 
President Farrell said. The work of 
the division also included bulletins, 
circulars and press notices containing 
practical information regarding spe- 
cific subjects. 

. — ♦ 

Track Meet at Lawrence 

Kansas State's indoor track team 
will travel to Lawrence today for its 
first dual meet against a Big Six con- 
ference foe, the University of Kan- 
sas. The Wildcats, who dropped a 68 
to 3 6 decision to Drake at Des Moines 
Saturday, were hard hit by gradua- 
tion losses a year ago and have only 
spotted strength. Kansas State ath- 
letes who placed first against Drake 
were Capt. Louis Akers, who ran the 
50-yard dash in 5.5 seconds; Ed Dar- 
den who won the 50-yard high hur- 
dles in 6.5 seconds and Ken Maka- 
lous, shotput winner. 



REGISTRATION FIGURE 

(Continued from page one) 
raid, Division of Engineering and 
Architecture; Bernard Busby, Wake- 
field, Division of Veterinary Medi- 
cine; George Cochran, Topeka, Divi- 
sion of Agriculture, and Arlene 
Waterson, Dighton, Division of 
Graduate Study. 

Two Kansas newspapers, the Phil- 
lips County Review and the Coffey- 
ville Journal, and six country cor- 
respondents were honored at the 
annual Achievement banquet. 

McDill Boyd of Phillipsburg, rep- 
resenting the Phillips County Review, 
and John Tasker, representing the 
Coffeyville Journal, were introduced 
to the 500 persons attending the ban- 
quet by R. I. Thackrey, head of the 
Department of Industrial Journalism 
and Printing. 

Each of the two newspapers was 
awarded a Kansas City Board of 
Trade scholarship of $100 for out- 
standing service to the rural commu- 
nity it serves. The scholarships were 
then given to students enrolled at 
Kansas State College to study journal- 
ism and agriculture. The Coffeyville 
scholarship was awarded to John 
Tasker and the Phillipsburg scholar- 
ship went to Virgil Whitsitt of Phil- 
lipsburg at the beginning of the 
present school year. 

Six community correspondents 
were honored as representatives of a 
large group of Kansas rural people 
who contribute substantially to the 
success and influence of the Kansas 
press. 

The country correspondents hon- 
ored were Leona Faidley Gimple of 
the Burr Oak Monitor; Mrs. R. W. 
Goodman of the Pratt Tribune and 
the St. John News; Elsie K. Schurr 
of Wamego, correspondent for the 
Manhattan Mercury-Chronicle; Mrs. 



George W. Bindley of Burdett, cor- 
respondent for the Larned Tiller and 
Toiler; Mrs. Claude Kelley (Sun- 
flower Sue) of Norcatur, correspon- 
dent for the Oberlin Herald, and 
Hester Potter, writer for the Robin- 
son Index and the Kansas City Star. 

Officers elected by Kansas breed 
associations in connection with the 
annual Farm and Home week in- 
cluded: 

Kansas Angus Breeders' associa- 
tion — Phil Ljungdahl, Cottonwood 
Falls, president; Ralph Munson, 
Junction City, secretary-treasurer. 

Kansas Milking Shorthorn society 
— James G. Thompson, Wakarusa, 
president; Wallace Mcllrath, King- 
man, vice-president; A. D. Weber, 
Manhattan, secretary-treasurer; Ar- 
thur Bloomer, Lancaster; Robert 
Teagarden, La Cygne; Walter Hunt, 
Arkansas City; Arthur Wait, Casso- 
day; Alfred Tasker, Delphos, and 
Wallace Mcllrath, Kingman, board of 
directors. 

Kansas Ayrshire club — Marion 
Velthoen, Manhattan, president; 
Harry Bauer, Broughton, vice-presi- 
dent; Floyd Jackson, Hutchinson, 
secretary-treasurer. 

Kansas Brown Swiss Breeders' as- 
sociation — Marion Beal, Danville, 
president; Paul Orton, Sedan, vice- 
president; W. E. Gregory, Anthony, 
secretary-treasurer. 

Kansas Guernsey Breeders' asso- 
ciation, W. G. Ransom Jr., Home- 
wood, president; George Scheutz, 
Hiawatha, vice-president; Ballard 
Bennett, Manhattan, secretary-trea- 
surer. 

The Kansas Horse Breeders' asso- 
ciation elected Dr. T. G. Hagenbuch, 
Lawrence, president; H. C. Eshel- 
m :t ii . Sedgwick, vice-president; R. B. 
Cathcart, Manhattan, secretary-trea- 
surer; 



EVERYDAY ECONOMICS 

By W. E. GRIMES 



Swimmers in Dual Meets 

Kansas State's undefeated swim- 
ming team will battle the University 
of Oklahoma and Iowa State college, 
defending Big Six conference cham- 
pion, in dual meets Thursday and 
Friday nights. A 1941 title threat, 
Kansas State is led by Marshall 
Stover who still has an undefeated 
collegiate record in both the 220- 
and 440-yard dashes. He holds nine 
wins in the 4 40-yard dash and 11 in 
the 220 since he began competition 
last year. Undefeated this season is 
Leo Yeo, 100-yard free style artist. 



TWO TOP WRESTLING TEAMS 
TO COME HERE THIS WEEK 



"Any advance in the general price level technically is inflation." 



Inflation is a relative thing. Rising 
prices are evidence of inflation. Any 
advance in the general price level 
technically is inflation. When prices 
rise, money is falling in purchasing 
power. Its ability to command other 
things becomes less. Some inflation 
has occurred. The question is: How 
much more? 

In modern economy most inflation 
is the result of credit expansion. 
Credit may be expanded because 
private business is becoming more 
active or because the government is 
increasing its activities, or both. Both 
are occurring at present. The banks 
have huge excess reserves of idle 
funds available to lend. 

The stage is all set for inflation 
and the checks upon it are those pos- 



sessed by various branches of the fed- 
eral government. These powers are 
divided at present between the Presi- 
dent and the Board of Governors of 
the Federal Reserve system. The 
Board of Governors, in its recent 
special report to Congress, asked for 
increased powers to control inflation- 
ary tendencies. If their request is 
granted, they will be given some new 
powers not previously possessed by 
any governmental agency and some 
of the present powers of the Presi- 
dent will be taken away. The ability 
of the Board of Governors of the Fed- 
eral Reserve system to do the things 
which it has proposed will deter- 
mine in large measure the extent of 
any inflation within the immediate 
future. 



Oklahoma A. and M. and Michigan State 

Will Perform Against Wildcats 

In Nichols Gym 

Two of the nation's top collegiate 
wrestling teams, Oklahoma A. and 
M. college and Michigan State col- 
lege, will perform here this week in 
dual meets against Kansas State Col- 
lege, defending Big Six conference 
champion. 

The Oklahoma Aggies, national 
collegiate champions, appear here to- 
night, and Michigan State invades 
Nichols Gymnasium Saturday. 

Seventeen national team champion- 
ships and 19 undefeated seasons in 
23 years are evidence of the high type 
of mat clubs turned out at A. and M. 
The Aggies opened their season Sat- 
urday with an 18 to 6 win over Min- 
nesota, a team that whipped Kansas 
State 19 to 8. Undefeated Michigan 
State holds victories over Wheaton 
college, Ohio State, Michigan, Case 
and Wisconsin. 

Leland Porter of Kansas State will 
be seeking his 11th victory in as 
many starts here Wednesday night. 
He will compete in either the 155- 
or 16 5-pound class. 

Kansas State's probable lineup in- 
cludes Clifford Case, 121 pounds; Bob 
Dunlap, 128; Jim Vavroch, 136; 
Jerry Porter, 145; Capt. Glenn Dun- 
can, 155; Leland Porter, 165; War- 
ren Boring, 175, and John Hancock, 
heavyweight. 



CAGERS DROP TO FIFTH 
WITH IOWA STATE LOSS 



HALF-TIME LEAD IS OVEHCOME BY 
FIGHTING CYCLONES 



GRAFF BALLET WILL DANCE 
IN AUDITORIUM ON FRIDAY 



Company Is Third Presentation on 

Series Sponsored by Student 

Governing Association 

The Graff ballet, featuring Grace 
and Kurt Graff with their company 
of nine men and women dancers, will 
appear Friday in the College Audi- 
torium as the third presentation of 
the Student Governing association's 
"celebrity series." 

The Graffs will present the best of 
the American and European trends 
in the modern dance, for College stu- 
dents and Manhattan townspeople 
Friday afternoon and evening. The 
group has danced in Europe for the 
rulers of Sweden, Italy and Siam, ap- 
peared before the Duke of Windsor 
and has toured the United States ex- 
tensively. 

Through the efforts of Grace and 
Kurt Graff, the choreography and 
composition of their dance is purely 
American. By blending the beautiful 
and real qualities of the traditional 
ballet with the power, zest and reality 
of the modern dance, they have 
achieved a quality that appeals to the 
average observer. 

♦ 

SIX CHEMICAL ENGINEERS 

ALREADY HAVE POSITIONS 



Prof. W. L. Faith Says Men Accepted 
Jobs After Grnduntion 

Six seniors in the Department of 
Chemical Engineering at the College 
already have accepted positions after 
graduation, according to Prof. W. L. 
Faith, head of the department. 

The men and their positions in- 
clude John J. Dooley, Parsons, with 
the Hercules Powder company, Wil- 
mington, Del., beginning June 1; 
Harold R. Harris, Geuda Springs, 
with the Phillips Petroleum corpora- 
tion, Bartlesville, Okla., beginning 
June 1; John Romig, Bethany, with 
the Missouri Portland Cement com- 
pany, St. Louis, Mo., beginning Au- 
gust 1 ; P. J. Ruckel, Arkansas City, 
with the Kanotex Refining company, 
Arkansas City; Morton Smutz, Man- 
hattan, with the Monsanto Chemical 
company, St. Louis, Mo., who already 
has reported for work. 

W. T. Keogh, New York City, also 
has been employed by the Monsanto 
Chemical company, St. Louis, Mo., 
but will begin work after his year's 
active duty with the United States 
army at Ft. Hancock, N. J. 



Final Score Is 50 to 41, with Jack Hora- 

cek Making 11 Points for Home 

Tenm; Kansas State Will Play 

Missouri Monday 

The Kansas State College Wildcats 
dropped into fifth place in the Big 
Six conference basketball standings 
Monday night, when the Iowa State 
Cyclones staged a last-half rally to 
win, 50 to 41. 

Leading 32 to 25 at half time, the 
Wildcats eased off early in the sec- 
ond period and Iowa State took ad- 
vantage of the opportunity to run the 
score up to 49 to 38. Then the Kan- 
sas State team stiffened its resistance 
and held the opponents to one point 
for the rest of the game. 

CYCLONES START EARLY 

The Cyclones started the scoring 
contest early in the game when Al- 
bert Budolfson, forward and high- 
point man for the game, took the tip- 
off and immediately scored. Gordon 
Nichols netted two more points on free 
throws before Chris Langvardt, Alta 
Vista, and Larry Beaumont, El Do- 
rado, found the hoop to tie the score 
at four points for each team. With 
10 minutes to play in the first half, 
the score was tied up with 15 points 
for each team. 

Jack Horacek, Topeka, did most of 
the scoring for the home team, mak- 
ing a total of 11 points during the 
game. Dan Howe, Stockdale, was sec- 
ond with nine points. Budolfson of 
Iowa State made 13 points for the 
visitors. 

On Thursday evening, the Wild- 
cats won over the last-place Missouri 
Tigers, 34 to 24, in a sluggish con- 
test. During the first period, the 
Tigers overcame a four-point Kansas 
State lead to tie the score at 13 points 
for each team. This tie was broken 
by Langvardt's goal late in the half. 
BIG SECOND-HALF LEAD 

In the second half, the Wildcats 
stretched the score to 32 to 21 in 
their favor, with five minutes left 
to play. At this point Coach Jack 
Gardner began to substitute, and 
soon he had the entire second string 
in the game. The final score was 34 
to 24. 

Next Monday night, the Kansas 
State squad will go to Columbia, Mo., 
for a return tilt with the Tigers. The 
Missourians, without a victory in the 
conference this season, will have the 
advantage of being on their home 
court, and will seek revenge for their 
loss last week in Manhattan. 



FARM, HOME WEEK RESOLUTION 

(Continued from page one) 
ready have gone on record in favor 
of better housing at Kansas State in- 
clude the Kansas Farm bureau wo- 
men, the American Association of 
University Women, the Kansas Coun- 
cil of Women and the Kansas Feder- 
ation of Women's Clubs. 

"Kansas State is far behind most 
other institutions of its type in pro- 
viding residence halls. Iowa State 
college has all its undergraduate 
women in residence halls. Oklahoma 
A. and M. provides residence halls 
for half its women students. Kansas 
State has a residence hall which ac- 
commodates only 10 percent of the 
number of women students," Miss 
Moore declared. 

The legislation being recommended 
to the State Legislature by the 100,- 
000 Kansas women is Senate Bill No. 
25 which would make possible the 
construction of residence halls in any 
of the state institutions. 

Mrs. Paul Edgar of Topeka, presi- 
dent of the Kansas Home Demonstra- 
tion Advisory committee, pointed out 
that rentals from the proposed dormi- 
tories, plus the revenue from the 
existing Van Zile hall, would pay off 
indebtedness for the new structures. 
Van Zile hall, constructed about 15 
years ago, is unencumbered. Nine 
other states are using a similar plan. 

Mrs. Edgar, who attended Farm 
and Home week last week, said that 
staying in Manhattan a few days had 
given many women of the state an op- 
portunity to fully realize the need for 
more suitable living quarters for stu- 
dents. 

In a letter addressed to a member 
of the Kansas Senate, Mrs. Edgar 
wrote: "The women attending this 
week are a representation of our 
23,000 women all over the state. We 
endorsed this bill as a body and 
solicit your support." 



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The Kansas Industrialist 



Volume 67 



Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, Manhattan, Wednesday, February 19, 1941 



Number 19 



CHRISTIAN WORLD FORUM 
ATTRACTS RECORD CROWD 



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SAYS SPEAKERS 
RECEIVED 



\ ii ii ii Ji I Session* Sponsored by Minis- 
terial Union of Manhattan and Col- 
lege Christian Assoeintions 

for Students 

The three-day session of the Chris- 
tian World forum ended Sunday eve- 
ning with a larger attendance than 
in past years, according to Dr. A. A. 
Holtz, YMCA secretary. Judging 
from comments he heard, the speak- 
ers were better received than in past 
years too, Doctor Holtz added. 

The forum, sponsored each year 
by the Ministerial union of Manhat- 
tan and the Christian associations of 
the College, began its series of dis 
cussions on 

youth work and Christianity by four 
widely known speakers Friday morn- 
ing at a student assembly. 

CITIOS ANNAPOLIS EXAMS 

Dr. Douglas Morton, general sec- 
retary of the Congregational Chris- 
tian Church Council of America, 
talked on "Ships" in a College as- 
sembly. Using an examination an- 
swer of an Annapolis Naval academy 
student. Doctoi 



Second Royal Purple Copy 

The second shipment of 30 pages 
of copy written for the 1941 Royal 
Purple was taken to Topeka Monday 
by Don Makins, Abilene, editor of 
the yearbook, and C. J. Medlin, 
graduate manager of student publi- 
cations and instructor in journalism. 
♦ 

BRIG.- GEN. GLEN EDGERTON, 

'04, VISITS HIS PARENTS 

Governor of Panama Canal Zona Cornea 

to Manhattan Before fining 

to Waahlnarten 

Brig.-Gen. Glen E. Edgerton, who 
was graduated in mechanical engi- 
neering in 1904 from Kansas State 
College and has risen in the army 
until he is now governor of the Pana- 
ma Canal Zone, said last week-end 



ENGINEERING OPEN HOUSE 
WILL FEATURE DEFENSE 

DISPLAY! TO SHOW DIVISION'S 
PREPAREDNESS ACTIVITIES 



I on a visit here that everything is be- 
the various phases of j ng d one to keep the canal well pro- 
tected. 

General Edgerton visited his par- 
ents in Manhattan before going to 
Washington to testify before Senate chairman 



KYlilliitM Planned to Include Antl-air< 
craft ciiiiiM. Cnderaronnd Shelters 

mill Homli-proof HiiildiiiK 
Bqnipment 

National defense will be the cen- 
tral theme of the annual Engineers' 
Open House March 14 and 15. 

Each of the departments in the 
Division of Engineering and Archi- 
tecture will show how its work ties 
in with the National defense pro- 
gram, and special displays will dis- 
close the training being given by the 
College under the $9,000,000 engi- 
neering defense training program 
which is directed by Dean R. A. 
Beaton, who is on leave in Washing- 
ton. 

BERT BELLS IS CHAIRMAN 

Bert Sells, Wichita, Open House 
said that the theme was 



Tiny Y Appears 

The Tiny Y, publication of the 
College YMCA and YWCA, appeared 
on the College campus last week. In- 
cluded in the publication are an- 
nouncements of lectures in student 
forums, meetings of the commission 
groups of the YWCA, a description of 
the Student Christian federation, a 
world-wide organization. 
-♦• 

HOSPITALITY DAYS CHAIRMEN 
SELECTED FOR ANNUAL EVENT 



FARM CROP VARIETIES 

APPROVED FOR RELEASE 

CORN. FLAX A1VIJ SORGHUM ARE 
RECOMMENDED AT SESSIONS 



\\ asm ii v.i on i" icoiiij i.cluic v,-..^~ - -— . 

and House appropriation committees I selected because the engineers be 



this week regarding the Panama 
Canal and its defense budget. His 
parents are Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Edger- 
ton. 

He said that considerable con- 

I011S INaVill ttUBUQIUJ . , 

Horton named the struction work was going on at the 



. | Canal Zone and that 
three ships, Leadership, Ma.ksman ^ ^ 

ship and Seamanship. ,' and defenses 

According to our Annapolis friend The genel . 
marksman 



the United 
its garrison 



rtng, member of thePres- ARMYS RESERVE OFFICERS 
, )iinl „, christian Educa- ^^ ^ ^ EMERGENCy 



leadership depends on 
ship, which in turn depends on good 
observation. We must know where 
we are going and move on with wide 
vision," the initial forum speaker 
told his audience. 

Appearing in other open forums 
and mass meetings were Miss Frances 
Greenough, student secretary of the 
Board of Education of the Northern 
Baptist convention; C. W. Kegley, 
adviser ol i ii<> ai.i i opoii. ..ii i.utneran 
Student council of Chicago, and Dl 
George living, member of the Pres 
byterian 

tion. 

DISCUSSES WORLD CRISIS 

In the Friday evening meeting Mr. 
Kegley spoke on "The World Chal- 
lenge." Christianity itself lias not 
really failed, he said, although many 
Christian individuals have failed. 

Commenting on the present world 
crisis, Mr. Kegley said, "If we are 
going to lace the present crisis, we 
need some clear thinking and good 
moral resolve. Our faith must lie- 
come so greal that it will give us new 
faith. We must accomplish this to 
actually consider the present crisis 
and actually attack I he present situa- 
tion ourselves." 



The general said that his wife is 
visiting in Guatemala while he is on 
his trip to the United States. 

General Edgerton was appointed 
by Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt last 
year to he governor of the Panama 
Canal Zone after serving as engineer 
of maintenance of the Canal Zone for 
four years. His appointment was for 
a four-year term. 

The Edgertons have two children, 
Bruce, a student at West Point, and 
Diana, a student at Vassar college. 



Dorothy llccsslcy Is General Chairman 

for Traditional Affair Here 

April IS ami 10 

Dorothy Beezley, Girard, general 
chairman of Hospitality days, the 
open house of the Division of Home 
Economics which will be held April 
18 and 19, today announced other 
members of the steering committee 
for the traditional event. 

The Hospitality days this spring 
will be the 11th annual time that the 
affair has been held. 

Members of the steering commit- 
learn what Kansas State College was tee and their committee positions in- 
doing to aid the nation's prepared- elude: 

ness program. I Marcile Norby, Cullison sub-chair- 

The Department of Military Sci- man; Martha Payne. Manhattan, 
en all d Tactics is preparing a dem- Midget chairman; Jeanne Stephen- 
onstra tion of a four-wheel-drive son, Larned. contest chairman; Jane 
snider and anti-aircraft guns, i Dunham, Topeka, decorations chair- 



lieved visitors would be interested to 



Ft. 

in 



Ililej 



The midget automobile, approxi- 
mately the size of an Austin, is the 
latest development in military equip- 
ment, according to Robert Washburn, 
Manhattan, Open House publicity 
chairman. 

The Department of Chemical En- 
gineering will show how its work fits 
into the general preparedness pro- 
gram. The architects will display 
models of bomb-proof buildings, army 
construction and underground shel- 
ters. 

WILL SHOW GENERATORS 

A miniature battleship and search- 
lights will lie included in the exhibit 
of the Department of Electrical Engi- 
neering. Two generators of the type 
used to operate large guns and 
searchlights will be shown to the visi- 
I tors to Open House. 

Pictures showing how a draftee 
lives and specimen equipment from 

Other dis- 



man; Helen Woodard, Topeka, gen- 
eral program chairman; Martha 
Wreath, Manhattan, publicity chair- 
man; Dorothy O'Loughlin, Lakin, 
radio chairman; Virginia Siebert, 
Pretty Prairie, registration chair- 
man; Constance Thurston, Elmdale, 
lea chairman; Jane Haymaker, Man- 
hattan, hop chairman; Mary Evelyn 
Nielson, Atchison, tours and guides 
chairman, and Martha Pattison, Man- 
hattan, hostess chairman. 

Ad"i?«ra f or Hor.pimiity days are 



Biennial Branch station Conference 

Here l.nst Week-Enil Waken SiiKK'es- 

tlon on IHstrllmtlon for 

Commercial I'se 

Kansas farmers soon will have 
available new and improved varieties 
of three farm crops, after their ap- 
proval by the staff members of the 
Kansas Agricultural Experiment sta- 
tion and the four branch stations at 
the 12th Biennial Branch Station 
conference here last Friday and Sat- 
urday. Several new varieties of farm 
crops were approved for distribution 
for commercial production. 

The new varieties of crops, includ- 
ing corn, flax and sorghum, were 
recommended after they had been 
tested in different locations in Kan- 
sas and under different soil and cli- 
matic conditions for several years. 
Members of the experiment station 
staff feel that these new varieties are 
superior in many respects to varieties 
now being grown commercially. 
STRESS ON WIIKAT, SORGHUMS 
Sorghum, a crop which last year 
replaced corn as the principal feed 
crop grown in the state, is receiving 
considerable attention from the sta- 
tion agronomists and plant breeders, 
and a new hybrid variety, as yet un- 
named, was released for commercial 
production. The hybrid, a cross be- 
tween Atlas sorgo and Early Sumac, 
possesses many of the desirable char- 
acteristics of both its parent varie- 
ties. It was originally bred by Dr. 
John H. Parker, now director of the 
Kansas Wheat Improvement associa- 
tion. 

The new hybrid matures in about 



1-0-5 day.; and rw. 



Bf 



Miss Margaret Rafflngton, assistant \ from 5 \.% t o 7 feet. The head 



Lleut.-Col. it. I*. Gerfen of 

Tells of Their Holes 
Present Crisis 

The United States army is depend- 
ing upon reserve! officers in this 

emergency as it never has in the past, Ft. Riley will be shown 

Lieut -Col H P Gerfen, instructor plays will include the type ot work < station K8AC 
hi the department of weapons at the being done in the short-term courses 
cavalry school of Ft. Riley, told ap- being given in engineering at the 
proximately 75 reserve officers and College. 
guests Monday night at a National * 

Defense day dinner. M<wed to Hawaii 

Lieutenant-Colonel Gerfen pointed Vernon Holman, electrical engi- 
neering senior who was called to ac 



to the dean of the Division of Honu 
Economics; Miss Esther Cormany, as- 
sistant professor of clothing; Miss 
Dorothy Barfoot, head of the Depart- 
ment of Art, and Jessie Collins. 
Dwlght, senior in home economics. 



COLLEGE WILL ORIGINATE 

NATIONAL RADIO PROGRAM 



..1 



out that reserve officers were being 



called into the highest ranks in the tive duty with other members ot the 

. _i T^"„„„„r. Cltnla Cdl. 



army during the current emergency 
even being attached to the general 



Saturday's program included in 
terviews. dinners, mass meetings and 8 taff. 

an evening panel discussion. The Senior cadets in the College Re- 
serve Officers' Training corps were 



:; ■< 



four speakers informally discussed 
and tried to answer questions asked 
by Kansas Stale College students. 
TALK IN CHURCHES 
The Sunday morning worship pe- 
riod was given over to Mr. Kegley in 
(he Lutheran church. At that lime he 
talked on "Christians in a Discour- 
aged World." Doctor Irving talked 
at the Presbyterian church on "What 
God Says to Our Day." "God, a Real- 
ity," was discussed by Miss Green- 
ough al the Baptist church. Doctor 
Horton talked on "The Christian 
Challenge" in the Congregational 
church. 

The evening mass meetings cli- 
maxed the World forum program. 
Doctor Holtz slated thai there was_a 
larger attendance at the two last 
meetings than in former years. Mr. 
Kegley spoke in one of the meetings 
in the Methodist church on "Can We 
Be Patriotic and Christian?" Doctor 
Horton analyzed the world situation 
in the other meeting at. the Baptist 
church. The title of his speech was 
"The Fascination of Trifles." 
♦ 
interviews Seniors 

Dr. H. W. Rinehart of the person- 
nel department of E. I. du Pont de 
Nemours and company, Inc., Wil- 
mington, Del., visited the Department 
of Chemical Engineering at the Col- 
lege recently to interview seniors. 



among the guests at the dinner in 
Thompson hall. 

Others at tin? dinner included 
Mayor .1. David Arnold, Gen. R. C. 
Rodgers. commanding general at Ft. 
Riley; Col. D. R. Rodney, assistant 
commandant of the cavalry school; 
Maj. Howard Faulkner, executive of- 
ficer of the Kansas City, Kan., reserve 
area; Capt. W. C. Meseke, unit in- 
structor of the coast artillery regi- 
ments at Topeka. and officers sta- 
tioned al the College. 

Capt. T. R. Varney. president of 
the Manhattan Reserve Officers' as- 
sociation, was the presiding officer. 

♦ 
GRAFF BALLET COMPANY HERE 

FOR CELEBRITY SERIES SHOW 



naval reserve at Kansas State Col 
lege, wrote from his training station 
in San Diego that he was to leave for 
Honolulu last week. There he will 
be assigned to duty as a radio opera- 
tor on a destroyer. Louis Raburn, 
Manhattan senior in electrical engi- 
neering, also was called to active 
duty during the Christmas holidays. 
••■ 
I'lay Goes Into Rehearsal 
Rehearsals for the next Manhat- 
tan Theatre play, "Death Takes a 
Holiday," began last night under l Ik 



s to He the Sonree 
National Pawn and Home Hour 

For the second time in four years, 
Kansas State College will be the 
source of a national Farm and Home 
hour broadcast over the approxi- 
mately 5 5 radio stations on the Na- 
tional Broadcasting company net- 
work March 19. 

The program, which will originate 
in the studios of KSAC, College sta- 
tion, will be written and directed by 
H. Miles Heberer, associate professor 
in the Department of Public Speak- 
ing. 

The name of the 1941 show will be 
"Green Gold." The show will be 
built around the soil, livestock and 
human resources of Kansas. The 
broadcast will be from 11:30 a. m. 
to 12:15 p. m. 

Four years ago Kansas State Col- 
lege originated "The Fifth Slice," a 



Urection of Sherwood Keith of the story of Kansas wheal which was an 
Department of Public Speaking. The outstanding success as a national 
play will he given March 21 and 22. Farm and Home hour broadcast. 



FIVE SIGMA NU FRATERNITY PLEDGES SHOW 

THAT COLLEGE SORORITY CAN BE PICKETED 

Can a fraternity picket a sorority? them when they broke the rule 



Baneera visii Camnna Friday to Per- 
form In Afternoon anil lOvoniiiK 

Qrace and Kurt Graff brought 
their company of nine men and wo- 
men dancers and two pianists to the 
Kansas State College campus last 
Friday for two performances. 

The ballet was the third presenta- 
tion of the Student Governing asso- 
ciation "celebrity series." 

Kurt and Grace Graff appeared in 
several numbers as a team and played 
the leading roles in several of the 
others. Among the dances were the 
fantasy, "Ode to the Living," and an 
early 20th century tin-pan alley scene 
called "Vintage — 1912." 



ex- 
plained a Pi Phi active, "but it didn't 
seem to bother them." 

Such signs as "Unfair to Saturday 
night dates," "We demand 72-hour 
notice on date breaking," "Local 
union number 359:5 (Pi Phi phone 
number) unfair" were carried or 
worn by the pickets. 

Pi Phi actives stood firm by their 
decision, while Pi Phi pledges took 
the whole thing calmly. During the 
time pledges were pleading with ac- 
tives, a crowd gathered to witness 

thus received "campuses" which | the demonstration. 

forced them to break dates for the "R was all a misunderstanding," 



It can and did when live Sigma Nu 
pledges here protested last Friday 
night against Pi Beta Phi actives 
forcing their pledges to break dates 
with them the next evening. 

The Sigma Nu pledges demon- 
strated, complete with signs, banners 
and flashlights, in front of the soror- 
ity house from 8 p. m. until 9:30 p. 
m. But it was to no avail. Sorority 
pledges had violated a rule of Pi 
Phi's traditional "fun week," and 



Sigma Nu paddle party on Saturday 
night. 

"They knew what would happen to 



PI Phi actives said, but misunder- 
standing or not it attracted much at- 
tention. 



sembles the Atlas head in s!::;pe but 
it is somewhat smaller. The seed is 
white and smaller than Atlas. In 
grain yield, the hybrid has averaged 
about one-third higher yield than 
Early Sumac, but does not exceed in 
yield other sorghums grown in north- 
western Kansas. Both parent varie- 
ties of the hybrid are forage type 
sorghums. 

Also approved for distribution was 
a strain of Wheatland milo that is 
resistant to pythium root rot, a soil- 
borne disease that attacks the roots 
of many sorghum varieties. The new 
strain is a combine type of grain 
sorghum well adapted to the Arkan- 
sas river valley and under irrigation 
has yielded about 80 bushels an acre. 
The strain does not sucker, and 
shows some advantages for use in 
dry-land farming. It may be planted 
as late as June 25 and, with normal 
weather conditions, mature. 

APPROVE TWO CORN HYBRIDS 
Bison flax was accepted as a varie- 
ty resistant to flax wilt. This variety 
produces a higher oil yield, but the 
oil is of a lower quality. The yield 
of Bison is approximately the same 
per acre as for Linota flax. 

U. S. 35 and V. S. 13, two of the 
better adapted corn hybrids, were 
approved for certification by the Kan- 
sas Crop Improvement association 
last month, according to R. W. Jugen- 
heimer, corn-breeding specialist, with 
the United Kiates Department of Ag- 
riculture. A third hybrid, Missouri 
47, now is being considered for cer- 
tification. All three hybrids have 
ranked high in the corn performance 
tests in the past three years. 

Classification of Kawvale wheat, 
a semihard variety, as a soft wheal 
under the federal grain-grading clas- 
sifications, is causing considerable 
confusion in the milling industry, 
Doctor Bayfield reported. 

FURTHER TESTS FOR NEBRED 
"Kawvale does not have the mill- 
ing and baking characteristics of a 
soft wheat," he explained, "and it 
should not be so classified." There 
is not a "semihard" classification in 
the federal grain standards and, as 
a result, Kawvale is not regarded 
very highly by either soft- or hard- 
wheat millers. The variety is in good 
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tributed to the founding of the land- 
grant colleges were mixed. Mr. Hous- 
ton and doubtless others wanted 
more efficient land utilization. Justin 
Morrill and his associates, in and out 
of Congress, wanted "liberal and 
practical education for the industrial 
classes." Others doubtless had other 
motives. They all had one thing in 
common: a desire to break away from 
the only type of higher education 
then available and to establish col- 
leges that would be more definitely 
concerned with the lives and fortunes 
of the common people. In this they 
were eminently successful. Individu- 
ally and collectively they knew a 
great deal, but they builded even bet- 
ter than they knew. 



SCIENCE TODAY 



MUSIC 




WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 19, 1941 



COLLEGE FOUNDERS 

Seventy-eight years after the of- 
ficial founding of Kansas State Col- 
lege, it is difficult to designate a 
specific group of persons as the found- 
ers. February 16, 18 63, is the date 
of the enactment of the state statute 
establishing the College and fixing 
its location at Manhattan. But there 
were many antecedent events that 
contributed to the founding and many 
persons were among the founders. 

Included are the members of the 
Federal Congress who voted for the 
Morrill act; Pies. Abraham Lincoln 
who approved that act on July 2, 
1862; the founders of Bluemont Cen- 
tral College, who are discussed in 
Doctor Willard's history of the Col- 
lege; the state legislators who voted 
for the Act of February 16. 1863. and 
the governor who approved It. 

Even before the enactment of the 
two statutes referred to. contribu- 
tions were made, consciously or un- 
consciously, by several persons. One 
of these is S. D. Houston, a delegate 
from Riley county to the Kansas Con- 
stitutional convention in 18 59. On 
July 14 of that year the convention 
considered Article 6, relating to edu- 
cation. Section 7 of Article 6 began, 
"Provision shall be made by law for 
the establishment .... of a state 
university for the promotion of lit- 
erature, and the arts and sciences, in- 
cluding a normal and an agricultural 
department " J. P. Greer, dele- 
gate from Shawnee county and an 
Ohio-born lawyer, moved that section 
7 be stricken out. Mr. Greer believed 
that "institutions of learning ought 
to be left to individual or private en- 
terprise" and that "as a general thing 
state universities result in no par- 
ticular good." Mis motion was re- 
jected. 

J. W. Forinau. delegate from Doni- 
phan county and a Kentucky-born 
merchant, then moved that the word 
"shall" be stricken out and the word 
"may" be inserted, so that the Legis- 
lature would he authorized to deter- 
mine whether or not there should be 
a state university. In the discussion 
of this motion, Mr. Houston, a farm- 
er from Manhattan, expressed some 
distrust of stale universities "as they 
have generally been conducted." but 
he urged the establishment of a col- 
lege of agriculture so that the state's 
vast domain of land might be more 
effectively utilized. Mr. Forman's 
motion was lost by a vote of 16 to 
17. Thus, by a margin of one vote 
the constitution required the Legis- 
lature to establish a state university 
"with a normal and an agricultural 
department." Subsequently, the Leg- 
islature established the University at 
Lawrence, the College of Agriculture 
at Manhattan and the normal school 
at Emporia. 

Mr. Houston foresaw, with aston- 
ishing clarity, all things considered, 
the future significance of the College 
in the use of the natural resources of 
the state. Probably without knowing 
it. he supported the small but far- 
sighted group of farmers and others 
throughout the United States whose 
efforts culminated four years later in 
the passage and approval of the Mor- 
rill act of July 2, 1862, the now 
famous Land-Oranl College act. This 
acl is the charter of Kansas State 
College and of all the other land- 
giant colleges. 

The motives of the men who con- 



Rlt'hnrd .Ie««oir»< Reeltnl 

On Sunday afternoon. Richard 
Jesson gave in the Auditorium what 
ought to be the first of a series of 
organ recitals. The program was 
complete and satisfying in itself; but 
in addition it hinted how many more 
programs of equal beauty might be 
arranged. It also suggested, unfor- 
tunately, how seldom such programs 
are arranged. 

For all that it is one of the oldest 
of our instruments, the organ is very 
little understood, because it is very 
seldom played as an organ. That is, 
it is seldom used as the instrument 
on which a recital of organ music is 
played. This sounds fanciful; yet any 
one who will check the number of 
transcriptions of orchestral composi- 
tions that appear on organists' pro- 
grams, and the number of baritone 
solos, and so on, will realize that the 
organ is very often used merely as 
a sort of one-man band. Because the 
organ permits a variety of effects 
beyond other instruments, it is often 
used simply to show those effects. 

That would be all very well if 
there were no great amount of music 
written for the organ; but there is 
a vast literature of organ music, from 
the pens of innumerable composers 
throughout many centuries. Mr. Jes- 
son gave a hint of what was written 
during the 18th and the 20th cen- 
turies, largely by composers of com- 
paratively little fame. And in such 
works, better than in any transcrip- 
tions, one can hear what the organ 
is and can do. 

Again, people are apt to misunder- 
stand the organ as a musical instru- ! 
ment because they usually hear it in 
church, accompanying religious ser- 
vices. It is the great ecclesiastical 
instrument; but it is also a secular, 
instrument, for which some of the 
most delightful music of no religious 
import has been written. We may 
hope that Mr. .lesson, who included 
a number of religious compositions 
in Sunday's program, will soon give 
a recital of only profane music, writ- , 
ten in part by composers who are | 
usually associated with church mu- [ 
sic: Bach, for instance. How much 
such compositions are appreciated, 
the applause will testify that greeted 
d'Andrieu's "The Fifers." 

The first part of Mr. .lesson's pro- 
gram was from the 18th century. 
The well-known names of J. S. Bach 
and Buxtehude were present, as well 
as the less-known of Hanff, d'Andrieu 
and Walther. The Variations of Wal- 
ther. as Mr. Jesson played them, 
showed the great possibilities of the 
organ as a means of musical expres- 
sion, as did the startlingly "modern" 
Variations by Peeters in the second. 
20th century, half of the program. 

There again Mr. .lesson put his 
listeners in his debt, in showing how 
beautifully very modern music may 
be written for the organ — and how 
beautifully it may be played. For 
Mr. Jesson did as full justice to his 
contemporaries as to the old masters; 
and that was really full justice. The 
Whitlock "Folk Tune" was hardly 
more than pretty; and the "Prelude- \ 
Pastorale" by Ednnindson simply | 
went to show, as does the famous ar- I 
rangement for choir by Melius Chris-! 
Hansen, that the old Crusaders' Hymn 
can't be improved on. But the Wil- 
liams "Prelude," the Peeters Varia- 
tions and the equally "modern" 
"La Nativite," by Langlais, are as 
Stirring as anything of our time. The 
concluding "Cortege et Litanie," by 
Dupre, full and sonorous though it 
was, sounded a bit as though an or- 
ganist had composed it to show the 
effects he could manage on his in- 
strument. 

To old and modern compositions 
alike Mr. Jesson brought a technical 
skill and a musical sensibility that 
his audiences have learned to expect. 
A purist might have found too much 
volume in some of the early compo- 



By HERMAN FARLEY 

Associate Professor, Department of 
Pathology 

During the past few years consid- 
erable interest has been shown in a 
diseased condition which affects the 
eyes of cattle. This disease is recog- 
nized as pinkeye or keratitis and it 
is a localized infection which has a 
predilection for eye tissue. 

Pinkeye or keratitis is not a new 
disease of cattle. In fact, one investi- 
gator spoke of the economic impor- 
tance of this disease more than 50 
years ago and tried in vain to deter- 
mine its cause. 

Beef products continue to be one 
of our basic food supplies and any- 
thing in the way of disease may prove 
an economic factor. This is the case 
in regard to keratitis, though only a 
small percentage of cattle are known 
to die from the disease. 

It is not known how keratitis was 
introduced into this country, but it 
has been recognized in practically 
every part of the United States. The 
disease is prevalent among cattle of 
feeder and dairy class in the Middle 
West. 

The fact that this disease has been 
i recognized as one of the more im- 
, portant cattle diseases from an eco- 
nomic standpoint has led the Depart- 
I ment of Veterinary Pathology to 
| investigate this important infectious 
j disease. Since practically no research 
! had been done, it has been necessary 
to start at the beginning and work 
out the simplest details as regards 
this disease. Age, breed, methods of 
j exposure by means of flies, wind, 
' dust, sunshine, direct contact and 
incubation period of infection are be- 
ing studied. 

It has been noted recently that 
sheep in Kansas are affected with a 
similar disease. This makes it neces- 
sary to study the disease in both 
breeds of animals. Bacteriological 
studies are being pursued in addition 
to virus studies of the disease as it 
appears in both cattle and sheep. 

Keratitis has been known to ap- 
pear from year to year in the same 
herd of cattle and the causative fac- 
tor has been undetermined. Vitamin 
A deficiency has been blamed for the 
disease in cattle and sheep that have 
been fed with well-balanced rations. 
This factor was eliminated partially 
when the infection was transmitted 
from animal to animal by means of 
inoculation. Som,e months ago it 
was thought that keratitis of sheep 
was certainly a deficiency disease; 
recently it has been proven that at 
least one type of the disease is trans- 
1 missible and that the infection devel- 
ops among apparently normal lambs 
after artificial exposure with virulent 
eye secretions. 



A number of factors such as in- 
cubation period of infection, natural 
resistance, active and passive immu- 
nity are being studied. The use of 
vaccines is coming in for its part in 
the investigation. A parallel study 
of the diseases of sheep and cattle is 
in progress at the veterinary research 
laboratory at the present time. 

Anaplasmosis is another disease of 
cattle which comes in for a good part 
of the research activities conducted 
at the veterinary research labora- 
tories. This is a specific disease of 
cattle. It is not a new disease, since 
it probably has been a serious malady 
among more mature cattle for 50 
years or longer, but had not been rec- 
ognized as a separate or specific dis- 
ease until 1925. 

Anaplasmosis, like malaria in man, 
is caused by a protozoan parasite 
which attacks and destroys red blood 
cells, thereby producing a severe 
I anemia. This disease has been stud- 
ied continuously by this department 
in cooperation with the Bureau of 
Animal Industry since 1928. Trans- 
mission, course of infection, specific- 
ity, diagnosis and treatment are a '. 
few of the phases of study of this 
severe disease that has been recog» 
nized among cattle in Kansas since 
1925. 

The ease of transmission by in- 
sects and mechanical instruments in- 
cluding dehorning shears, castrating 
instruments, hypodermic needles and 
bull tongs tends to make this disease 
one of the most insidious of the 
group. A means of diagnosing in- 
fection in recovered cases has not 
been discovered and a reliable treat- 
ment for active cases is unknown. 

Anaplasmosis is being studied in 
at least four additional locations in 
the United States. These studies 
probably will be continued until a 
satisfactory means of diagnosis, 
treatment and other methods of con- 
trol have been successfully estab- 
lished. A young calf affected with a 
mild type of infection might pass un- 
noticed in the herd, but at a later 
date this latent infection might 
spread rapidly through a herd of cat- 
tle when ideal conditions for trans- 
mission are made possible. There is 
reason to believe that anaplasmosis 
will continue to be an important dis- 
ease among cattle in this country for 
years to come. 

It is impressive to note that the 
disease among cattle in Kansas con- 
tinues to be confined principally to 
the southeast portion of the state. 
This cannot be expected to continue 
because of the ease in assimilation 
and because transportation facilities 
are continually active in transporta- 
tion of cattle infected with the causa- 



subject, "The Relations of Art and 
Industry." 

At the February meeting of the 
Scientific club, the following officers 
were elected for the remainder of the 
year: Professor Popenoe, president; 
W. Ulrich, vice-president; S. C. Ma- 
son, secretary; G. H. Failyer, cor- 
respondent-secretary; D. S. Leach, 
treasurer; J. C. Allen, librarian. 



KANSAS POETRY 

Robert Conovcr, Editor 



* 



MINT FOR MEMORY 

ByiRalphJ. Dmahui! 

She planted a bed of green-gray mint, 
And watched Its thrifty growing; 
Her song was light as a June sunrise, 
Her heart, a spring wind blowing. 
Then out of the east a young man came, 
With eyes, mint gray, and thrilling. 
He took her hand, for he held her heart, 
Nor found the maid unwilling. 

The years went by and the mint-bed 

grew; 
Never a season failing . . . 
Her life grew full as a new blown rose 
When summer's clouds are paling, 
i The paths grew dim on the old home 

farm — 
Cool paths her feet were knowing — 
i But her heart returned when green- 
mint sails 
Cruised down a west wind's blowing! 



Ralph .1. Donahue of Bonner 
Springs edits two poetry columns in 
the local paper, the Chieftain. His 
poems have appeared in the Literary 
Digest, the Kansas City Star, Chris- 
tian Science Monitor, Kaleidograph, 
Wings, Bard, Brooklyn Times-Union 
and some 40 other publications. Mr. 
Donahue is a member of the Kansas 
Authors' club and the Kansas City 
Quill club. He does feature article 
work for the Topeka Dally Capital 
and the Kansas City Journal. 



SUNFLOWERS 
By H. W. Davis 
SHORT HISTORY OF U. S. A. 
In another day or two we are go- 
ing to celebrate, in a way or two, 
the birthday of a gentleman from 
Virginia, who once upon a time took 
a hodge podge of hastily assembled 
colonies, nursed them through a ter- 
rible war and eight years of three- 
months colic, and turned them over 
to our forefathers as the United 
States of America, bouncing boy 
prodigy of the world. 



In the century and a half since 
then the little fellow has grown up 
and. in spite of a lot of buffeting 
and bad advice, become a healthy, 
wealthy, strapping young man, as na- 
tions go. Of course we call him Uncle 
Sam. but he is still youngish, and 
still inclined toward romancing, wish- 
ful thinking and other kinds Of sen- 
timentalizing. He has had his share 
of rough-and-tumble fighting though, 
the worst struggle having been with 
himself; but he has always come out 
in pretty good shape after too many 
rounds of awkward, disastrous, cost- 
, ly wobbling about. 



tive factor 



sit ions; but since there were no pur- 
ists in the audience, there was no 
caviling. After all, there is no sense 
in never using the possibilities of the 
modern organ just because Bach's 
organ did not have them: that would 
be like never playing Mozart on the 
piano. And Mr. Jesson never relied 
on the organ to make up for deficien- 
cies in the performer. The performer 
showed no deficiencies. 

The only trouble with Mr. Jesson 
is that he lives in Manhattan. If he 
came. say. from Antwerp, large 
crowds would be happy to pay to 
hear him. And they would be happy 
that they had done so. — S. A. N. 
♦ 

IN OLDER DAYS 
From the Files o/ The Industrialist 

TEN YEARS AGO 
Ethel D. (Strother) Mitchell. '16, 
; was instructor in English and jour- 
nalism in the Palo Alto union high 
I school. Palo Alto, Calif. 

Prof. R. G. Kloeffler, head of the 
Department of Electrical Engineer- 
ing, went to Kansas City, where he 
attended a meeting of the technical 
sessions committee of the seventh 
geographical district of the Ameri- 
can Institute of Electrical Engineers. 



THIRTY YEARS AGO 
Carl E. Rice, '97, was an immigra- 
tion agent at Manila, P. I. His spe- 
cial work was acting as judge of re- 
jected immigrants. 

C. P. Hartley. '9 2, was physiologist 
in charge of corn investigations of 
the United States Department of Ag- 
riculture, Washington, D. C. 

The English faculty met at the 
home of J. W. Searson, associate 
professor of English. Doctor Brink 
read a paper on Goethe's "Faust." 



I cannot keep from wondering what 
George Washington would think and 
what he would say if he could come 
back to his 209th birthday party and 
study his child a while. I am pretty 
sure be would not repeat that fare- 
well address, probably not even quote 
it. If George Washington could be 
alive again, he would see the boy to- 
day pretty much as is; for an ability 
| to "size up" a job and stick to it was 
his chief element of greatness. Some 
biographies whine that it was his 
only one. 



FORTY YEARS AGO 
W. P. Putnam, a student in the 
dairy school, accepted a position with 
a creamery at Merkel, Texas. 

At a meeting of the athletic asso- j 
elation, Fred Fockele was chosen ! 
manager and E. W. Coldren, captain 
of the baseball team for the coming 
season. 



TWENTY YEARS AGO 
Jesse M. Jones. '03, was general 
development agent for the Seaboard 
Air Line Railway company, with 
headquarters at Norfolk, Va. 

Frank E. Uhl, '96, and Margaret 
(Correll) Uhl, '97, were living at 
State College, N. M., where Mr. Uhl 
was head of the Poultry department 
of the New Mexico Agricultural col- 
lege. 



FIFTY YEARS AGO 
F. A. Hutto, '85, was elected coun- 
ty attorney at Payne county, Okla., 
on the Republican ticket. 

Phoebe E. Haines, '82, was pro- 
fessor of drawing at the Agricultural 
college, Las Cruces, N. M. 

Professors Popenoe, Graham and 
Olin addressed the farmers of Coffey 
county in a two-day institute held at 
Waverly. 



No, contrary to the loudest politi- 
cal thought of the day, I cannot be- 
lieve the Father of His Country 
would turn out to be either an isola- 
tionist or an all-out dabbler in the 
affairs of other continents. He would 
recognize differences between the 
stage-coach and the airplane, the 
three-master windjammer and the 
one-hundred-million-dollar battleship, 
the flintlock rifle and the machine 
gun. He would see differences between 
13 impoverished colonies clinging to 
a rock-bound coast and 4 8 common- 
wealths bulging out into (rather far 
into) two sizable oceans. He would 
sense that radio is faster than Paul 
Revere could possibly be on any 
horse. 



SIXTY YEARS AGO 
The moot-court of Alpha Beta so- 
ciety was called to order by Sheriff 
E. A. Ward, Judge Failyer on the j 
bench. 

The regular monthly lecture, by 
members of the College faculty, was 
delivered by Professor Walters on the 



George Washington would very, 
very probably insist on getting the 
job (whatever it turns out to be) 
thoroughly rather than hurriedly 
done. He would be just as tactfully 
deaf to fire-eaters and propagandists 
on one side as he would to fraidy- 
cats and head-hiders on the other. 
Somewhere between the two he would 
find a reliable public to back him, 
and carry on — even through another 
Valley Forge and another series of 
constitutional conventions. 



s 



AMONG THE 
ALUMNI 



i 



Fannie (Parkinson) Moyer, B. S. 
'96, writes that she is now at 3400 
Huntoon street, Topeka, where her 
husband, A. G. Moyer, is in the real 
estate business. They were formerly 
at Chillicothe, Mo. 



contracting business in partnership 
with Wilford R. Sproul for the past 
three years and have recently 
switched over to operating on my 
own. So far, business has not been 
anything to brag about, or to com- 
plain about either. Along with every- 
one else, I am expecting a fairly de- 
cent year for 1941, with all the 
defense activity." 



LOOKING AROUND 

KINNEY L. FORD 



V 



Kate (Zimmerman) Grigsby, B. S. 
'00, who is at Solvang, Santa Barbara 
county, Calif., writes: 

"My husband teaches social stud- 
ies in the local high school, and our 
daughter, Elizabeth, is a junior in 
the school. We are 'about 50 miles 
north of Santa Barbara. The com- 
munity is Danish and consists of 
about 500 people, who were very 
proud when the Crown Prince and 
Crown Princess from Denmark made 
an afternoon's visit here when they 
were in the United States. 

"Many of these people have made 
trips to Denmark, and are saddened 
by the German invasion of their 
homeland. Now and then a letter 
comes, telling the relatives that they 
are still alive, but not much else, as 
all the letters are censored. One 
friend told us that he had been in 
Germany on one trip and thinks that 
the common German people he met 
are nice, so it bewilders him as it 
does many others that the nation 
has become so warlike. 

"If the chance comes for you to 
come West, drop in for an afternoon 
treat of coffee and coffee cake, or 
maybe about 10 o'clock in the morn- 
ing, join the bunch at the Danish 
cafe for the same kind of refresh- 
ments." 



George E. Martin, D. V. M. '24, 
has opened an animal hospital at 530 
Stockton avenue, San Jose, Calif. 

Florence (Harris) Walker, H. E. 
'25, M. S. '29, has moved to Marsh- 
field, Mo., where she is connected 
with the extension office. She has 
recently been transferred from Dunk- 
lin county, where she has been home 
demonstration agent for four years, 
to accept the position in Webster 
county. 

Harold J. Brodrick, Ag. '26, and 
Vivian ( Venables) Brodrick, f. s. '27, 
have two children — Harold Jr., 9, and 
Joyce Diane, 5V 2 . They live at 704 
North Canal, Carlsbad, N. M. Mr. 
Brodrick is assistant chief park 
ranger of Carlsbad Caverns national 
park. He is a member of the National 
Park service. 



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V 



E. W. Thurston, E. E. '06, is sales 
promotion manager of the specialty 
products division of Western Elec- 
tric company, 300 Central avenue, 
Kearny, N. J. He has formerly been 
with that company at New York City. 
Mary Kimball, D. S. '07, is first 
assistant to the registrar, Miss Jessie 
McDowell Machir. Miss Kimball has 
worked in the registrar's office since 
1918. Her address is 1311 Laramie, 
Manhattan. 

Frances L.. Brown, D. S. '09. is 
home demonstration agent at Safford, 
Ariz. Her address there is 910 Cen- 
tral street. She was formerly state 
home demonstration agent at Tucson, 
Ariz., and prior to that, at Stillwater, 
Okla. 

George H. Elliott, Ar. '11, is at 
43801 Chase road, Belleville, Mich. 
He is a contractor in Detroit. 

.1 D. McCalluni. Ag. '14, and 
Elizabeth (Sellon) McCallum, f. s. 
'12, are at 514 East First street, 
Flint, Mich. Mr. McCallum is super- 
intendent of parks for the depart- 
ment of parks and recreation for the 
city of Flint. 

William W. Haggard, M. E. '15, 
and Mabel (Ruggles) Haggard, H. 
E. 16, may be addressed at 125 
North Elmwood. Topeka. Mr. Hag- 
gard is general foreman of the To- 
peka locomotive department of 
Atchison. Topeka and Santa Fe 
way. 

p. M. Wadley, Ag. '16, M. S. 
and Berta (Chandler) Wadley, 
have moved from Silver Spring, Md., 
to 3 215 North Albemarle street, 
Country Club hills, Arlington, Va. 
lie is still engaged in fruit insect in- 
vestigations. United States Bureau of | 
Kntomology. 

James A. Hull, Ar. 17, is science ■ 
teacher in Alameda high school, 
Berkeley, Calif. He and Mrs. Hull 
(Andree Le Breton) live at 2438 
Russell street, Berkeley. 

Katherine (Miller) Hicks, H. E. 
•18, and her husband, John B. Hicks, 
a former student of the University of 
Alabama, are iibw at Leinay, Mo. 
Their address is Route 9, Box 539. 

Myrtle Gunselinan, H. E. '19, is 
associate professor of household eco- 
nomics at Kansas State College. She 
has been with the College in that 
19 26. 
apper, Ag. '21, M. S. 
Ice) Capper, f. s., 
are at Amarillo, Texas. Mr. Capper, 
who is with the Soil Conservation 
service, was for several years county 
agent in Kansas, serving Riley coun- 
ty here in that capacity. 



A personality sketch published in 
the Topeka Daily Capital of a leading 
Topeka business executive recently 
told of Phil L. Thacher, f. s. '27. 

"Coming to Topeka in 1929 he 
traveled on the road for the Inter- 
collegiate Press of Kansas City. He 
established the Thacher Office and 
School Supply in 1935. He spends 
part of his time with his representa- 
tives who cover all of Kansas and 
parts of Missouri and Oklahoma. 

"Mr. and Mrs. Thacher have three 
little daughters, Sarah, Becky and 
Lucy. Phil's diversion each summer 
jis a fishing trip to Wisconsin, Colo- 
rado or Wyoming. He is a member 
i of the Lutheran church, Lions club, 
; Elks club and the Chamber of Com- 
j merce. He is also a Mason." 

Mr. Thacher's company furnished 
the new physical science building at 
Kansas State College. 



Livestock Alumni Meeting 

H. L. Murphey, Ag. '28, county 
agent at Coldwater, has announced, 
as president of the Kansas State 
Alumni division of the Kansas Live- 
stock association, that the group will 
have its annual dinner meeting at 
noon, March 6, at the Lassen hotel, 
Wichita. 

Farm and Home Week Visitors 

Some of the alumni who visited the 
Alumni office during Farm and Home 
week on the campus included W. G. 
Tulloss, '99, Rantoul; H. W. Avery, 
'91, Wakefield; H. L. Cudney, '09, 
Trousdale; Charles Gilkison, '06, 
Larned; Herman Praeger, '08, Claf- 
lin; V. Eugene Payer, '39, Effiing- 
ham; James R. Nuttle, f. s. '26, El 
Dorado; Ruth Hofsess, '38, Indepen- 
dence; Anna Scholz, '40, Effingham; 
W A Sumner, '14, Madison, Wis.; 
O. M. Norby, '12, Pratt; J. Elwyn 
Topliff, '39, Jewell; Charles Olson, 
'38 Westmoreland; Paul Griffith, 
•34, Oberlin; Earl Wier, '81, Mc- 
pherson, and Pauline Drysdale, '38, 
Smith Center. 



dark farmyard at night nor tried to 
keep butter from assuming a liquid 
state in summer had not considered. 
For interpreting the small happen- 
ings of her community in an inter- 
esting way, Mrs. Goodman has been 
justly and publicly honored. 

Recognition of these self-effacing 
rural writers has been long overdue. 
Fitting tribute to them through the 
journalism department at the Col- 
lege gains the appreciation not only 
of the newspapers but of the folks 
who read the country correspondent's 
columns. It is another service to the 
people from their College. — Editorial 
comment in the Pratt Tribune. 
♦ 

MARRIAGES 

C A UTHERS— KLINGKR 
Catherine Cauthers, Ashland, be- 
came the bride of Dwight David 
Klinger, Ag. '38, December 1 at the 
First Presbyterian church in Ashland. 
Mrs. Klinger is a graduate of Wash- 
burn college and a member of Kappa 
Alpha Theta sorority. Mr. Klinger's 
fraternity is Sigma Alpha Epsilon 
The couple will live in Ashland. 



RECENT HAPPENINGS 
ON THE HILL 



The Kansas State College table 
tennis team defeated the University 
of Kansas players, seven matches to 
four, in an unofficial intercollegiate 
match Sunday afternoon. 

Prof. C. H. Scholer, head of the 
Department of Applied Mechanics, is 
in Washington, D. C, this week at- 
tending the annual convention of the 
American Concrete institute. 



The February issue of the Kansas 
State Engineer, being distributed this 
week, tells about the Engineers' 
Open House next month. Bert Sells, 
Wichita, chairman of the Open 
House, has written a letter of wel- 
come for the current issue. 



the 
rail- 

'22, 
'12, 



has been wun uie 

/connection since 19: 

\ 1 Samuel D. Oappe 

| ' '30, and Mae (Prk 



William H. Koenig. Ar. '22, is a 
general contractor in Chicago. He 
recently wrote to Prof. Paul Weigel, 
head of the Department of Architec- 
ture: . 

"I have been struggling with the 



Elbert W. Smith, C. '31, and Ro- 
berta (Jack) Smith, H. E. '33, are 
at 1800 Key boulevard, Arlington, 
Va. When he visited the Alumni of- 
fice last October, he was assistant 
chief in the classification section, 
personnel division, with the Federal 
Works agency, Washington, D. C. 
Mrs. Smith, a home ec grad, is rais- 
ing their son, Jack Frederick, named 
after his grandfather, Fred J. Smith, 
a '9 5 graduate of Kansas State Col- 
lege. 

Capt. J. H. Rust, '32, Seattle Quar- ! 
termaster depot, Federal building, 
Seattle, Wash., recently was a pas-, 
senger in a large federal bomber, 
traveling from Tacoma to Fort Riley. 
The return trip was made in a simi- 
lar fashion. It enabled him to visit 
relatives and friends in Manhattan. I 
Winnie Pearl Condit, M. S. '33, 
has been home management super- 
visor with the Farm Security admin- 
istration at Hugoton since June 1. 
Prior to that, she taught home eco- 
nomics in Liberal high school for 
four years. 

Arlene Wallace, H. E. '37, and T. 
It. Collins. G. S. '36, were married 
June 16. Mr. Collins graduated last 
spring from the Rush Medical col- 
lege in Chicago and is now an interne 
at Kansas City General hospital. Mrs. 
Wallace is a dietitian in Bell Me- 
morial hospital in Kansas City. 

Dr. Ian C. McDonald, D. V. M. '38, 
P. O. Box 594, Newman, Calif., last 
fall became owner of the general , 
veterinary practice of Dr. Fred . 
O'Neal (deceased). Doctor McDon- 
ald and Virginia (Wilson) McDonald, 
I. J. '37, are the parents of twins, 
a boy and girl who are now a year] 
and a half old. 

Owen Earl Clark, I. J. '39, is as-, 
sistant editor of the Pulse, a trade 
magazine of the Occidental Insurance 
'company. He is at 756 South Spring 
' street, Los Angeles. 

From the Kansas State Nurses' 
Association Bulletin, the list of Kan- 
sas State nurses graduated in 1940 
and their jobs are listed as follows: 
Dolores Williamson, instructor, Jew- 
ish hospital, Louisville, Ky.; Ruth 
King, instructor. Grant hospital, Co- 
lumbus, Ohio; Laura Jane Goodall, 
instructor, Lakeview hospital, Dan- 
ville, 111.; Martha Brill, instructor, 
Burge hospital, Springfield, Mo.; 
Mabel Toothaker, instructor at Trin- 
ity Lutheran hospital, Kansas City, 
Mo., and Marion Cross, public health 
nurse in western Kansas. 



Pays $240 for Alumni Dues 

Would you pay $240 for four years 
annual membership in the College 
Alumni association? Edward Shim, 
Ag. '16, Hongkong, China, did just 
that when he recently paid his dues 
in the Alumni office. Mr. Shim said 
The Industrialist was worth the cost 
to him His trip to the United States 
was costing him $20,000 in Chinese 

money. 

His visit to the campus January 
21 to 23 was his first since gradua- 
tion. He spoke to the Manhattan 
Rotary club and the agricultural 
seminar. He amazed everyone with 
his keen memory of names and faces. 

Mr. Shim is technical adviser for 
the fertilizer department, Imperial 
Chemical industries. His wife, Yeung 
Yan Lan, is a graduate of a Chinese 
medical college. They have three 
children— two daughters, Yuk Mui, 
18, and Yuk Yie, 11, and a son, Wei 
Mini, 14. 



BARNES— GUDGELL, 
Marian Barnes, I. J. '40, daughter 
of Mrs. Jane W. Barnes, Manhattan, 
and Frank W. Gudgell, f. s. '39, were 
married September 15 at South Pasa- 
dena, Calif. Mrs. Gudgell is a mem- 
ber of Alpha Xi Delta and Enchi- 
ladas, dancing sorority. The year she 
was a sophomore she was elected 
Royal Purple beauty queen. Mr. 
Gudgell is a member of Sigma Alpha 
Epsilon fraternity. They are now liv- 
ing at 80 5 El Centro street, South 
Pasadena. 



Three and a half bushels of pota- 
toes, 40 gallons of coffee and 100 
eight-inch pies were used at the Col- 
lege cafeteria in serving one meal 
to over 2,000 people during Farm 
and Home week. More than 1,000 
people are served ordinarily in the 
cafeteria daily. 

Girls can live in a sorority for $20 
a month. Members of Clovia, local 
social sorority, have proven it, ac- 
cording to an article by Glenn Busset, 
Manhattan, senior in agricultural 
administration, appearing in the 
March issue of the Country Gentle- 
man magazine. Begun in 1930, the 
sorority went national in May, 1939. 



RHOADS— COBERLY 

Sunday morning marriage vows 
! were read for Lillian Rhoads of Ed- 

wardsville. 111., and Harry Coberly, 
I Ag. E. '31, on December 1. The wed- 
i ding took place in the home of the 
! bride's parents. Mr. Coberly, member 
1 of Sigma Nu fraternity, and his bride 
I are at home in Hutchinson, where he 

is owner of the Coberly drug stores. 



Prof. C. H. Scholer, head of the 
Department of Applied Mechanics, 
has been appointed chairman of the 
technical committee to study the 
durability of Portland cement. This 
study is in connection with a joint 
research project initiated at the 
Highway Research board meeting in 
Washington, D. C. 



Philadelphia Dinner 

The annual Kansas day dinner of 
the Kansas State College and Univer- 
sity of Kansas Alumni associations 
was held in Philadelphia on January 
29 at Schraft't's restaurant. Forty- 
three persons attended the dinner, 
after which the group played infor- 
mal games. 

Interest was added to the evening 
gathering by the clever name cards 
in the form of sunflowers that were 
used and the sunflower table decora- 
tions. These were made by the wives 
of the two presidents of the Philadel- 
phia organizations, Mrs. Kohman 
' and Mrs. Rathbun, who also con- ; 
ducted the games. 

Kansas State College alumni at the | 
I meeting included: 

Betty Jean Jones, '40, Louise 
Boyle, '40, Robert Lake, '40, L. S. 
. Hobson, '27, Myrtle Morris, '36, Mar- 
tha Sandeen, '29. Ernest F. Miller, 
'25, and Marjorie (Melchert) Miller, 
! '23, John P. Rathbun, '16, and Char- 
lotte (Hall) Rathbun, '17, H. L. 
I Bueche, former Kansas State faculty 
i member, and Mrs. Bueche, all of 
I Philadelphia; W. 1. Forney, '25, 
and Mrs. Forney, Merchantville, N. 
J.; H. Clay Lint, '11, and Clara 
(Morris) Lint, '11, Millville, N. J.; 
P. L. Fetzer, '20, and Mrs. Fetzer, 
Ridley Park, Pa. Florence Lehman, 
M. S. '39, secretary of the Philadel- 
phia group, also was present. 



HARBAUGH— -DAVIS 
Eleanor Harbaugh and Caldwell 
Davis Jr., Ag. '36, were married No- 
j vember 17 at the home of the bride's 
I parents in Linwood. Mrs. Davis at- 
1 tended Baker university where she 
i was a member of Alpha Chi Omega, 
i Mr. Davis was a member of Delta 
Sigma Phi fraternity. He is promi- 
nent in Kansas politics and a mem- 
i ber of the House of Representatives. 
The couple reside at Bronson. 



Two Kansas State College gradu- 
ates, Lieut. James Cooper, I. J. '40, 
and Lieut. Richard Hotchkiss, M. I. 
'39, visited the campus this week. 
The two second lieutenants recently 
graduated from a three months' 
course in the infantry school at Ft. 
Benning, Ga., and are enroute to new 
stations at Camp Roberts, Calif. 



DHL— REA 
Elinor Lucile Uhl, G. S. '38, be- 
came the bride of Harold Hugh Rea, 

;f. s., December 15. She is a member 
of the Chi Omega sorority, being 

, president during her senior year. Mr. 

'Rea was a member of Sigma Delta 

' Chi, professional journalism frater- 
nity. At present, he is editor of the 

! Harvey County News in Newton. 

iThey are at home at 613 Southeast 
Second street, Newton. 

FITZGERALD— BRUNNER 

Mary Helen Fitzgerald. C. '3 9, was 
married December 14 to Thomas R. 
Brunner, C. *39, at the Episcopal 
church In Manhattan, with the Rev. 
Charles Davies reading the marriage 
service. Mrs. Brunner, a member of 
the Alpha Delta Pi sorority, has been 
'. teaching in the high school at Harlan 
and will continue until the end of the 
present school year. The groom, a 
1 member of Sigma Nu fraternity, is at- 
tending Kansas State College this 
lyear, working on his master's degree 
! in bacteriology. 



The only woman ever to be nomi- 
nated to Nebraska's unicameral leg- 
islature is now a Kansas State coed, 
Ruth Zimmerman. Miss Zimmerman, 
enrolled in home economics and jour- 
nalism, won over five men in the 
primaries of 1940, but lost in the 
regular election. After getting a de- 
gree at Kansas State College, she 
hopes to earn enough to go into law 

again. 

♦ 

BIRTHS 



Robert J. Danford, Ag. '35, writes: 
"Just a few lines to let you know 
that a daughter, Barbara Louise, was 
born December 9 to Olga (Ehnstedt) 
Danford and myself. We are farm- 
ing on a diversified farm near Hutch- 
inson. 

"We receive Tiik INDUSTRIALIST 
regularly and enjoy it very much. 
Also received our copy of Doctor 
Willard's history of the College. This 
is certainly a fine piece of work. 
Thanks very much for the copy." 



Acknowledges College Honor 

The honor accorded last week to 
Mrs. R. W. Goodman, who writes 
Stafford county news for the Tribune, 
is a deserving tribute to her. Natu- 
rally, the Tribune feels a great deal 
of pride in having one of its corps 
of 24 correspondents selected among 
the six best in the state and accorded 
honors at Farm and Home week of 
Kansas State College. 

But to Mrs. Goodman, who knows 
that the little homy things like a new- 
ly painted barn, the first chick to 
hatch in spring or the purchase of a 
new cream separator are pleasant- 
I reading news to any community, 
• must go full credit for the honor she 
has achieved. Her story last spring 
on the coming of electricity through 
the Rural Electrification administra- 
tion presented an angle that those 
who had never had to drive into a 



VINCENT— ELLING 

The marriage of Eleanor Vincent, 
Ottawa, and Roland B. filling, Ag. 
'38, took place December 15 in Ot- 
tawa. The bride, a graduate of Otta- 
wa university, was employed in the 
office of her grandfather, the late 
I George B. Ross., while he was state 
, grain inspector. She taught a year 
] in the Atlanta high school and recent- 
ly held a stenographic position with 
the Ross Milling company. Mr. Elling 
]is a member of the Sigma Phi Ep- 
silon fraternity. He has been Frank- 
i lin county agent the past two years. 
Their home is at 830 South Mulberry, 
Ottawa. 

Poses for Safety Pictures 
Margaret Reissig, a freshman in 
' the Department of Industrial Jour- 
nalism and Printing, has her picture 
on Kansas State Highway bulletins. 
I Miss Reissig was selected by Kansas 
1 highway officials to pose as the pretty 
| girl in their safety campaign. 



Dr. P. H. Hand, D. V. M. '37. and 
Anna Lee (Berry) Hand, '37, are 
parents of a daughter, Nancy Rhue, 
born January 23. Their home is at 
779 Circle court, South San Fran- 
cisco, Calif. William Milton, their 
son, will be 3 in July. 



Dr. Fung Kuan Huang, '39, c/o 
William Hooper Foundation for Medi- 
cal Research, and Mrs. Huang are 
the parents of Franklin Merwyn, born 
September 16. They reside at 920 
Sacramento street, San Francisco, 

Calif. 

♦ 

DEATHS 



PECK 
George C. Peck, B. S. '84, died 
January 27 at his home in Manhat- 
tan. He had suffered from flu and 
complications. Mr. Peck was a re- 
tired business man, having operated 
a news and magazine agency and a 
book store in Jewell for a number 
of years. He had lived in Manhattan 
since 1933. Survivors include the 
widow, two children, a sister, Mrs. 
J. W. Berry, '84, Manhattan, and 
three brothers. 



19 AVIATORS RECEIVE 

PRIMARY CERTIFICATES 

FOIIt O'l III :its HAVE PASSED THEIR 
FLIGHT EXAMINATIONS 



Quoin of 30 Im Sot for Thl« Seme»ter'» 

llfKlniiliiK Flylnif CourNl', 

with 20 Already 

Approved 

Nineteen students have received 
CAA certificates saying they passed 
the primary flying course offered at 
the College last semester in connec- 
tion with the Civil Aeronautics au- 
thority. 

The quota of 30 students for this 
semester's primary flying course has 
not been filled yet. Professor Pearce 
said earlier this week that about 20 
had passed the preliminary examina- 
tions. 

PASS GOVERNMENT TESTS 

The students who satisfactorily 
passed the course and the examina- 
tions, including the government fly- 
ing tests, are B. W. Doran, Macks- 
ville; C. E. Ewing, Blue Rapids; C. 
E. Fanning, Melvern; E. J. Garvin, 
Manhattan; J. L. Haines, Manhat- 
tan; J. W. Hamburg, Marysville; E. 
E. Haun, Larned; C. W. Hodgson, 
Little River. 

H. E. House Jr., Cheyenne, Wyo.; 
A. E. Hudson, Nashville; G. A. Mel- 
lard, Russell; R. C. Muret, Winfield; 
D. W. McMillan, Manhattan; C. F. 
O'Brien, Iola; C. R. Perry, St. 
George; G. M. Revell, Chase; J. H. 
Rickenbacker, Turlock, Calif.; H. H. 
Tubbs, Elkhart, and H. R. Turtle Jr., 
Quinter. 

MAY TRY AGAIN 

Four students passed their exami- 
nations but have not received their 
licenses yet. They are J. H. Green, 
Mound City; B. L. Limes, La Harpe; 
J. T. Mulr, Norton, and W. W. Ru- 
mold, Elmo. 

The five who failed the government 
examination will be given an oppor- 
tunity to take it over, according to 
Prof. C. E. Pearce, head flight in- 
structor. 

♦ 

ORGANIZATIONS ARE WORKING 
ON THEIR Y-ORPHEUM STUNTS 



"Pedro the Voder" Here 

"Pedro the Voder," the mechani- 
cal equipment used in the artificial 
j production of speech, will be on dis- 
' play at the College Auditorium Feb- 
j ruary 27 at a night meeting spon- 
l sored by the Kansas State chapter 
! of the American Institute of Elec- 
trical Engineers. J. O. Pettine of the 
American Telephone and Telegraph 
company will talk about the Voder, 
a similar model of which was dis- 
played at both the New York and 
San Francisco World fairs last year. 



COACH JACK GARDNER PICKS K. U. FOR TITLE 

AFTER TEAM MEETS OTHER FIVE CAGE RIVALS 



Coach Jack Gardner recently re- 
iterated his prediction that the Uni- 
versity of Kansas will win the Big 
Six conference basketball champion- 
ship, but he rates Iowa State college 
(he best quintet the Kansas State 
team has faced this year. 

"I still consider K. U. the heavy 



PROFESSOR HOWE ANNOUNCES 
PLEDGI NG OF 2 1 STUDENTS 

Faculty Adviser MnkeH Public Iitet of 

Thone Intending to Join 10 

FnitcrnltlcM 

Twenty-one fraternity pledges were 
I announced recently by Prof. Harold 
' Howe, faculty adviser. Ten fraterni- 
ties were included. 

The pledges and their fraternities: 
I Alpha Gamma Rho: Vernon Geiss- 
ler, Durham; Fred Westhusin, Codell. 
Alpha Kappa Lambda, Charles Hunt- 
i er, Ottawa. Alpha Tau Omega: Rich- 
ard Buchli, Kansas City; Foy 
Thompson, Harper; Loren Thompson, 
Harper. Farm House: Joe Jagger, 
Minneapolis; William H. Parmely, 
Le Roy; Lewis Schafer, Jewell. 

Phi Delta Theta: Charles Fairman 

Jr., Manhattan. Pi Kappa Alpha: 

i George Frederickson, Concordia; Wil- 

11am Howard Funk, Abilene; Adrian 

Moody, Norton. Sigma Alpha Epsi- 

\ Ion: Sam Wise, Des Moines. 

Sigma Nu: Peter Ruckman, To- 
peka; Robert Lee Wilson, Welling- 
ton; Charles F. Houghton Jr., Ft. 
Leavenworth. Sigma Phi Epsilon: 
Louis Alvan Ball, Kansas City, Mo 




.JACK GARDNER 



"Iowa State college has a well-bal- 
anced team," he said. "They are fast, 
catlike on defense, handle the ball 
well and have the necessary height 
for rebounds. They have a good bal- 
ance between a fast break and set 
offense, and all of their team mem- 
bers are good scorers." 

The Wildcat mentor considers Ok- 
lahoma "potentially a good ball 
club." The Sooners have size, speed 
and the ability to hit from the field. 
But Coach Gardner believes Iowa 
State college makes fewer mistakes 
and has more hustle than Oklahoma. 

Nebraska is a threat to anybody 
because of Don Fitz and Sidney Held, 
whom Gardner rates as two of the 
best guards in the conference. He 
looks for Missouri to upset a team 
or two at Columbia, but believes the 
loss of their front line due to ineligi- 
bilities and an injury will prevent 
the Tigers from winning consistently 
the remainder of the season. 

Coach Gardner believes his own 
club still has a win or two left. "We 
have depended upon hustle, spirit and 
team play rather than ability," he 
explained. "We have an inexperi- 
enced club with no outstanding play- 
1 er and no real height. Six of our first 
10 men are playing their first year. 
We lack scoring punch, but ou 



MISSOURI WINS CONTEST 
IN FINAL FIVE SECONDS 

l'|(,i;it CENTER SCORES BASKET 
AND WINNING POINTS 



favorite to win," the Kansas State fense has been satisfactory." 
coach said. "Howard Engleman is Emphasizing the closeness of the 
the answer. Put that boy on any of race. Coach Gardner pointed out that 
the other Big Six teams and that Kansas State has been outscored 
team would win the title." only 14 points in seven conference 

Coach Gardner gives Iowa State games, or an average of two points 
college a good chance to tie for the per game. And yet the Wildcats are 
title if the Cyclones receive a little in fifth place. 
Paul Cibolski, Manhattan; Charles Nebraska, Oklahoma, Mis- "The leaders have won a number 

W. Edgerton, Wichita Theta Xi. State-*. U.'s re- of close contests," he said. "Any- 

Henry S.rndge, Topeka. mail , nR opponents . thlng ca „ happen in the stretch." 

LOVE AND MARRIAGE SERIES 
TO START TOMORROW NIGHT 



COLLEGES IN FIVE STATES, INCLUDING KANSAS, 

ARE STUDYING NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF COEDS 



Traditional Entertainment Will Be 
llchl In College Auditorium 
March 7 nod 8 
Campus organizations are working 
on stunts for the Y-Orpheum which 
will lie March 7 and S in the College 
Auditorium. William West. Hiawa- 
tha, is student manager, and Norman 
Webster, Instructor in the Depart- 
menl of Public Speaking, is director 
of the YMCA-sponsored stunt pro- 
gram. ! 
The entertainmenl will include; 15- 
minute and eight-minute ads as well 
as a special number by the Women's 
Glee eluh under the direction of Ed- 
win I). Sayre, associate professor in 
the Department of Music. 

Matt Betton and his orchestra will 
open the show. 

Two trophies will be awarded to 
the winners of the sets of long and 
short acts. Organizations and their 
student managers which are prepar- 
ing stunts are the Independent Stu- 
dent Union, Frank Pat ton, Atwood; 
Sigma Phi Epsilon, Boyd McCune, 
Stafford; Pi Beta Phi, Jean Scott, 
Manhattan; Delta Delta Delta, Violet 
Farmer, Fredonia; Chi Omega, Kay 
Millard, Zenda; Alpha Xi Delta, Fern 
Roelff, Bushton; Phi Delta Theta, 
Don Wallace, Hill City, and the Cos- 
mopolitan club. 

Heads of the committees in charge 
include Don Wallace, Hill City; stage 
committee; John Hudelson, Pomona, 
ushers; Dan Maurin, Kansas City, 
ticket sales. O. D. Hunt, associate 
professor in the Department of Elec- 
trical Engineering, will lie in charge 
of Hie lighting. 

♦ 
Accept Jobs for Spring 
Two more seniors in Hie Depart- 
ment of Chemical Engineering to lie 
graduated this spring have accepted 
positions. Six senior chemical engi- 
neers previously accepted positions. 
The two additional chemical engi- 
neers who will begin work June 1 
are Willis D. Payton of Arkansas 
City, who will work for Phillips Pe- 
troleum corporation. Bartlesville, 
Okla., and Charles E. Webb, Hill 
City, who will work with Sharpies 
Solvents corporation. Wyandotte, 

Mich. 

♦ 

Talks to Legislators 

Prof. C. W. McCainpbell of the De- 
partment of Animal Husbandry spoke 
to farmer members of the Kansas 
Legislature Tuesday in Topeka on 
"Livestock and the Future." 



Rev. II. A. Rotten "Will IHhcminn "Boy 
mid c;iri Pnrtneranlpa" 

Lectures on "Love and Marriage" 
will start tomorrow when the first of t The nutritional status of college One important conclusion that may 
a series under the joint sponsorship women is being studied in an exten- be drawn from this research is that, 
of the YMCA and the; YWCA is held s j V e research project being made by in comparing previous studies on col- 
in room 115 in the Physical Science Kansas State College in collaboration lege women from Minnesota, Ohio 
building at 7:30 p. m. The Bev. B. w ith the state schools of Iowa, Ohio, and Iowa with the present observa- 
A. Rogers, director of the campus , Minnesota and Oklahoma. 
Wesley Foundation, will discuss, Well in(() its nfth y(1 . u . t h e re- 
search is being carried on here by 
Miss Bernice Kunerth, assistant pro- 
fessor of food economics and nutri- 



"Boy and Girl Partnerships." 

Other speakers at the weekly se- 
ries will include a personnel worker 
from the College faculty, an econo- 
mist, a doctor and a lawyer. Judge 
K. It. Dennett and Dr. Barrett A. 
Nelson already have consented to ad- 
dress the students. 

Success of a similar series of lec- 
tures in the past prompted the YMCA 
and YWCA to undertake the talks on 
marriage again. 

Martha Payne, Manhattan, and 
Allen Brown, Osborne, are co-chair- 
men of (he Y committee in charge of 
the series. 



tions, it is apparent that the college 
freshmen of today are taller and 
heavier at ages 17, 18, 19 and 20 
than those entering at the earlier 
dates. This, however, might be ex- 



WUdeate Lose nltterly Fought Colum- 
bia Game. 30-28. After 1)11 imy 
Hone Tien Count with 
Free Thrown 

The Missouri Tigers, playing a k 
Kansas State College quintet at Co* 
lumbia Monday night, broke their f 
string of six losses to win with a field 
goal in the last five seconds of play. 
It was Missouri's first conference vic- 
tory this season. The final score was 
30-28. 

Taking the ball out of bounds after 
two free throws by Dan Howe, Wild- 
cat forward from Stockdale, had tied 
the score at 28-28, Martin Nash, 
Tiger guard, heaved a long pass to 
Roy Storm, center, who connected 
with the winning basket as the final 
gun sounded. 

HALF-TIME SCORE IS TIED 

The game promised to be a tight 
one soon after the playing started, 
and at half-time the score was 
knotted 12-12. In the second period, 
the Tigers moved slightly ahead of 
their opponents and led 27-22, with 
four minutes left to play. Then a 
long shot by Chris Langvardt, Alta 
Vista, and a goal by left-handed Tom 
Guy, sophomore center from Liberal, 
cut the Missouri lead to a single 
point. 

Martin Nash, Tiger captain, then 
scored on a free throw after a foul 
by Norris Holstrom, Topeka, increas- 
ing the Missouri lead to two points, 
with 15 seconds left. 

Immediately afterward, Loren 
Mills, Missouri, fouled Dan Howe. 
Howe's two charity tosses were good, 
tying the game. Then, in the final 
seconds of the game, Storm made the 
last goal of the contest to win the 
game for Missouri. 

PLAY KANSAS TUESDAY 

Next Tuesday evening, the Wild- 
cats will meet the University of Kan- 
sas five at Lawrence in their next 
to the last game of the season. The 
Jayhawkers defeated the Kansas 
State team 4 6-41 in their initial 
meeting here earlier in the season. 

On March 1, the Wildcats will go 
to Ames, Iowa, to meet the Iowa 
State Cyclones in the last game of 
the season. 



lessor of food economics and nutri- •»""■• \ u,a > u ""°7'' " 7 f . I n, CHRIS I ANfVARIlT STARS 
Hon in the Division of Home Eco- P^ned in part by the tact that the LHKlh LAM.VAKIH MAK!> 



IN THREE MAJOR SPORTS 



FARM CROP VARIETIES 

(Continued from page one) 
favor with farmers in the eastern 



women observed in this study were 

. . , in good health, while those reported 
Because the character oi develop- Qf ftn unaelected group . 

nient and the period of cessation of 

growth especially in women, has In order to be certain that mvesti- 
been little investigated, these five gators at their respective institutions 
states set out to determine possible are following identical procedures in 
variations, according to age groups, taking the measurements, the co- 
One thousand thirteen college women operating groups meet annually to 
were measured and the findings re- check each other. This year the 
corded. The measurements taken meeting Willi be at Chicago in April 
were height, weight, chest breadth, 

chest depth girth of the arms and research, emphasizes the point that This letter man is one of the few 
left leg and pressure of the right and : these statistics are not for compari- 1 Big Six conference athletes who hold 
!,,,-, hands son between states, but to set up down starting positions on three 

major sports teams. A halfback on 
the gridiron, Langvardt won recog- 
nition throughout the conference 



Alio YiNla Athlete Is Caffera' Spark- 
I'liiK' .lust as lie \\ .-is for Foot- 
hill I Tea ill I. :is I Full 

One of the greatest competitors in 
Kansas State College athletic history, 
Chris Langvardt, Alta Vista, is the 
same spark-plug on Coach Jack Gard- 
ner's basketball team that he was in 
Miss Kunerth, in speaking of the; football last fall. 



EVERYDAY ECONOMICS 

By W.E. GRIMES 



Although these five states are in standards in the various areas, 
lowever because the same geographical region, differ-! In addition to the relationship of 
t ™ ,inl r nti.' ences are evident in the measure- measurements to the nutritional sta- 

of its many desirable agronomic ^^ ^ ^ ^^ sUUes whi i e : tus of c0 Hege women, other phases 

'm,?.','!.'!] 1 whe.t •. hard red winter the mean height of Ohio students is , also are being studied. Basal metab- 

?v „™ hv the Nebraska sta- significantly less than the mean | olism, a study of the blood picture of 

variety rtiMMd* the Nel^sk as la * J^ ^ ^ ^^ ^fler- college women . the food intake and 

, 1 hi,,! vl ".on he- ences in weight are slight enough utilization of the food of a selected 

a nsu fflcl en, inf ormaton on to he disregarded. The ethnic deri- group and their dietary habits are 

US mlllmg and baking cTaracterls- vation also varies somewhat between also under observation at the various 

tics. Dr. E. O. Bayfield, head of the states. institutions. 

Department of Milling Industry, ex- 
plained that his department had not 
completed a sufficient number of tests 
on the variety for its milling and 
baking qualities and therefore were 
"reluctant to recommend the variety" 
until further tests were made as a 
basis lor their approval or disap- 
proval. 

In agronomic characteristics, Ne- 
bred wheat resembles its parent va- 
riety, Turkey, i" many respects with 
the added advantage that it is more 
winterhardy than Turkey or any of 
Hie common varieties now grown. It 
also has a higher test weight, av- 
eraging 59 pounds, and is more bunt 
resistant than its parent variety. 

Because of its susceptibility to 
bacterial leaf wilt, Grimm alfalfa 
was removed from the list of farm 
crops eligible to certification in Kan- 
sas. The variety has declined in 
acreage in Kansas in recent years be- 
cause of that objection to it. 



"Economics deals with the relations among men and their relations to 

their physical enviroment." 
Economics deals with the relations and in distant foreign countries is in 



among men and their relations to 
their physical environment. These 
relations are exceedingly complex. At 
first thought, the problems of eco- 
nomics appear to lie simple. All that 
seems necessary is to do the right 



volved. Transportation systems of 
all kinds make their contribution. 
Factories turn out furniture, sil- 
ver, linens and food products. The 
simple breakfast involves relations 
with literally thousands — perhaps 



Discusses What College Is 

Dr. S. A. Nock, vice-president of 
the College, was to discuss "What Is 
a College?" at the student forum 
discussion this noon in Kecreation 
Center. 



thing and deal fairly and justly with j millions— of people. With so many 
one's fellowmen. But what is fair people involved, our relations to them 

d gt? cannot be simple. They are complex. 

The extent of our economic prob- Many of our difficulties of today 
lems may be more easily realized if arise out of the fact that our rela- 
one thinks of the number of people tions are assumed to be simple when 
contributing directly or indirectly to they are complex. Thinking they are 
a simple breakfast which you or I simple, people give too little thought 
may enjoy. The products we eat and to them and make too little effort o 
the equipment we use in connection understand them. Improvements in 
with a breakfast represent the efforts j our economic relations come through 
of many persons in this land and in an understanding of them and the 

willingness to face the problems even 



other lands. Also, they represent the 
past efforts of many people. Produc- 
tion of food products in this country 



though they may be complex and dif- 
ficult. 



with his all-around play. His team- 
mates elected him honorary captain 
when the season ended. He will turn 
to baseball in the spring as a catcher 
or outfielder. 

Langvardt, a forward in basket- 
ball, is the type of player that comes 
through when the pressure is on. He 
reported for basketball for the first 
time last season and learned the game 
quickly enough to win a starting as- 
signment in only a few weeks. A 
football injury slowed him up the 
first of the present season, but he's 
been a tough problem for Kansas 
State's Big Six conference foes. 

Coach Gardner considers Lang- 
vardt "as good a competitor as I've 

seen." 

He stands six-foot-one. weighs 175 
pounds. 

"For his size and experience, Lang- 
vardt is playing marvelous basket- 
ball," Coach Gardner said. "He is 
a born competitor, a hustler at all 
times. He is strong defensively and \ 
a great retriever. He is a spark-plug, 
the type of man that holds a team to- 
gether." 

A senior, Langvardt is a good stu- 
dent in vocational agriculture. At 
Alta Vista, he captained his high 
school football, basketball and base- 
hall teams. 

♦ 

Announce Junior Vet Dinner 

The annual Junior American Vet- 
erinary Medical association dinner 
and dance will be held April 26, the 
organization decided last week. 



HISTORICAL SOCIETY C 

TOPEKA 

KAN. 



The Kansas Industrialist 



Volume 67 



Kansas State College oTAgriculture and Applied Science, Manhattan, Wednesday, February 26, 1941 



Number 20 



AUDITIONS BEGIN MONDAY 
FOR NBC CHAIN PROGRAM 



SllMPT II Y 

SENT 



II. MII.NS HBBBRBH 
TO WASHINGTON 



Students will Participate in Farm and 

II. .in.- Hour Show Which Will 

Originate In Station KS \< 

March 1» 

Auditions for student participation 
In a nation-wide broadcast, the Na- 
tional Farm and Home hour, to origi- 
nate in the studios of KSAC March 
19 are scheduled for next week be- 
ginning Monday. 

This will be the second time for 



MANY FACTORS INDICATE LOWER WHEAT PRICES 
BY HARVEST TIME, REPORTS EXTENSION EXPERT 



By .1. WARREN MATHER 

Marketing Specialist, College Exten- 
sion Service 

A number of factors indicates a 
lower level of wheat prices by harvest 
lime. Among the more important 
ones are: 

Q) Estimates that the carryover 
of wheat in the United States on 
July 1, 1941, will be 385,000,000 
bushels, or 7,000,000 bushels above 
the record stocks in 19 33 on that 
date. 



on 



December 1 condition 



the program to be broadcast from the I ( 2) The large amount of loan 
College radio station during the past I wneat t0 j,e liquidated this spring and 

" ' the question of whether there will be 
a loan program for the 1941 crop. 

(3) Prospects for a large domestic 
crop, since winter wheat production 



four years. It will be carried over 
approximately 5 5 radio stations on 
the National Broadcasting company 
network. 

TELLS ABOUT KANSAS 
H. Miles Heberer, associate pro- 
fessor in the Department of Public 

Speaking, has written the script for | ROTC OFFICERS CALLED 
the program and the copy has been ' jjjtq REGULAR ARMY DUTY 

Washington for approval, i 
will be the name of the 



is estimated at 633,000,000 bushels 



(based 
price). 

(4) The lack of export outlets and 
the excessive carryover in other ex- 
porting countries (the world imports 
in 1940-1941 are estimated at 4 00 to 
425,000,000 bushels, while in con- 
trast to this limited trade outlook, 
the January 1 surplus for export or 
carryover of Canadian, Australian 
and Argentine wheat was estimated 
at 953,000.000 bushels. 

(5) Concern over congestion and 
lack of storage space next summer. 

Among the influences which should 
moderate price declines are increas- 
ing business activity and the govern- 
ment loan; also, the possibility of 
downward revisions in forecasts of 
the new crop rather than higher pro- 
duction figures. 



Faulkner Re-elected Editor 

Prof. J. O. Faulkner of the Depart- 
ment of English was re-elected re- 
cently to serve as editor of the Bulle- 
tin of the Kansas Association of 
Teachers of English. It is Professor 
Faulkner's 15th term as editor. 
♦ 

CANDIDATES TO RULE PROM 
NOMINATED BY ENGINEERS 



EXTENSION PUBLICATION 
TELLS OF FARM, DEFENSE 

MOW BULLETIN DISCUSSES AGRI- 
fll.TIIlK AM) PHKHAHKDNKSS 



sent to 

"Green Gold 

1941 show. The story tells about the 

soil, livestock and human resources 

of Kansas. 

Professor Heberer said approxi- 
mately 11 men and four women will 
have roles in the broadcast. 

The National Farm and Home hour 
is a daily feature of the Red network 
of the NBC and carries programs 
concerning all phases of the work of 
the United States Department of Ag- 
riculture including the Extension ser- 
vice, Agricultural Adjustment ad- 



All Senior* Who Will Receive Commln- 
Mions to Kilter Active Service 

rnieNM Excused 

Students who are completing their 
work in the Reserve Officers' Train- 
ing corps this semester and who will 
receive commissions in May will be 
called for one year of active duty in 
the regular army, according to word 
received yesterday by the Department 
of Military Science and Tactics. 

Those who wish to obtain defer- 



ments from active duty may make ap- 
ministration, 4-H club work, Future plication a month before graduation, 



Heads Scabbard and Blade 

Arlin Ward, Manhattan, was elected 
captain to head Scabbard and Blade, 
national honorary military organiza- 
tion, at a meeting Thursday night. 
Pierce Wheatley, Gypsum, was se- 
lected second lieutenant, and John 
Bender, Highland, was named first 
sergeant. The new officers were in- 
stalled at the meeting Thursday. 
♦ 

CONSERVATIONISTS DISCUSS 
FUTURE FARM SUGGESTIONS 



Farmers of America and land-grant 
colleges. 

PICK UP I'.V REMOTE CONTROL 
Land-grant colleges put on one 
Farm and Heme hour program each 
month. They are so arranged that 
in a four-year cycle each of the 4 8 
states has been responsible for one 
broadcast. 

The program, planned by the Col- 
lege cooperating with the Extension 
service, will be picked up by remote 



according to present regulations. 

Lieut. -Col. James K. Campbell, 
bead of the Military department, said 
a legitimate excuse for deferment 
would be the student's desire to com- 
plete his College work. 

Between 8,000 and 9,000 College 
seniors who will become eligible for 
commissions after the present school 
year is completed are being notified 
thai they will be called into army ser- 



control by NBC. Station WDAF, I vice in June, officers In the depart- 
Kansas City, Mo., carries the Farm meat said. Those who are called up 
and Home hour as a regular daily fea- for active duty will enter the army 
ture from 11:30 a. m. to 12:15 p. m. as second lieutenants. 



KANSAS NUTRITION IMPROVEMENT CAMPAIGN 

IS STARTED UNDER DEAN MARGARET JUSTIN 



r • 



A state-wide campaign for im- 
proved human nutrition in relation 
to national defense is being started 
here with Dr. Margaret Justin in 
charge. Doctor Justin, dean of the 
Division of Home Economics, is chair- 
man of a state committee which in- 
cludes representatives from Kansas 
colleges and social and governmental 
agencies interested in nutrition and 
health. 

The committee was appointed De- 
cember 27 by Gov. Payne Ratner for 
the purpose of "stimulating and in- 
forming public interest throughout 
the state in the importance of human 
nutrition to national defense." 

Dean Justin explained the objec- 
tives are ( 1 ) to stress optimum nu- 
trition as a desirable state for Kan- 
sas citizens; (2) to utilize available 
channels to stimulate and inform the 
public concerning the present nutri- 
tional status of children, college stu- 
dents and adults, and (3) to point 
ways and means of improving the 
general State of nutrition, recogniz- 
ing that poor nutrition may persist 
because we do not know enough, be- 
cause we do not have enough or be- 
/ cause we do not care enough. 

Preparation and distribution of 
material pertaining to human nutri- 
tion is now under way. 

"We are particularly concerned 
with the nutrition of Kansas youth," 
Dean Justin said. "We hope by work- 
ing through the superintendents and 
health and nutrition authorities In I 
our colleges and universities that a! 
definite program for better nutrition , 
for school children and college stu- , 
dents may be inaugurated." 

Plans for such a program on the 



Kansas State College campus already 
have been started. 

In addition to a program of work 
for educational systems, the commit- 
tee plans to work with college exten- 
sion services and the Farm Security 
administration in considering ways 
and means of stressing good nutri- 
tion as a family goal and of pointing 
out means by which home produce 
might extend the facilities of the 
family. Kansas women's clubs will 
be asked to give at least one program 
this spring to considering nutrition 
in relation to national defense. 

Members of the committee and of 
such professional organizations as 
Kansas Medical association, Kansas 
Dietetic association, Kansas Board 
of Health and Kansas Home Eco- 
nomics association have volunteered 
to write for the radio and newspapers 
and to speak before interested groups 
on nutrition and health subjects as 
a part of the campaign. 

Members of the committee include 
Dean Justin. Dr. Martha S. Pittman, 
Miss Georgiana Sinurthwaite, Dr. W. 
E. Grimes, Dr. J. S. Hughes, Dr. M. 
VV. Husband, Dr. Katharine Roy, Miss 
Mary Small, Dr. Bernice L. Kunerth, 
Dr. Pauline Nutter, Miss Mary Fletch- 
er, Miss Gertrude Allen, all of Kan- 
sas State College; Dr. Ralph I. 
Canuteson, University of Kansas, 
Lawrence; Miss Margaret Haggart, 
Fort Hays Kansas State College, 
Hays; Mrs. Paul Edgar, Topeka; 
Miss Hazel Thompson, State Board 
! for Vocational Education, Topeka. 
Dr. H. R. Ross, Kansas State Board 
of Health, Topeka; Miss Florence . 
McKinney, Farm Security adminis- 
tration, Topeka; Miss Kathryn Tis- 1 
sue, University of Kansas, Lawrence. ! 



Dr. W. B. CirlmeM SuffSMta Kiuihiih 
Farmer* Avoid Long-Term Debts 

null Itnllfl t'P HeNcrve* 

How to prepare Kansas farmers 
for the changes that will result from 
the defense program and the future 
post-war readjustment period was 
discussed at a meeting here for Kan- 
sas Soil Conservation service em- 
ployees last Monday. 

Dr. W. E. Grimes, head of the 
Department of Economics and So- 
ciology, talked on "The Impact of 
Present Conditions on Kansas Agri- 
culture." 

Doctor Grimes said that our ex- 
port commodities were in a precari- 
ous condition and would remain so. 

The main impact of the defense 
program as regards agricultural 
products will be on domestic products 
such as pork, mutton, beef and dairy 
products, be said. The increased pur- 
chasing power caused by the defense 
program will be reflected in higher 
prices in these products. 

Doctor Grimes recommended that 
farmers prepare for the coming post- 
war readjustment period, though 
avoiding long-term debts and build- 
ing up reserves. For example, he sug- 
gested that farmers should keep good 
breeding herds, and maintain ade- 
quate feed reserves. 

The Monday afternoon meeting 
was one of the Kansas conservation- 
ists' school meetings and was at- 
tended by all of the Soil Conserva- 
tion service technicians in the state. 
Dr. P. H. Stevens, Wichita, repre- 
senting the Farm Credit administra- 
tion, and G. L. McCarty, Topeka, 
representing the Farm Security ad- 
ministration, talked at the meeting. 



Winner* Will Reign Over Open HoiiNe 

Dance March 15 iin llluli Point 

of Activitlew 

Candidates for St. Pat and St. Pa- 
tricia to reign over the annual St. 
Pat's prom, culminating the Engi- 
neers' Open House, March 15 in 
Nichols Gymnasium were announced 
Tuesday. The prom and the election 
of the saints is sponsored by Sigma 
Tau, national honorary engineering 
fraternity. 

Candidates for St. Patricia include 
Shirley Karns, Coffeyville; Dorothy 
Green, Wichita; Ruth Weigand, To- 
peka; Virginia Keas, Chanute; Mar- 
jorie Gould, Manhattan; Jane Dun- 
ham, Topeka; Evelyn Frick, Larned; 
Helen Perkins, Kansas City; Janora 
Grove, Newton, and Jessie Collins, 
Dwight. 

Candidates for St. Pat include El- 
don Sechler, Hutchinson, Depart- 
ment of Architecture; Victor Mell- 
quist, Manhattan, Department of 
Mechanical Engineering; Fred Eye- 
stone, Wichita, Department of Elec- 
trical Engineering; Garland Childers, 
Augusta. Department of Civil Engi- 
neering; Charles Webb, Hill City, 
Department of Chemical Engineer- 
ing, and Eugene Haun, Larned, De- 
partment of Agricultural Engineer- 
ing. 

Candidates were selected in the 
engineering seminars last week. Each 
engineer had an opportunity to vote 
for the Kansas State girl he would 
like most to see as St. Patricia. A 
committee appointed by Sigma Tau 
selected the 10 candidates. 

In this year's election, the engi- 
neers will vote next month for two 
candidates for St. Pat and one candi- 
date for St. Patricia. Voting for two 
men is intended to eliminate depart- 
mentalism in the selection of St. Pat. 
Winning candidates will be presented 
sometime during the dance, Sigma 
Tau announced. 

Bob Strong, f. s. '23, and his band 
have been selected to play for the 
prom. 



Approximately 80.000 Kanaana Pnrttel- 

i.iiii.i in iilviNion'H 1040 Programs, 

Including AilultH and 

4-H MemlterH 

The Division of College Extension, 
in an effort to acquaint rural and 
townspeople of Kansas with the broad 
aspects of the Extension service pro- 
gram, this week issued a publication 
called "Better Living from the Farm 
—An Aid to National Defense." 

The mimeographed bulletin, illus- 
trated with numerous drawings, de- 
votes a single page to many of the 
diverse activities of the Extension 
division. The publication says that 
approximately 80,000 Kansas citi- 
zens actively participated as members 
of extension organizations in 1940. 
This number included men and wo- 
men members of county farm bureaus 
as well as girls and boys enrolled in 
4-H club activities. 

FUNDAMENTAL TO DEFENSE 

Discussing the relationship between 
the national defense program and the 
activities of the College division, the 
publication said in part: 

"Agriculture is an essential indus- 
try in the national defense program. 
The following quotation is taken 
from a radio address made by Ches- 
ter M. Davis, commissioner in charge 
of the agricultural division of the 
National Defense Advisory commis- 
sion, October 17, 1940: 

" 'It is obvious that no nation can 
adequately defend itself without 
abundant supplies of food and fiber. 
It is equally obvious that those sup- 
plies cannot be maintained unless the 
producers are kept in the position to 
continue efficient production. The 
objectives of increased farm income 
and stable prices have long been a 
recognized national policy.' 

"A fundamental of all extension 
programs is increased efficiency. This 
is also fundamental to national de- 
fense." 
FARM CONDITIONS ARE DIFFERENT 

The bulletin points out that agri- 
cultural conditions during the pres- 
| ent war are far different from those 
i when the war broke out in 1914. The 
bulletin says: 

"We have 150,000,000 bushels of 
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AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION RESEARCH 
STUDIES HOW FARMERS MAY IMPROVE MARKETS 



MATT BETTON AND HIS BAND 
MAY PLAY IN NEW YORK CITY 



Charlie Teagarden offers (an Mn- 

MiciniiH Chance to Perform In Knftt 

Matt Betton, popular College band 
leader, and his band may play at the 
Pennsylvania hotel in New York City 
in four weeks. The offer of the job 
was made by Charlie Teagarden, 
trumpet player formerly with Paul 
Whiteman's orchestra, in a long-dis- 
tance call from New York last week. 

The band members are thinking 
seriously of accepting, Mr. Betton 
said, although the band has a num- 
ber of engagements for the remainder 
of the season. If the band decides 
to go to New York, Mr. Teagarden 
plans to take the group to play under 
his name in hotel ballrooms in the 
East. The offer includes recording 
dates in addition to location jobs in 
ballrooms. 

Mr. Betton plans to organize a new 
band here to replace the present one 
if it decides to go to New York. 



The extent of the College's activi- 
ties to help Kansas farmers improve 
their economic status is shown in the 
discussion of six marketing projects 
reported in the recently released bi- 
ennial report of the director of the 
Agricultural Experiment station. 

The report lists the six major proj- 
ects in marketing, undertaken as 
studies in the economics of agricul- 
ture, as follows: 

( 1 ) The marketing of Kansas 
grain. 

(2) The marketing of Kansas live- 
stock and livestock products. 

( 3) The marketing of Kansas fruits 
and vegetables. 

(4) Production and marketing of 
Kansas potatoes. 

(5) A study of factors governing 
the marketing of dairy products in 
Kansas. 

(6) The economics of the poultry 
industry in Kansas. 

In many cases, the results of the 
research have not yet been published 
because the projects are continuing 
into the present, biennium so that 
bulletins may not be available yet 
for some of them. 

Among the grain studies are those 
dealing with seasonal movements in 
corn prices, monthly price movements 
of oats, seasonal movements in wheat 
prices, analysis of elevator records 
and relation between fall precipita- 
tion and wheat yields in western 
Kansas. 

The subdivisions of the livestock 
and livestock products marketing 
project include studies of the eco- 



nomics of cold-storage locker opera- 
tions, the seasonal variations of live- 
stock prices, the purchases and sale 
of livestock by farmers and the cur- 
rent market reports. 

Marketing of Kaw valley potatoes 
on local markets, tests to determine 
the mechanical method of cooling po- 
tatoes before shipment and a survey 
of the vegetables stored in cold-stor- 
age lockers were the subjects studied 
in the project for fruit and vegetable 
research. 

Questionnaires were sent to 500 
cold-storage locker patrons of five 
plants in eastern and central Kansas, 
to determine the extent to which 
lockers were used in storing of fruits 
and vegetables. Only a small per- 
centage of locker users, it was found, 
store fruits and vegetables. The qual- 
ity of stored fruits was reported to 
be better than the quality of the 
stored vegetables but, if prepared and 
packaged properly, vegetables kept 
satisfactorily. 

The potato project proper included 
experiments made of production, 
grading, washing, storing and loading 
of Kansas potatoes. During the past 
biennium, however, most of the work 
was directed toward a study of the 
factors of marketing. The study 
showed that the potato acreage in 
Kansas from 1880 to 1936 had de- 
clined gradually until today the acre- 
] age averages less than 40 percent of 
! the 1885-1894 acreage. 

During the biennium work in the 
1 study of factors governing the mar- 

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destructive effects of poverty and 
disease Is quite as important to a 
nation at peace or at war as the pro- 
duction of war implements for those 
children to use. Without that under- 
lying strength, no defense program 
can be worth the money and materi- 
als put into it. 

That is the defense job that Aitkin 
county should set itself to do. And it 
has in many ways already begun its 
work. 

Hot lunches for children who travel 
long, cold miles to school carrying 
frozen sandwiches in their tin pails 
are already being served in 3 7 schools 
in the county. One cent a day, and in 
many cases nothing at all, is giving 
those children the nourishment that 
will build strong bodies and sharp 
minds instead of rickets and the dull- 
ness of malnutrition. 

Warm clothes made by WPA work- 
ers and distributed through the sur- 
plus commodities division are holding 
in check the sniffling colds, the In- 
fluenza, the chronic ill health that has 



SCIENCE TODAY 



By B. L. SMITS 

Assistant Professor, Department of 
Chemistry 

Starch is the most important re- 
serve carbohydrate of green plants. 
It is found distributed in all parts of 
the growing plant but its chief de- 
pots of storage are roots, tubers and 
seeds. It constitutes as high as 80 
percent of the dry matter of white 
potatoes, while from 50 to 65 percent 
of the seeds of cereals are starch. 

Because of its role as a permanent 
reserve food of plants it follows that 
starch is an important source of en- 
ergy in our dietary. Under the in- 
fluence of digestive enzymes It is 
broken down into glucose and easily 
digestible dextrins. The ease of di- 
Kestion depends upon the temperature 
and time involved in cooking. 



College faculty in regard to diseases 
of domestic animals, were visitors at 
the College. 

President Fairchild and Professor 
Shelton went to Abilene to attend 
the Dickinson county farmers' insti- 
tute. President Fairchild spoke on 



and 



compound is sufficient proof of the 
presence of starch. 

When examined under the micro- 1 "Education on the Farm, and for 
scope starch granules of different ce- ] Farmers." and Professor Shelton on 
reals and vegetables vary greatly as \ the subjects, "Tame Grasses 
to their form, size and often as to "Farm Experiments." 
their manner of grouping. The size | ♦ 

may vary from 0.002 of a millimeter 
as found on the smallest granules of 
oat starch to as high as 0.07 of a 
millimeter in potato starch. 

When starch powder is mounted 
in Canada Balsam and examined in 
polarized light it appears as a bright 
object against a dark field. A dark 
cross or interference figure radiating 



KANSAS POETRY 

Robert Conover, Editor 



WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1941 



The annual production of pure 
in the past kept Aitkin county low I starch reaches a tremendous figure, 
in the ledgers of the health exam- However, the major portion of this 
inera production is used in industry for 

Last April a county-wide immuni- the manufacture of commercial glu- 
zation program was carried on by the cose, glues and paste. A small pro- 
county nursing service, newly estab- j portion, indeed, is used directly as 
lished in Aitkin county last year 



human food in such things as 



By IsaMIe Bryans Longfellow 



, I do not go your way; I know It now. 
from a central point known as the , sllall not try aga | n r wish I could, 
hilum is usually seen in the body of Tlie day you set your muscles toward 

the brow 
Of that wild peak from where we both 

had stood. 
Vmi said, "I'll make it there by after- 
noon", ,, 
And took superior strides that I should 

know 
How strong your limbs that would ar- 
rive so soon 
I pon the crest of glacier and snow. 



the starch granule. The approximate 
degree of anisotropy or intensity of 
this interference figure varies with 
the different species of starch. Al- 
though this cross is seen in some 
spore-shaped crystals, they are easy 
to distinguish from starch. 



All starches which are composed You could not know that prone on this 

decline 
I scaled the needled wondei 



of glucose molecules react with a 
moderately concentrated iodine solu- 
tion to give an intense blue color. 



of the pine! 



HOHB UIOMONSTHATION AOKIVTS' 
HO 1,1', 

During World War I the Depart- 
ment of Home Economics of the Divi- 
sion of College Extension was called 
upon to conduct work throughout the 
state designed to render more effi- 
cient the use of foods and textiles. A 
department was organized designated 
as "emergency home demonstration" 
work under the headship of Miss 
Frances L. Brown, and more than 20 
others were employed in that work. 

July 1, 1 1) 1 9 , the word "emer- 
gency" was dropped from the name, 
and the department was labeled only 
"home demonstration agent" work. 
The war had ended, but work of this 
character was continued. On Janu- 
ary 1 of this year, 50 counties had 
home demonstration agents. The ac- 
tive participation of farm women in 
the Farm and Dome week program 
is evidence of the effectiveness of the 
work of these agents. 

The work was originally instituted 
under the auspices of city or county 
organizations. After a short time, 
the placing of home demonstration 
agents was made contingent upon the 
counties' being organized for this spe- 
cial purpose. Since August, 1918, the 
organization of an ideal farm bureau, 
providing membership for women as 
well as for men, has been required; 
and since July 1. 1921, a county de- 
siring a home demonstration agent 
has had to provide a well-equipped 
office with adequate stenographic 
help, transportation facilities and a 
county appropriation of not less than 
$2,400 toward tin? salaries and ex- 
penses of the agricultural agenl and 
(lie home demonstration agent. 

Women with qualities of leader- 
ship, who have bad training in home 
economics and experience in teaching, 
work diligently to carry out the home 
demonstration agent program. The 
program of work is based on the in- 



Once every month free chest clinics gravies, puddings and also as sago ; However, if an extremely dilute solu 



seek out the early cases of tubercu- and tapioca 

losis and stamp them out before they Inulin is a reserve food carbohy- 
take their hold on a family or a com- , drate produced by a few plants such 
munity Every case of a communi- as the Jerusalem artichoke, many 
cable disease is followed up by the species of iris and the dahlia. It has 
county nurse. A newly built incu- j a place in the diet of diabetics be- 
bator basket for free county use is I cause it is made up of fructose mole- 
ready to save the lives of even the | cules instead of glucose. Inulin does 
youngest of the county's citizens, its not react with iodine to give a blue 
premature babies. color. 

In McGregor the PTA has pur- . Physically starch appears as a fine and concentric rings or lamellae. The 
chased glasses for all of the needy j white powder possessing a peculiar hilum may be located centrally in a 
children whose eyes needed care. In texture, which is noticed when it is round starch granule or at el" 
Vitkin the PTA is sponsoring and nibbed between the thumb and fore- both ends ot an oval granule 
bearing part of the expense of a Anger. Starch is hygroscopic to a 
"morning milk" program for its marked degree, 
school children. 



tion is used it has been found that 
the different species of starch take 
up different amounts of iodine. If 
examined under the microscope, in 
water to which a small amount of 
iodine has been added, a typical 
starch granule such as potato starch 
will be seen to consist of a central 
point of hilum, from which organic 
growth is supposed to have started. 



Isabella Bryans Longfellow of 
Wichita is secretary-treasurer of the 
Kansas Poetry society and a former 
teacher of speech in Denver univer- 
sity, her alma mater. She has had 
verse published in many of the lead- 
ing magazines and in numerous 
newspapers. During the last year, 
she added Ladies' Home Journal, 
Qood Housekeeping, Christian Sci- 
ence Monitor, Columbia and America 
to this list. 



,3 



This is the defense work of our 
county. And it is only partly done. 
There should be hot lunches, not in 
3 7 schools, but in every school in the 
county. There should be warm 
clothes and good care and health for 
every child in every home. This is a 
defense project to which the whole 
county can set itself without the need 
of building a single factory or laying 
hands upon a gun. And its comple- 
tion will lie the strongest possible 
line of defense that Aitkin county can 
offer to the United States. — Editorial 
Opinion of the Aitkin Republican, 
Aitkin, Minn. 



By H. W. Davis 
COMPLETELY A DUD 

It is going to be a lot different — 
or this spring of 1941. Instead of 
watching and waiting for the first 
When starch granules are warmed robin and the first crocus and for 
n water on a heated stage of the them alone, we are to have the ques- 
containing from 15 to 20 percent of J microscope it will be seen that the 
water. granule swells and eventually rup- 

These two important charaeteris- tures the envelope. During the swell- 
tics, the fineness and uniformity of ing of the starch grain the appear- 
pure starch powder and its ability ance of the interference figure ob- 

io take up and hold large quantities served in polarized light changes and : into the maelstrom 
of water, are responsible for its use eventually disappears. The tempera- murder, 
as an important adulterant of foods, ture at which there is an entire loss - 

Such foods as cocoa, spices, coffee of anisotropy and the envelope rap- But eV( ' n ,mlt is " ot a11 ' . The *"" 
and other materials which are used tures is different and constant within terhug madness of nations is going 
in a ground condition have been a narrow range for each species of to make jt a record spring for young 
adulterated with starch or ground starch. Danny Cupid; and marriage-license 

cereals. The water-holding ability of The research worker in examining clerks might 
starch is utilized as a binder and also an unknown starch to determine its t ain pens 
for the sophistication of ground meat origin sets up a series of starch stand 
products by the addition of excess a rds whose degree of anisotropy 

temperature of gelatinization 



tionable delight of waiting, with 
nervous hands over eyes and ears, 
for the first boom-boom of all-out 
war and the first unpredictable, in- 
evitable overt act that is to drag us 
of mechanized 



filled and their smirky 
miles in order. For Danny has a 
cunning way of capitalizing anxieties 



VETER1INARY PROGRESS 



teres! and needs of the communities Uhan $10,000 invested In plant and 
in a county. It is evolved through equipment. Sometimes it runs as 
community and committee meetings n igh as $1 50,000. .. . 



water. 

An important phase of the duties 
of a food analyst is not only the de- 
tection of added starch but the abil- 
The veterinary profession has ity to identify its source. The addi- 
changed unbelievably since I was a ' tion of starch to ground meat prod- 
young man. Forty-five years ago we I nets can easily be detected by the 
had injections, no vaccines. We pre- addition of an iodine solution to a 
scribed castor oil and hoped for the small sample which has been boiled for instance, 
best. Today a discovery is no sooner 
accepted in medicine than we take it 
over for our animals. 

We are using sulfanilamide for 
hemolytic streptococcus infections in 
dogs and cats. We have saline and 
glucose injections; we have the X-ray 
and the fluoroscope. Few small- 
animal hospitals these days have less 



an( j and physical irritations of any sort — 

, all the way from falling hair to fallen 

reaction with dilute iodine are de- arches _ and ugIng them to hjs own 
termined. By consulting published 
tables, it is often possible to deter- 



Come spring, and Cupid can 
convert any mental or physical mai- 
nline the species of starch directly. ady int() an an > a i r f the heart that 
In cases where it is necessary to de- wi |] ])on youl . ,, yes ou t if you happen 
termine the actual variety of corn, to be looking at anything but the top 
reaction of such 1 of the sky. 



in water. The production of the fa- other reagents as aniline and swell- 
miliar blue color of the starch-iodine ing agents is observed. 



management, discussed the present son of Prof, and Mrs. A. B. Brown 

agricultural situation and probable returned home from the Philippine WOD bled into. 

tut tire development of agriculture Islands where he had been serving 

lor the following year at a district with the Thirty-Second United States 

outlet conference at Colby. infantry. 

Friends of Robert J. Brock, '91, 

TWENTY YEARS AGO were circulating a petition asking 



Whatever angle you snap the pic- 
ture from, it looks to be the lovey- 
doviest, tootsy-wootsiest spring this 
old battle-scarred world has ever 



Edward O. Sisson, '8 6, was presi- Governor Stanley to appoint him as 



Doctor Lord, a young M. D., 
brought his Springer in. "You vets — 
you're all disappointed M. D.'s," he 
laughed. 

The next time he uses a Stader 
splint to set a broken limb, I hope he 



and includes the development of ac 
tivities pertaining to the farm, the 
home and the community. 

The home demonstration agent 
work set up to meet the emergency 
of World War I may prove of even 
greater value in another national 
emergency. The emphasis on defense 
measures inevitably must direct in- 
creased attention to the work of the 
home demonstration agents. By di- 
recting and training women now to | Rob er t s " MacKellar, V. S., 
use food and clothing, cash income 1 Ameri( . aI1 Magazine, 
and all their resources more effective- 
ly, they are preparing them for eriti- 



dent of the State University of Mon- 
tana at Missoula, Mont. 

S. 10. Barnes, '17. was senior mem- 
ber of the linn of Barnes and McCoy, 
I architects, at Muskogee, Okla. 

Kail II. Hosteller. '14. was in 



looks it up in one of his schoolbooks. charge of swine experiment work foi 



He will find that Dr. Otto Stader in- 
vented it for animals. Many discov- 
eries made in animal medicine have 
been adapted for human patients. — 

in the 



cal days ahead. -P. R. 

■♦ 

THE DEFENSE TASK OF A 
RURAL COUNTY 

In a country stirred to the boot- 
soles over defense and preparedness, 
Aitkin county has been left to drag 
out a more or less humdrum existence 
without so much as an armor plate 
plant or a gun factory inside the 
county line. Defense work of that 
kind is not for an area geared, as 
Aitkin county is, for the peaceful 
pursuit of agriculture and tourist 
entertainment. 

Hut there is a line of defense as 
vital and as necessary to the country's 
well-being and its future develop- 
ment as any gunnery range or army 
barracks. The protection of the chil- 
dren of the county against the 



IN OLDER DAYS 

From Ike Files 0/ The Industrialist 
TEN YEARS AGO 

M. F. Ahearn. director of athletics, 
returned from Absecon, N. J., where 
he attended the annual meeting of 
the National Football Rules commit- 
tee. 

Profs. H. W. Davis. J. O. Faulkner 
and C. W. Matthews, all of the De- 
partment of English, went to Con- 
cordia to judge a district high school 
debate meet. 

Miss Georgiana Smurthwaite, foods 
and nutrition specialist in the Divi- 
sion of College Extension, returned 
from At wood where she had been 
conducting a leaders' training school. 

Dr. W. E. Grimes, professor of ag- 
ricultural economics, and I. N. Chap- 
man, director of specialists in farm 



the state of North Carolina, with 
headquarters at West Raleigh, N. C. 

Miss Mary Poison. '16, of the De- 
partment of Clothing and Textiles 
addressed a home economics session 
j of Farm and Home week on "Every 
Woman Her Own Milliner." 

I 



a regent of the College. Mr. Brock 
was a rising young lawyer and coun- 
ty attorney of Riley county. 

It. J. Harnett, '95, resigned from 
his position of principal of the city 
schools of Manhattan to accept a 
similar position with the Olathe 
schools, made vacant by the resigna- 
tion of L. N. Flint, who recently pur- 
chased an interest in the Manhattan 
Nationalist. 



Think as wishfully as you may, 
you cannot conjure up a reasonable 
hope that you or anybody but Hitler 
can Stop the madness of nations. So 
that's out. Maybe, however, you 
might jerk an idea from that think- 
tank under your hat that will give 
boys and girls of all ages pause 
against rushing to altars merely be- 
cause they don't know where or what 
they will be by the time another June 
rolls round. 



THIRTY YEARS AGO 

A. E. White, assistant in mathe- 
matics, was a judge of a debate at 
Junction City high school. 

E. L. Holton, professor of rural 
education, spoke before the Dickin- 
son County Teachers' association at 
Abilene. 

W. A. Coe, '96, moved from Black- 
foot, Idaho, to Boone, Colo., where 
he was superintendent of the Orchard 
Park Farming company. E. H. Web- 
ster, '96, and W. M. Jardine were 
stockholders In this company. 



FIFTY YEARS AGO 

Professors Georgeson and Hood 
and Mrs. Kedzie attended the farm- 
ers' institutes at Dodge City and 
Garden City. 

The Associated Press announced 
the appointment of Hon. John A. 



I never could understand women; 
and why they think they can help 
much by marrying Johnnie just be- 
fore he goes marching off to camp, 
and maybe Istanbul, doesn't clear up 
my confusion one bit. All I know is 
that marriage is just what they will 
commit unless somebody or some- 
body else thinks up a scheme to per- 
suade them that the sporting thing 
is to let Johnnie go off and get his 
year's training footloose and dog- 



Anderson, formerly President of this' house f(>ee He , g too eagy a mark be _ 
College, as consul-general at Cairo, \ fm . Q he learna anythIng at all anout 

B «yPt- 1 warfare. 

At a recent meeting of the Horti- , 

cultural society the following persons Usually I can think of something 
were elected to membership: Col. J. I that half-way sounds as if it might 
B. Anderson, the Rev. William Camp- 1 work, but this time I am completely 



bell, Lieutenant Bolton, Professor 
Goodnow, Mrs. J. A. Marlatt, Miss 
Mary Marlatt, Mrs. William Baxter, 
Mrs. W. J. Grifflng and Mrs. J. C. 
VanEveren. 
FORTY YEARS AGO 
R. S. Kellogg, '96, was in the ser- SIXTY YEARS AGO 

vice of the Division of Forestry at Messrs. Orner and Drought, mem- 
Washington, D. C. ben of the joint committee appointed 
Allie Brown, student in '98, and by the Legislature to confer with the 






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a dud and must depend on you. I 
sometimes fear I've over-saved the 
nation as it is. 



A blitzkrieg of rapid-fire love and 
marriage might be as bad for us as 
an air-raid from Berlin, Iceland or 
Brazil; and it's a lot more imminent. 



Please think of something! 






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AMONG THE 
ALUMNI 



The Manhattan Chronicle recently 
reported: 

"Today it is almost as difficult to 
buy a copy of the little booklet, 'Wild- 
flowers in Kansas,' as it was three 
years ago to borrow a copy of 'Gone 
with the Wind' from your public li- 
brary. The rapid sale of the booklet 
is partially due to the accurate illus- 
trations drawn for it by Bertha 
(Kimball) Dickins, '90, M. S. '95, 
1230 Fremont. . . . 

"She finds pleasure in painting 
still-life subjects for her children or 
just for fun. . . . 

"During the more than 40 years 
since her marriage to the late Kansas 
State College horticulturist, Albert 
Dickens, '93, she has drawn illustra- 
tions for textbooks written by Kansas 
State professors; for two botanical 



in 1934. We have one son, John, 4, 
and expect his brother in April. 

"I have two choirs here, the first 
Methodist and one at the State hos- 
pital here. December 1 was the fall 
orchestra concert and the fifth was 
the 'Bumble Bee Prince' opera." 



Lucille (Anderson) Sweedlun, '23, 
is now at 202 South Seventeenth, 
Manhattan. Her husband, Verne 
Sweedlun, has been appointed to 
teach in the Department of History 
and Government, succeeding the late 
E. V. James. 

Harry B. Skinner, f. s. '24, is a 
salesman and is located at 303 G, 
Northeast, Miami, Okla. His wife is 
Mary ( Augspurger) Skinner. 

Homer L. Sumners, Ag. '25, has 
moved to 692 Garden street. May- 
wood, N. J., from Fairlawn, N. J., 
where he was assistant production 
manager of Borden Ice Cream com- 
pany. 



LOOKING AROUND 

KINNEY L FORD 



Wichita is at 512 East Central av- 
enue. 



Irwin K. McWilliams, M. E. '26 
State proiessors; lur twu numuiw .. . . , „ n;„ n 

keys published by the Kansas state ! is senior aeronaut.cainspecto. Civil 
Board Of Agriculture, and for 'pam- j Aeronautics authority. Anchoiage, 
phlets innumerable,' all of which re-! Alaska. 
quire artistry plus scientific precision! Nancy (Mustoe) Cables, H. E. 27, 

not a usual combination of abili- j was married to Berlie Cables on 

ties. Two of her four children are January 4, 1938. Up to that time she 
journalists, and she has sold articles taught home economies in the Nor- 
to magazines of national circulation ton junior high. Now her address is 
—Country Life among them. Her 70 2 North First, Norton. Mr. Cables 
only daughter, Elizabeth (I. J. '22),|is a salesman. 

now Mrs. Edward Shaffer of Albu- j Myron W. Reed, G. S. '27, is now 
querque, N. M., is a regular contiibu-| in Topeka on Civilian Conservation 
tor to Household magazine and does | corps duty. He has been the last few 
much free-lance writing for other I m0 nths with the Kansas State Em- 
ployment service as a junior inter- 
viewer at Ellsworth and Salina. He 
and Mrs. Reed (Carolyn Vance, '28) 
are now at 2435 Ohio avenue, To- 



periodicals. Mr. Shaffer (f. s. '21), 
also a Household contributor, is the 
editor of the Albuquerque Tribune." 



Student Union-Dormitory Bill 

The State House of Representa- 
tives yesterday afternoon recom- 
mended for passage the proposal 
which would enable Kansas State 
College to build a Student union and 
a girls' dormitory, amortizing the 
costs by activity fees and rent. 

A companion bill in the Senate had 
been debated and then was referred 
to the committee, pending House con- 
sideration. 

Introduced by I. M. Piatt of Geary 
county, the House bill would permit 
any of the five Kansas state schools 
to form non-profit corporations of 
faculty members, students and alum- 
ni to erect a Student union and sell 
bonds to pay the costs. These would 
be retired by a general activity fee 
of not more than $5 a semester. 
These fees would be assessed against 
the student body. 

Construction of student dormi- 
tories would be authorized, the costs 
being met by rent and board pay- 
ments of the students living in the 
dormitory. 

A limitation of $300,000 a build- 
ing and an outstanding indebtedness 
for only two buildings at any one in- 
stitution were placed in the bill. 

Representative Piatt said that 
there was an "exceedingly great 
need" for the two buildings — a Stu- 
dent union and a girls' dormitory — 
at Manhattan. 



REPP — SMITH 
Julia Ann Repp, f. s., and O. Ro- 
land Smith, E. E. '39, were married 
December 26. Mrs. Smith, a member 
of Beta Sigma Phi, and Mr. Smith, 
member of Kappa Eta Kappa, are 
at home at 219 South Ninth street, 
Duncan, Okla., where he is an engi- 
neer for the Halliburton Oil and Ce- 
ment company. 



CURRY — KLINGE 
Esther Ruth Curry and Norbert I. 
Klinge, E. E. '3 2, both of Topeka, 
were married January 5. Mr. and 
Mrs. Klinge are both employed by the 
Southwestern Bell Telephone com- 
pany and will make their home in 
Topeka. While in College, Mr. Klinge 
was a member of Sigma Tau, honor- 
ary engineering fraternity, and Phi 
Kappa Phi. honorary scholastic fra- 
ternity. 



RECENT HAPPENINGS 
ON THE HILL 



Miss Alpha Latzke, head of the De- 
partment of Clothing and Textiles, 
broke her leg Saturday when she fell 
in the kitchen of her home. 



|,AWSON — SHAFFER 

Jean (Lawson) Shaffer writes, "I 
I am writing you to notify a change of 
address — also a change of name. Be- 
fore my marriage on December 28, 
1940, I was Jean Marty Lawson. '39 
, — I married Hillard W. Shaffer, '39. 
i 1 would like my subscription to The 
I Industrialist sent to us here at 
; Joliet — 410 Buell avenue. My hus- 
[ band is in the army and is working 
for the Kankakee Ordnance works." 



Plans for Varsity fair, all-College 
carnival, are being made by Sigma 
Delta Chi, professional journalism 
fraternity. Present plans are to have 
the fair in the west wing of Memorial 
Stadium on April 26. 



Approximately 100 students at- 
tending the first lecture of the YWCA- 
YMCA love and marriage series on 
the campus last week heard the Rev. 
B. A. Rogers attack society's atti- 
tudes toward social relationships be- 
tween boys and girls. 



The ability of students to meet 
emergencies was discussed last week 
by Dr. Howard T. Hill, head of the 
Department of Public Speaking, at 
the annual Chamber of Commerce 
dinner entertaining the teachers of 
the Abilene school system. 



W. A. Coe, '96, recently moved I pe ka. 
from Fayetteville and Springdale, 
Ark., to 702 West Park street, Yates 
Center, Kan. 

Mary Alberta (Dille) Hulett, B. S. 
'00, lives at 620 North Rodeo drive, 
Beverly Hills, Calif. 

William D. Davis, E. E. '04, elec- 
trical engineer for the Interstate 
Commerce commission, has been 
moved from his offices in the New 
Post-office building in Chicago to the 
United States Court house there. 

Horace E. Bixby, E. E. '08, and 
Hallie (Smith) Bixby, '08, are at 
3 552 Southwest Evans, Multnomah, 
Ore. Mr. Bixby is principal electrical 
engineer for the United States De- 
partment of the Interior, Bonneville 
Power administration. 



Gladys (Payne) Lee, 2117 Fair 
Park avenue, Eagle Rock, Calif., is 
now teaching in the Thomas Edison 
junior high school. 

"I have a nephew who will gradu- 
( Calif.) high 



Vera F. Howard, H. E. '28, ac- 
cepted a position in November with 
the Welfare and Recreational asso- 
ciation as food supervisor in the In- 
ternal Revenue cafeteria in Wash- 
ington, D. C. Her address until 
further notice is 5401 Allan road, 
Friendship station, Washington, D. C. 

William N. Moreland, G. S. '28, 
visited the College Alumni office in 
October. He is still junior meteorolo- 
gist with the weather bureau office, 
Albany, N. Y. 

Noel G. Artman. E. E. '29, and 
Mrs. Artman of 7515 Cornell avenue, 
Chicago, have a daughter, Lynn 
Meredith, 3 mouths old. Mr. Artman 
is a patent lawyer in Chicago. 

Francis S. Coyle, Ag. '30, 615 Sec- 
ond avenue, North. Great Falls, 
Mont., writes to thank the College 
Alumni office for the history of the 
College by Doctor Willard. He said 
he likes The Industrialist "from the 
College news on the front page to 
Doctor Grimes' brief discussions of 



ate from Montebello , ~ , ---„- .,„...,. ^. -~ 

school in June and I should very current economic problems on the 



much like to have him come back to , back 



Kansas State for bis college work," 
she writes. "I notice that our gradu- 
ates now in California all hold fine 
jobs due I think to the practical 
courses given at Kansas State. 

••I graduated from Kansas State . lftnd 
in 1918 Home Economics course and 
have held tine positions ever since. 
I see Elmer Schultz and Elmer Kit- 
tell. 12. out here every once in 
awhile. .Inst recently Etniuett Bacon, 
'20. has come here as federal meal 



Paul A. Davis, G. S. '3 6, is Metho- 
dist, minister at Meriden. Last year 
he attended the Garrett Theological 
seminary. 

Ival .1. Ramsbottom, Ag. '3 6, is a 
ircbitect. He owns the 
Ramsbottom Landscape company, 
5404 Preston road, Dallas, Texas. 
His residence address is 4417 Poto- 
mac, Dallas. 

Mildred Louise Swing, '37. is die- 



Pennsylvania Alumni Dinner 

Mrs. James W. York of Irwin. Pa., 
sent in the following report of the 
Kansas day dinner January 29 at the 
YWCA in Wilkinsburg, Pa.: 

"Immediately following the dinner, 
a business meeting was held and the 
following officers elected: President, 
Ralph D. Walker, '27; vice-president, 
James W. York, '36; secretary-trea- 
surer, Mrs. Earl H. Myers. 

"The remainder of the evening 
was spent in games and contests. 
Walter D. Hemker showed a moving 
picture entitled, 'The Middleton 
Family at the World's Fair.' 

"Those attending included: Dudley 
Atkins Jr., '13, and Josephine (Skin- 
ner) Atkins, '13; F. W. Beichley, 
'37; Howard E. Bumstead, '40; Na- 
than G. Chilcott, '25, and Mrs. Chil- 
cott; G. Merle Crawford, '25, and 
Mrs. Crawford; H. A. Heimerich, '40; 
Walter D. Hemker, '25, and Mrs. 
Hemker; Charles H. Mehaffey, '29, 
and Mrs. Mehaffey; Hurd T. Morris, 
'10, and Mrs. Morris: Earl H. Myers, 
'37, and Mrs. Myers; William A. Nel- 
son, '29. and Margaret (Adams) 
Nelson, '27; James Phinney. '40. and 
Velma (Peterson) Phinney, '37; 
Owen G. Rogers. '29, and Grace 
(Daugherty) Rogers. '29; B. A. Rose, 
'26, and Mrs. Rose; H. A. Rose, '24, 
and Mis. Rose; Earl L. Sitz, M. S. 
::2, and Mrs. Sitz; Ralph D. Walker, 
'27, and Mrs. Walker; Earl I). Ward. 
'26, and Mrs. Ward; Sydney F. Wey- 
brew, '3 2, and Mrs. Weybrew; T. L. 
VVeybrew, '24, and Mrs. Weybrew, 
and James W. York. '36, and Mrs. 
York." 



COOPER — LARSON 
Laura Mae Cooper became the 
bride of Warren G. Larson, f. s. '33, 
December 29, at the home of Dr. 
Burris Jenkins in Kansas City. The 
bride taught in the Woodrow Wilson 
school in Manhattan the past five 
years. Mr. Larson is employed by the 
Stevenson Clothing company, with 
which he has been associated the past 
four years. They are now in their 
new home on College Hill in Man- 
hattan. 



John M. Parker, Manhattan, who 
completed his requirements for a de- 
gree in general science last semester, 
is co-author of an article, "Ecological 
Relationships of Playa Lakes in the 
Southern Great Plains," in the Feb- 
ruary issue of the Journal of the 
American Society of Agronomy. 



A robot with a mechanical voice, 
called "Pedro the Voder," will appear 
on the campus Thursday. Dr. J. C. 
Perrine, assistant vice-president of 
the American Telephone and Tele- 
graph, New York City, will use the 
robot in his discussion of "The Arti- 
ficial Creation of Speech" tomorrow 
night in the College Auditorium. 



SANDBERG— TEICHGRAEBER 

Rosanna Sandberg, f. s. '37, and 

Robert Teichgraeber, f. s. '39, were 

I married January 4. The couple will 

live in McPherson, where the groom 

! is associated with his father in the 

! K. B. R. Milling company there. Mrs. 

Teichgraeber, a member of Delta 

Delta Delta sorority, has for the past 

year been secretary to C. O. Heinley, 

! transportation commissioner of the 

Hutchinson Chamber of Commerce. 

j Mr. Teichgraeber is a member of 

i Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. 



Debaters and oratorical and ex- 
i temporaneous speakers from Kansas 
State College will enter the Missouri 
Valley Forensic tournament at the 
University of Kansas March 27 to 29. 
This is the first time that debaters 
from Kansas State College have en- 
tered the contest. In previous years, 
several students from the College 
have, won in other classes. 



BIRTHS 



The tiny calling card of Melinda 
| Elizabeth, attached to the larger one 
I of her parents — Glenn Allen Aikins, 
I Ag. '24, M. S. '31, and Marjorie 
. (Taylor) Aikins — announced her 

birth on November 21. Mr. Aikins. 
| formerly connected with the Depart- 
| ment of Bacteriology at Kansas State 

College, is now working with Armour 

and company. Kansas City, Mo. The 
! Aikins' address is 3 611 Wyoming 

Btreet, Kansas City. 



All of last semester's students who 
graduated in vocational agriculture 
have obtained positions as teachers 
in Kansas high schools. They in- 
clude Edward Zahn, Miltonvale, who 
teaches at Hill City high school; Ken- 
neth Sherrill, Brownell, now a teach- 
er at Neodesha; Kent Patton, Chase, 

| a vocational agriculture teacher at 
Mul vane; Winzer Petr, Waterville, 

j who has been appointed to a position 
at Powhattan, and Raymond Stewart, 

j Manhattan, teaching in Centralia 

j high school. 

♦ 

MRS. CLARA GEBHABT SNYDER 
TO TALK OX ENRICHED FLOUR 



inspector. 



Helen (Hornaday) Cbappell, H. E. 

•]l. who has been lost on the Col- 
lege Alumni association records since 
1929 has been found to be at the 
Haven Hill apartments, Jefferson at is a civil engineer there. 



titian of Howard Payne and McMurry 
ball at Fayette. Mo. She lives at 
1 Howard Payne hall. 

Loren W. McDaniel, C. E. '38. and 
Ina E. (Honeycutt) McDaniel, f. s. 
:!,S. are at Minneola. Mr. McDaniel 



MARRIAGES 



• 



Forty-Seventh, Kansas City, Mo. She 
was married in 1925 to Edgar E. 
Chappell. 

Eva Lawson, II. B. '16, is person- 
nel director with the Ohio Farm bu- 
reau. Columbus. Ohio. She is active 
in women's organizations, with ap- 
proximately 6 70 employees under her 
direction. 

.Marie (Hammerly) Bayer. II. E. 
'20, and her husband, Fred H. Bayer, 
are at 23 29 South Rose street, Kala- 
mazoo, Mich. Mr. Bayer is manager 
of the Kalamazoo News Advertiser. 

Charles A. Thresher, B. S. '22, and 
/"Josephine (Treadway) Thresher, f. s. 
'22, are at 810 South WashiiiRton 
street, Wellington. They have four 
children Carol, 16; Grace, 15; 
RUth, 6. and Charles W.. 2. Mr. 



Rhoda S. Putzig. H. E. '39, is in- 
structor in clothing and textiles at 
the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. 
Alaska. Last year she was graduate 
assistant in the Department of Art at 
Kansas State College. She is work- 
ing on her master's degree here. 



YORK — CLELAND 

The marriage of Maude Elizabeth 
York, Manhattan, and C. Eugene 
Cleland, As. '40, took place Decem- 
ber 2 2. They took a short wedding 
trip and are now at home in Quinter. 



Georse Montgomery, Ag. '25, M. S. 
U7. associate professor of economics 
and sociology, and Mrs. Montgomery 
have named their baby boy, born 
January 1. George Howard, in honor 
of the father and a brother of Mrs. 
Montgomery. 



A list of the 1940 class of chemi- 
cal engineers has recently been pub- 
lished showing the location of the 
following: 

Earl Amthauer, 62 2 Sergeant av- 
enue, Joplin, Mo., is with the Eagle- 
Pitcher Lead company there. 

Vernon G. Boger, 678 May street, 
Akron, Ohio, is employed by the 
Goodrich Tire and Rubber company. 

David W. Brower works for E. I. 
du Pont de Nemours and company, 



NORBIiIUS— WALTZ 

Betsy Norelius, H. E. '3 7, and 
Frederick Waltz, a senior in medical 
college at Columbus, Ohio, were mar- 
ried December 22. Mrs. Waltz is die- 
titian at the St. Francis hospital, Co- 
lumbus. Their home is at 75 West 
Eighth avenue in Columbus. 



To Maurice "Red" Elder, P. E. ':!7. 
and Rosethel (Grimes) Elder, H. Ji. 
::s. a son. Charles Lawrence, born 
i January 19. Mrs. Elder is a daughter 
of Dr. and Mrs. W. E. Grimes, Man- 
hattan. Mr. Elder, son of Mrs. C. H. 
Elder, Manhattan, is a former Kan- 
sas State College athlete. Doctor 
Grimes is head of the Department of 
Economics and Sociology. 
♦ 

DEATHS 



Thresher is with the Soil Conserva- I™ Wilmington. Del. He is in the 
!L explosives division. 

tion service. Donald S. Brown is working on a 

Cities Service Training course, Cities 
Service Oil company. Bartlesville, 



Joe E. Thackrey, 0. S. '23, 157 
Morris avenue. Athens. Ohio, writes: 
"I'm assistant professor of school 
music here. We have 17 on the mu- 
sic faculty. I'm in my seventh year. 
I married Betty Boright, Pi Beta Phi 
graduated from Vermont university, 



Okla. 

Kenneth W. Conwell, 7033 Tulane, 
University City, Mo., works for the 
Monsanto Chemical company, St. 
Louis. Mo. 



SGIIROEI1ER— GROTE 

The marriage of Alva E. Schroeder, 
f. s. '40, to Hilbert A. Grote, Ag. '39, 
took place December 22. The couple 
is living in the Clayton apartments 
at Pittsburg, Kan. Mr. Grote is a 
field representative of the American 
Agricultural Chemical company, 
Stockyards Station, 111. 



CA RL.ISLE— A DAMS 

The marriage of Eena Carlisle, H. 
E. '39, and Larry Adams, E. E. '40, 
was December 14. For the past 1 1-2 
years, Miss Carlisle has taught home 
economics in the Leonardville Rural 
high school. Mr. Adams is in the en- 
gineering department, Coleman Lamp 
company, Wichita. Their home in 



At I LNER 
Bessie (Thompson) Milner, the 
wife of Paul C. Milner, B. S. '91, died 
February 7 after an illness of some 
weeks. Mrs. Milner, a graduate of 
Iowa State Teachers' college, is sur- 
vived by her husband, retired assis- 
tant cashier of the Continental Illi- 
nois National Bank and Trust com- 
pany, and by two sons. Their home 
has been in Mt. Dora, Fla., for the 
past several years. 



Vice-President Talks in Abilene 

Dr. S. A. Nock, College vice-presi- 
dent, spoke on the use of words at 
the Library Forum program in Abi- 
lene Monday night. 



Speaker Will Dim-u** Diet and National 

Hefen.se Thin Afternoon 

Mrs. Clara Gebhart Snyder, direc- 
tor of the Wheat Flour institute, Chi- 
cago, will speak on "Enriched Flour 
and Its Part in the National Nutri- 
lional Program" at 4 p. m. today in 

1 Calvin hall, room 101. 

Highly refined cereal products lack 

! many of the food nutrients, particu- 
larly certain vitamins, which are 
lound in whole grain, and the sub- 
stitution of white flour for whole 
wheat and other grains in the Ameri- 
can diet has been a matter of much 

: concern to nutritionists. Enriched 
flour will contain added substances 
which will supplement its value to 
the human body. According to Mrs. 
Snyder, the National Research coun- 
cil feels it will play an important part 
in the national nutritional program. 
Mrs. Snyder talked on the program 
of Farm and Home week, and has 
several times lectured to home eco- 
nomics classes. The Wheat Flour in- 
stitute which she represents is an 
educational division of the Millers' 
National federation. 
♦ 

Yeo Lending Contender 

Leo Yeo, Manhattan, a lanky Kan- 
sas State junior, has established him- 
self as a leading contender for first- 
place honors in the dashes at the Big 
Six conference swimming meet at 
Lincoln February 28 and March 1. 
His best time in- the 50-yard dash is 
24.2 seconds. The Big Six record is 



24.1. He has covered the 100-yard 
distance in 56 seconds as compared 
with the conference mark of 54.9. 






CONTEST WILL SPONSOR 
PASTURE IMPROVEMENT 

COLLEGE IOXTK!VSIO!V SKRVICK AND 
OTHKKS COOPKHATR 



OSCULOMETER WILL MEASURE POWER" OF KISS 

AT EXHIBIT DURING ENGINEERS' OPEN HOUSE 



Innovation 'litis Yenr InoliideM DIvImIoiin 

fur IHvernllled I'kfh by Small 

laniKTs nntl Another 

lor HniK'hott 

Pasture improvement contests in 
which farmers throughout Kansas ' side mav 
will have an opportunity to partici- results. 

pate will be conducted in 1941 by the ' The apparatus consists of a cui- 
College Extension service in coopera- \ M*»? » ooth wlth the l ««! d al a J ^ 
tlon with the Kansas City, Mo., Cham- , It, elect™ wires to be fastened 
ber of Commerce; the Kansas Farm- those being tested and a set of dials 



Among the novelty exhibits at the 
Engineers' Open House, March 14 
and 15, will be the osculometer to 
measure the intensity or "power" of 
a kiss. 

Any couple in the crowd may en- 
ter the booth and those on the out- 
watch a large dial for the 



er, Topeka, and other agencies. 

E. A. Cleavinger, extension agrono- 
mist, said the eastern Kansas contest 
will include Washington, Clay, Dick- 
inson, Marion, Butler, Cowley and 
all counties east of this line. 

INNOVATION THIS YEAR 

An innovation this year is that the 
contest will be conducted in two divi- 
sions, one for diversified pastures in- 
cluding tame grasses and supple- 
mental pasture crops, the other for 
larger ranches dependent principally 
on native grasses. Entries must be 



located on the side of the booth 
where the engineer operates the oscu- 
lometer. 

Although this is a new idea here, 
Robert Washburn, publicity director 



of Open House, reports that it has 
been used at other schools. Kansas 
State College has had lie detectors, 
personality thermometers for girls 
and other similar devices, but this is 
expected to be the most successful of 
all, Washburn said. 

However, other colleges have used j 
! the osculometer in connection with 
I their annual dance, the director ex- 
! plained, but they say that their ex- 
perience proves the device receives 
: "increased popularity as the evening 
progresses, until the rush in the late 
I hours is almost too great to handle." 
The oscillometer is part of the ex- 
hibit of the Department of Electrical 
Engineering. 



Heavy Sports Program 

Sports events All Kansas State Col- 
lege's February calendar. The basket- 
ball, swimming, wrestling and indoor 
track teams participate in 22 meets 
this month. When February ends, 
K-State athletes will have engaged in 
60 contests since school began in Sep- 
tember. 



WILDCAT CAGERS LOSE 

TO KANSAS, 45 TO 50 

BASKETBALL SftUAD IS DEFEATED 
IX OVERTIME PERIOD 



NEW TURKEY BREEDING HOUSE 
FINISHED FOR POU LTRY FARM 

Four i*enn. Accommodating 72 nirdx, 

Hnve Artificial LiKhtH mid 
HiinnliiK' Wnter 

A turkey breeding and brooding 
house, 20 by 70 feet in size, was com 



flied'with c"ounty~agri"culturaYagents;P^ted recently at the College poul 

before May 1. 

Cash prizes totaling $3 20 



will be 

awarded the winners by the Kansas 
City, Mo., Chamber of Commerce. A 
gold medal will be given the first- 
place winner in each division. Judg- 
ing will be based upon pasture man- 
agement, improvement in condition 
of pasture and pasturage secured dur- 
ing the year. 

Mr. Cleavinger said the contest for 
central and western Kansas likewise 
will be in two divisions, one for di- j 
versified pasture and one for range. \ 
Entries must be submitted by April 
15. 

Judging will be based on the fol- 
lowing points: (1) Maintenance and 
improvement of permanent pastures 
by practices such as deferred grazing 
and rotation grazing; (2) use of 
temporary pastures as a supplement 



farm. The open front house is of 
wood construction and the roof is 
covered with channel drain galva- 
nized iron. Straw was used for insula- 
tion over the breeding pens and rock 
wool over the brooding pens. The 
outside was painted with aluminum 
and the inside with white texolite 
paint. 

The four pens for breeding stock 
are each 10 by 20 feet in size and al- 
together will accommodate 72 birds. 
Each pen is equipped with artificial 
lights, trapnests and running water. 
No outside runs are available at pres- 
ent, but they will be added later. 

In addition to serving as pens for 
breeding stock they are used for cer- 
tain nutrition studies calculated to 
show the effects of different ingredi- 
ents on the hatchability of eggs. 

The brooding compartment which 



Haylett Picks Nebraska 

Coach Ward Haylett is known for 
his ability to forecast track and field 
meets. He says the Big Six confer- 
ence indoor meet to be held in Kansas 
City this week-end will be strictly a 
two-team affair, with Nebraska's all- 
around power edging out Missouri for 
first place. Oklahoma, Iowa State, 
Kansas State and Kansas will all be 
fighting for third, he predicts. 
♦ 

4-H LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE 
TO BE HELD IN HUTCHINSON 



Fou* College Extension Service Work- 
ers will Talk to Approxi- 
mately 400 AdiiltD 

The sixth annual adult 4-H club 
leaders' conference will be held in 
the 4-H club building at the Hutchin- 
son State fair park April 21 to 23, 
M. H. Coe, state club leader, an- 
nounced this week. 

At least 400 local community and 
project leaders are expected to at- 
tend. Talks, discussions, demonstra- 
tions and exhibits have been ar- 
ranged for the program. Leaders hav- 
ng served 10 years or longer will be 



to permanent grass or in a year- is separated from the breeding pens j given special recognition at the ban- 
around program of temporary pasture with a solid partition is divided into | quet. 

crops; (3) carrying capacity of pas- Ave pens 8 by 10 feet in size provid- Guest sl)e akers this year include 

tures used; (4) dependability; (5 ) *«K ln ^ dditl °™ a WOr }_ V0 °. m °!j^l ! four members of the College Bxten- 
quality of pasture; (6) cultural prac 



tices used in producing temporary 
pastures; (7) soil-holding or soil- 
improving value; (8) production 
and use of feed other than pasture; 
(9) general practices such as reseed- 
ing to native pasture, fencing, pro- 
viding water, contour furrowing, 
cactus eradication and mowing. 
PRIZES OF $200 

Two hundred dollars in cash prizes 
for winners in the central and west- 
ern Kansas contest will be provided 
by the Kansas Farmer, and all par- 
ticipants will be the guests of that 
magazine at steak feeds in different 
districts of the contest area. 

County agents have been provided 
with official entry blanks for the con- 
tests, Mr. Cleavinger said. 



size. These five rooms are equipped j sjon sel . v i ce , Kansas State College, 
with electric brooders, artificial lights | T ne y are Miss Mary Fletcher, foods 
and running water and will accom- j aud nutrition specialist; Miss Mae 
modate 500 poults to eight weeks of p arr ig, home furnishings specialist; 

C. G. Elling, animal husbandry spe- 
house provides the long- \ ( .j.,ij sti an d e. A. Cleavinger, crop 
needed equipment for turkeys at the ; sl)ec j a ii s t. 

poultry farm. It will be used for the j „ Thege confere nces are especially 

iU1( J ! designed to give adult leaders special 
i training in organization and meth- 
ods of teaching as well 



Second-Half Itnlly Ties Score lit 41-nll, 

but JnyhnwkM Pile I'll Enonish 

Polnti to win 

Contest 

After a last-half rally in which it 
nVcT"ll^nTV^nnAT*PI?rnRn overcame a seven point half-time lead 

'to tie the score, the Kansas State 
Wildcat basketball team lost to the 
University of Kansas at Lawrence 
Tuesday evening in the overtime pe- 
riod, 45-50. 

The Wildcats started the scoring 
early in the game and ran up a three- 
point lead before the Jayhawkers got 
started, then the K. U. team found 
the basket and took the lead, obtain- 
ing an advantage of 21-14 at the half. 

IiANGVAKDT, BEAUMONT STAR 

111 the first few minutes of the sec- 
ond half, the Wildcats, sparked by 
Chris Langvardt, Alta Vista, and 
Larry Beaumont, El Dorado, evened 
the score at 26-all. From that point 
on the lead changed nearly every 
minute. 

Late in the game, the score was 
again tied at 39-all when Dan Howe, 
Wildcat forward from Stockdale, 
scored from far out on the court. A 
few seconds later, a pass from Allen 
to Engleman beneath the Jayhawk 
basket resulted in another score for 
Kansas, and the regular playing time 
ended with the score 41-41. 

WILL FLAY IOWA STATE 

In the overtime period, the Jay- 
hawks made a total of nine points 
while the Wildcats scored two bas- 
kets. Bobby Allen started the scor- 
ing in the extra time when he made 
good on one out of two charity tosses. 
A little later, Engleman made a bas- 
! ket, followed by two more from Vance 
Hall and John Kline of Kansas. 

The last basket of the game was 
made by Jack Horacek, Wildcat for- 
ward from Topeka, who pushed the 
'Kansas State score up to 4 5 with a 
half minute to play. 

Saturday night, the Wildcats will 
meet Iowa State college at Ames in 
their last game of the season. A few 
weeks ago, the Cyclones, now in third 
place in the Big Six, downed the Kan- 



WILDCAT WRESTLER EARNS 



I.eliuid Porter, llcllvnle, Intlefenteil In 

13 MiiteheM. 'Will Compete Here 

In llin Six Toiirnnmeiit 

Leland Porter, a dark-haired lad 
from Dellvale, will carry the best in- 
dividual record into the Big Six con- 
ference wrestling tournament to be 
held here March 7 and 8. 

The Wildcat 155-pounder is un- 
defeated in 13 matches this season 
and has earned 49 points for his team 
in duals against some of the top 
teams in the nation. He has won five 
bouts by falls and eight by decisions. 

Second in point-making for Kansas 
State College, defending Big Six 
champion, is Glenn Duncan, captain, 
who has a total of 39 points. Duncan 
has won four matches by falls and five 
by decisions. He has lost two deci- 
sions and wrestled to a draw twice. 

Coach B. R. Patterson has an- 
nounced the following individual rec- 
ords of Kansas State grapplers: 



I 



Leland Porter, 155 lbs. 
Glenn Duncan, 14r> lbs. 
John Hancock, Hvywt. 
Robert Diiiilap, 128 lbs. 

Jim Vavroch, 186 lbs. 

Jerry Porter, 14") lbs. 
Clifford Case, 121 lbs. 
Warren Poring, lfi"> lbs. 

Key: W, won; L, 
TP, total points. 



W 
13 



5 

3 

3 

8 

3 

2 
lost; 



L 

n 
2 

3 

S 
7 

10 
3 



TP 

49 
39 
16 
13 
11 
11 
•I 
6 



D, draw 



age. 
This 



AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH 

(Continued from page one) 
keting of dairy products in the state 
was concerned chiefly with ( 1 ) in- 
vestigating butter storage in commu- ' 
nity cold-storage lockers; (2) col- j 
lection of data showing production ! 
and value of dairy products by Kan- 
sas counties for the period of 192G , 
to 1938, and (3) maintaining Kansas 
price series on butterfat, used princi- 
pally in preparation of periodic mar- ; 
ket reports and forecasts concerning 
marketing of dairy products. 

The poultry project during the past ; 
two-year period was concerned chief- ; 
ly with" marketing. A survey of Kan- 
sas cooperatives handling poultry and 
eggs was made in cooperation with 
the Farm Credit administration of 
Washington, D. C, and included 28 
associations. The survey showed that 
poultry and eggs accounted for only 
a small part of the total business of 
the associations and that the associa- 
tions lacked facilities for handling 
poultry and eggs. Three of the 22 
associations handling eggs operated 
on a graded basis, the study showed. 
Only three of the associations had 
refrigeration facilities. 
♦ 
Swimmers Defeat K. v. 
The Kansas State College swim- 
ming team continued its victory 
march by capturing eight first places 
out of nine events Monday to defeat 
the University of Kansas at Law- 
rence, 60 to 22. On Saturday Coach 
C S. Moll's squad defeated the Uni- 
versity of Oklahoma squad at Nor- 
man, 55 to 28. 



nutrition studies with a strain 
Broad Breasted Bronze turkeys kept 
at the College. Approximately 500 
poults are reared each year. 
♦ 
Two Professors Are Authors 
An article on water conservation 
on the Great Plains by Prof. F. C. 
Fenton of the Department of Agricul- 
tural Engineering and one on the use 
of power alcohol in tractors and farm 
engines by E. L. Barger, associate 
professor in the same department, 
were printed in the February issue of 
the Agricultural Engineering maga- 
zine published by the American So- 
ciety of Agricultural Engineers. 

4-H 1'iolit of $48(1,284 
That 4-H club members in Kansas 

in 1940 carried 41,071 projects and t rat ion, has a position with the Farm 

realized a profit of $480,284 on these Security administration. He is lo- 

projects M H. Coe, state club lead- cated at Mound City as an assistant 

er announced recently. rural rehabilitation supervisor. 



(is to provide 
these leaders with specific informa- 
tion about the various projects being 
(allied on in 4-H club work," Mr. 

Coe said. 

♦ 

Patterson to Officiate 

B. R. Patterson, wrestling coach, 
has been selected to officiate in the 
state high school wrestling tourna- 
ment at Wichita February 28 to 
March 1. He will also show movies 
of the national collegiate mat tourney 
during the event. 
♦ 

Works for FS A 

Charles Streeter. who graduated 
last semester in agricultural adminis- 



EVERYDAY ECONOMICS 

By W. E. GRIMES 



"Demand is meaningless unless associated with price." 



The term "demand" is frequently 
used by many but precisely defined 
by few people. Demand is meaning- 
less unless associated with price. The 
fact that people demand a certain 
quantity of a good at one price does 
not indicate the quantities that they 
would demand at a higher or a lower 
price. In general, and with most com- 
modities and services, more will be 
purchased at a lower price and less 
at a higher price. 

The honiemaker at a store illus- 
trates this characteristic of demand. 
If she wishes oranges and is willing 
to buy them at some price, her wishes 
are a part of the demand for oranges. 
However, before deciding upon the 
number to be purchased, she inquires 
about the price. If the price is lower 
than she expected she may take a 
larger number; if it is higher, she 



may reduce the number or take none. | stitutes demand. 



Her demand is not just one quantity 
but a whole series of quantities de- 
pending upon the price. So it is in 
practically every market. The quan- 
tity demanded varies inversely with 
the price. 

Too frequently the term "demand" 
is used as though the quantity de- 
manded were fixed without reference 
to price. National legislation has, at 
times in the past, been proposed 
which assumed that demand is for a 
fixed quantity. Such reasoning is cer- 
tain to lead to difficulty. The be- 
havior of people comes once again 
to remind us of the error in such 
reasoning. The lower the price, the 
more they will buy; and the higher 
the price, the less they will buy. 
Their willingness to buy differing 
quantities at all possible prices con- 



EXTENSION PUBLICATION 

(Continued from page one) 

wheat, 400,000,000 bushels of corn, 

100,000,000 bushels of barley, 500,- 

000,000 pounds of lard, 350.000,000 

pounds of pork and 250,000,000 

pounds of other edible fats," said the 

bulletin in contrasting the present 

agricultural situation with that dur- 
ing the war of 1914-18. 

"If the war continues, foreign 
, countries cannot trade with us as 
' they did in the last war. If the war . 
iends. there is still no medium of ex- bus State team 50-41 in Nichols Gym 

change. Our neighbors to the south | nasium at Manhattan. 

and north produce the same com- ! ♦ 

modities produced here, and eco- TOPEKA CAPITAL WRITER 

nomic domination of those countries 

by unfriendly foreign powers is con- j 

sidered as damaging to our way of 

life as military invasion. 

"The domestic situation is brighter 

for the immediate future. The em-; 

ployment of 4,000.000 additional 
men in the army and in industry will 
' cause an increased demand for meat, 
for dairy and poultry products and < 
for fruits and vegetables by the end j 

'of 1941. Large increases in prices 

i of these products on the farm will | 
be retarded by large supplies now on 
hand and by production shifts to I 
these commodities in areas produc- 

! ing surplus commodities." 

Answering those critics who be- ! 
lieve that Kansas agriculture should 
be drastically curtailed, the publica- 
tion's authors write, "No farmer 
needs to leave Kansas who is willing 
to take his living from the soil." 

The bulletin claimed that the first 
line of defense begins in the home 
where families realize that health is 
nature's greatest asset. A success- 
ful defense program also requires 
healthy, happy people, it was said, 
adding that people work best and 
think most sanely when their stom- 
achs are full of nutritious food. 

The Extension service's farm ma- 
chinery project has helped "to estab- 
lish a vast reservoir of mechanically 
trained young men and through 
mechanization is providing a means 
for producing vast supplies of food 
that are an essential detail of nation- 
al defense," the bulletin said. 



TO ADDRESS JOURNALISTS 

Milton Tabor Will DIhciinm Issues ll<- 

fiire State Legislature hn well 

iim Kdltorliil Writing 

Milton Tabor, editorial and politi- 
cal writer for the Topeka Daily 
Capital, Topeka, will discuss current 
issues before the Kansas State Legis- 
lature at 4 p. in. tomorrow in Kedzie 
hall as guest speaker for the indus- 
trial journalism lecture. 

Problems of the newspaper in cov- 
ering and interpreting this legisla- 
tive news will be analyzed by Mr. 
Tabor, who is considered one of the 
best-informed political writers in 
Kansas. 

Journalism students in the editori- 
al practice class will meet with him 
for a roundtable discussion on edi- 
torial writing tomorrow morning. 

Mr. Tabor has written political 
articles for many Eastern newspa- 
pers, including the New York Times. 
He is the Kansas correspondent 
for the United States News. Since 
the death of E. E. Kelley, be also has 
conducted the column, "Grass Roots," 
in the Capital. 



HAROLD 
LAN 



HOWE WILL ATTEND 
I )-T EX UK E CONFERENCE 



Inspects Naval Aircraft 

Prof. It. G. Kloeffler, head of the 
Department of Electrical Engineer- 
ing, recently received a letter from 
Otto A. Hauck, E. E. '40. Mr. Hauck 
is an inspector of naval aircraft on 
Long Island, N. Y. He writes that 
one of the new types of planes which i states might be 
he helps to inspect has folding wings | and might have 



Si-NNioiiN to Be Held on February 28 
mid Mnrch 1 In St. Loula 

Dr. Harold Howe, professor in the 
Department of Economics and Sociol- 
ogy, will be in St. Louis February 28 
and March 1 attending a land-tenure 
conference. 

Professor Howe is the representa- 
tive for Kansas on the Northcentral 
Regional Land-Tenure committee. 
This committee was appointed re- 
cently by the Land-Grant College as- 
sociation so that land-tenure research 
work throughout the Northcentral 
better coordinated 
in official recogni- 



ill - 1 1 1 ' i J J n hi inn|» ' ' i * «.*■ u * .-> a - — — « 

and is to be used on airplane carriers | tion of this coordination by the Land 



to increase the plane-carrying ca- 
pacity of the ships. Mr. Hauck added 
that he sees Jack Jenkins, William 
Gordon, Francis Woestemeyer and 
Robert Lake occasionally. All four 
were graduated in electrical engi- 
neering in 1940 and are located at 
Philadelphia. 






N 



Grant College association. 

Douglas F. Schepmoes, junior ag- 
ricultural economist of the United 
States Bureau of Agricultural Eco- 
nomics, also will attend the St. Louis 
meeting. Mr. Schepmoes has been 
stationed at the College since last 
October. 



mm 



HISTORICAL SOCIETY C 

TOPEKA 

KAN. 



The Kansas Industrialist 



4 



Volume 67 



KansaTstate College of Agriculture and Applied Science, Manhattan, Wednesday, March 5, 1941 



Number 21 



ENGINEERING STUDENTS 
ARE ON GOOD-WILL TOUR 

OPEN HOUSE EXHIBITS ARE IHS- 
PLAYED IN KANSAS TOWNS 



k 



Trio Visits McPherson, Sallna, Hutchln- 

■on, Wlchltn, Emporia, Kansas City, 

Topeka School* anil Radio 

Station* 

Three engineering students are on 
a good-will tour of Kansas high 
schools and radio stations this week. 
John Shaver, Salina, senior in 
architectural engineering, and Phil 
Myers and B. R. Chapin, juniors in 
mechanical engineering, are on a five- 
day trip with an array of representa- 
tive exhibits of the Engineers' Open 
House here March 14 and 15. 

SHOW SAMPLE EXHIBITS 
Among the exhibits included in the 
demonstrations is a stroboscope, a 
new development for making ex- 
tremely slow motion pictures and ap- 
paratus for apparently stopping a 
moving object. 

Other exhibits include a colored 
ball selector that will divide three 
colors of ping-pong balls into their 
correct group and an ultra-violet 
light machine which casts a black 
T light. Black light causes objects to be 
luminous in the dark. 

The demonstrations include elec- 
trical equipment, chemical displays, 
airplane models and possibly the new 
Oarand rifle used by the army. The 
central theme of this year's annual 
Open House will be national defense. 
VISIT WICHITA TODAY 
The good-will troupe visited the 
McPherson and Salina high schools 
and radio station KSAL on Monday, 
Hutchinson and Wichita North high 
schools and radio stations KWBG and 
KFH on Tuesday. Wichita East high 
school and radio stations KFBI, 
KANS and KTSW and Emporia State 
Teachers' college are on their sched- 
ule for today. 

The students will return on Friday 
after visiting Topeka high school and 
Wyandotte high school in Kansas 
City on Thursday and Friday, as well 
as radio stations KCKN, WDAF and 
WIBW. 

WlUi BROADCAST DANCE 
Climaxing the Engineers' Open 
House will be the St Pat's prom on 
the 15th. Arrangements are being 
made for broadcasting the dance, at 
which St. Pat and St. Patricia will 
be presented over the Kansas net- 
work which includes stations KSAL, 
Salina; KFBI, Wichita; KVGB, Great 
Bend, and KTSW, Emporia. WHB, 
Kansas City, will make a recording of 
the program and will at a later (date 
play it back.. 

The Steel King trophy will be pre- 
sented at the prom. Since IS 37 Steel 
Ring, honorary society for students 
in the Division of Engineering and 
Architecture, has awarded a trophy 
to the department having the best 
exhibit. The Department of Archi- 
tecture has received the award the 
past two years. 



8TRATTOX AM) PELTOS GIVE 
RECITAL SUNDAY AFTERNOON 



Livestock Team Leave* 

The livestock judging team chosen 
by Coach F. W. Bell of the Depart- 
ment of Animal Husbandry left Tues- 
day to compete in the Southwest ex- 
position in Ft. Worth, Texas. The 
team members will return next Tues- 
day. Members are Calvin Doile, Em- 
poria; Norman J. Griffith, Clayton; 
Conrad Jackson, Blsmore; Oscar 
Norby, Pratt, and Richard Wellman, 
Sterling. 



'HOPPER EGG SITUATION 
REPORTED SAME AS 1940 

SIRVEY SHOWS AfERAGE OP 75 
EGGS A SQUARE FOOT 



Four Attend Conference 

Prof. F. A. Smutz, G. F. Branigan, 
J. N. Wood and F. J. Sullivan of the 
Department of Machine Design re- 
cently attended the midyear confer- 
ence of the engineering drawing divi- 
sion of the Society for the Promotion 
of Engineering Education at Wash- 
ington university in St. Louis, Mo. 



AG JUDGING TEAM MEMBERS 
TO GET K AWARDS THURSDAY 



Dr. E. G. Kelly, College Extension En- 
tomologist, Tabulates Result* 
from 00 Western 
Counties 

A survey of the 1941 grasshopper 
crop showed that there were 75 eggs 
on an average in each square foot 
of the average mile of fence row, 

,,OW creek bank, Stubble fields Dr. J. O. Perrlne. Assistant Vlce-Pres, 
and Wastelands of western Kansas I dent of American Telephone and Tele 



TWO CAMPUS BUILDINGS 
ARE PROPOSED IN BILLS 

4-H GXIIB-FIELDHOrSE AND MILI- 
TARY STRUCTURE PROPOSED 



ARTIFICIAL SPEECH MACHINE 
IS DEMONSTRATED ON CAMPUS 



Presentation Will Take Place at Semi 

nnri 27 Students Scheduled 

for Recognition 



Dr. E. G. Kelly, Kansas State Col- 
lege extension entomologist, reported 
this week. The situation is approxi- 
mately the same as that reported last 
The annual awarding of K medals ! spi . m g on the 1940 crop, 
to 27 College students will highlight Doc tor Kelly's forecast was based 
the agriculture seminar Thursday af- on grass hopper egg counts conducted 
ternoon. The medals are given in in samp i e areas of 60 western coun- 
recognition of service on one of the Ues du ,.j ng the fall and winter by 

■_ J — .!_ ,. i>l nil ■-. — 1 «' ... I ..,.., 1 , . i i t mil / 1 1 / > 



K ruph Company. Talks on Sound 

An electrical machine creating 
artificial speech was demonstrated 
and explained to a College audience 
last Thursday evening by Dr. J. O. 
Perrine, assistant vice-president of 
the American Telephone and Tele- 



Sennte Ways and Means Committee 

Studies Measures for Constructing 

New Additions on 

Cnmpus 

Bills providing for a building to 
house the personnel and equipment 
of the Department of Military Science 
and Tactics and for a 4-H club-field- 
house on the Kansas State College 
campus were introduced in the State 
Legislature last week. 

A bill to appropriate approximate- 
ly $33,000 for the construction of 
the military science building is now 
before the Senate Ways and Means 
committee. Pies. F. D. Farrell and 
Fred M. Harris, Ottawa, chairman of 
the State Board of Regents, have dis- 
cussed the military science building 
with members of the Senate corn- 



graph company 

The demonstration of the J^hine, 
six judging teams which represented county agent8 and federal entomolo- called '™n K* Voter ,w ^ V ° ihe m iuee7it was said at the Persidenfs 
Kansas State College during the past gist8 . | sored by the student branch Ol tne 

year I TO USE n,000 TONS OF BRAN [American Institute of Electiical 



Speaker at the seminar will be L. J 
E. Hawkins, agricultural commis- 
sioner of the Kansas City, Mo., Cham 



The reports indicated that not asjSineeis 
many counties were infested this 
spring, but that the control problem 



3 r of Commerce. Mr. Hawkins, for- ! would ', )e slig htly worse in the smaller The sounds were bit 
erly on the staff of the Department ber of C0U nties involved. Ap- resemble speech by 
. ■ ._: i n„,.i,.,iwii'v at Oklahoma .... yv/i/i i _* „iu ,.,.« i auronanii who onera 



The machine was built to create 

every sound used in human speech. 

The sounds were blended together to 

Miss Anna Mae 



._. number oi counues mvuncu. ^.y- • ~~ -«- — - 

of Animal Husbandry at Oklahoma imately 5 , 00 tons of mill-run I Swenson, who operated the keyboard 

A. and M., will discuss "Livestock £„_ anA OQW(1liat „. n d anmoximately ! of the machine. In order to do t 



Problems in the Southwest." 



Droximaieiy o,uuv iun» ui uuiriwi — ■ — - ... 

ban and sawdust and approximately of the machine. In order -to do ^ this 
50,000 gallons of liquid sodium ar- Miss .Swenson had to be ^aMe to break 



The students receiving medals and ' , n b nee ded for poisoned I down every word into its component 

1 sounds and then to operate the key- 
board. Though selected for her great 



the" teams on which they judged are: | ^aslT this' spring"" Doctor Kelly ex- 1 sounds and then to operate the key 



Poultry, Ray Morrison, Lamed; plaineQ 
H. L. Carnahan, Parsons; Wilbert i 
Greer, Council Grove. 

Meat, F. E. Meenen, Clifton; W. 
A. Moyer, Manhattan; O. W. Norby, 
Pratt; B. W. Gardner, Carbondale. 

Dairy cattle, W. S. Robinson, Nash- 
ville; R. C. Nelson, Falun; E. A. 
Reed, Rice; F. R. Wempe, Frankfort. 

Dairy products, D. E. Brown, Os- 
borne; 0. C. Jackson, Elsmore; M. 
W. Marcoux, Havensville. 

Livestock, H. W. Frederick, Burr- 
ton; R. W. Rhodes, McLouth; Mack 
Yenzer, Saffordville; W. R. Colle, 
Sterling; B. H. McCune, Stafford. 

Crops, D. E. Crumbaker, Onaga; 
H. J. Smies, Courtland; E. L. Cy- 
phers, Fairview, and H. L. Singer, 
Parker. 



The maximum number of grass- natural aptitude for the work, it .took 

least 80 percent of these eggs can be said 
expected to hatch, so western Kansas 



HEARING HELD FRIDAY 
The 4-H club-fieldhouse measure, 
providing for appropriation of $400,- 
000, was introduced Friday. Spon- 
sors of the legislation are Sen. O. W. 
Schwalm of Paxico in the upper house 
and Reps. John A. Holmstrom of 
Riley county, H. J. Barr of Wichita, 
A. P. Hartman of Marshall, R. F. 
Glick of Doniphan and Karl W. Root 
of Atchison. 

Hearing for the 4-H club-field- 
house bill was held by the Senate 
Ways and Means committee Friday 
afternoon, with Michael F. Ahearn, 



farmers may anticipate another grass- 
hopper control proble'n this summer. 
Doctor Kelly said. 

NEED ORGANIZED CONTROL 
Organized control campaigns can 
effectively limit the grasshopper dam- 
age to crops this summer as they have 
in previous years. Doctor Kelly con- 
tinued. Country and community or- 
ganizations already have been estab- 

counties 



The machine was developed, Doc- director of athletic 8 at the f „ege 
tor Perrine said, to help In expert- and Jack Gardner -basketball coach 



CONCERT HAND PRESENTS 



ments which eventually would make 
it possible to send three telephone 
messages over a wire in the same 
space that one telephone message 
now takes 



presenting arguments for the struc- 
ture. 

APPROVES WPA AID 

Pres F D. Roosevelt's approval of 
an allotment of $92,595 from Works 



An analogy with the creation of ^gress anministration funds^oi 



human speech explains how this may 
be done. Doctor Perrine said that 
vibrations making up speech sounds 
are very rapid. The mechanisms of 



wtre L^hoppei TaS wlT * speech-mouth, lip and tongue 
greatest and l»2e organizations will I movement*—™ slow ,n comparison, 
lead in distributing the poisoned bait j In the machine the keyboard is 
and in promoting county-wide con- analogous with human speech mech- 
3ERT BAN" nuMHie ^Itrol campaigns. Such organized con- anism. The keyboard impulses take 
MUSIC ASSEMBLY PROGRAM I j meagttres p^-yed highly effective up one-third as much room on the 

' in 1940 wires as do actual sonnd vibrations. 

Charles Homer, Ahliene. Plays Baritone ^^ of r0a . a siaeB stu bble fields j These keyboard impulses cause the 

and wastelands to destroy grasshop- machine to produce speech sounds 1 " 



Solo Twesflny Afternoon 

The College concert band under the 
direction of Prof. Lyle W. Downey 
played for the music assembly Tues- 
day afternoon in the College Audi- 
torium. 

Charles Hwner, Abilene, playefl a 
baritone solo, "El Matador," by Ben- 
nett. Horner is a senior in music ed- 
ucation at the College. 

Horner made the baritone arrange- 
ment of David Bennett's composition 
for the cornet. 

The program included: "If Thou 
Be Near," by Bach; "Jesu, Joy of 
Man's Desiring," by Bach; "Richard 
III," overture by German; "El Mata- 
dor," by Bennett; "Tales of the Vi- 
enna Woods, by Strauss; "'Dancing 
Tambourine," by Polla, and "Cypress 
Silhouette," a modem rhapsody of 
the deep South, by Bennett. 



the military science building in Man- 
hattan was announced last Friday by 
Clarence G. Nevins, Kansas director 
of the WPA. The project, it was said, 
received prompt presidential approv- 
al because it was considered an im- 
portant aid to national defense. 

The military science building would 
be of reinforced concrete faced with 
native stone, in keeping with the 
other campus buildings. Mr. Nevins 
predicted that construction would 
start in April if the State Board of 



and wastelands to destroy grasshop- machine to produce speecn ~ g availa))le by that 

per egg, was started last fall just as | ™*^~!^J^Z?SEZ 3me. 



tele-phone official explained. 

EXTENSION DISTRICT AGENT 
WILL HELP SUPERVISE LOANS 



Faculty BteUfllW Present Program of 
Music for Organ and Piano 

Charles Stratton and Marion Pel- 
ton, faculty members of the Depart- 
ment of Music at the College, played 
at a piano and organ recital Sunday 
afternoon in the College Auditorium. 
The program of music for organ 
and piano included: "Symphonic 
Piece," by Joseph W. Clokey; "Vari- 
ations on Two Themes," Op. 35, by 
Marcel Dupre; "Introduction and 
•.^Allegro Appassionato," Op. 92 ^ for 
* piano and orchestra, by Robert Schu- 
mann. . 

About 200 persons enthusiastically 
received the numbers. 
♦ 

Will Talk at Blytlieville 

Dean Margaret M. Justin of the 
Division of Home Economics at the 
College will be one of the two prin- 
cipal speakers at the annual state 
convention of the Arkansas Ameri- 
can Association of University Wo- 
men in Blytheville, Ark., March 29. 



ft was in 1939 when, by May 1 last of human speech causes the produc 
year, '4,500 miles of roadsides and , turn >oI human speech sounds, the 
more than 2;»00;0t)0 acres of stubble 
fields and wastelands had been cov- 
ered by nearly 8,200 cooperating 
farmers. 

WEATHER IS IMP8KKTA-NT 
Last spring the poisoning campaign 
haa the help of more than 16,300 
farmers who scattered 4,100 tons of 
sawdust and mill-run bran and 41,- 
0W gallons of liquid swHiuin arsenite. 
The 1940 poisoning campaign pro- 



TONS OF COTTON USED FOR MATTRESS PROGRAM 
INDICATE KANSANS DESIRE COMFORTABLE BEDS 



|!y GEORGIANA H. SMURTHWAITE 

Kansas Home Demonstration Leader 

Kansas State College Extension Service 

You spend one-third of your life 
in bed. Eight hours out of every 24 
are needed for sleeping. It is small 
wonder, then, that most of us are 
particular about having a comfort- 
able bed. 

Kansas people are no exception — 
the hundreds of thousands of pounds 
of cotton that already have been or- 
dered and delivered in this state 
prove that. This cotton will be used 
to make mattresses. The "cotton- 
mattress program," as it has been 
called, has begun in Graham county 
where some mattresses already have 
been completed. 

Fifty-six counties have enrolled in 
the program, and more counties are 



A. E. Turner Is Om« of Three Men 

(Charged with IMreetlng Emer- 

>ic««-> FlaaaeliiK 

Emergency seed and feed loans, 

toeing offered by the emergency crop 

•and feed loan section of the Farm 

tected approximately 3,250,000 acres [credit administration, will be super- 

of cr ops. i vised this spring by H. E. Warren 

'College entomologists pointed out an d H. E. Schmidt, both of the 

that weather conditions during May /Emergency Crop and Feed Loan of- 

aafl June might be an important fac- nce at Wichita, and A. F. Turner. 

(Continued on test page) ! district agent of the Kansas State 

- College Extension service, Manhat- 
tan. 

The loans may include funds for 
the purchase of seed, feed for work- 
stock, fuel, oil and minor repairs, as 
•well as funds for planting a garden 
for home use. 

Crop loans are to be obtained by a 
first lien on the crops to be planted 
with the loan funds. Both landlords 
and tenant farmers are eligible for 
loans. The interest rate is 4 percent. 
The amount loaned to the individual 
farmer is based on the cost of pro- 
ducing the crops to be financed. 

Mr. Turner said the basic objec- 
tive of emergency crop and feed 
loans is to make it possible for farm- 
ers to produce sufficient crops with 
which to repay their loans, and at 
the same time enable them to con- 
tinue their farming operations and 
through such operations meet the 
needs of their families and care for 
their workstock and subsistence cat- 
tle. 



time. 

NEAR CALVIN HALL 

The original proposal called for 
building the new structure back of 
Calvin hall. 

The new building will contain of- 
fices for the military officers stationed 
at the College, classrooms, assembly 
rooms, a firing range and storage 
facilities for the rifles and other mili- 
tary equipment. These are now 
housed in Nichols Gymnasium. 

♦- 
PRIMARY AVIATION COURSE 

ATTAINS FULL QUOTA OF :W 



enrolling every day. The actual 
number of mattresses ordered chang- 
es daily, and it numbers high in the 
thousands. Fifty pounds of cotton 
are needed for one double mattress. 

Families who have applied for a 
mattress and been accepted do the 
work of putting the mattress togeth- 
er under the supervision of home eco- 
nomics extension specialists. 

We're hearing a lot about nutri- 
tion and national defense: nutrition 
and general health in all its aspects 
— and the need of restful sleep is one 
of these. These new mattresses that 
will soon be completed in many sec- 
tions of Kansas will help promote 
restful sleep, and provide comfortable 
sleeping quarters for thousands of 
persons — thus helping to carry on 
our national defense program. 



Prof. Ci BJ. Pcarce Says Students Will 
He Plying Soon 

The quota of 30 students has beei! : 
filled for the Civil Aeronautics au- 
thority primary flying course. Prof. 
C. E. Pearce, flight course director, 
said all the students will soon have 
a chance to fly. 

The list of the students taking the 
primary course includes: 

Harmond Bear, Abilene; Wayne 
Bogard, Junction City; Max Cables, 
Concordia; John Dart, Newton; Clay- 
ton David, Topeka; Everett Fager, 
Miller; Dean Gross, Russell; Alfred 
Hawkinson, McPherson; Gordon 
Hoath, Anthony; Dale Hupe, Perry; 
Delmar Jones, Mulvane. 

John McClurkin, Clay Center; Rob- 
ert McClymonds, Wafton; James 
McKie, Saiina; Dale Morlan, Court- 
land; Robert Roberts, Wellington; 
Clarence Ryser, Haddam; Pat Sauble, 
Newton; Clarence Schulze, Blue 
Springs; Tasker Sherrill, Republic; 
C. W. Smick, Oberlin; Charles Staf- 
ford, Republic; Jay Stevens, Lincoln; 
Wallace Swanson, Sharon Springs,, 
and Byron Wilson, Manhattan. 



The KANSAS INDUSTRIALIST 

Establish ed April 24, 1875 

R. I. TMACUBT Editor 

Jani Rockwfll, Raiph Lasiibrook, 

Hill in Khih.hbaum Associate Editors 

KlNNtT Tokd Alumni Editor 

Published weekly during the college year by the Kansas 
State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, 
Manhattan, Kansas. 

Except for contributions from officers of the College 
and members of the faculty, the articles in Tltr. Kan- 
sas Industrialist are written by students in the De- 
partment of Industrial Journalism and Printing, which 
does the mechanical wprk. 

The price of Tm: Kansas Industrialist is $3 a year, 
payable in advance. 

Entered at the postoflicc, Manhattan, Kansas, as second- 
class matter October 27, 1918. Act o f July IS, U9A. 

Make checks and drafts payable to the K. S. C. 
Alumni association, Manhattan. Subscriptions for all 
alumni and former students, $) a year: life subscrip- 
tions, $50 cash or in instalments. Membership in 
alumni association included. 




volved in any other course, nearly all 
the standard newspapers of the coun- 
try observed regulations and opinions 
of the committee closely. There were 
no restrictions on criticism of gov- 
ernmental officials in their conduct of 
the war. 

Although government officials nat- 
urally refuse to speculate as to what 
might happen if this country again 
becomes involved in war, the general 
thought of research workers in the 
communications field seems to be 
that the American method of making 
the adjustment between the desire 
and need of the public for informa- 
tion and the necessity for secrecy 
with respect to certain phases of the 
military effort, was the most success- 
ful used by any country in World 
War I. Unless they are badly wrong, 
emphasis in another national emer- 
gency would again be on provision 
of information rather than censor- 
ship; with cooperation voluntary as 
far as possible; and with all but 
strictly military informational activi- 
ties in civilian hands. 



SCIENCE TODAY 



WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1941 



CENSORSHIP— A GI-AJVCE BACK- 
WARD 



When Lowell Mellett, director of 
the Office of Government Reports, 
told a Congressional committee re- 
cently that the national government 
has "absolutely no plans" for censor- 
ship of press or radio as part of the 
peacetime preparedness drive, he 
went far toward quieting speculation 
as to the probability of such action. 
Mellett comes from a distinguished 
newspaper family whose whole tradi- 
tion is against restrictions on the 
supplying of information to the 
people. One of his brothers, Don 
Mellett, paid with his life for his pas- 
sionate belief in freedom of expres- 
sion. Gangsters in Canton, Ohio, 
murdered Don Mellett when he ex- 
posed, in his newspaper, the close 
connection between certain local 
politicians and racketeers. Lowell 
Mellett was European manager and 
later a war correspondent for the 
United Press in the World war years 
when that organization was building 
the foundations for its post-war suc- 
cess by providing information which 
a news-hungry world was having dif- 
ficulty in getting from other than in- 
terested sources. After the World 
war Lowell Mellett was managing 
editor of Collier's magazine, and for 
16 years edited a Scripps-Howard 
newspaper in Washington, before 
entering government service in 1937. 
Nothing in his background or record 
suggests any taste or aptitude for the 
title of "censor." 

Although Mellett's statement cov- 
ered the situation for so long as this 
country does not become actively in- 
volved in war, there is little Question 
but that much now regarded as legiti- 
mate material for publication would 
become "dangerous matter" if the 
transition to a wartime state is made. 
All experience, including our own in 
1917-1918, indicates this is so. 

In 1917-1 91 S no compulsory cen- 
sorship of news originating in this 
country and for dissemination in this 
country was established, save for re- 
strictions on the giving out of mili- 
tary information by the military 
establishment. Effective controls over 
material deemed harmful to pros- 
ecution of the war were maintained, 
however, by operation of the Espio- 
nage and Trading with the Enemy 
acts, wartime laws forbidding publi- 
cation of certain types of military and 
semimilitary information and of 
material deemed harmful to morale!. 
These laws were enforced by the De- 
partment 1 of .lustice. which had the I 
power to institute prosecutions for 
violation of the acts, but not to pass 
on material in advance of publication. 
This latter task was performed, on a 
voluntary basis, by a section of the 
civilian Committee on Public Infor- 
mation, which, in addition to its ma- 
jor function of making information 
about conduit of the war available 
to newspapermen, also prepared an 
advisory sheet for publicists, cover- 
ing "dangerous matter" and "ques- 
tionable matter." 

Editors doubtful about borderline 
material could submit it to the Com- 
mittee on Public Information for an 
advisory opinion. If the committee 
disapproved publication, the editor 
was still free to publish the material, 
but at the risk of prosecution of the 
Department of Justice for violation 
of the Espionage and other wartime 
acts Both because of a desire to co- 
operate in the prosecution of the 
war and because of the danger in- 



A PLANT PIONEER RETIRES 
Some of the federal employees who 
actually had a hand in the remaking 
of America have or will be retiring | 
soon from public life. This is partic- | 
tilarly true of the Department of Ag- j 
liculture where many of its famed 
scientists are near retirement age. 

Just last week, for example, Dr. 
Walter T. Swingle was retired from 
the Bureau of Plant Industry. He 
was one of the original 50 employees 
of the bureau when it was established 
in 1901 and he spent 50 years of his 
life at the department. Only these 
hare facts were mentioned when Doc- 
tor Swingle was retired, but today 
millions enjoy the results of his sci- 
entific work. Briefly, the aged scien- 
tist is solely responsible for the fig 
and date industry in this country. 
He also discovered and developed 
citrus fruits which we'll all be eat- 
ing within a few years. 

Around 1900 Doctor Swingle was 
assigned to find out why figs wouldn't 
produce in this country. Pig trees 
would grow here but they wouldn't 
bear fruit. The then young scientist 
went to Syria and Greece where he 
found out about the sex life of a fig, 
and. incidentally, stirred up an inter- 
national controversy. 

In Syria and Greece, Swingle dis- 
covered the natives breeding wasps 
which they would take from one fig 
tree to another. The natives could 
give no scientific explanation for their 
work. The young American scientist 
concluded that the peculiar-looking, 
wasp-like bugs fed on male fig trees 
and then fertilized female fig trees 
by crawling into the blossoms where j 
they sometimes died. Swingle decid- | 
ed that America needed wasps before 
the fig trees would bear fruit. 

He came back to this country with 
bis suitcase full of wasps and with 
scientists the world over poking fun 
at him. Italian scientists laughed 
loudest. They said it was a "foolish 
superstition." Despite ridicule, 

Swingle stood by his theory and soon 
he produced figs with his "foolish 
theory." Now there's a booming fig 
industry in California and Arizona | 
and it all can be traced directly to. 
Swingle. 

His friends at Agriculture say. 
Swingle will be best known for his 
work with citrus fruits. He crossed 
a tangerine and grapefruit and pro- 
duced the first tangelo, a fruit scien- 
tists predict will be as common as 
oranges within the next decade. He 
has developed several varieties of 
oranges, grapefruits and other citrus 
fruits. -Editorial comment in the 
Washington Post, February 9, 1941. 



By WILSON TRIPP 

Assistant Professor, Department of 
Mechanical Engineering 

In the steam-turbine power plant 
steam generated in a boiler is deliv- 
ered to the steam turbine where it 
expands through the blades and pro- 
duces rotary motion of the turbine 
shaft. The mechanical power devel- 
oped in the turbine is converted to 
electrical energy in the generator. 
The exhaust steam from the turbine 
is condensed to a liquid in the con- 
denser and is returned to the boiler 
by a boiler feed-water pump. To ob- 
tain high thermal efficiencies of 25 
to 30 percent, the modern steam plant 
has, in addition to the above-men- 
tioned equipment, steam superheat- 
ers, feed-water heaters, air preheat- 
ers, air ejectors, feed-water treaters 
and draft fans. 

In the combustion-gas-turbine pow- 
er plant, air is compressed in an 
axial-flow compressor to a pressure of 
20 to 30 pounds per square inch gage 
and then is delivered to a combustion 
chamber. Part of the air is sent to 
a burner where it mixes with fuel 
oil and produces a flame. The re- 
maining air is by-passed around the 
burner and mixes with the flame, re- 
ducing its temperature to about 
1000° F. The hot gases enter a gas 
turbine, and, expanding through the 
j blades in a manner similar to the ex- 
I pansion of steam in a steam turbine, 
produce rotary motion of the turbine 
shaft. The major portion of the pow- 
er developed by the gas turbine is 
consumed in the operation of the air 
(compressor, while the excess power 
is converted into electrical energy in 
the generator. 

The first attempts, 40 years ago, to 
build successful gas turbines were 
failures because of two difficulties: 
(1) no metals were available that 
could withstand high temperatures, 
and (2) the blade efficiencies of the 
turbine and air compressor were too 

low. 

In recent years, the research ac- 
i tivities of scientists in the fields of 
1 metallurgy and aerodynamics have 
i overcome these two obstacles. Within 
1 the past decade remarkable progress 

has been made. Today we have gas- 
I turbine power plants with a thermal 
I efficiency of 18 percent. 



ident Eliot of Harvard university. 

Professors Georgeson and Hood 
and Mrs. Kedzie attended farmers' 
institutes at Dodge City and Garden 
City. 



The gas turbine has been developed 
by the Brown-Boveri company of 
Switzerland, under the direction of 
Dr. Adolphe Meyer. In this country, 
it is being developed by the Allis- 
Chalmers Manufacturing company, 
under the direction of Dr. J. T. Ret- 
j taliata. Engineers of these two com- 
' panies do not expect the gas turbine 
I to replace the steam turbine, as the 
principal power-generating unit, now 
| or in the near future. The gas-tur- 
bine plant, with its 18 percent ther- 
I mal efficiency, cannot compete with 
J the 25 to 30 percent thermally effl- 
| cient steam plant. 

The engineers claim, however, that 
the simplicity of the gas-turbine plant 
and its small space requirements give 
it advantages in certain applications. 
In its first successful commercial 
application, the gas-turbine plant was 
used to supply compressed combus- 
tion air to a forced-draft steam boil- 
er, called the Velox boiler. Part of 
the thermal energy in the exhaust 
gases from the Velox boiler was con- 
verted into mechanical energy in the 
gas turbine and used to operate the 
air compressor. 

In 1936, a gas turbine was in- 
stalled in the Marcus Hook, Pa., plant 
of the Sun Oil company, and used to 
supply compressed air in the Houdry 
cracking process. Since that time, 
several gas turbines have been in- 
stalled in oil refineries in this coun- 
try and in Europe. In 1939, con- 
struction was begun on a 4,000 kilo- 
watt, gas-turbine, bomb-proof emer- 
gency power station for the city of 
Neuchatel, Switzerland. 

Gas-turbine engineers of the 
Brown-Boveri and Allis-Chalmers 
companies predict successful appli- 
cation of the gas turbine in locomo- 
tive engines and destroyers. They 
point to its simplicity, freedom from 
auxiliaries, compactness and its ab- 
solute independence of the water 
problems attending a steam plant. 
As to the future development of the 
gas turbine, these engineers predict 
that with superior metals (and high- 
er gas temperatures), increased blad- 
ing efficiencies and heat-reclaiming 
devices, thermal efficiencies of 25 to 
30 percent and wider applications will 
be realized. 



SIXTY TEARS AGO 
President Fairchild went to Tope- 
ka to attend a meeting of the State 
Board of Education. 

Major Coburn's address on "Dogs ^ 
in Their Relation to the Sheep Indus- . 
try," delivered at the last breeders' * m 
institute, was published in the Chi- 
cago Times, Prairie Farmer and Kan- 
; sas Farmer. 

The regular public Friday after- 

! noon exercises consisted of original 

orations by the first division of the 

senior class. The speakers were Miss 

D. Mason and Messrs. U. G. Houston, 

! W. J. Jeffery and W. J. Lightfoot. 



KANSAS POETRY 

Robert Conover, Editor 



By Myra Perrinxs 

T walk along a dusty lane 
With eyes upon a distant hill, 
Imagining more golden grain 
And greener grass beyond the still 
Blue mountains. 

So I walk and so 
1 dream but ever my desire 
Recedes before me as I go — 
A burning and elusive fire. 



Myra Pel-rings of Topeka has been 
I writing poetry for more than 10 years 
and in that time has published more 
than 20(1 juvenile poems and 100 adult 
poems. Her work has appeared in 
eight anthologies. Her most reprinted 
i poem is "Walk Softly." This has been 
! set to music by Marian Ryan of Chi- 
cago and has been sung at North- 
western university and the University 
, of Wyoming. 



By H. W. Davis 
YES, IT WOULD BE FUN 
Wouldn't it be fun to be an archae- 
ologist who had somehow got himself 
twisted into reverse during his train- 
ing and could dig deep into the 
ruins of the future, look back with 
wisdom on those furious 1940's, and 
; realize what that devastating decade 
! was all about? (The tense is all mud- 
dled, but you know what I mean.) 



day in the ranks of the fighting forces 
as officers and privates, in the ranks 
of labor or even in certain present 
offices of the Nazi state. They will 
come to the fore when the Gestapo 
system has devoured itself as it in- 
evitably must, when Hitlerism has 
thrown away its last alibi as it has 
cast aside its last principle. 

Too bitter are the memories which 
bar the return to both monarchy and 
Weimar republic. The new state will 
have to be erected on lines which 
will run from national to European 
perspectives. Another generation 
may have to bridge the gap between 
the Germany after Poland and the 
Germany pledged to a European or- 
der. — Robert Strausz-Hupe, in Cur- 
rent History. 



TWENTY YEARS AGO 
C. J. Boyle, '09, was county agent 
for Cloud county with headquarters 
at Concordia. 

Dave Gray. '14. was secretary- 
treasurer of the Meadow Brook com- 
pany, Kansas City, Mo. 

Verla Dahnke, '20, resigned as 
dietitian in Wesley hospital, Kansas 
City, Mo., to teach domestic science 
in the Abilene junior high school. 



Even though depressing, it would 
be interesting to see the collapse of 
an empire upon which the sun could 
not set for three centuries; to witness 
the beginning of the end of a per- 
sonal freedom evolved from a charter 
wrested from a wicked king in 1215, 
a charter which sort of established 
the rights of Anglo-Saxon individuals 
for almost six centuries and a half; 
to look upon the sudden rise of a 
tyranny born of bigotry and mecha- 
nized efficiency and destined to curse 
the world for a millenium maybe. 



POST-HITLER GERMANY 
Who will be the leaders of post- 
Hitler Germany? I believe that the 

leadership of the new Germany 

whose heartbeats are yet inaudible j 
in the commotion of propaganda 
drums and rolling caissons — will not j 
be in the hands of men whose loyal- 1 
ties have changed with each turn of 
the political weathervane. The social 
and political antagonisms which ( 
smoulder behind the facade of the 
Third Reich are too intense to allow 
for a mere "changing of the guard." 
The man of the future may come 
from the ranks of those who now do 
the anonymous business of fighting 
the war and its desperate economic 
battles. The new Germany will rise 
on the shoulders of those nameless 
Germans, who, notwithstanding 
doubts and misgivings, now follow 
the path of duty to their fatherland. 
The future leaders may stand to- 



When we are liberated, we are able 
to realize more fully, through music 
or poetry, through history or science, 
through beauty or through pain, that 
the really valuable things in human 
life are individual, not such things 
as happen on a battlefield or in the 
clash of politics or in the regimented 
inarch of masses of men toward an 
externally imposed goal. — Bertrand 
Russell, in Power. 
♦ 

IN OLDER DAYS 

From the Files of The Industrialist 
TEN YEARS AGO 

II. D. Karns, '24, principal of the 
high school at Osborne, was elected 
superintendent of schools at Plain- 
ville. 

Mrs. Mary P. Van Zile, dean of 
women, spoke on "Present Trends in 
Education" before members of the 
Portia Study club, Wamego. 

Dean K. L. Holton and Prof. J. C. 
Peterson, both of the Department of 
Education, returned from Detroit, 
where they attended a meeting of 
superintendents and principals of the 
National Education association. Dean 
Holton appeared on the program, dis- 
cussing "Situation-Trait Action Anal- 
ysis in the Development of Personal- 
ity." 



THIRTY YEARS AGO 
Nelson Antrim Crawford, assistant 
in the English department, read a 
paper before the English club. His 
subject was "Symbolism in the Ar- 
thurian Legend." 

A. W. Barnard, '05, was an in- 
structor in manual training at the 
Montana State Reform school at 
Miles City. The work of his depart- 
ment took first place at the state fair. 
Dr. Arnold Emch, M. S. '94, as- 
sumed his duties at the University of 
Illinois as professor of higher mathe- 
matics. Doctor Emch was for several 
years a professor at the University of 
Basel. Switzerland. 



It would also be interesting, and 
not depressing at all, to see a 
freedom-loving race smashing that 
threatening tyranny to smither- 
eens and really and truly making the 
world comfortable for a while for all 
humble peoples whatever their race, 
color, creed or understanding of what 
it's all about. 



I don't know why some of our 
meat universities have not developed 
a few reversible or forwardly project- 
able archaeologists who could do 
something like that and give us re- 
lief from the jitters Herr Hitler 
throws into us every time he takes a 
maniacal notion to do so. 



FORTY YEARS AGO 

Prof. J. D. Walters addressed the 
Ionian society at its meeting. His 
subject was "How to Get On in the 
World." 

Prof. Albert S. Hitchcock resigned 
his position with the College to go to 
Washington, D. O, as assistant chief 
of the Division of Agrostology. Pro- 
fessor Hitchcock had been with the 
College for nearly 10 years. 

W. A. McCullough, '98, a junior in 
the University Medical College of 
Missouri, won the position of assis- 
tant in the dispensary, because of his 
high standing in his class, over sev- 
eral candidates in the senior class, 
from which class the assistants were 
usually chosen. 



It took the human race a long time, 
of course, to begin looking back upon 
its past. Mostly it was a mere matter 
of developing a written language. 
Why is it so silly to suppose we pos- 
sibly might learn to look backward 
with some wisdom on the present? 
Mostly it should be a matter of tense 
1 worked into the technique of inter- 
preting the past. 



As it is, you know, we prefer to 
; leave the future to clairvoyants, ra- 
dio astrologers and our new movie 
friend Nostradamus, who had such a 
I high opinion of the present United^ 
States some 400 years ago. 



FIFTY YEARS AGO 
C. S. Clark, '88, was studying at 

Yale college, preparatory to his 

course in theology. 

President Fairchild attended the 

reception given at Lawrence for Pres- 



If some humanitarian institution 
of higher learning could turn us out 
just a few dozen archaeologist-sociol- 
ogist-psychiatrist Ph. D.'s with speed 
enough to look back on today, we 
certainly could use them. The digger 
into the future, well fortified with a 
knowledge of human nature — which 
is certainly as available for research 
as oil deposits and Inca cities — ought 
to be quite a help — at least from now 
until 1950. 



V 



k 



AMONG THE 
ALUMNI 



A. A. Stewart, superintendent of 
printing here from 1874-81, writes: 

"In my 86th year, may I refer 
briefly to two men who recently 
passed on from Manhattan, and who 
were, in the very early years of the 
College, in the group of its most 
-worthy students. They are Byron H. 
Pound and George C. Peck. Both of 
these men were among my dearest 
friends — associated closely in widely 
different activities. 

"Pound was catcher in the first 
ball team organized at the College, 
John S. Grifflng was pitcher, and I 
was umpire. Strangely I do not recall 
a single name of the other players. 
This ball team was the sum total of 
the College athletics at that time. 
Later and for many years Pound was 
a faithful and popular mail carrier 
in Manhattan. He was a manly, 
courteous fellow and a great lover of 
children. When I attended the 1937 
commencement exercises, I did not 
see Pound, to my great disappoint- 
ment, but we exchanged greetings 
through mutual friends. 

"Peck was for several years a 
member of my printing classes and 
worked in the department through 
vacation periods. He was a kindly 
spirit, with a charming personality, 
and made an enviable record in his 
business and family life. Peck heard 
that I was in Manhattan in 1937; he 
hastened to both hotels to find me; 
we passed each other on the sidewalk 
without recognition; I took a taxi for 
the College which he halted and 
entered; still no recognition — until 
Peck introduced himself. Seldom 
were two people more surprised. 
But I had not seen Peck nor Pound 
for over 50 years! 

"There are not many left of the 
students in that period of begin- 
nings." 



•27, live at 405 East Sixteenth street. 

Vlanna (Dizmang) Bramblett, H. 
E. '29, has moved from Brooklyn, N. 
Y., to 714 Owens, La Fayette, Ind. 
"My husband unexpectedly accepted 
a better position at Purdue univer- 
sity so we are returning to La Fay- 
ette to live," she writes. 

"Alumni are always quite welcome 
and I do enjoy any news about the 
College and of my former instructors 
and classmates." 



LOOKING AROUND 

KINNEY L FORD 



.' < 



Spencer N. Chaffee, '91, with his 
wife, Grace (Mast) Chaffee, are at 
Solomon. He is the physician there. 
Viola (Norton) Vickburg, D. S. 
'04, Talmage, writes about her two 
children. Carl, Ch. E. '35, is a chem- 
ist with the Carter Oil company. His 
address is 3145 South Detroit, Tulsa, 
Okla. Helen Louise, G. S. '35, who 
was married in July to Robert W. 
Lukens, '33, is living at Linn where 
her husband teaches vocational ag- 
riculture. 

James M. McArthur, Ag. '15, has 
changed his address to 4723 Baronne 
street, New Orleans, La. He is super- 
visor of nature study and gardening 
in the public schools there. His son, 
Charles, 19, is a freshman at Louisi- 
ana State university in agricultural 
engineering. He is a licensed pilot 
with a private aviation license. The 
rest of the seven McArthur children 
are at home. 

Walter L. Latshaw, M. S. '22, re- 
cently was elected president of the 
Kansas Klub of Utah. This is not an 
alumni group but takes in all Kan- 
sans residing in Utah. Mr. Latshaw 
is at Salt Lake City, where he is j 
director of the agricultural depart- 
ment of the United States Smelting, 
Refining and Mining company. 

Louisa S. Moyer, H. E. '23, was | 
formerly home demonstration agent 
at Savannah, Mo. For the past sev- 
eral months, she has been at her j 
home in Whiting, where she was 
called on account of the illness of her i 
father. 

Maj, Elmer W. Young. D. V. M. j 
'25, is on the veterinary staff at Ft. t 
Douglas. Utah. He was transferred 
there In September from Ft. Riley; 
where he had been for several years. 
Mrs. Young is the former Ethel 
Wood, f. s. '23. 

Oapt. Karl L. Uinden, G. S. '26, 
has been transferred from the infan- 
try school at Ft. Benning, Ga., to the 
replacement center at Camp Walters, 
Texas. Captain Hinden is in com- 
mand of Company B there. 

Edith Ames, H. E. '27, M. S. '39, 
is now at Belcourt, N. D. After ob- 
taining her master's degree from 
Kansas State College, she taught at 
the Women's College of South Caro- 
lina. Now she is returning to the 
Indian service and will be at the 
Turtle Mountain Indian agency at 
Belcourt. 

L. A. Noll, G. S. *28, M. S. '32, 
teaches psychology and other educa- 
tional subjects at the Hutchinson 
junior college. He and his wife, 
Phena Ann (Klingensmith) Noll, f. a. 



Lester W. Burton, E. E. '30, and 
Etha (Dungan) Burton, '30, live at 
57 Park street, Stratford, Conn. Mr. 
Burton is a sales engineer with the 
General Electric company at Bridge- 
port, Conn. His work covers the ap- 
plication of copper oxide and Tungar 
rectifiers. 

J. A. Shellenberger, M. S. '81, re- 
cently resigned his position as head 
of the products control for the Men- 
nel Milling company, Toledo, Ohio, 
and is now head of the biochemical 
laboratory for the Rohm and Haas 
company at Bristol, Pa. His address 
is 4201 Robbins avenue, Philadel- 
phia. 

Emma F. Shepek, H. E. '32, M. S. 
*39, has taught in the grades, junior 
and senior high school and the Uni- 
versity of Minnesota. She has done 
welfare work and has worked with 
Girl Reserves, Camp Fire girls, and 
4-H groups, sponsored classes, 
coached plays, talked to groups and 
given radio talks. She is now in- 
structor in foods at the University 
of Minnesota. Her address is 2142 
Knapp, St. Paul, Minn. 

Ralph O. Smith, E. E. '33, is a 

j civil engineer with the State Highway 

j commission at Wellington. He and 

! Mary (Bastian) Smith live at 1312 

North C, 

Mary Margaret Carr, '34, is thera- 
' peutic dietitian at the Chronic Dis- 
ease hospital. Hartwell, Cincinnati, 
Ohio. 

Eunice (Williams) Sweder, H. E. 
•■AT,, visited the College Alumni office 
last fall. Her husband, Alfred Swe- 
der, is employed by the Lakeside Iron 
works at Marquette, Mich. Their 
home address is 103 6 Pine street, 
Marquette. 

Dr. W. W. Williamson, D. V. M. 
'3 5, for several years a member of 
the meat inspection force of the 
United States Bureau of Animal In- 
dustry in South St. Paul, Minn., has 
resigned his position to accept one 
with the Civilian Conservation corps, 
Reno, Nev. 

Tate B. Collins Jr., E. E. '37, M. S. 
'39, is a toll testboard man for the 
Southern Bell Telephone company, 
Central City, Ky. In December, he! 
took a special two months' training 
course at Atlanta, Ga. 

Norman Branson, E. E. '38, is j 
working for General Electric at j 
Pittsfield, Mass. He called at the 
Alumni office in January and told of 
his marriage, December 23, 1939, to I 
Eunice B. Roberts. 

Donald F. Mossman, D. V. M. '39, . 
is engaged in private practice at Lone 
Tree, Iowa. He formerly had a veter- j 
inary practice at La Porte City, Iowa. 
His wife is the former Zillah Lee j 
Feleay, f. s. '39. 



Will Distribute Old Books 

The vice-president's office has on 
hand the following items for distri- 
bution: 

College catalogues — 1877-80, 
1882-83, 1883-84, 1888-89, 1889-90, 
1891-92 through 1893-94, 1895-96 
through 1899-1900, 1901-02, 1906- 
07, 1909-10 through 1913-14, 1915- 
16 through 1919-20, 1922-23, 1925- 
26 through 1935-36. 

Biennial reports — 1885-86 through 
18 89-90 (fifth to seventh biennial 
reports), 1893-94 (ninth biennial 
report), 1897-98 (11th biennial re- 
port), 1905-06 (15th biennial re- 
port), 1915-16 (second biennial 
report, first State Board of Adminis- 
tration), 1919-20 through 1923-24 
(28th to 30th biennial reports) and 
1927-28 through 1931-32 (32nd to 
34th biennial reports). 

Summer school bulletins — 1917 
through to the current issue. 

These extra numbers will be dis- 
tributed in order of request until 
May 1. Requests should be accompa- 
nied with five cents for each item 
desired, to cover wrapping and post- 
age, officials explained. 



'7 7, and Mrs. Failyer; Hilda (Black) 
Kifer, '25; C. F. Kinman, '04, and 
Mrs. Kinman; Lieut.-Col. H. D. 
Linscott, '16, and Mary (Rich) Lins- 
cott, '18; Eula Lesh, f. s. '36; Charles 
A. Logan, '25, and Mrs. Logan; Col. 
Harold McClelland, '16, and Doris 
(Mellersh) McClelland, f. s. '21; J. 
Thomas Neill, '40;. Amer B. Nystrom, 
'07, and Mamie (Frey) Nystrom, '07; 
Mildred (Bobb) Paulsen, '27; Lieut. 
J. C. Prentice, '38, and Mrs. Prentice; 
Cecille M. Protzman, '27; Maj. S. M. 
Ransopher, '11, and Mrs. Ransopher; 
Lieut. Thomas B. Reed, '23. 

"Dean Roy A. Seaton, '04, and 
Elnora (Wanamaker) Seaton, '25; 
Lieut. A. E. Settle, *37, and Dorothy 
(Judy) Settle, '38; Zepherine 
(Towne) Shaffer, '11; Mrs. Lillian 
Hays; Lieut.-Col. Emmett W. Skin- 
ner, '16, and Ruth (Adams) Skinner, 
'16; E. G. Smerchek, '40; Libbie 
Smerchek, '32; Clif Stratton, '11, and 
Mrs. Stratton; Dr. Day Monroe; Stel- 
la Stewart, '00; Swanna Lee Suits, 
'40; Mary F. Taylor, '19; Guy E. 
Yerkes, '06, and Mrs. Yerkes; Au- 
gusta (Amos) Wright, '08, and 
! Lieut.-Col. Everett W. Yon, former 
1 faculty member at the College, and 
Mrs. Yon." 



RECENT HAPPENINGS 
ON THE HILL 



Approximately 30 candidates for 
the varsity baseball squad at Kansas 
State College reported for practice 
at the first session of spring baseball 
held in Nichols Gymnasium Monday 
afternoon. 



Members of YWCA are voting for 
executive council officers in the 
YWCA cabinet today. Competing 
presidential candidates are Mary 
Griswold, Manhattan, and Marjorie 
Spurrier, Kingman. 



Independent students will vote by 
secret ballot for candidates for the 
offices of Student Council and Board 
of Publications next Friday in An- 
derson hall. The Independent Stu- 
dent party is holding its primary 
election then. 



MARRIAGES 



Dr. J. E. Ackert, dean of the Divi- 
sion of Graduate Study, has been 
selected foreign collaborator for a 
Cuban journal on parasitology and 
bacteriology. He will contribute 
original and review articles and give 
such counsel as is desired. 



Graduates at Press Sessions 

The following graduates and for- , 
mer students of Kansas State College . 
! attended the recent Kansas Press as- 
| sociation meeting in Topeka: 

Harold Hammond, f. s. '19, editor, 
! of the Great Bend Herald and pub- 
j Usher of the Caldwell Messenger; | 
j Ralph Van Camp, '33, editor of the 
! Halstead Independent; Richard M. 
Seaton, '34, business manager of the ( 
I Manhattan Mercury-Chronicle; C. W. 
| Claybaugh, '26, editor of the South- 
west Times, Liberal; Alice Coldren, 
'39, Oberlin Herald; Nelson Reppert, 
'34, editor of the Osawatomie Graph- 
ic; Wilmar Sanders, '29, and Ralph 
Daggett, '39, Western Newspaper 
union, Kansas City, Mo. 

Gray LeVitt, '25, Kansas Power 
and Light company, Topeka; J. R. 
Hubbard, f. s. '28, director of public 
relations for Santa Fe railroad; Mc- 
Dill Boyd, f. s., Frank Boyd, f. s. '03; 
and Maine (Alexander) Boyd, '02, of 
the Phillips County Review and other 
newspapers; Merle Miller, f. s., man- 
ager of the Belleville Telescope, and 
Erma (Schmedemann) Miller, '34; T. 
W. Morse, '95, editor of the Emporia 
Times; Walt Neibarger, f. s., editor of 
the Tonganoxie Mirror; William Bat- 
dorf, '25, city editor, Burlington 
Republican; Allen P. Hartman, f. s., 
editor of the Frankfort Daily Index. 

Nelson Antrim Crawford, former 
head of the Department of Industrial 
Journalism and Printing, was one of 
the hosts at a luncheon given the 
visitors by the Topeka Press club. 
Mr. Crawford is editor-in-chief of 
Household magazine. 



DAVIS— HANSEN 
Ileene Davis, H. E. '40, and Donald 
Hansen, f. s., both of Wichita, were 
married January 26. Since her grad- 
uation, Miss Davis has been employed 
in the accounting department of 
Stearman Aircraft corporation in 
Wichita. Since the spring of 1940, 
Mr. Hansen has been employed in the 
Boeing Aircraft corporation. The 
couple are at home at 236 South Hy- 
draulic street, Wichita. 



A new folding machine has been 
installed in Kedzie hall for use in 
printing done by the Department of 
Industrial Journalism and Printing. 
The machine has a capacity of from 
5,000 to 10,000 sheets an hour, the 
difference depending on the size of 
the sheets. 



NEUBAUER— BOES 
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Neubauer an- 
nounced in January the marriage of 
their daughter, Lila, f. s. '41, to 
Glenn H. Boes, C. E. '39, lieutenant 
in the United States Army Air corps. 
The ceremony took place May 12 in 
Ft. Sam Houston, Texas. At that time, 
Mr. Boes was stationed in Ft. Sam 
Houston. He has since then been 
transferred to Riverside, Calif. Mrs. 
Boes attended Kansas State College 
last semester. 



Andre Baude, former French medi- 
cal officer and refugee from con- 
quered France, will speak in Manhat- 
tan April 3. Doctor Baude was twice 
captured by the German army, from 
which he succeeded in escaping. 
Through the efforts of his wife, for- 
merly of Independence, Kan., he is 
in the United States and able to re- 
count his adventures. 



DAPPEN — ZUHR 
Bernice Arlene Dappen, H. E. '37, 

was married January 1 to Herbert 

F. Zuhr of Bloomfleld, N. J. Mrs. 
I Zuhr has attended the graduate 
| school of Pennsylvania State college, 
I where Mr. Zuhr graduated. He also 
i graduated from Union college, 
| Schenectady, N. Y., and is a member 
| of Kappa Sigma. The couple are at 

Bowling Green, Ohio, where Mr. 

Zuhr is an instructor in chemistry at 
; Bowling Green State university. 



• The general science faculty dis- 
cussed the results of recently an- 
swered questionnaires concerning 
final examination exemptions, at the 
regular monthly meeting Tuesday 
afternoon. After considerable dis- 
cussion, the faculty approved the 
present arrangement for exempting 
certain classifications of superior stu- 
dents if the teacher desired. 
♦ 

BIRTHS 



Some of the positions held by 1940 
graduates in horticulture are report- 
ed as follows: 

William B. Ackley, who worked 
here on a Dowax fellowship last sum- 
mer, is now employed in the Bureau 
of the Census, Washington, D. C. 

Eugene W. Baird, a graduate as- 
sistant in Ohio State university, is 
working toward an advanced degree 
in floriculture. 

Richard M. Bullock is research as- 
sistant in Washington State college, 
Pullman. 

Charles O. Carter is teaching voca- 
tional agriculture at Randolph high 
school, Randolph. 

Arthur R. Garvin was foreman of a 
Bhelterbelt planting crew on the Pot- 
tawatomie Indian reservation last 
summer and is now with the Bureau 
of the Census, Washington, D. C. 

Elizabeth Holman also is with the 
Bureau of the Census. 

Dale E. Johnson has employment 
with the United Fruit company as a 
plantation foreman in Panama. 

Henry Kupfer finds full-time em- 
ployment in his father's floral busi- 
ness in Kansas City, Mo. 

C. William Lobenstein is in charge 
of his father's fruit and vegetable 
gardens near Bonner Springs. 

Melvin (Pete) Peterson is doing 
graduate work in pomology at Ohio 
State, Columbus. 



Washington, D. C, Dinner 

The annual dinner of the Kansas 
State alumni group in Washington, 
D. C, was held February 17 at the 
Kennedy Warren hotel. 

Donald Ibach wrote the following 
report of the meeting: 

"The program consisted of short 
talks by various alumni who are as- 
sociated with the defense program in 
one capacity or another. Clif Strat- 
ton's remarks were given with char- 
acteristic humor and pertained to 
interesting incidents regarding the 
history of Kansas State College. 

"Mrs. Zepherine (Towne) Shaffer, 
president of the group, was toast- 
master. Homer J. Henney arranged 
the program, and he and his wife 
were in charge of the table decora- 
tions which were red, white and blue. 
L. M. Davis and Amer Nystrom, 
respectively, did their bits at the 
piano and in leading group singing. 

"The attendance list of 67 names 
included: 

"Col. L. B. Bender, '04, and Mrs. 
Bender; Floyd W. Berger, '40; Max 
Besler, '37, and Mrs. Besler; Hale 
Brown, '28; Col. W. W. Buckley, 
f. s. '05; Christine M. Corlett, '91; 
Hubert L. Collins, '23, and Lois 
(Richardson) Collins, '25; Leon M. ; 
Davis, '09, and Hazel (Bixby) Davis, 
'10; Wilbert Fritz, '27, and Cora Mae 
(Geiger) Fritz, '29; Roy R. Graves, 
'09. and Grace (Smith) Graves, '08; 
Homer J. Henney, '21, and Mrs. | 
Henney. 

"Lieut. Arthur W. Hjort, '39; Don- 
ald B. Ibach, '23, and Mrs. Ibach; 
Corinne (Failyer) Kyle, '03; Maude 
(Failyer) Kinzer, '03; G. H. Failyer, 



TA'NCH— BAYLESS 

Margaret Lynch, H. E. '33, was 
married August 3 to J. Alton Bayless, 
graduate of the College of Emporia. 
He is now associated with the Fed- 
eral Land bank in Wichita. Their 
home address is 218 North Bleckley 
drive, Wichita. The bride is a mem- 
ber of Zeta Tau Alpha sorority and 
an active member of the Young Busi- 
ness Women's league. She was for- 
merly secretary to the advertising 
manager of the Kansas Gas and Elec- 
tric company. 



H. C. Stuart, '35, and Julia E. 
(Crow) Stuart, '35, announce the ar- 
rival of a daughter, Karen Lee, born 
January 19 at the St. Mary hospital 
in Manhattan. Mr. Stuart is super- 
intendent of the high school at Gar- 
rison. 



HOLMES— PRENTICE 
The marriage of William Hardy 
Prentice, E. E. '37, to Eleanor Louisa 
Holmes of Brookline, Mass., took 
place January 11. Mr. Prentice is a 
member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity 
and Scabbard and Blade, national | 
honorary military organization. Af- 
ter his graduation, he began working 
for the General Electric company at 
Boston. On January 15, he assumed 
his duties as first lieutenant in the 
Coast Artillery corps at Ft. Adams, 
R. I. They are at home at Tudor hall, 
25 Catherine street, Newport, R. I. 



Francis E. Johnson, E. E. '29, and 
Edna (Stewart) Johnson, H. E. '28, 
are the parents of a son, Stewart 
Wayne, born January 23. Mr. John- 
son is a high school science instructor 
in Mt. Vernon, N. *Y. They have a 
daughter, Randi, 2, whose picture 
appeared in the March issue of the 
American magazine in the section 
of Interesting People in the American 
Scene. The article commented: "Just 
2 years old, she has been working as 
a model for the last 18 months. Hers 
is probably the most familiar baby- 
face in the country. It has appeared 
in hundreds of national advertise- 
ments and magazine covers. She al- 
ready has a well-worn social security 
card, an insurance policy and a bounc- 
ing big balance in the bank." 
♦ 

DEATHS 



HEFFEI,FINGER— MORRIS 
Elizabeth (Betty) Heffelfinger, I. 
J. :{3, was married to J. Lisle Morris 
of Wichita, January 18, at Newton. 
Mrs. Morris, a member of Delta Delta 
Delta sorority, has taught in the 
Waco school in Wichita for several 
years. Mr. Morris attended Wichita 
university and is a member of Alpha 
Gamma Gamma fraternity, president 
of the Wichita Real Estate board, 
vice-president of the Kansas Associ- 
ation of Real Estate Boards and a 
partner in the Morris Brothers, 
realtors, of Wichita. Their home ad- 
dress is 601 North Fountain, Wichita. 



PAGE 
Wilbur C. Page, M. E. '38, died 
November 6, 1938, after complica- 
tions connected with an appendec- 
tomy. For the short time between 
graduation and his death he was em- 
ployed by the Texas Pipeline com- 
pany, Houston, Texas. Surviving him 
are his parents, two brothers and one 
sister. 



MUDGE 
Funeral services for Mrs. Phoebe 
(Hines) Mudge who died December 
31 were held in Manhattan. She was 
reared in the College Hill community 
and in 18 78 was married to J. B. 
Mudge, f. s. '69, who died in 1931. 
Surviving her are five children, four 
of whom are graduates of the Col- 
lege. They are: Mary (Mudge) El- 
ling, '05, Manhattan; Bessie (Mudge) 
Houser, '03, Wooster, Ohio; Ruth 
(Mudge) Dimock, '01, Lexington, 
Ky.; J. B. Mudge Jr., '14, New York, 
and B. F. Mudge of Canada. 



KANSAS CORN RESEARCH 
FAVORS SOME HYBRIDS 

EXPERIMENTS IN EASTERN PART 
OF STATE CONDUCTED BY COLLEGE 



Tests Indicate That Some Types Are 
Superior to Open-pollinnted Varie- 
ties During Two-year 
Period Covered 

Hybrid corn tests conducted in 
various Kansas counties through the 
Kansas corn testing program indicate 
that some hybrids are superior to the 
common open-pollinated varieties. 
The tests were conducted by R. W. 
Jugenheimer, associate agronomist 
with the United States Department 
of Agriculture; A. L. Clapp, professor 
of agronomy, and H. D. Hollembeak, 
assistant in agronomy, all of Kansas 
State College. 

Some hybrids which have given 
high yields in eastern Kansas are 
Jewett 11, National 134, Mo. 4 7, U. 
S. 13, U. S. 35, Pioneer 33 2 and Funk 
G-94. The final selection, however, 
should take into consideration other 
qualities besides yield. 

FIVE EASTERN REGIONS 

The eastern half of the state is 
divided into five regions for the tests. 
Three districts lie along the eastern 
border of the state and extend west 
about four counties. The rest of the 
east half of the state is divided into 
a north and a south district. Two 
test fields were established in each 
district and each variety was repli- 
cated five times in each field. 

The tests include a comparison of 
many corn hybrids and many open- 
pollinated varieties on the basis of 
yield, suckers, ear height, ear size, 
maturity, shelling percentage, test 
weight, resistance to lodging, drouth, 
disease and insects. Entrants may 
have a high yield, yet lack other de- 
sirable characteristics. 

ONLY SECOND YEAR 
Since this is only the second year 
for these tests, the records are not 
yet as reliable as those obtained over 
a longer period of time. Climatic 
conditions vary from year to year, 
causing shifts in the results. 

Over a period of years the most 
desirable varieties have been those in 
which the individual plants varied 
considerably in date of pollination. 
Hybrid corn tends to be more uni- 
form, resulting in a shorter period 
of pollination. 

Better results can be expected if 
the corn acreage is planted to three 
or four hybrids of varyiȣ maturity 
and if the date of planting is spread 
over several weeks, according to Mr. 
Jugenheimer. This mixture elimi- 
nates having the entire field de- 
stroyed by a few days of hot, dry 
weather when all plants are polli- 
nating. 



Milling Seminar Elects 

New officers elected at the milling 
seminar meeting held February 20 
included: Eugene Woolley, Osborne, 
president; Johnny McCammon, 
Americua, vice-president; John Pra- 
ger, Irvington, N. J., secretary; Don 
Fleming, Ottawa, intramural athlet- 
ics; Joseph Skaggs, Leavenworth, 
sergeant-at-arms. Election of officers 
for the milling seminar is held each 
semester. 



CONFERENCE WRESTLERS 
HERE FOR BIG SIX MEET 

FIRST-ROUND MATCHES TO START 
FRIDAY EVENING 



Host to Wrestlers 



TOPEKA CAPITAL WRITER 
Tmm DISCUSSES LEGISLATURE 



Milton Tnbor Tells Journalism Student* 

Procedure Whereby Bills 

Become Laws 

The procedure whereby bills are 
converted into laws was described 
Thursday afternoon when Milton 
Tabor, editorial writer for the Topeka 
Daily Capital, spoke to more than 
100 journalism students at the week- 



Glenn Duncan, St. Frauds, Wildcat 

Captain, and Snm Linn of Iowa 

State Are Favored to Repeat 

as Champions 

Two defending champions, Glenn 
Duncan of Kansas State College and 
Sam Linn of Iowa State college, will 
battle to retain their crowns in the 
annual Big Six conference wrestling 
tournament at Kansas State College 
Friday and Saturday. Both are favor- 
ites to repeat. 

First-round matches are scheduled 
for Friday evening, with the finals 
and consolation bouts to be held Sat- 
urday afternoon. 

IMPRESSIVE RECORD 
Duncan, St. Francis, captain of the 
defending championship Kansas State 
squad, will seek to repeat as 145- 
He has lost only 
two of 13 matches this season, com- 
peting in both the 145- and 155- 
pound classes. 

Linn dropped only one decision in 
Iowa State's first eight matches. 

The two runnersup of 1940 also 
will come to the 1941 tournament 



i ly seminal. 

He explained the many points of poun( i champion 
legislative technique required to get 

! a bill through both Houses of the 
Legislature and to the governor for 
signature. 

In describing more complex legis- 
lation, Mr. Tabor said one of the 
more important bills now in the Leg- 
islature is the problem of ^strict- f ~ ^"to c off flrBt .p la ce prizes 
tag the state. He explained ^at >t ■ Javoiea y ^ ^^ 
would be necessary for some groups « 




WILDCAT CAGERS FINISH 
FIFTH IN BIG SIX RACE 

BASKETBALL SftUAD LOSES FINAL 
GAME TO IOWA STATE 



H R (Pat) Patterson, above. Wildcat 
wrestling coach, will be host at the Big 
Six conference wrestling tournament 
on the cimpua Friday and Saturday 
Kansas State College's team will be the 
defending conference champions. 



WILDCAT SWIMMERS TAKE 

SECOND IN BIG SIX MEET 



of counties to become a part of an- 
other district. 

The speaker described many politi- 
cal practices in redistricting a state, 
which makes that type of legislation 



of 
State College, undefeated in 13 
matches, will seek the 155-pound 
title, and Iowa State's Ray Stone, 
who has won seven bouts and wres- 
tled to one draw, will seek the 128- 



wnicn maites inai lype ui «b'="'">»' u„ mn i nn «hin 

all the more difficult. If the state is P°und championship 



not divided according to the number 
of sections required, Mr. Tabor said, 
the congressman will be elected from 
the state as a whole. 

At the close of his discussion of 
I the State Legislature, the writer 
i opened the meeting for questions 
I from the floor. 

-♦- 

ANNUAL Y ORPHEUM PROGRAM 
TO BE GIVEN THIS WEEK-END 



ZAHNLEY RECOMMENDS TESTS 
FOR THIS YEAR'S SORGHUM 



Any Seed Intended for Planting Should 

Be Given Experiments for 

Germination 

Any sorghum seed which is in- 
tended for planting this year should 
be tested for germination, advises J. 
W. Zahnley, associate professor of 
agronomy. 

Because of a wet fall, a large pro- 
portion of the sorghums in the east- 
ern half of the state was not threshed 
as early as usual, but stood in shocks 
through a considerable amount of 
damp weather followed by freezes. 
Professor Zahnley said. Seed that 
has been exposed to such weathering 
doesn't germinate as well as seed 
threshed and stored in a dry bin 
earlier in the fall, he explained. 

As a result of germination tests 
conducted at the state seed labora- 
tory this year, it was found that 
Kafir seed has a slightly lower aver- 
age germination than have the other 
sorghums. 

Facilities at the state seed labora- 
tory are taxed beyond capacity and 
as a result it will be impossible to ob- 
tain tests there in the near future 
Professor Zahnley said. Farmers and 
seed dealers are urged to test their 
own seed in so far as possible. Direc- 
tions for conducting these tests can 
be obtained by writing to the State 
Board of Agriculture for "Seed Test- 
ing Primer," published recently. 
•♦■ 
Hill to Talk at Forum 

Dr Howard T. Hill, head of the 
Department of Public Speaking, is^ to 
sneak at the student forum Wednes- 
day at 12:20 p. m. in Recreation 
Center. Doctor Hill will speak on 
"How to Strengthen Democracy. 



Seven Organisations Will Compete for 

Two Trophies In Long and 

Short Stunts 

The 21st annual Y Orpheum, stunt 

program sponsored by the YMCA, 

I will be next Friday and Saturday. 

Seven organizations will compete 

i either in 15- or seven-minute skits. 

The group that has the best stunt in 

each long and short competition will 

I receive a trophy. 

Dress rehearsals for the perform- 

i ance are Wednesday and Thursday 

I nights. Bill West, Hiawatha, student 

' business manager for Y Orpheum, 

j said this week that all the acts, Pi 

Beta Phi, Chi Omega, Alpha Xi Delta, 

Delta Delta Delta, Phi Delta Theta, 

Sigma Phi Epsilon and Independent 

Student union 

isfactorily. 

Among the special numbers will be 
a marimba solo by Frances James, 
an overture by Matt Betton's band 
and the Girls' Glee club's interpreta- 
tion of "Spanish Nocturne" under the 
direction of Edwin Sayre, assistant 
professor in the Department of Music. 
Judges for the acts have been 
chosen but their names will remain 
unknown until after the final per- 
formance. 

Norman Webster, instructor in the 
Department of Public Speaking, is 
faculty director of this year's show. 



THIRD-PLACE WINNERS 
Three third-place winners of last 
season, all from Nebraska, will bid 
for higher honors. They are Milton 
Kuska, 121 pounds; Newton Copple, 
145 pounds, and Ed McConnell, 128 
pounds. 

The complete list of Kansas State 
entries and classes are: 

121-pound, Clifford Case, Cold- 
water; 128-pound, Bob Dunlap, Lib- 
eral; 136-pound, Jim Vavroch, Ober- 
lin; 145-pound, Glenn Duncan; 155- 
poiind, Leland Porter; 165-pound, 
Jerald Porter, Dellvale; 175-pound, 
Warren Boring, Kansas City; heavy- 
weight. John Hancock, St. Francis. 

HOPPER EGG SITUATION 

(Continued from page one) 



Tank Team Noses Out Nebraska by One 

Point After Cornhuskers Are DIs- 

qiinliHed In 400-Yard Delay 

Edging out the University of Ne- 
braska swimming squad by one point, 
the Kansas State College tank team 
picked up 45 points to take second 
place in the Big Six swimming meet 
at the University of Nebraska last 
Saturday. The Iowa State Cyclones, 
defending Big Six champions, won 
the meet with 5 2 points. 

The Wildcats placed first twice 
during the meet. Both firsts were 
made by Marshall Stover, Manhat- 
tan, distance swimmer, who won both 
the 440-yard and 220-yard free-style 
events. Stover swam the 440 yards 
in 5:36.4 and covered the 220-yard 
distance in 2:26.6. 

Leo Yeo, Manhattan, Wildcat dash 
man, accounted for a second and a 
third place during the meet, as did 
C. W. Lamer, Hays, a distance swim- 
mer. Lou Novak, Herington, placed 
third in the diving competition. 

During the 400-yard relay, the 
final race of the day, Nebraska was 
disqualified for crowding an Iowa 



tor in 



determining the extent of the j State man on the third lap Had the 



'hopper menace this year. However, 
control methods must be taken now 
to insure protection. If the weather 
is damp and cold, many of the 80 per- 
cent of the hopper eggs that hatch 
may be expected to die. If the weath- 
er is just damp or just cold, a smaller 
decrease in the grasshopper menace 
may be expected. If the climate is 
are progressing sat-, warm and dry during this period, the 
number of 'hoppers may be near an 
all-time peak in the infected western 
Kansas counties. The menace of 
grasshoppers seems to be relatively 
unimportant in the eastern half of the 
state, it was said. 

To Preview Arbor Day 

In a preview of Arbor day possi- 
bilities, Kansas State College horti- 
culturists will broadcast a program 
on landscape plantings for Kansas 
on the KSAC Farm hour, March 13, 
at 12:30 p. m. 



Huskers won the race, they would 
have tied with Iowa State college for 
the championship. As a result of the 
officials' ruling. Kansas State Col- 
lege received second place in the 

meet. 

♦ 

ALFALFA AND GRASS SEEDS 

LISTED FOR 4-H PROJECTS 



Team Wins Contests from Oklahoma, 

Missouri and Nebraska, Losing Other 

Sevens Margin of Winning 

Scores Wns Small 

The Kansas State College basket- 
ball squad rounded out a season of 
close games when it lost to the Iowa 
State college quintet, 3 6-33, at Ames 
on Saturday night. The Wildcats 
ended the season in fifth place in Big 
Six conference standings. 

After holding a 21-16 lead at half 
time, the Cyclones came out in the 
second period to meet a determined 
Wildcat five that soon cut their lead 
to only two points. With three min- 
utes left in the game, Chris Lang- 
vardt, Kansas State center from Alta 
Vista, tied the game at 31-all with a 
bucket from the field. 

WIN THREE GAMES 
Seconds later, Budolfson again 
put the Iowans in the lead with a 
! field goal. Dekoster followed with 
another before Langvardt again 
scored. The Cyclones then slowed up 
the game until the final seconds. Just 
as the whistle sounded, a Wildcat 
foul was committed against Schnei- 
der, who converted to make the final 
score 36-33. 

The Wildcats finished the 1941 
season with a record of three Big Six 
victories and seven losses to finish 
in fifth place in the conference. After 
a slow start against Nebraska in the 
first game of the season, which they 
lost 33-23, the Wildcats turned in a 
surprise victory over the favored Uni- 
versity of Oklahoma and another 
triumph over the Huskers in a re- 
turn game. 

The University of Kansas Jay- 
hawkers then came to Nichols Gym- 
nasium to win 46-41. From that 
time on, the Kansas State team was 
able to win only one game, a 34-24 
triumph over the University of Mis- 
souri Tigers in their initial meeting 
of the season. 

ARE SCRAPPY FIGHTERS 
Despite their small number of vic- 
tories, the Wildcats were the losers 
, of most of their games by only a few 
points. In their first game against 
the Huskers, the Kansas State squad 
was behind 10 points when the final 
! gun sounded. No other conference 
i team defeated the Wildcats by so 
j great a margin. Several of the games 
1 were lost by two points or less. 



INDOOR TRACK TEAM ENDS 

IX SIXTH PLACE IN MEET 



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EVERYDAY ECONOMICS 

By W. E. GRIMES 



"Science makes it possible for man to exist with less work than 

formerly." 



Will science reduce the work to be 
done so that men will scarcely have 
to work at all? Such a picture is 
painted by some people. This pic- 
ture overlooks certain important 
facts. 

One of these facts is that man ever 
seeks to bring the unknown within 
the known. Scientists worked long 
hours many years ago. Today they 
know much more and can do things 
much more rapidly. But they still 
work long hours, ardently endeavor- 
ing to push back the curtains of ig- 
norance and to make the unknown 
the known. 

Another fact is that man is never 
satisfied. When he gets what he 
wanted, he thinks of something else 
he would like to have. 

Science reduces the time needed to 
obtain meat, bread, potatoes, cloth- 
ing, houses and so on; but when man 



gets these he wants education, time 
to explore the unknown, recreation, 
travel, good books, music, art and a 
thousand and one other things many 
of which his ancestors never dreamed 
of having. 

Science makes it possible for man 
to exist with less work than former- 
ly. But most men are not content 
with merely existing. They try to get 
the things that they do not have, to 
know the facts that they have not 
known and to do the things that they 
have been unable to do. As long as 
this characteristic of man persists, 
man will work— and many men will 
work eight, 10, 12 or more hours a 
day, driven by the ever-unsatisfied 
craving to have, to know and to do. 
If man loses this characteristic, he 
will sink to a level of self-satisfied 
complacency that will vie with a 
jelly-fish existence in contemptibility. 



H. Ci»e, State Club Lender, An- 
nounees 18 Programs Are Open 

Growing of alfalfa and of grass 
crops for seed is being considered 
by many a 4-H club boy in Kansas. 
Plans for these two new crops proj- 
ects are announced this week by M. 
H. Coe, state 4-H club leader. Eight- 
een projects are now available for 
4-H club use in Kansas. 

Suggestions for the new projects 
were prepared by E. A. Cleavinger, 
crops specialist of Kansas State Col- 
lege Extension service. Both projects 
have been planned for a two-year 
period. During the first year, the 
field is selected, soil treated, seedbed 
prepared and stand established. In 
the second year, the work centers 
around proper managing, harvesting 
and disposing of the crop. 

"Addition of one of these projects 
will give a more rounded program of 
farm operation for some of the older 
4-H boys," states Mr. Coe. "There is 
also a good possibility for profit. The 
alfalfa project requires the growing 
of at least two acres of alfalfa. In 
the grass seed production project, 
each member must grow at least one 
acre of tame grass. This might in- 
clude brome, meadow fescue, red top, 
timothy or other adapted variety." 
♦ 
Atkeson Joins Fraternity 

Prof. F. W. Atkeson, head of the 
Department of Dairy Husbandry, be- 
came an associate member of Farm 
House fraternity during initiation 
services at the chapter house Sunday 
afternoon. Professor Atkeson was 
graduated from the University of 
Missouri, and received his master's 
degree from Kansas State College. 
He holds memberships in the honor- 
ary fraternities of Alpha Zeta, Phi 
Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi and Gamma 
Sigma Delta. 



k- 
I* 



Ed Harden, Man hattan. Takes Third In 
<IO-Yard~HlKh Hurdles 

The Kansas State College indoor 
track team, scoring a total of six 
points, finished last in the Big Six 
conference meet in the Municipal 
auditorium at Kansas City, Mo., last 
Saturday. 

The University of Nebraska won 

I the meet with 47 points, followed by 

Missouri with 26 points. Kansas, 

i Oklahoma and Iowa State college 

| finished in third, fourth and fifth 

places, respectively. 

Ed Darden, Manhattan, Wildcat 
j hurdler, accounted for the most Kan- 
sas State points when he captured 
(second place in the 60-yard high hur- 
i dies to annex three points. Gilbert 
Dodge, Dighton, finished in fourth 
| place in the same event for another 
, point. 

The other two points were gained 
when the Wildcat mile-relay team 
finished in third place. The relay 
team was composed of Sam Johnson, 
Oswego; Wilfred (Bill) Burnham, St. 
Francis; Loyal Payne, Manhattan, 
and James Upham, Junction City. 



Helps Plan National Meeting 

Thomas Benton, Olathe, a sopho- 
more in dairy husbandry, left Thurs- 
day night for Nashville, Tenn., to at- 
tend a meeting of the board of direc- 
tors of the American Country Life 
association. Benton is national pres- 
ident of the Youth group of the asso- 
ciation. The purpose of the meeting 
was to make plans and other arrange- 
ments for the national annual meet- 
ing of the association next fall in 
Nashville. Benton returned to Man- 
hattan Monday. 

♦ 
Gets Job in Iowa 

Reed Fleury, Manhattan, who 
graduated last semester in agricul- 
tural economics, has a position with 
the Equitable Assurance company. 
He is located in Iowa as a farm agent 
for the insurance concern. 



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HISTORICAL SOCIETY C 

TOPEKA 

KAN. 



The Kansas Industrialist 



Volume 67 



Kansas State College of Agriculture and Appliecfscience, Manhattan, Wednesday, March 12, 1941 



Number 22 



SENATE APPROVES BILL 
FOR SCHOOL BUILDINGS 

liONG-HAMUK CONSTRUCTION PRO- 
GRAM PROPOSED FOR KANSAS 



Kansas City Orchestra Here 

The Kansas City Philharmonic or- 
chestra will appear twice on the cam- 
pus today in the College Auditorium. 
Students and townspeople may hear 
either the afternoon or the evening 
concert, or both, since they are not 
repetitious. The eight-year-old sym- 
phony orchestra's stop at Manhattan 
is a part of its annual tour of the 



Plana Include New Home Economics 

Structure, Fleldhouse, Student 

Hospital nnd Auditorium 

on Campus 

The Kansas Senate Monday ap- Middle West. 

proved for passage a bill to provide ♦ 

funds for a 10-year building program L £ HAWKINS DISCUSSES 



in- 



for the five major state schools, 
eluding Kansas State College. 

The measure, presented by Sen. 
Rolla W. Coleman, Mission, would 
levy a quarter-mill tax to finance such 
a long-range building program. 
LIST PROPOSED BUILDINGS 

If the measure is approved, the 



FARM PRACTICE CHANGES 



RADIO SHOW REHEARSALS 
ARE STARTED THIS WEEK 



"GREEN GOLD" PROGRAM 
AT FT. RILEY 



IS SET 



Agricultural Seminar Heard Kansas 

City Chamber of Commerce Comml«- 

Nloner Advlne Young Men 

L. E. Hawkins, formerly a member 
of the staff at Oklahoma A. and M. 
college, discussed "Livestock Prob- 
College might expect to complete the | lems of the Southwest at the agri- 
following buildings during the dec- , cultural seminar last week, 
ade, according to a list read to the j Mr. Hawkins, now agricultural 
Senate by Senator Coleman. commissioner for the Kansas City, 

New home economics building. Mo., Chamber of Commerce, told of 

Completion of Waters hall and live- «* J*-^^ ^JK ZV° 



stock pavilion. 

Fieldhouse. 

Completion of Engineering hall. 

Completion of power plant. 

Completion of Veterinary Hospi- 
tal. 

New Auditorium. 

Student Hospital. 

WOULD START IN 1943 

Building would be started in 1943 
when money from the quarter-mill 
levy, to be made in 1942, first be- 
comes available. It was pointed out 
that the buildings would not neces- 
sarily be constructed in the order of 
listing. The State Legislature would 
retain full control of allocation of 
funds among the five schools. 

The tentative building program 
for Kansas State College and the four 
other state schools was suggested by 
the State Board of Regents and was 
read by Senator Coleman during the 
Senate debate on the measure. 
MAY BUILD MANAGEMENT HOMES 

The projects contemplated in the 
new measure do not include funds 
which may be appropriated by the 
present Legislature for construction 
during the next biennium. A pro- 
posal to build home management 
houses is now pending, along with 

others. 

♦ 

Dr. Martha Pitt man Named 

Dr. Martha S. Pittman, head of 
the Department of Food Economics 
and Nutrition, has been appointed 
alternate to the collaborator for the 
Bureau of Home Economics of the 
United States Department of Agri- 
culture on the advisory committee of 
the regional directors of the Federal 
Security agency of this region. Miss 
Flora Carl, nutrition specialist of the 
University of Missouri, was named 
collaborator. Doctor Pittman's ap- 
pointment was made by Dr. Louise 
Stanley, chief of the Bureau of Home 
Economics. 



improve general farming practices 

He showed, by a series of charts, 
how agricultural production continues 
on an almost level plane, while the 
incomes of the farmer and the indus- 
trial worker tend to fluctuate with 
economic cycles. This results in the 
rise and drop in agricultural prices, 
for no more of the farm products can 
be sold than there is money with 
which to buy them, he said. 

An asset may be made of the worn- 

; out land of the Middle West by "re- 
storing it to grass and using it for 
pasture instead of raising unprofit- 
able cash crops year after year," Mr. 

| Hawkins said. 

After the speech, K medals were 
awarded to 27 students by Prof. C. 
W. Mullen, assistant ■ dean. The 
awards are made annually to stu- 

i dents for their participation on one 
of the six judging teams in the Divi- 
sion of Agriculture. 



Story Tells How Kansas Prairie Was 
Plowed and Planted to When* Dur- 
ing World War and Effect on 
State'* Livestock Industry 

Rehearsals started this week for 
"Green Gold," the radio show which 
will originate at station KSAC on the 
College campus and will be broad- 
cast over the Blue network of the Na- 
tional Broadcasting company March 
19 on the National Farm and Home 
hour. 

The setting of "Green Gold" is Ft. 
Riley. The three main characters are 
lieutenants in the Army Air corps, 
according to H. Miles Heberer, asso- 
ciate professor in the Department of 
Public Speaking, who wrote the 
show's script and is its director. 
TELLS OF KANSAS PRAIRIE 

The story in the show tells how 
the Kansas prairie was plowed up and 
planted to wheat during the last 



Open House Chairman 




OPEN HOUSE TO FEATURE 
ENGINEERING ACTIVITIES 



WICHITA CITY OFFICIAL WILL 
ASSEMBLY SPEAKER 



BE 



S£V£ a„7S SSA. ! JUNIOR LIVESTOCK JUDGES 

the state's soil and the livestock in- 



dustry. After the war, the influence 
of the programs of the Extension di- 
vision of Kansas State College on 
the planting of wheat fields back to 
grass and the raising of livestock 
again, is brought out. 

The last part of the production 
depicts the College's activities, espe- 
cially those pertaining to livestock. 
ANNOUNCER PROM CHICAGO 

The National Far n and Home hour 
program is a feature of NBC's Blue 
network. Everett Mitchell, regular 
staff announcer from Chicago, will 
come to Manhattan to appear in the 
show. An NBC radio engineer also 
will assist in the control room. 

The cast of 14 men and six women 



More Than 12.000 Visitors Are Expected 

to Attend 21st Annual Division 

Show; National Defense 

Will Be Theme 

A flickering shamrock and a green 
zeon sign on the Engineering build- 
ing will greet the visitors' eyes at the 
21st annual Engineers' Open House 
Friday and Saturday. 

The "electric eye" which counts 
the visitors is expected to record an 
attendance in excess of the 12,000 
who attended last year. Many visi- 
tors from all sections of Kansas, in- 
cluding many high school groups, are 
expected to attend. 

BROCKWAY IS SPEAKER 

Opening the annual Engineers' 
Open House will be the College as- 
sembly at 11 a. m. Friday. Paul L. 
Brockway, city engineer at Wichita, 
and Matt Betton's orchestra will 
share the program. Mr. Brockway's 
address on "Plans and Specifications 

r >Vdttidd VT WORTH TROPHY of an Engineer" will be followed by 
CAP 1. VYUK1 * the orchestra, which will play a song 



BERT SELLS 



JOHN HELM, 
AT TWO 



JR., TO TALK 
ART CONVENTIONS 



Professor of Architecture Will Attend 
Sessions at McPherson and Chicago 

John F. Helm, Jr., professor of ar- 
chitecture, will speak at two art as- 
sociation conventions within the next 
few days. 

Mr. Helm will be chairman of the 
discussion of fine arts at a conference 
on the preparation of high school 
teachers in colleges of liberal arts 
in McPherson Friday and Saturday 
of this week. The conference is spon- 
sored by a committee of the North 
Central Association of Colleges and 
Secondary Schools. 

Professor Helm also will preside 
at a session of the Western Arts as- 
sociation convention in Chicago, 
March 20. The subject of the discus- 
sion at which the Kansas State pro- 
fessor will preside is "Humanizing 
the Arts for Service Through the 
Universities and Colleges." 



Team Is Fourth In Entire Contest with 

10 Rivals from Other Colleges 

at Southwestern Show 

The Kansas State College junior 
livestock judging team placed first 
in beef cattle judging at the South- 
western Livestock exposition at Ft. 
Worth, Texas, last week-end. In so 
doing, the team won permanent pos- 
session of a trophy. Kansas State 
College had placed first twice pre- 
viously to win two legs on the beef 
cattle judging trophy which now goes 
to the College. 

The Kansas State College team 
was fourth in the entire contest. 



Texas A. and M. college was first 

will be announced Friday, according \ among the 20 college teams. 

to Professor Heberer. Of 100 contestants, Oscar Norby 

^ j Pratt, of the Kansas State College 

jteain was first in sheep, fourth in 

AG HONORARY SELECTS cattle and eighth in all classes. Con- 

49 STUDENTS, FACULTY ' iad Jackson, Elsmore, was second in 

I beef cattle 



GRADUATE STUDENT RECEIVES INDIAN DOLLS 

FOR USE IN STUDY OF ORIGINAL SIOUX LORE 



Dakota Indian twin dolls arrived by an insertion of the same material 
^Z^n^tXyto^^^W^^m, at a becoming angle. 
" graduate student in the Depart- 1 Chaski s broad, 



ment of English for a study of origi- 
nal Sioux folklore. 

Wenona, or first-born daughter, 
the winsome maiden from Indian 



distinguished nose 
was formed by a slight indentation 
under the buckskin. 

The dolls' clothing is soiled, moth- 
eaten and worn. They have been dis- 



the winsome maiden nom ^u »» educational exhib- 

D y 0i rt,T^ 8 h:::^°skr?A a ob a ie Us in South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa 



brave, whose name signifies first-born 
son They were sent by Miss Doro- 
thy Faye Nation of Pittsburg to her 
cousin, Mrs. Elizabeth Heinz, 419, 
Leavenworth street. Miss Nation, a 
junior in high school, received the 
dolls nine years ago. The dolls came 
originally from Flandreau, S. D., 
where they were made by Mrs. Red 
Wing, a full-blooded Sioux, who is 
considered an authority in the art of 
making authentic dolls. 

The bodies of the dolls are made of 
rags The hair is of neatly braided 
strands of black yarn. Wenona wears 
no hair ornaments. The facial fea- 
tures of these dolls are formed of 
buckskin. Wenona's nose was formed 



Missouri and Kansas. 

Wenona's dress is ornamented by 
beadwork and red-leather fringe. Her 
sash is of braided yarn. Fringed 
leggings and beaded moccasins com- 
plete her wardrobe. Chaski's cos- 
tume includes a beaded blouse, made 
in pajama style, under which he 
wears a breach clout. He, too, wears 
leggings and moccasins. 

Both of the Indian twins wear 
beaded earrings. Ear piercing among 
the Sioux is an early infancy cere- 
mony, having as much sacred mean- 
ing to a Sioux tribesman as has the 
infant baptismal ceremony to the av- 
erage white person. 



Gamma Sigma Delta Banquet to Be Held 
April 3 for Five College Instruc- 
tors Along with Seniors 

Forty-eight men and one woman 
were elected to membership in Gam- 
ma Sigma Delta, honorary society in 
agriculture and allied professions, at ; 
a meeting of the local chapter last 
week. 

Membership in the organization is 
limited to faculty members, graduate 
students and seniors in the Division 
of Agriculture and related depart- 
ments in other divisions. Seniors to 
be eligible must be in the upper 25 
percent of their graduating class. 

New members, who will be honor 
guests at a banquet April 3, include: 

College faculty members: W. G. 
Amstein, associate professor of horti- 
culture; H. Ernest Bechtel, associate 
professor dairy husbandry; G. H. 
Beck, instructor in dairy husbandry; 
C. O. Grandfleld and H. D. Hollem- 
beak, assistant agronomists. 

Graduate students are John A. 
Johnson, Fargo, N. D.; Irene Monson, 
Osnabrock, N. D.; Charles J. Birke- 
land, Manhattan; Merritt I. Darrow, 
Leslie, Mich.; Walter Federer, Chey- 
enne, Wyo.; J. M. Koepper, Medora, 
Ind.; Ralph Peterson, Manhattan; 
Glenn Klingman, Chappell, Neb.; 
Robert W. Bray, Dodgeville, Wis.; 
Floyd E. Davidson, Parsons; Floyd A. 
Holmes, Prescott; Charles Good, 
Plevna, and Travis Brooks, Salina. 

Seniors elected from the Division 
of Agriculture: George Cochran, To- 
peka; Emerson Cyphers, Fairview; 
Lloyd Jones, Frankfort; Glenn Bus- 
set, Manhattan; Henry Smies, Court- 
land; Paul Smith, Lebanon; James 
Booth, Fairview; Boyd McCune, Staf- 
ford; Leland Groff, Parsons; Frank 
Slead, Neosho Rapids; John Winter, 
Dresden; Doyle LaRosh, Natoma; 
Arden Reiman, Byers; Lindley Wat- 
son, Peck; Merton Badenhop, Ken- 
sington; Paul Brown, Sylvan Grove; 
Eugene Woolley, Osborne; Milton 
Manuel, Havensville; Dale Hupe, 
Perry; Orville Love, Neosho Rapids; 
Paul Sanford, Milford; Orville Bur- 

(Contlnued on last page) 



Other members of the Kansas State 
team were Calvin Doile, Emporia; 
Norman J. Griffith, Clayton, and Max 
Dawdy, Washington. Richard Well- 
man of Sterling was alternate. Prof. 
F. W. Bell of the Department of Ani- 
mal Husbandry was coach of the 
team. 

The team returned to Manhattan 
on Tuesday. 



To Discuss Ag Practices 

roundtable discussion between feature 



written for the engineers by Matt 
Betton. 

The Engineers' Open House re- 
ceived national recognition on a 
coast-to-coast network when Bob 
Strong, National Broadcasting com- 
pany orchestra leader, devoted a por- 
tion of his "Uncle Walter's Dog 
House" program last night to the ex- 
hibition. Bob Strong, f.- s. '23, and 
his orchestra will play for St. Pat's 
prom Saturday night. 

The theme of the exhibition, which 
will have a "world's fair" appearance, 
is national defense. The display of 
airplanes to be in front of the Engi- 
neering building will carry this out. 
OPERATE MIDGET ENGINES 
Midget airplane engines will be 
shown in operation and will be dis- 
played beside the latest commercial 
engines and the old World War I en- 
gines. The chronological develop- 
ment of propellers, from before War 
I to the present time, will be ex- 
hibited. 

Lighting features of the 21st an- 
nual Engineers' Open House will be 
a colored water fountain and a so- 
dium-vapor lamp. The fountain will 
be formed by two concentric rings of 
spray and a towering geyser of water 
on which four revolving drum flood- 
lights will be turned. The sodium- 
vapor lamp made by the General 
Electric company will be an outdoor 
It is the same type of which 



the Kansas Extension service dis- 
trict agents on the value of agricul- 
tural practices now being recom- 
mended by the experts will be fea- 
tured on the KSAC Farm Hour pro- 
gram at 12:30 p. m. Tuesday, an- 
nounced J. P. Chapman, assistant ex- 
tension editor. 



lamps are used to 
Francisco-Oakland 



more than 1,000 
light the San 
bridge. 

The central exhibit will trace the 
development of the bridge and high- 
way from primitive times to the pres- 
ent. Models will show the develop- 

(Continued on last page) 



APPLE, ELM, HACKBERRY AND MAPLE TREES 

SHOULD BE PROTECTED FROM CANKERWORMS 

— Warns Doctor Parker 



Apple, elm, hackberry and maple 
trees in the Midwest should be pro- 
tected immediately from canker- 
worms, according to a warning this 
week by Dr. R. L. Parker of the De- 
partment of Entomology. 

Doctor Parker explained that trees 
throughout the Midwest were sub- 
jected to unusually early severe 
freezing weather in November. These 
weakened trees, unless protected, 
will be heavily damaged, he pre- 
dicted. 

"The cankerworms were not killed 
by the subnormal November weather, 
since they are able to live normally 
in frozen soil. A few days of warm 
weather will cause the cankerworms 
to emerge from the soil in large num- 
bers," Doctor Parker declared. "Since 
the females do not have wings they 
must crawl up the trees to lay their 
eggs." 

Protection for the trees may be 



this is not done it will be necessary 
to spray the trees later in the spring 
in order to prevent defoliation of the 
trees. Defoliation will weaken trees 
to the extent that wood borers will 
cause further serious damage and' 
the trees may die within the next two 
or three years. 

Bands are made by placing a three- 
or four-inch strip of cotton batting 
on the tree trunk over which is placed 
a six-inch band of waterproof paper, 
Doctor Parker said. In the center of 
the paper is applied a sticky sub- 
stance spread out to a width of three 
inches. 

If the adult cankerworms are not 
trapped, spraying during the last week 
in April will be necessary. A mixture 
of four pounds of lead arsenate to 
100 gallons of water may be used to 
kill the less than half grown worms. 
After the worms are more than half 
grown, it is necessary to increase the 



provided now by using the sticky trap dosage to five or six pounds of lead 
bands on the trunks of trees to catch arsenate to 100 gallons of water for 
the wingless females, he said. If ! effective control. 



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The KANSAS INDUSTRIALIST 

Established April 24, 1875 



R. I. Thackrey Editor 

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large upon how adequately the Amer- 
ican press informs its readers, in the 
cities as well as on the farms, about 
agricultural developments. From the 
standpoint of the general welfare, it 
is important to have news about farm 
policies achieve two broad results, 
one among consumers in the city and 
the other among farmers out in the 
country. It is to be hoped that the 
fullest discussion of agricultural 
problems, in the news, will make con- 
sumers more than ever conscious of 



SCIENCE TODAY 



the Greek prince of Homeric fame, 
the grinding of grain was assigned 
to 12 women, an eloquent comment 
on their social status. Because it 
usually fell to the lot of women to 
do the grinding in the ancient house- 
hold, they had little time to spend 
on what makes the comforts in the 
modern home. "Two women shall be 
grinding at the mill." 

The modern flour mill has made 



the meeting of the Baptist Home 
Missionary society held in Manhattan, 
conducted the chapel exercises at the 
College and afterward gave a short 
speech. 

The Educationalist for March car- 
ried the following articles: "The 
Skilled Observer," by President Pair- 
child, and "Our Neglected Studies," 
by S. C. Mason, f. s. 



KANSAS POETRY 

Robert Conover, Editor 



WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1941 



By C. O. SWANSON 
Professor of Milling Industry 
One of the main differences be- 
tween a higher and a lower civiliza- 
tion is the amount of time taken for 
the conversions of raw materials in- 
to products which serve human needs 

;io uiuic cue*.. <=,~. ~ -;as well as those which contribute to 

their stake in agriculture; make j tne com f rts of life. The more com- 

them realize how their welfare, their , forts which are made possible for all 

earning power and their consuming tne pe0 ple after the bare necessities 

power is linked to that of persons in have beell m et, the higher the mate- possible the production of a flour that 

agriculture. I think the broad con- ,. ial civilization. The more time it in ancient times was not found even 

sumer sympathy for the farmer and ; (ake8 t0 produce the necessities of in the fine meal enjoyed by kings 

toleration of national policies that I , lfe> the less is left to produce those and queens. The flour that MW JJOW ^ ^ ^ & ^ how deBtroys . 

are definitely formed to lift prices that contribute to the comforts. into the kitchen or the iciiiioaa pi esi- ( , ,, f it ,,•.,„ iridescent dream, 

die ueuiiiicjr ..__-_._*. t nt hp .. . , i * a dent is 110 better than the flour de- ' Passes tleetiliRly as cliildliood-toys 

can be attributed, in large part, to the Tne life of most people before mod-: ^. em £ ' tne wife of the track maln or ships of leaves upon an ocean- 
en, inventions was endless drudgery, ^.^ The same bfl I *£.«"• d#vartatlBf hurrlca „e, 
principally because Of the la.ge ^^ ^^ ^ ^ Qf all stay l,ut_ a little while and then are 
amount of time required to produce inequa lities in modern life, this a fiance heavenly, a crucial pain 
the bare necessities Human muscle equa i ity w „i c h really does «*•"»*.■ or years, or certain pass- 
the most available source of ' ins on. 

Tn'a large, modern flour mill, one Who can but weep yet lift his voice in 



By Nina Hemiling 



fullness with which newspapers have 
treated information about the agri- 
cultural situation. 

It is equally important that agri- 
cultural news carry to farmers in- 
formation that will help them appre- 
ciate and understand how necessary 
it is to have agriculture pursue a pro 



was the most available source of 
power and only those who could com- 
pel the services of others could en- 



joy leisure and comforts. When man 



THE DEBT THAT WASN'T PAIO 

Recently a Kansas Citian who had 
grown wealthy in the grain trade 
died, leaving nearly $2,000,000 to 
endow a library in Kansas City. 

No doubt the library will be of 
great benefit to Kansas City and pei 



haps indirectly of some benefit to the 



it is to have agriculture ?«"«•*»«"£ Joy leisure ana eomions. wne.. ma.. & 12 mlnuteB of 

gram that can be reconciled with the discovered how to harness natures This , nclude8 ftl , tne tin 

general welfare and with national in- forces, he made the first step toward 

terest as well as with the interests of having more time to produce enough 

farmers as a group. Agriculture is a beyond bare necessities so that more 

minority interest, even now, in the was available for the comforts of life. 

complex political organization of the The changes that have taken place 

government of the United States. jn tne m jn{ n g of grain is one illustra- 

Farmers will find it necessary, more t - on among ve ry many of what has 

and more, as the years go by, to take ta v- en pi ace in the conservation of 



song? 
barrel of flour, 196 pounds, IS pro- a friendly all-receiving universe 



man 
labor. This includes all the time re- 
quired to unload the wheat, clean it, 
mill it, pack the flour and feed and 
reload into cars ready for shipment. 
The average annual per capita con- 
sumption of flour is now stated to be 
157 pounds or considerably less than 
a barrel. This average includes all 
the people, children, old people as 
well as those in active life. Assum- 



Makes any needless tarrying here too 
Ion*. , . 

Ethereal waves out yonder may Im- 
merse , . 

The soul in loveliness too deep for 
tears, 

And wash from shores of time our 
cluttered years. 



. I illill UIULS, no uic j^cwo b« «j i — laKeil place ... Liie tunoci lauuu <j. 

j account of the sentiments of consum- tlme Tne fll . st m nii ng process con 

territory surrounding Kansas City, j jng ma j oritiea in the formulation of sigted in crushing by impact or rub 

Yet this disposition of almost the j theh . Qwn policies Parm programs ))ing wlth 9ton es. Sifting out the ing a barrel per working adult, it 

whole of a large fortune indicates a j tha( . dQ no( . gquare with the broader CO arse outer covering came into use means that the average man time 

lack of appreciation of the sources interests f the whole country will because people found that the inside required to mill a year's supply for 

from which that fort be swept away by a general resistance ()f tne gl . ain taste d better when eaten such a person is about 12 minutes. 

unless care is taken to reconcile these ^ ))y j tse if than when mixed with the That is, less ti 

programs, as they are developed, with outside. Before modern inventions 

the general welfare 



Nina Hemhling of Emporia was the 
winner of the 1989 National league 
of American Pen Women poetry con- 
test with her poem, "Tolerance," 
which was published in the 1940 is- 
sue of The Kansas Magazine. 



Certainly Kansas City deserves 
well of this citizen who had become 
wealthy as a powerful figure in its 
trading operations. His action in 
leaving his wealth for a community 
purpose shows that he was aware of 
his debt and attempted to take this 
means of discharging it. But there 
was another debt of which he was 
not apparently conscious and which 
there was no attempt to discharge 
The Kansas City trade territory also 



me is now spent in 
milling a year's supply of flour for 



By B. W. Davis 
TIME TO PLACE YOUR BETS, 

AMERICA 
It's March all right. And the next 



nulling a years supply oinou. xor calendar it will be 

. 8 «„«™ w™.. .t was only the rich and powerful (me worklug adult than the ancient ™« • £ Qr we , d better 

It would be a real national calam- w j 10 could afford to eat bread from 



ity if consumers, unmindful of agri 
culture's basic importance in the 
national economy, develop class resis- 
tance to sound farm programs. A 
few cents on a pound of butter or on 
a cotton shirt is a small price for a 
city consumer to pay in order that 



sifted meal. Among Solomon's daily 
provisions were so many measures of 
tine-sifted meal. 



housewife spent in crushing the grain 
used for the family for one meal. 
It is labor-saving devices like this as 



April all right. Or maybe we'd better 
say all wrong. 



For, if records indicate much, April 
,e-sifted meal. wg]] ag m ot hers which have made i s our favorite month for going to 

The lowest classes o labor, slaves ^ wjfe tQ become the wa) . 

or prisoners were employed to labor J homemak er. Tile modern 

V^TXZ Snln^Zl 22 standard of living has been Consequently and solemnly, it. 



there was no auempi u «»«"-'«"• city consumer to pay in order that was made t0 gl . ind graln in prison, nign suu.ua ™ ut „„..„ — ™ ; America the Beautiful 

The Kansas City trade territory also J naye M agriculture mald , )ehind the mll , was placed made possible by science which is J° J^ ™' J'^ gambling 

deserved well of this man, particn- , Supporting at an American ln contrast to the prince in the pal- the foundation of the time-saving ° ^,J/™ h ^ S xL! ov Hit 

larly well since it furnished the gold- , gtandard of Hving tne population ; ace . m the household of Odysseus, devices. 

en flow of wheat and corn from which . Sooner or 



r0r, T \ " , • d,o, , reporting of news about agriculture 
uses tor tarm products, at , 



the fortune grew. He owed a debt 
to the farmers and the elevator opera- 
tors and the millers and the railroad 
men of Kansas and to the hundreds 
of rural communities in which the 
wealth which makes Metropolis what 
it is, was produced. 

This debt might have been dis- 
charged in many ways. 

Suppose half the $2,000,000 for- 
tune had been given for use in Kan- 
sas City, and half to endow research 
in milling or agronomy or in develop 
ing new 

Kansas State College? Or suppose 
the money had been divided among 
the various associations which devote 
their slender resources to improving 
the seed used for growing grain in 
Kansas? It might well have gone to 
furnish scholarships to the hundreds 
Of farm boys and girls who either 
cannot go to college for advanced 
training and opportunities, or are 
having a hard struggle to make ends 
inert while at college! Or think of 
the tremendous benefit to be fur- 
nished from a proportionate share of 
a million-dollar bequest distributed 
among the libraries of the five state 
schools of Kansas! 

A gift for any one of these pur- 
poses might well be returned to Kan- 
sas City a hundredfold In a genera- 
tion. 

A Kansas Citian has been used as 
an example, bill Kansas City is in- 
deed generous in her remembrance 
of her debt to and dependence on the 
surrounding country, as compared to 
metropolitan areas farther away. 
Each year the great trade and manu- 
facturing centers absorb hundreds of 
trained graduates of Midwestern col- 
leges, but substantial gifts for the 
support of the institutions which fur- 
nish that training are still so rare as 
to furnish items of major news in- 
terest when they occur 



groups now on the farm. Sooner or 
later, if those standards cannot be 



ler. We have now had a good season 
of congressional talk, if there is such 



,_,. K .~ _ _ . u L i;uiifs i uooiunu i ten iv, m w»v» v, -« — — 

later, if those standards cannot be djvidua , Mrdg which have , )een , lttended the 21st annual oratorical a thing. We have jockeyed ourselves 

maintained, farm homes will turn banded anfl whjch return and are ,. outest and t he annual celebration into a position where we are going 

into the ranks of city labor addea experimental stations at of the Hamilton and Ionian Literary to be on one side or the other— even 

millions of workers to burden tne . ._... ^_ , ., ,_ ... : .. i .•„., )»..,„„„..,, 



millions Of workers to *;" rd «» tn ° the proper time (spring or fall) to societies in Joint session, 

roles of the unemployed aii^d compete P £ ^^ mig ,. ation __ is 

for jobs with those already m u ban oximatel 2 nt ,„„ most of 

areas. It would be a calamity equally • * &g 

distressing, if farmers used Pressure ^^ BlrdB nave been 

group power reckle^ »Jr to , Dbta n J ^^ ^ Eagt coast 

temporary gams t™^***™ to California, and after being released 

the general interest of ^ countiy there nave found theIl . way home over 

The fullest and the most adequate „ lm ,nt fl in S Sometimes 



if we so much as wriggle. There's no 
middle ground any more. 



can help a great deal to avoid both 
of these disasters. — From an address 
by James Russell Wiggins, managing 
editor of the St. Paul Dispatch- 
Pioneer Press. 

♦ 
BIIRD EDEMT1IF1CAT1ION BAWDS 



the Rocky mountains. Sometimes 
they have even made faster time com- 
ing home than a letter mailed simul- 
taneously between the same points. 

One oddity revealed by the studies 
of banded birds is the "scandalous" 



THIRTY YEARS AGO 
It. R. Rees. '85, congressman from 
I lie fifth district, spoke in assembly 
on the subject, "Canadian Reciproc- 
ity." 

"Psycho-therapy" was the subject 
of an address to the Methodist Broth- 
erhood of Manhattan by J. W. Sear- 
son, associate professor of English. 



Our little problem is whether we 
wish a large share of the world 
turned over for the next generation 
or so to a victorious England or a 
victorious Hitler. It makes no differ- 
ence whether we know or agree with 
England's methods and ideology or 
Hitler's methods and ideology. What- 
ever we do — even if it be only idly 
gawking and twirling our thumbs — 
is going to constitute a momentous 
decision, no matter what the intent 



R. S. Kellogg, '96, and E. C. Zieg 

ler were authors of a bulletin pub 

conduct of some house wrens. The Mshed by the American Lumberman 

male wrens are not always perfect The cost of growing timber was the may be. 

himiiMiiHa it has been discovered in subject of the bulletin. Mr. Kellogg 

seve a finances hat one male .sets was secretary of the Northern Hem- Unlike Russia, we cannot look on 
The practice Of placing metal iden- "„ /*' , t „,,Iishments —From Field lock and Hardwood Manufacturers' and hope that two great antagonistic 
tiflcation bands on the legs of cap- "' 1R t *° n*", association. forces and two antagonistic ideas in 

lured birds, and then releasing them Museum wews. 
to trace their movements and learn *" . " , 

other facts about them, was origi- Man can climb to the highest sum 
nat ed at the turn of the 18th century, mlts, but he cannot dwell there long 
and was adopted by John James Au- 
dubon, who used rings of silver for 
the purpose. 

Today many thousands of persons 
-professional ornithologists, gov- 
ernment officials, amateur bird lov- 
ers and others — engage in this 
practice on a highly organized basis 



— Bernard Shaw. 



m OLDER DAYS 

From the Files of The lvilnstiiali.il 

TEN YEARS AGO 



forces and two antagonistic ideas in 

the world will wear themselves utter- 

FORTY YEARS AGO ly out in the combat. Russia may 

Cora Ewalt Brown, '9S, went to have reasons for wanting just that. 

Chicago to take a three-month course Certainly we have none. 

of instruction on the harp at the Chi- . 

cago Musical college. M ^ he w « Bad bett « r turn f the 

, . . „ oratory and turn on the brains. 

The Domestic Science club of Man 



, our time to think and think fast how 

hat tan at its regular meeting elected ed we wmM gtay with a vic . 

Bruce Mather. '80. was employed Miss Josephine Harper president and , H|U 

Miss Alice Rupp secretary. Miss 



as horticultural specialist for Atchi- 

practlce on a mgniy organized im«.. Bon , Leavenworth and Doniphan Stover was e «^' <*£«» te to the 

Bands of aluminum, bearing numbers counties, which were cooperating for State Federation of Women s Clubs. 

., .■K.-uff- nj«l««.;...,1 .. ,» » < .I...U 1 ... A i.1>. r /"I IJ.,,w,t, '00 .laaiatunt ill flfild 



nid the notice, "Notify Biological 
Survey. Washington, D. C," are sup- 
plied for the purpose by the United 
States Department of Agriculture. 

Bird banders trap birds in cages 
built in such a way as to attract them 
1 in but prevent them from finding 
their way out. This is accomplished 
I by means which will not injure the 
\ captured bird. The traps most com- 
monly used are rectangular wire- 
niesh boxes with a funnel arrange- 
ment of wire on top, and bait inside 



the promotion of horticultural work. J. G. Haney, '99, assistant in field 
Miss Emma Hyde, professor of and feeding experiments at the Col- 
mathematics and state president of lege and experiment station, resigned . 

the American Association of Univer- to take up his new duties as agri- definitely into being, 

si.y Women, spoke at the annual din- cultural agent for the Chihuahua and 



toriOUB Hitler or a victorious En- 
gland for the next five, ten, fifty, or 
a hundred years. To that degree, at 
least, it is our fight; for we cannot 
conveniently get clear off the earth 
merely because we don't like the new 
setup when it comes suddenly and 



Pittsburg 



ner of the association's 
branch. 

Mrs. Lucile Rust and Mrs. Laura 
Baxter, both of the Division of Home 
Economics, represented the College 



Pacific Railway company, Chihuahua, I more than suspect that 90 per- 
Mexico. cent of America would prefer to ride 

with a victorious England. Undoubt- 
FIFTY YEARS AGO edly we shall have to risk war and all 



knows the sources of well-being and 
helps to replenish them when oppor- 
tunity offers. 

♦ 
THE PRESS AND AGRICULTURE 

There is a broad realization, among 
those in charge of newspapers, and 
among other groups as well, that the 
sort of country we have in coming 
generations will depend a great deal 
upon the sort of national agricultural 
policy that the United States adopts. 

This policy, in turn, depends In 



Doctor Mayo spent several days at that war entails if we go into lease- 
Bconomics represented the College mfteti of tne state Veterinary f lending with or without amendments 

a, the central regional conference of aS8()ciation at wichita and reservations. But that is noth- 

home economics educators in Chi- ing new. We have been risking war 

Professor Walters lectured on the B „:.,„!„„ tht„ v,„„„ 

. „„ ..kt„., from the very beginning. We have 

school course on Non- ' , . . , 

leimiiuiK mi I™™..... alU v*.«=o never been actually neutral, and only 

i i,..ri h«on ,.n,Tipri nn -it this Oolleee Political Thoughts on Political Eco- , „__ 

row end baffles it when it wishes to na<1 ,)( ' en <a — i— .. I °«r own interpretation of our own 

make its departure. 



terest when they occur. ment of wire on top, and bait inside. ! " u, " e " " \ ™" ,,,t /, ~" n r nf*w 

It is a wise as well as a wealthy ^TbfrdTsSy enters through the «*<>• "»■ Rust Wi,s ( >» 2?dE?S LoutaviHe 



As a result of this widespread ac- 
tivity, ornithologists have been able 
to collect data answering such ques 



(lining the previous year 



nonncs. 



TWENTY YEARS AGO 

R. LaMont, '20, was instructor 
of vocational agriculture in the De- 



acts has kept us technically so. Does 
A number of students and former | anyone suppose Hitler thinks we are 
students took part in the Demorest ()1 . nave , )ee]1 lleu t,. a l? 



tions as "How long do birds live? catur county high school, Oberlin. 
"When does their plumage change? | 

..„.. *. „i, Q .,„ ?" i Mrs. Mollie Smith Mose 



Cold Medal contest at Manhattan. , 
The prize was won by Miss Libbie 
Blachly, student in 1888-89. 



"How does their plumage change?" 
"Do birds return to the same spot for 
nesting year after year?" and count- 
less other questions which arise in 
the study of the habits of birds. The 
percentage of "returns" — that is, in- 



'20, ex- 
tension foods specialist, presented 
several addresses at the institute at 
Chapman. 

J. W. Sanderson, '98, state repre- 
sentative from Chautauqua county, 



SIXTY YEARS AGO 
At the regular meeting of the Web- 
ster society, L. H. Neiswender was 
elected librarian. 

Doctor Haigh, who was attending 



The bloodiest summer the world 
has ever known seems to be in the 
offing. Our squirming and wriggling 
cannot possibly make it any less 
bloody, but maybe our making up our 
minds can. We might as well try it, 
anyhow— chiefly because we are go- 
ing to have to. 



■ 



AMONG THE 
ALUMNI 



A 



W. H. Phipps, B. S. "95, D. P. H., 
is dairy, milk, food and sales effi- 
ciency counselor for the National 
Dairy and Milk institute, Kansas 
City, Mo. This institute is a sales 
and educational service for dairy and 
milk plant organizations for the im- 
proved efforts of their own organiza- 
tion. 

Edmund Secrest, B. S. '02, who 
received a doctor of science degree 
from Wooster (Ohio) college in 1938, 
is director of the Ohio Agricultural 
Experiment station at Wooster. 

Ethel McDonald, D. S. '07, was for 
many years home demonstration 
agent in Alaska. Last fall she re- 
turned to the States and started 
graduate work at Columbia univer- 
sity. New York. She was appointed 
home demonstration agent in New 
York state to begin work there Feb- 
ruary 1, 1941. 



Col. Guy C. Rexroad, M. E. '09, 
and Alice (Hazen) Rexroad, '09, are 
now at Headquarters F. A. at Camp 
Joseph T. Robinson, Ark. 

"The Thirty-Fifth division of which 
my regiment, the 130th F. A., is a 
part is now mobilized here," Colonel 
Rexroad wrote. "Many of us have 
the flu, including yours truly. How- 
ever it is mild like the weather. We 
had a snow last Thursday, which is 
about all gone today. We have a lot 
of good Kansans down here. 

"Aikins and Lord are on my staff, j 
Both are recommended for promotion 
to captains, and are brother Scabbard 
and Blade. Never thought of that 
when they were on the staff, but 
noted it last night at dinner. We 
have about 10 Kansas State officers 
in the regiment. 

"Now have 67 officers. Will soon 
go war strength. 

"We still have the Hiawatha band 

it's as good as ever. There is a 

lot of hard work here. We have re- 
organized under regular army war 
strength tables. This expands the 
organization, and at present we have 
several second lieutenants command- 
ing batteries." 



medal June 27 at the annual meeting 
of the Society for the Promotion of 
Engineering Education "to a chosen 
advancement of the art of technical 
training." The presentation was made 
at Berkeley, Calif. 

He is author of a number of books 
on power engineering, thermody- 
namics and farm motors and of many 
scientific papers and articles. He has 
served as advisory editor for Ginn 
and company; on the editorial ad- 
visory board of Industrial Power; 
on the editorial and educational ad- 
visory board of National Engineer, 
and as chairman of the advisory com- 
mittee for "Who's Who in Engineer- 
ing." Dean Potter has served as a 
consulting power engineer for more 
than 27 years. 

In the service of the government, 
Dean Potter has served as associate 
member of the United States Naval 
Consulting board, 1917-19; director, 
Industrial Preparedness for the 
State of Kansas, 1917-18; district 
educational director, War Depart- 
ment Committee on Education and 
Special Training, 1918-19; consulting 
expert, United States Bureau of Ed- 
ucation, 1928 and 1931; consultant, 
National Resources committee, 1936 
and 1938. 



LOOKING AROUND 

KINNEY L FORD 



corporation, and a member of the 
board of directors. Their home is 
at 3745 Lindell boulevard, St. Louis, 
Mo. 



Charles E. Burt, G. S. '26, M. S. , 
i '27, is professor of biology at South- j 
1 western college, Winfleld. He and 
I May (Danheim) Burt, '25, live at 
i 209 Massachusetts street, Winfleld. 
Harold M. Scott, M. S. '27, is head 
of the Poultry department at the 
University of Connecticut, Storrs. 
Professor Scott received his doctor 
of philosophy from the University of 
Illinois in 1938. 

Esther Snodgrass, H. E. '28, is 
teaching home economics at an In- 
dian Day school on the Rosebud 
reservation, Parmalee, S. D. She has 
been with the government Indian 
service since September, 193 8. 



Legislative Musings 

All Kansas Legislatures are con- 
servative when it comes to appro- 
priating money for education. Old 
age is winning the battle with youth 
for the taxpayer's dollar. 

Kansas State College is like a boy 
that has outgrown his clothes. We 
need everything. More money for; 
salaries, maintenance and repairs. A 
Student Union building, three home 
economics practice houses, a girls' 
dormitory, 4-H club-fleldhouse and 
armory. The horticulturists want 
orchard land, the livestock men an 
up-to-date animal husbandry barn. 
The power plant needs enlarging. 

Every session brings a few bills, 
friendly and unfriendly, to the Divi- 
sion of College Extension. The mill- 
ers of Kansas wish to establish a 
I laboratory for testing wheat and 
; flour at Kansas State College. Some 
I of our alumni have sent in most help- 
I ful letters and telegrams in behalf of 
I the College. 

Kansas State College certainly has 
!a host of friends in the Legislature 
and out. We never get all we want 
'nor what we really need, but when 
the session is over we will have just 
what the representatives of the peo- 
ple of Kansas honestly think we 
should have. 

Seven alumni and friends of the 
College, including three ladies, are 
giving voluntarily of their time in vis- 
iting with members of the Legisla- 
ture, explaining certain needs of the 
College. They deserve our sincere 
thanks. 



SHAFER — McCALL 
Thelma Eileen Shafer, George- 
town, Ohio, and Robert J. McCall, 
Ag. E. '39, were married September 
26. They are now at home at 143 
East Frambes avenue, Columbus, 
Ohio. Mr. McCall is an assistant in 
agricultural engineering at Ohio 
State university in Columbus. 



RECENT HAPPENINGS 
ON THE HILL 



ESCALANTE— CRIBBETT 

Ofelia M. Escalante and James R. 
Cribbett, I. C. '33, M. S. '34, were 
married January 28. Mr. Cribbett is 
a federal food and drug inspector 
with the United States Food and 
Drug administration, 222 United 
States Customhouse, New Orleans, 
La. Their address is 144 2 Toledano, 
New Orleans. 



OALLINA— SIMPSON 
Delia Gallina and William Philip 
Simpson, C. E. '34, recently sent an 

! announcement of their marriage 
January 11. Mrs. Simpson, a gradu- 
ate of New York university, writes 

! that their permanent address is at 
1834 Eighty-Fifth street, Brooklyn, 

j N. Y. Lieutenant Simpson is with 

I Battery 0, Fourth C. A.. Ft. Amador, 

; Panama, Canal Zone. 



Prof. L. E. Conrad, acting dean of 
the Division of Engineering and Ar- 
chitecture, will address the Kansas 
Highway Engineering conference in 
Topeka Thursday. 

Dr. Harold Howe of the Depart- 
ment of Economics and Sociology is 
serving this week as one of the staff 
lecturers in a series of district ex- 
j tension schools in Iowa. 

Nine members of Alpha Phi Omega, 
honorary service fraternity, have vol- 
unteered as free-blood donors in case 
their type is needed. Their blood was 
typed this week at St. Mary hospital. 

Senior students already have begun 
to take their health examinations. 
I The Department of Student Health 
offers all graduating students an op- 
portunity to have their physical con- 
ditions checked. 



K. K. Wyatt, Ar. '11. recently 
changed his address to 512 Fifth av- 
enue. New York City. He is assistant 
to the vice-president of the Ameri- 
can Locomotive company. 



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Sam M. Mitchell, Ag. '18, writes 
a brief story of his occupation since 
graduation in the spring of '18. 

"I happened to be one of those 
chosen from the College to enter offi- 
cers' training school, so went im- 
mediately from Manhattan to Camp 
Pike, Ark., where I entered the 
Fourth Field Artillery Officers' Train- 
ing school," he said. "After about 
30 days there, I was transferred to 
Camp Taylor, Louisville, Ky., where 
I received the commission of second 
lieutenant in Field artillery. August 
31, 1918. I was then sent to Camp 
Jackson, S. C, and received my hon- 
orable discharge from the army, De- 
cember 8, 1918. 

"After a year spent in Kansas City, 
Mo.. I took charge of our farm in 
Franklin county, Ottawa, where I 
remained until I was elected secre- 
tary of the Kansas State fair, Janu- 
ary 15, 1937. I was married August 
22, 1922, to Helen Tussing of Otta- 
wa. We have two daughters. Elea- 
nor Louise, a student in Hutchinson 
junior college, and Marjorie Ann, 
who is in junior high school in 
Hutchinson." 



Cecil E. Hammett, E. E. '29, is an I 
officer with the U. S. Army Reserve 
corps. He is now engaged in the de- 
velopment of the cannon. He and 
Ruth (Avery) Hammett, f. s. '30, 
have two children — Robert Edgar. 
10, and Carolyn Virginia, 7. He sent 
to the College Alumni office a copy 
of his professional record. After get- 
ting his degree from Kansas State 
! College, he received a master's de- 
j gree from the University of Nebraska, 
j attended Armour Institute of Tech- 
i nology in Chicago and University of 
Michigan in Ann Arbor for work on 
a Ph. D. degree. 

He had a teaching fellowship at 
: the University of Michigan. He was 
Dr. T. C. Pou Iter's assistant in the 
j design of the antarctic snow cruiser 
! built by the research foundation of 
! Armour Institute of Technology for 
use at the south pole. 



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Michael E. Ptacek, Ag. '22, and 
.lean (Hanna) Ptacek, G. S. '22, Abi- 
lene, have two children — Jean Alice, 
12, and Michael George, 10. Mr. 
Ptacek is head of the farm manage- 
ment department of the United Trust 
company. 

Ralph M. Crowell, f. s. '23, with 
his wife and daughter, called at the 
College Alumni office last fall. Their 
home is in Salt Lake City. Mr. Crow- 
ell is dispatcher for the Utah Power 
and Light company. 

Ferris F. Kimball, f. s. '24, is 
manufacturer's distributor for the 
Plibrico Jointless Firebrick company. 
1015 Mulberry street, Kansas City, 
Mo He and Ruth (Miller) Kimball 
have a son, Ferris Robert. 5. Their 
home is at 948 Cleveland, Kansas 
City. Kan. 



A A. Potter. Doctor of Engrg. '25, 
dean of engineering at Purdue uni- 
versity, was awarded the Lamme 



Richard K. Dickens. I. J. '31, vis- 
ited the College Alumni office last 
■ October. He is division manager of 
the American Tobacco company. His 
i territorial division is Missouri and 
I Iowa. He lives with his wife, The- 
iresa (Florell) Dickens, f. s., at 4524 
1 Roanoke parkway, Kansas City, Mo. 
Vernon L. Carter, C. E. '3 4, is en- 
gineer for the Kansas Highway com- 
mission. His address is 505 West 
Iron, Salina. 

Clifford L. Harding, Ag. '3 5, is 
county supervisor for the Farm Se- 
curity administration at Iola. He 
\ lives at 308 North Sycamore. 

Jessie Rowland, H. 85. '36, was! 
married June 5 to James H. Andrews 
of Kansas City, Kan. Their home is 
at 1432 South Twenty-Ninth street,! 
Kansas City. 

Lyle M. Murphy, Ag. '37, M. S. '39 
at Michigan State, is research assis- 
tant at Rhode Island State college. 
Kingston. 

Charles P. Olomon Jr. is employed 
as a field man for the Holly Sugar 
corporation. He supervises the grow- 
ing and harvesting of sugar beets. 
His address is at Hawk Springs. Wyo. 
V. Eugene Payer, Ag. '39, and 
Fiances (Loomis) Payer, f. s. '39, 
are at 205 East Madison, Yates Cen- 
ter. Mr. Payer recently has been ap- 
pointed county agent there. 

I. Kieth Harrison, Ag. '40, is a ju- 
nior clerk in the division of farm 
management and costs. Bureau of 
Agricultural Economics. He resigned 
a temporary appointment in the Cen- 
sus bureau to accept this appoint- 
ment. His supervisor now is R. S. 
Kifer, Ag. '23, who has charge of 
farm management research projects 
in the Great Plains area. Mr. Harri- 
son may be addressed at 1730 Sev- 
enteenth, North, Arlington, Va. 



Utah Alumni Dinner 

Alumni in Utah met February 15 ■ 
at the home of Walter L. Latshaw, 
M. S. '22, and Margaret Latshaw for 
a dinner typical of those made famous 
by Glen Sawyer, '24. Mrs. Latshaw 
wrote the following report of the 
meeting: 

"Glen, '24 graduate, lives at a 
fisherman's paradise in Oneida Can- 
yon, Idaho. This is one place where 
you can both see and catch trout — 
all the trout you wish. The only limi- 
tation is the state game laws, so we 
didn't have trout because the season 
has not opened, but we did have a 
lish fry with all the trimmings. Our 
only disappointment was that the 
honor guest. Glen, because of trouble 
at the power station where he works 
could not be with us. 

"Thirty-two were present includ- 
ing alumni, former students and their 
wives or husbands— Ralph Crowell, 
!' s. '23, and Mrs. Crowell; Ralph 
Jennings. '22, and Mrs. Jennings; 
MaJ. Elmer Young. '25. and Ethel 
(Wood) Young, f. s.; Major and Mrs. 
Nichols and his brother, Captain 
Nichols: Arty (Mark. f. s. '27, and 
Mrs. (Mark; Orville Longfellow, f. s. 
•23. and Mrs. Longfellow; Olga 
(Raemer) Totten, '11, and Mr. Tot- 
ten; Henry Melcher. '24, and Mary 
(Capper) Melcher. f. s. '22; Mrs. 
Capper, mother of Mrs. Melcher; Dr. 
Harry Frazier. '31, and Mrs. Frazier; 
William R. Bolen, '16. and Mrs. 
Rolen; Miss Bolen, sister of William 
visiting from Le Roy; Lila Canavan, 
•21); Rhea Gibson, '31; Mr. and Mrs. 
K. J. Weeks; Mr. and Mrs. Edgar 
Hailey, and the hosts, Mr. and Mrs. 
Latshaw. and their son, Walter Jr., 
who is now a freshman at the Univer- 
sity of Utah. 

"At the business meeting which 
followed, Mrs. Henry Melcher, f. s. 
'2 2, was elected president. Mary has 
served since our beginnings as sec- 
retary-treasurer and has been a mar- 
vel at conserving our meager funds, 
so we feel her election as president 
is a just reward. Mrs. Ralph Jen- 
nings was elected secretary-treasurer. 
"The remainder of the evening was 
spent playing cards and prizes were 
awarded Ralph Crowell and Mrs. 
Ralph Jennings." 



WILLIAMS— PITTS 
In a letter to Prof. R. J. Barnett, 
Staley Pitts, Hort. '39, writes of his 
wedding last year and honeymoon, 
which included the Rose Bowl game 
at Pasadena. His marriage to Mar- 
garet Williams of Ness City was De- 
cember 21. Mrs. Pitts is a graduate 
of Fort Hays Kansas State college. 
Their home is at Newton, where Mr. 
Pitts is teaching and coaching in the 
city high school. 



Approximately 150 delegates from 
20 county rural life clubs and the 
Emporia and Pittsburg collegiate 4- 
H clubs are expected to meet with 
the Kansas State College 4-H club 
Thursday for the seventh annual 
Rural Life association conference on 
the campus, according to 4-H club 
members. 



Robert W. Reed, news editor and 
military commentator for the Kansas 
City Star, will speak at a journalism 
lecture Thursday. He will discuss the 
handling of news from abroad and 
sources available to him for his com- 
ments on the international military 
situation. Mr. Reed is a major in the 
army reserve. 



SHAFER— ROOKS 
The marriage of Donna Shafer, f. 
s., and Myron Rooks, I. J. '39, was 
January 19. After attending Kansas 
State, the bride went to the Kansas 
City Art institute, where she gradu- 
ated last spring. Mr. Rooks, a mem- 
ber of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, is a 
licensed pilot and flies his own plane. 
He is associated in business with his 
uncle. Fred Rooks, of the Rooks 
Sales company. Their home is at 
1110 Pierre, Manhattan. 



One thousand students voted in the 
Independent party primary election 
for Student Council members Friday. 
This is the largest number known to 
have voted in a primary ballot at 
Kansas State College. Results of the 
election will not be announced until 
! the winning candidates' eligibility 
has been checked. 



MOON— 1 1 Alt It V 

Margaret Louise Moon, P. E. '39, 
became the bride of Lieut. Sidney L. 
Harry, f. s. '4 0, Ft. Sam Houston, 
Texas, November 24. Mrs. Harry at- 
tended Kansas State Teachers' col- 
lege at Emporia before coming to 
Kansas State College. She taught 
school for a time at Peabody. She is 
a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, 
social sorority. Lieutenant Harry at- 
tended Wentworth Military academy 
and Kansas State College. He is 
now on duty at the army base at Ft. 
Sam Houston. The couple are at 
home at 126 Harrigan court, San 
Antonio, Texas. 

♦ 

DEATHS 



Mary Griswold, Manhattan, was 
elected president of the College YW- 
CA last week. Miss Griswold, a mem- 
ber of the Y cabinet for the past three 
years, and other newly elected officers 
will be installed March 23 at the 
Episcopal church. Margaret Bayless, 
Wakarusa, was chosen vice-president; 
Martha Ann Pattison, Manhattan, sec- 
retary, and Dorothy Beezley, Girard, 

treasurer. 

♦ 

BIRTHS 



Arthur J. Groesbeck Jr., f. s. '34, 
and Mrs. Groesbeck are the parents 
of Arthur Jerome III, born January 
21. They live at 1720 Poyntz in Man- 
hattan, where Mr. Groesbeck is in 
the investment business. 



STANSI'.riLV 

Ethel Clarine (Morton) Stansbury, 
H. E. '39, died at her home, 521 
North Tenth street, Manhattan, Feb- 
ruary 17, after an illness of about 
two years. Mrs. Stansbury was the 
wife of Lieut. Alfred Stansbury, Fort 
Riley officer, who made his home in 
Manhattan. She was a member of 
the Phi Omega Pi sorority. Surviv- 
ing are her husband, her father and 
four sisters. The body was taken to 
Coldwater, where she had lived be- 
fore coming to Manhattan. 



Twin daughters born to Edward A. 

Murphy, '36, and Louise (Ratliff) 
I Murphy, '36, on February 9, have 
I been named Jaconette and Jeannette. 

The Murphys have one other daugh- 
| ter, Patricia. Mr. Murphy is with the 
j United States Bureau of Animal In- 
' dustry at Omaha. 



Harold Da vies, '37. and Marie (An- 
trim) Davies, '34, announce the ar- 
rival of Marian Marie, February 3. 
The Davies live at 2921 North 
Twenty-Sixth, Kansas City, Kan. Mr. 
Davies is county club agent in Wy- 
andotte county. Before their mar- 
riage in 1939, Mrs. Davies was home 
demonstration agent in that county. 



MARRIAGES 



H ITRST — NELSON 

The marriage of Lena Marie Hurst, 
'39, to Glenn Nelson, '40, took place 
August 4. In December, Mr. Nelson 
received a civil service appointment 
in Honolulu as a civil engineer drafts- 
man. The couple's address is 1947 
AM Wai boulevard, Honolulu, T. H. 



M I TOLLER— POCOCK 

Marie Lillian Mueller was married 
to Dale F. Pocock, C. '33, October 
19. Mr. Pocock is secretary-treasurer 
of the Mode Krome Manufacturing 



Kansas State College Recordings 

"Alma Mater" and "Wildcat Victory" by the Kansas State 

College Men's chorus 

and 

, Ro „ on, Kansas State" and "Shoulder to Shoulder" by the College band 

All four of the above songs so dear to Kansas State College students and 
alumni recorded on one standard phonograph record will be jailed any- 
where in the United States for $1 each. Alumni in foreign countnes should 
add the necessary additional postage. 

If you wish one of these records for your home or alumni meeting fl U 
out the following order blank and mail to the Kansas State College Alumni 
i association, Manhattan. 

| a Inclosed find $1 for one K. S. C. recording. 
I D Inclosed find 15c for one printed copy of "Wildcat Victory." 

Name 

Address 



FULTON OATS IS FIRST 

IN 1940 VARIETY TESTS 

"SPKCIAL RED" CLASSIFICATION TO 
III : ESTABLISHED 



Can Spring Be Far Behind ? 



Selection FlrM DlNtrlbuti .1 by Experi- 
ment Station In lit.ts Make* Top 
YleldH In Both Eastern nnil 
Centrnl Part* of State 

Fulton oats, a selection first dis- 
tributed by the Kansas Agricultural 
Experiment station in 1938, made 
the top yields in both the eastern and 
the central parts of the state, in the 
cooperative oat variety tests. Re- 
sults of the tests were released re- 
cently by Prof. A. L. Clapp, supervisor 
of the experiments. 

Kanota, the principal variety of 
oats now grown in Kansas, made the 
second highest yields. The weight 
per bushel of Fulton oats is usually 
slightly higher than that of Kanota. 
The Fulton kernel is light reddish 
and goes into the present federal 
"Red Oat" grade. 

WILL, HAVE NEW FEDERAL GRADE 
Beginning July 1, 1941, a new fed- 
eral grade for oats will be in effect, 
this new grade to be known as "Spe- 
cial Red Oats." Columbia, a high- 
yielding, early-maturing variety, will 
come under this new grade and Col- 
lege agronomists hope that Fulton 
also will be so classed. 

The Chicago Board of Trade will 
accept "Special Red Oats" at the same 
price as white oats, while the old 
class of "Red Oats" is bought and 
sold on the market at a discounted 
price. 

Fulton oats matures slightly earli- 
er than Kanota. Fulton may also be 
planted later than Kanota and still 
make a good yield, but for best re- 
sults it should be sown at the regular 
oat-planting time, which this year 
will be as soon as the fields are dry 
enough to work. Fulton is resistant 
to most of the races of smut now 
prevalent in Kansas. 

THREE BARLEY VARIETIES 
Three varieties of spring barley 
were grown in the cooperative spring 
barley test plots. These were Flynn, [ 
Vaughn and Common 6-row or Stav- 
ropol. The tests were located in 28 1 
counties in both the northern and 
southern parts of the state. Reports 
were made on tests in all 28 counties. : 
Flynn, a new variety with smooth 
beards, made the top yield. Vaughn 
made only slightly lower yields and [ 
Common 6-row made distinctly lower ' 
yields. Vaughn is characterized by j 
stiff straw, and is a relatively new 
variety, not yet approved for increase ; 
and distribution. 

The Kansas Agricultural Experi- ' 
ment station conducts these tests on 
a cooperative basis with farmers, 
county farm bureaus and vocational ' 
agricultural schools. Experiment sta- 
tion agronomists who directed the 
variety tests last year included A. L. ' 
Clapp, H. D. Hollembeak and C. D. j 
Davis. 

♦ 
FRATERNITIES ANNOUNCE 

27 STUDENT PLEDGINGS 





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Conover to Judge Essays 

Prof. Robert W. Conover of the 
Department of English will judge the 
college student essay division in the 
1941 Oklahoma Student Writers' as- 
sociation contest, which closes March 
1 19 and is sponsored by the Depart- 
ment of Technical Journalism at Ok- 
lahoma A. and M. college, Stillwater. 



When College students at the men's rooming house at 1423 Fairchild 
avenue sculptured snow into an intriguing design of a bear last week, two 
coeds, Susan Johnson, Potwin, left, and her sister, Marianna, stopped to in- 
spect the work. The Johnson sisters, cheer leaders last fall during football 
season, live near by at 1414 Fairchild avenue. The snow bear did not last 
long, however, because the weather turned warm. 



WILLIS AND THOMPSON HEAD 
THEATRE PRODUCTION CAST 



Dr. Harold Howe, Faculty Sponsor, 
Give* Out CI OrgiiuixiitioiiH' I.IhIh 

Thirteen fraternities announced 
the pledging of 27 men recently 
through the office of Dr. Harold 
Howe, faculty sponsor. 

The fraternities and their pledges: 

Acacia — Don Rousey, Horton; Joe 
Rowlen, Eskridge; Gordon F. Boy, 
Raymond; William Peycke, Alta 
Vista. Alpha Gamma Rho — Burton 
DeBaun, Wakarusa. Beta Theta Pi — 
Charles Holtz, Manhattan. Delta 
Sigma Phi — Garold Way, Wichita; 
Allen Smoll, Wichita; Rufus Vawter, 
Coffeyville. 

Farm House — Robert Arbuthnot, 
Morrowville; Howard Carnahan, Par- 
sons; Robert Randle, Riley; Norman 
Whitehair, Abilene. Kappa Sigma — 
Max Dawdy, Washington; Jack L. 
Mustard, Abilene; Charles Thompson, 
Westphalia. Phi Delta Theta — Kem- 
ble Sitterley, Kansas City. Phi Kappa 
— William J. Pfrehm, Moline. Phi 
Kappa Tau — Verl Baumann, Atchi- 
son. 

Sigma Alpha Epsilon — Richard 
Hensley, Salina; Larry Woods, Kan- 
sas City, Mo. Sigma Phi Epsilon— 
Donald M. Hunt, Manhattan; Milton 
Kingsley, Formoso. Tau Kappa Ep- 
silon — Dale Rake, Tecumseh; Ralph 
Bemis, Plainville; William H. Coch- 
rane, Salina. Theta Xi — Warren 
Hicks, Moline. 

♦ 
High Average Mineral Yield 

The average value of minerals pro- 
duced in Kansas each year is about 
$125,000,000, Kansas State College 
research workers estimated recently. 



Pair Have Principal Rolen, in "Death 

Takes a Holiday," Which Will Be 

Given March 21 and 22 

Mary Marjorie Willis, Newton, and 
Keith Thompson, Wichita, have the 
leading roles in the new Manhattan 
Theatre production, "Death Takes a 
Holiday," to be presented on March 
21 and 22. 

Miss Willis will play Gratzia, a girl 
of 18, and Thompson will play Prince 
Sirki. The setting of the play is the 
home of the Duke and Duchess, played 
by Emil Karl, Detroit, and Jo Ann 
Schmidt, Junction City. 

Other supporting roles are taken 
by Patricia Collard, Leavenworth; 
Frank Rickel, Manhattan; Dene Go- 1 
ber, Kansas City, Mo.; June Cox, 
Lyons; Robert Williams, Manhattan; 
Thomas Trenkle, Topeka; Mary 
Wingfield. Norton; Robert Stafford, 
El Dorado, and Bette Roth, Mound- 
ridge. 

Jeanne Jaecard, Manhattan, is as- 
sisting in the production of the play, 
and John Adams, Atchison, is pro- 
duction manager. 

O. D. Hunt, associate professor of 
electrical engineering, will be in 
charge of the lighting effects. Nor- 
man Webster, instructor in the De- 
partment of Public Speaking, is busi- 
ness manager, and Sherwood Keith, 
also instructor in the Public Speaking 
department, is director of the Man- 
hattan Theatre. 

OPEN HOUSE 

(Continued from page one) 
ment from the primitive Javan bam- 
boo bridge to the modern Golden 
Gate bridge. 

Other displays will include a model 
of Boulder dam, a miniature soap 
factory made of glass, a glass 
working model of an oil refinery, 
model steam engine, perpetual-mo- 
tion wheel, the processes of making 
nitric acid, plastics, synthetic rubber 
and many other displays. 

St. Pat's prom Saturday night will 
climax the Open House exhibition. 
St. Patricia and St. Pat will be pre- 
sented by Lieut. -Col. Harold E. East- 
wood, member of the faculty at the 
cavalry school in Ft. Riley. 
♦ 

PRESIDENT FARRELL TO TALK 
AT HOME ECONOMICS MEETING 



Buswell Discusses Trade Papers 

Oliver Buswell of the McCormick- 
Armstrong company, Wichita, spoke 
at the weekly industrial journalism 
lecture Thursday afternoon in Ked- 
zie hall. Mr. Buswell told of oppor- 
tunities in the trade paper field. 



22 STUDENTS ARE ELECTED 
TO ENGINEERING FRATERNITY 



APPROXIMATELY 60 REPORT 
FOR FOOTBALL PRACTICES 



IOWA STATE WRESTLERS 
CAPTURE BIG SIX TITLE 



WILDCATS END IN SECOND PLACE 
WITH 30 POINTS 



Sigma Tun IMcdgeN Are Wenrliig Tradi- 
tional Initiation ('ONtunieH This Week 

Twenty-two students in the Divi- 
sion of Engineering and Architecture, 
who were elected recently to Sigma 
Tau, national engineering honorary 
fraternity, are wearing their initia- 
tion costumes this week. 

Pledges include: 

Wilbur Reed, Marysville; Leon 
Cox, Anthony; John Brewer, Con- 
cordia; Edward Gustafson, Linds- 
borg; Ken McEntire, Pittsburg; Don 
Holshouser, Dwight; Oliver Riley, 
Stafford; John McEntyre, Topeka; 
Leland Porter, Dellvale; Lloyd Du- 
row, Topeka; Arthur Meeks, Kansas 
City; Marion Miller, Topeka. 

Barney Limes, La Harpe; James 
Bowyer, Augusta; Edward Kirkham, 
Topeka; Harold Novak, Ottawa; John 
Piper, Emporia; Philip S. Myers, For- 
moso; Ray Nelson, Wichita; John 
St. John, Wichita; Wallace Witten- 
berger, Marysville, and Lorraine 
Johnson, Concordia. 
♦ 
TKI DELTS, SIGMA PHI EPS 

WIN Y ORPHEUM TROPHIES 



Conch HobbH Adnma Say* 14 Letter 

Men Expect to Return for 

Next Fall 

Spring practice for approximately 
60 gridiron hopefuls began Tuesday 
afternoon and will continue for six 
weeks in accordance with conference 
rules regulating the length of spring 
practice, according to Coach Hobbs 
Adams, football mentor. 

Only seven of last year's letter men 
are out for spring practice, but at 
least 14 of the 15 letter men who will 
not graduate will return next fall, 
Coach Adams said. Gene Snyder, 
Junction City, who may be drafted 
in June, is the one who may not re- 
turn. 

Of the other seven letter men who 
did not report, Kent Duwe, Lucas, 
and Dick Peters, Valley Falls, are 
out for track; Ray Rokey, Sabetha, 
Charles Kier, Mankato, and Norbert 
Raemer, Herkimer, are members of 
the baseball squad; Frank Barnhart, 
Ft. Riley, is out with injuries, and 
Ed Huff, Marysville, is not in school 
this semester. 

The seven letter men who reported 
Tuesday were Lawrence Duncan, 
Lucas; John Hancock, St. Francis; 
Max Timmons, Fredonia; Lewis 
Turner, El Dorado; James Watkins, 
Manhattan; Lysle Wilkins, Delphos, 
and Bill Quick, Beloit. 

- -♦ 

JOURNALISM FACULTY LISTS 
NAMES OF 'PROFESSIONALS' 



Student M.i ii. -iter Snyti Show Wuh Ilct- 
tcr Attended Than Lu»t Tear 

Delta Delta Delta and Sigma Phi 
Epsilon won trophies at the 21st an- 
nual Y Orpheum last Friday and Sat- 
urday night. 

The Delta Delta Delta short skit 
was entitled "Patriotic America," 
while the Sigma Phi Epsilon act in 
the long-competition contest was a 
burlesque melodrama. 

The Phi Delta Theta fraternity 
won second in the long competition 
and the Chi Omega's "Rhapsodies in 
Blue" placed second in the short acts. 



Group Include** 27 StudentH Who Have 

Met ReuulrementH tor Superior 

Standing 

Twenty-seven students in the De- 
partment of Industrial Journalism 
and Printing are on the spring se- 
mester journalism professional list, 
announced this week by Prof. R. I. 
Thackrey, head of the department. 

The seniors are Enid Altwegg, 
Junction City; Richard Cech, Kansas 
City; Katharine Chubb, Topeka; 
Mary Jean Grentner, Junction City; 
Herbert Hollinger, Chapman; James 
Kendall, Dwight; Jennie Marie Mad- 
sen, Dwight; Fred Parris, Burling- 
ton; Ellen Peak, Manhattan; Robert 
Rathbone, Manhattan; Frances Ruhl, 
Hiawatha, and Grant Salisbury, El 
Dorado. 

The juniors are Betty-Lee Beatty, 
Ellsworth; Ema Lou Bireline, Lewis; 
Harry P. Bouck, Manhattan; Mary 
K. Cantrell, Oil Hill; Alma Deane 
Fuller, Courtland; Mary Bell Morris, 
Chapman; Gordon West, Manhattan, 
and Glenn Williams, Manhattan. 

Sophomores in the list are Mary 
Margaret Arnold, Manhattan; Grace 
Christiansen, Columbus; Dora Hoff- 
man, Haddam; Jack James, Mayetta; 
Margaret Ann McClymonds, Lincoln, 
Neb.; Mary Marjorie Willis, Newton, 
and Margaret Wunsch, Topeka. 

Before a student may be put on the 
professional list he must have a grade 
average of at least 1.5 in journalism 
subjects, pass a typing test, take an 
aptitude test and show an appreciable 
interest in journalism. 



Glenn Duncan, St. FrnnciN, Keeps 145- 
pound Championship, While John 
Hnncock, Henvyweight, 
Gets Decision 

Iowa State college won four of the 
eight first places in the Big Six con- 
ference wrestling tournament in 
Nichols Gymnasium Friday and Sat- 
urday and thus succeeded the Kansas 
State College mat squad as confer- 
ence champions. 

The Cyclones gained 35 points dur- 
ing the meet and the Wildcats trailed 
the champions five points to win sec- 
ond place. 

DUNCAN RETAINS TITLE 
Glenn Duncan, St. Francis, captain 
of the Wildcat team and defending 
Big Six champion in the 145-pound 
class, retained his title when he won 
a decision over Cummings of Iowa 
State, 7 to 2. The only other Wild- 
cat champion was John Hancock, St. 
Francis, heavyweight, who won a 
referee's decision over Jackman, Ne- 
braska, after wrestling two overtime 
periods. 

Leland Porter, Dellvale, who wres- 
tled for the Wildcats in the 155- 
pound class, lost his first match in 
15 starts in one of the upsets of the 
tournament. Porter lost by a deci- 
sion to Joe Loucks, Iowa State, in 
the final match in his class, 6 to 2. 

WILDCATS WIN TWO 
The results: 

121 pounds — Frye, Oklahoma, deci- 
sloned Kuska, Nebraska, 9 to 5. Con- 
solation: Bales, Iowa State, decisioned 
Case, Kansas State, 2 to 1. 

128 pounds — Stone, Iowa State, de- 
cisioned Young, Oklahoma, 8 to 1. Con- 
solation: Dunlap, Kansas State, won by 
forfeit when Shaw of Nebraska failed 
to weigh in. 

136 pounds — Stone, Oklahoma, deci- 
sioned Cockle, Nebraska, 12 to 5. Con- 
solation: Cummings, Iowa State, deci- 
sioned Vavroch, Kansas State, 5 to 2. 

14") pounds — Duncan, Kansas State, 
decisioned Cummings, Iowa State, 7 to 
2. Consolation: Moskowitz, Oklahoma, 
decisioned DeBusk, Nebraska, 6 to 3. 

156 pounds — Joe Loucks, Iowa State, 
decisioned Leland Porter, Kansas State, 
6 to 2. Consolation: McKinney, Okla- 
homa, decisioned DeBusk, Nebraska, 
6 to 0. 

165 pounds — Linn, Iowa State, deci- 
sioned Jerry Porter, Kansas State, 10 
to 3. Consolation: Smith of Nebraska 
awarded third because only three wres- 
tlers were entered in class. 

17."> pounds — Johnson, Iowa State, de- 
cisioned Boring, Kansas State, 2 to 1. 
Consolation: Ilmnbolz, Nebraska, 

awarded third place because only three 
men were entered in class. 

Heavyweight — Hancock, Kansas 
State, won referee's decision from 
Jackman, Nebraska, in two overtimes. 
Consolation: Dachenbach, Iowa State, 
awarded third because only three men 
were entered in class. 



EVERYDAY 

By W. E. 



ECONOMICS 

GRIMES 



" When taxes are paid there is less of the individual's income left to 

spend." 



"CoiiHiinier Defeime" In Topic for Ad- 

ilri'»H in K n ii nii m City March 21 

"Consumer Defense" will be the 
subject of a talk by Pres. F. D. Far- 
rell March 21 during a three-day 
meeting of the Kansas Home Eco- 
nomics association in Kansas City. 

"Fitness for the Future" is the 
theme of the meeting. 

Other speakers at the sessions, 
opening Friday morning, are Miss 
Mary Harrington, Harper hospital, 
Detroit; Gladys Wyckoff of the 
American Home Economics associa- 
tion; Dr. Muriel W. Brown of the 
United States Office of Education, 
and Rabbi Samuel S. Mayerberg, 
Kansas City, Mo. 



How may taxation be used to curb ; prevent prices from rising. In the 
inflation? The answer is obvious present war in Europe, taxes are be- 
when one considers the real nature ing used much more effectively to 
of taxation. When taxes are paid curb rising prices. Materially higher 
there is less of the individual's in- j rates of taxation on incomes at all 

I come left to spend. Purchasing pow- ! levels have been adopted in England. 

j er in the control of individuals is re- The excess profits tax rates on the 
duced. With reduced purchasing high incomes are 100 percent. The 
power there is less effective demand re8U i t of these increased rates of 

: for goods, and prices remain near taxation is reduction in the incomes 

I existing levels or may be lowered if 
the amount taken as taxes is mate- 



AG HONORARY 

(Continued from page one) 
tis Jr., Hymer; William Winner, To- 
peka, and Albert Yoxall, Woodston. 

Seniors in the Division of Vet- 
erinary Medicine: Bernard Busby,. 
Wakefield; William D. Bowerman, 
Oklahoma City; Clark C. Collins, 
West Point, Neb.; Richard W. Swart, 
Manhattan; Glover W. Laird, Kansas 
City, Mo., and Robert D. Immenschuh, 
San Diego, Calif. A senior from the 
Division of General Science Depart- 
ment of Entomology is Robert T. Cot- 
ton, Manhattan. 

Officers elected for the coming year 
included H. W. Brubaker, professor 
in the Department of Chemistry, 
president; E. C. Miller, professor in 
the Department of Botany and Plant 
Pathology, vice-president; E. L. Bar- 
ger, associate professor in the Depart- 
ment of Agricultural Engineering, 
secretary, and J. A. Hodges of the 
Department of Economics and Sociol- 
ogy, treasurer. 

♦ 

FIVE WILDCAT TRACK MEN 

SCORE AT NOTRE DAME MEET 



rially increased compared with the 
taxes formerly paid. 

This method of curbing inflation 
was used to some extent in this coun- 
try during the World war, but the in- 
crease in taxes was not sufficient to 



available to spend, and this prevents 
competition for luxury and semi- 
luxury goods, expansion of plants for 
the production of such goods and the 
inflation that comes with increased 
demand for and production of such 
goods. 



College Squad PIiiccn KlK'hth in Central 
Collegiate Conference 

A five-man track squad from Kan- 
sas State College entered the Central 
Collegiate conference indoor track 
meet at the Notre Dame fieldhouse 
in South Bend, Ind., last Saturday 
and scored four points to take eighth 
place. 

Ed Darden, Manhattan, Wildcat 
hurdler, ran in third place in the 60- 
yard high hurdles to gather three of 
the Kansas State points. The mile- 
relay team, composed of Sam John- 
son, Oswego; Jim Upham, Junction 
City; Bill Burnham, St. Francis, and 
Loyal Payne, Manhattan, placed fifth 
in their event for the other point. 

Notre Dame scored 49 points to 
unseat Marquette university as Cen- 
tral conference champions. 



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Volume 67 



^aTstateCoUege of Agriculture aud Applied Science, Manhattan, Wednesday, March 19, 1941 



Number 23 



ENGINEERS' OPEN HOUSE 
ATTRACTS RECORD CROWD 

ESTIMATED 1«,000 INDIVIDUALS AT- 
TEND ANNUAL SHOW 



St. Patricia 



Shirley Knrns, Coffeyvllle, mid Fred 

Eyeatone, Wichita, Reign Over 

Prom n» St. Pntrlcln and 

St. Pat 

An estimated 16,000 persons, a 
new record, attended the 21st annual 
Engineers' Open House Friday and 
Saturday. Last year's attendance 
was 14,000. 

Visitors to the Open House were 
welcomed by a 17-gun salute and a 
30-second blast of the College whis- 
tle at 6:30 p. m. Friday. 

CIVIL ENGINEERS WIN CUP 
Winning the Steel Ring cup this 
year for having the most outstanding 
exhibit was the Department of Civil 
Engineering, thus preventing the De- 
partment of Architecture from pos- 
sessing it permanently. The Archi- 
tectural department for the past two 
years has won the trophy. For a 
group to have permanent possession 
of the cup, Steel Ring requires It to 
have three successive victories. 

The trophy was presented to the 
civil engineers at St. Pat's prom Sat- 
urday night. Judges of the exhibits 
were Perle Bottger, Manhattan busi- 
ness man; C. V. Williams, professor 
in the Department of Education; Fred 
L. Parrish, professor in the Depart- 
ment of History and Government, and 
W. G. Ward, professor in the Divi- 
sion of College Extension. 

Also presented at the prom were 
Shirley Karns, Coffeyville, and Fred 
Eyestone, Wichita, as St. Patricia 
and St. Pat. The couple were chosen 
by students in the Division of Engi- 
neering and Architecture to reign 
over the annual dance. They were 
crowned in a ceremony conducted by 
Lieut. -Col. Harold Eastwood of Ft. 
Riley. 

BOB STRONG'S ORCHESTRA PLAYS 
The prom was broadcast over the 
Kansas network Saturday between 
11 and 11:30 p. m. During that time, 
St. Patricia and St. Pat were pre- 
sented and Bob Strong and his Na- 
tional Broadcasting company orches- 
tra furnished music for the dancers. 
Directors of this year's Engineers' 
Open House were Bert Sells, Wichita, 
manager, and Lawrence Spear, Mis- 
sion, secretary. Garland Childers, 
Augusta, headed the committee in 
charge of the civil engineering ex- 
hibit, which was judged the best. 




COLLEGE RADIO PROGRAM 
IS O N NBC CHAIN TODAY 

'GREEN GOLD" WILL, ORIGINATE 
IN STATION KSAC 



Phi Kappa Phi Nominee 



SHIRLEY KARNS 



WAR COVERAGE IMPROVED, 
SAYS KANSAS CITY WRITER 



HOSPITALITY INVITATIONS 

ARE BEING DISTRIBUTED 



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Virginia Bieber* Expect* Approxlmnte- 

l> 4,000 \ ixilors fur Home 

ESconomlea Show 

High school students, teachers and 
club women throughout Kansas have 
been invited to attend the 11th an- 
nual Hospitality days at Kansas State 
College April 18 and 19. 

"We expect approximately 4,000 
visitors, among them girls from more 
than 100 high schools," Virginia Sie- 
bert, Pretty Prairie, registration 
chairman, said. 

Last year 3,733 people visited the 
exhibits. Of this number, 1,618 were 
high school girls representing 101 
high schools. 

The theme of the event, "Echoes 
of Home Economics," is intended to 
reflect to the general public the train- 
ing received by girls taking training 
in home economics at Kansas State 
College. Exhibits from all depart- 
ments of the division will be shown 
in Calvin and Anderson halls to dem- 
onstrate equipment and methods in 
this field. 

Dorothy Beezley, Girard, general 
chairman, said that plans are rapidly 
being completed and committee chair- 
men expect to have better and more 
effective exhibits this year. 

Hospitality days originated in 1931 
for acquainting the public with the 
work of the Division of Home Eco- 
nomics and for giving students ex- 
perience in organizing and manag- 
ing projects of this kind. 



MaJ. Robert Reed of Star Dl(.eui»Be« 
Killi.iilH.s of HnndlliiK Mili- 
tary Information 

The United States maintains a 
stricter censorship of news concern- 
ing army equipment than does Great 
Britain, Robert Reed, a major in the 
United States army reserve and news 
editor and military commentator for 
the Kansas City Star, told journalism 
students Thursday. 

Particularly is this evident in the 
use of pictures of army equipment in 
the two countries. Major Reed 
pointed out that the British have 
been very generous with news and 
pictures concerning their ships, 
bombers, guns and so forth. The 
United States army allows no pic- 
tures of any kind to be published, he 
said. 

In the last war, newspapers volun- 
tarily agreed not to print news on 
the movements of the army. Major 
Reed said intelligent censorship of 
the press is absolutely necessary in 
warring countries. 

Among other things Major Reed 
touched upon in his talk at the jour- 
nalism lecture were the better cover- 
age and interpretation by newspapers 
of the present war than of the first 
World war and the costs in getting 
war news. 

"No newspaper can afford to tinker 
with war news to prove a point be- 
cause it costs too much money to get 
such news," he said. 
♦ 

MISS MAY SARTON, WRITER, 

WILL SPEAK HERE THURSDAY 



Atlantic Monthly Author Id Making 
Tour of Middle Wentern School* 

Miss May Sarton, author and poet, 
will give two lectures in Willard hall 
Thursday. She will talk to journal- 
ism students at 4 p. m. and at 7:30 
p. m. she will give a lecture under 
the auspices of the Department of 
English. 

In the afternoon, Miss Sarton will 
discuss the short-story market, nov- 
els and the various contests sponsored 
by Houghton Mifflin publishers. Her 
evening lecture will be "Poetry as a 
Social Force," a plea for poetry as a 
spiritual armament. 

Miss Sarton is on a lecture tour, 
visiting various colleges in the United 
States. She is on the lookout for 
manuscripts and will be available 
Friday morning to those who wish 
to submit their work to her, or to 
those who wish to talk with her. 
♦ 
Four Fraternities Robbed 
Members of four fraternities were 
robbed of $150 as the result of ac- 
tivities of a robber between 3 and 6 
a. m. Thursday morning. Approxi- 
mate amounts reported missing were 
$50 by Sigma Nu, $40 by Alpha Gam- 
ma Rho, $25 by Theta Xi and $25 by 
Pi Kappa Alpha. Although these fra- 
ternities are not near each other, po- 
lice believe that all were the victims 
of the same robber. 



Prof. H. Mlle« Heberer, Director of 

Show. Has A«MJl»tance of 20 Stu- 

deatH, Faculty Membem 

and Townspeople 

Twenty students, faculty members 
and Manhattan townspeople are pre- 
senting the "Green Gold" radio pro- 
gram today from 11:30 a. m. to 12:15 
p. m. on the National Broadcasting 
company's National Farm and Home 

hour. 

The show, sponsored by the Col- 
lege and the Division of College Ex- 
tension, will originate in the studios 
of KSAC on the campus and will be 
picked up by remote control by NBC. 
Fifty-three stations all over the coun- 
try will carry fhe program. For lis- 
teners in Kansas, Nebraska and 
Iowa, stations WOI at Ames, Iowa, 
and WREN at Lawrence probably 
will give the best reception, according 
to H. Miles Heberer, director of the 
show. 

STAFF ANNOUNCER ARRIVES 
Everett Mitchell, regular staff an- 
nouncer from Chicago, arrived in 
Manhattan yesterday to help with 
final rehearsal last night and to an- 
nounce the show this morning. An 
NBC radio engineer will assist in the 
control room. 

Playing the main characters in the 
show are Milton Kaslow, New York 
City; Norman Webster, instructor in 
the Department of Public Speaking, 
and Max Gould, Custer, Neb. They 
will play roles of three lieutenants 
in the army air corps. One, Mike Mc- 
Bride, is an Irishman, who furnishes 
the comedy for the show; another, 
Larry Alden, is a lieutenant from the 
East, and the last, Henry Henry, is 
a Kansas State Cc'.kge graduate. 

Assisting Director Heberer, asso- 
ciate professor in the Department of 
Public Speaking, are Ann Steinheim- 
er, Hutchinson, and Virginia Lee 
Sheets, Topeka. Ellen Peak, Man- 
hattan, and Bob Stafford, El Dorado, 
are in charge of the sound effects. 
TELLS OF WAR BOOM 
In the story Henry Henry tells 
how the prairie was plowed up and 
planted to wheat during the last 
World war and the effect it had on 
the soil and the livestock industry. 
The scene flashes back to his farm 
home as he tells the story. After the 
war Henry's father, played by Harold 
Gary of Manhattan, plants his wheat 
fields back to grass through the in- 
fluence of programs of the Extension 
service of Kansas State College. He 
again takes up diversified farming 
and raises livestock quite success- 
fully. The last part of "Green Gold" 
depicts the College's activities, espe- 
cially those pertaining to livestock. 

Others in the cast include Mrs. 
Mary Myers Elliott, instructor in the 
Department of Public Speaking; Ken 
Chappell, Manhattan business man 
who performed in the Farm and 
Home show broadcast here four years 
ago; Ruth Zimmerman, Western, 
Neb.; Thomas Trenkle, Topeka; 
James Chapman, assistant extension 
editor; Byron McCall, El Dorado; H. 
W. Davis, head of the Department of 
English; James Andrews, Manhat- 
tan; Wayne Pritchard, Kansas City; 
James Booth, Fairview; Joe Jagger, 
Minneapolis; Alice Taylor, Tribune; 
Ann Steinheimer, Hutchinson; Helen 
Correll Browne, Norton; Jean Scheel, 
Manhattan, and Mrs. Renna Hunter, 
Topeka. 




TWO CAMPUS BUILDINGS 
ARE DESTROYED BY FIRE 

LOSS, EXCLUDING STRUCTIRES, 
PLACED AT $10,840 



GEORGE COCHRAN 



GEORGE COCHRAN IS NAMED 
FOR SC HOLARSH IP CONTEST 

Topeka Student In Apiculture Selected 

by Local Phi Kappa Phi 

Organization 

George W. Cochran, senior in ag- 
riculture, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. V. 
Cochran, Route 2, Topeka, has been 
selected by the Kansas State College 
chapter of Phi Kappa Phi, national 
honorary organization, to represent 
J the College in competition for one of 
the graduate fellowships awarded 
each year by the national Phi Kappa 
Phi organization. 

The announcement was made to- 
day by Miss Stella Harriss, chairman 
of the committee that made the selec- 
jtion. This is one of the highest hon- 
! ors granted any student at Kansas 
i State College, during the year. 

In addition to being a member of 
Phi Kappa Phi, Cochran is a member 
of Alpha Zeta and Gamma Sigma 
Delta, honorary agricultural fraterni- 
ties. Cochran has been active in af- 
fairs of the Agricultural association, 
Collegiate 4-H club, Block and Bridle 
club, YMCA, the Horticultural club 
and other organizations. He has been 
awarded the Carl Raymond Gray 
scholarship of $100 and the Danforth 
scholarship for the outstanding fresh- 
man agricultural student of 1937. 

With the exception of small 
amounts won on scholarships, Coch- 
ran has paid his way through school. 
He has worked during the summer 
for the Department of Horticulture, 
i where he is getting his major. Dur- 
i ing the school year he works for the 
! Department of Botany in the plant re- 
, search laboratory. 

Cochran's grade-point average for 
i the first 3 1-2 years has been 2.77. 
| He was selected as an outstanding 
' student in the Division of Agriculture 
! for 1941 and was presented at the 
I annual Farm and Home week. 
♦ 
TWO FACULTY APPOINTMENTS 

ANNOUNCED BY PRESIDENT 



Three Work in Hospital 

In the dietetics department of the 
Jewish hospital, York and Tabor 
roads, Philadelphia, are three Kansas 
State grads. Helen E. Paynter, '29, 
is director of the department. Myrtle 
M. Morris, '36, is a dietitian, and 
Betty Jean Jones, '40, is a student 

dietitian. 

♦ 

Grauerholz at Ft. Benning 

Lawrence Grauerholz, I. J. '39, is 
serving his year's active duty in the 
United States army. He is stationed 
at Ft. Benning, Ga. He was with the 
Chesterton, Ind., News until Feb- 
ruary. 



Dr. A. B. Schumacher In Named to Kill 
Pout of Dr. II. M. Scott 

Pres. F. D. Farrell recently an- 
nounced two faculty appointments ap- 
proved by the State Board of Regents. 

Dr. A. E. Schumacher, now doing 
research work at Cornell university, 
has been appointed assistant profes- 
sor in the Department of Poultry Hus- 
bandry to succeed Dr. H. M. Scott, 
resigned, the appointment to be ef- 
fective June 1. 

Capt. John R. Clark of the Depart- 
ment of Military Science and Tactics 
has been transferred to other duties 
by the War department. Second 
Lieut. Gustave E. Fairbanks has been 
detailed for service at the College, 
effective March 1. 
♦ 
Wins Honorable Mention 

Esther Wiedower, Spearville, se- 
nior in applied music, won honorable 
mention for two vocal solos entered 
in the annual state contest of the 
Kansas Federation of Music Clubs. 
The solos entered in the contest by 
Miss Wiedower are "Entreaty" and 
"A Woman's Appraisal." 



PreH. F. D. Farrell Says Problem of 

Replacement Will Be Left to 

State Hoard of 

Regent* 

Pres. F. D. Farrell went to Topeka 
| Tuesday to report to Fred M. Harris, 
| chairman of the State Board of Re- 
; gents, on the fire, of unknown origin, 
I which destroyed two frame buildings 
! on the campus late Saturday. The 
two buildings were Barracks Nos. 3 
and 4 constructed by the federal gov- 
ernment in 1918 to house enlisted 
men from the United States army 
who were here for training in voca- 
tional lines. 

The report that President Farrell 
submitted to the regents placed the 
loss at $16,840, not including the 
buildings. This figure included $13,- 
500 for equipment and small animals 
in the north building in which the 
fire broke out, $3,190 for equipment 
owned by the Department of Agricul- 
tural Engineering in the second 
building and damage totaling $150 
to the roof of the College hospital 
and windows in the College power 
plant. 

SMALL, ANIMALS DESTROYED 
The small animals destroyed in- 
cluded 1,400 guinea pigs, 300 chick- 
ens and 170 domestic rabbits. The 
animals were used for the manufac- 
ture of serum and for Dr. H. L. Ib- 
sen's research in genetics. Equip- 
ment in the north building included 
electric refrigerators, incubators, 
cages and feeding equipment. 

The $3,190 loss in the south 
barracks included tools, farm ma- 
chinery and equipment used by the 
Department of Agricultural Engi- 
neering. 

President Farrell said the matter 
of providing facilities to replace the 
structures would be left to the State 
Board of Regents. He pointed out 
that the College for years has been 
asking the state, through the Board 
of Regents, for a permanent building 
for agricultural engineering and for 
a fireproof building for a small-ani- 
mal laboratory. An item of $50,000 
was included in the recent 38th bien- 
nial report for the small-animal labo- 
ratory building, and an item of $350,- 

000 is included for completion of the 
engineering building which would 
include quarters for agricultural en- 
gineering. 

CONSIDERED "FIRE-TRAPS" 

The north building, in which the 
fire started, was of two stories cov- 

i ering a floor area 42 feet by 185 feet. 
For the past 21 years it has been 
used to house small-animal lab- 

' oratories. These laboratories were 
used for research work on animal dis- 
eases, animal parasitology, animal 

1 breeding, animal nutrition and for 
| the preparation of materials for in- 
I struction in these subjects. 

Replacement cost of the two wood- 
i en buildings would be approximately 
$30,000. No effort will be made to 
replace them with the same type of 
structure. College officials explained 
that the buildings were "fire-traps" 
and not adapted to the purpose for 
which they were being used. The 
buildings were being used only be- 
cause of the lack of adequate space 
in good buildings, it was explained. 

The buildings were not insured. 
President Farrell pointed out the fact 
that the state does not permit the 
College to carry insurance on build- 
ings. 



Teeter Receives Now Job 

Robert Teeter, who was graduated 
last year with the degree of B. S. in 
chemical engineering, has accepted 
a position in the development depart- 
ment of the Tennessee Eastman cor- 
poration, Kingsport, Tenn., begin- 
ning about July 1. Mr. Teeter is a 
graduate assistant in the Department 
of Chemical Engineering, Virginia 
Polytechnic institute, Blacksburg, 
Va. Last year Mr. Teeter was busi- 
ness manager of The Kansas State 
Engineer. 



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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1941 



even though the world will undergo 
great change. 

There are almost two billion peo- 
ple on the earth. This war has made 
all of them poorer, and few happier. 
It has left sadness and sorrow; but 
babies will be born. Twenty or 50 
years from now there will still be 
about two billion people to be fed, 
clothed and led toward a better way 
of life. We in agriculture can re- 
joice that we can have a part in tak- 
ing care of the physical wants of a 
world when peace comes. War means 
poverty; it also means lower stand- 
ards of living; it will mean increased 
competition in the great struggle to 
maintain American ideals and the 
American way of life. In the face of 
an impoverished world, with in- 
creased hatreds, and lost faith, we 
will face the fiercest competition for 
our own markets and the markets of 
the world that mankind has ever 
known. Prices will be shaken to their 
foundation. The farmer must build 
his resources and faith to meet the 
impact and make the triumph of 
peace also a victory for America and 
American rural life.— Prom an ad- 
dress by Louis J. Taber before the 
National Grange annual session. 



SCIENCE TODAY 



SATIKUAY'S FIRE 

The fire which last Saturday swept 
through two wooden barracks which 
were relics of this College's partici- 
pation in the World war caused dam- 
age far more serious than destruction 
of the old buildings or of the valuable 
equipment inside. 

The "market value" of the hun- 
dreds of small animals which died in 
the blaze is ridiculously low as com- 
pared to the real loss involved. This 
cannot be measured. Research work- 
ers on this campus and elsewhere can 
perhaps best understand the meaning 
of the loss of guinea pigs whose blood 
strains went back through Dr. He- 
man L. Ibsen's experiments in genet- 
ics for nearly three decades. 

The loss — in valuable equipment 
which must be replaced and in much 
more valuable research animals 
which cannot be replaced — serves 
anew to emphasize the danger of 
false economy, to the College and the 
state. For more than 20 years valu- 
able work of the College has been 
housed in these wooden structures 
thrown up in a war emergency and 
always at the mercy of a chance 
spark. Neither these buildings nor 
the other more substantial college 
buildings to which they constitute a 
file menace were or can be insured be- 
cause of state policy against such in- 
surance. The modern construction 
of the College power plant and deter- 
mined action by volunteer and paid 
fire fighters to protect the hospital 
and other buildings, kept the blaze 
from becoming a major catastrophe 
such as the Denison hall fire of 193 4. 
For many years the College has 
asked for buildings to house its ac- 
tivities properly and safely. For the 
most part these requests have not 
been for any projected expansion but 
to get permanent and long-estab- 
lished functions out of rented or 
crowded quarters or out of "fire- 
traps" such as the two buildings 
which burned Saturday and other 
similar structures which remain. 

Saturday's fire caused a disheart- 
ening waste, measured in either tan- 
gibles or Intangibles, but it may serve 
one useful purpose by calling atten- 
tion to the fact that in 1941 Kansas 
State College is still under the neces- 
sity of using wooden structures put 
up by the federal government to 
house S. A. T. C. activities in 1918. 
♦ 
WAR AND AGRICULTURE 
Millions of soldiers are on the 
march. Mechanized units on the 
land, in the air and upon the sea are 
hurling death and destruction toward 
other human beings. There are 
countless millions behind the lines 
giving their energies to an economy 
of war. Millions have already died, 
or are dying. Let us turn from this 
picture of suffering and bloodshed 
and remember that peace will come. 
It may come soon as a negotiated 
peace, or it may be delayed for years 
—possibly a decade, before there 
comes the peace of the conqueror. 

True lives will continue to be 
destroyed, property will be devas- 
tated and civilization will totter at 
the brink of the dark ages as it 
were- but let us remember natures 
part 'in this program. No demon or 
dictator has ever destroyed Gods 
sunshine, nature's warmth or the 
gentle rain. Soil fertility will remain 
and in some cases will be enriched 
with human blood. The seasons will 
continue, rains will fall, crops will be 
grown, harvests will be gathered, 



VASTNESS OF THE UNIVERSE 
The scale of the visible universe 
transcends the power of imagination. 
We can form a faint picture of 10,000 
or 100,000 miles, but a billion and 
a billion billion produce in our minds 
the same impression of immensity. 

It is not possible even to devise 
a model reduced to a scale in which 
all the distances of the universe are 
humanly comprehensible. None the 
less let us make an effort and see 
what a model one thousand-billionth 
times life-size would be like. 

The Earth would be about the size 
of an atom, and its orbit a distinctly 
visible speck. The circle of the whole 
solar system — counting Neptune as 
the outermost planet — would be an 
orbit about as large as a wedding- 
ring. But now the distances begin to 
leap. The Galaxy, of which it forms 
a part, would be 600 miles in diam- 
eter and over 5,000 miles from the 
nearest nebula, that of Andromeda, 
which would be a cluster of similar 
dimensions. Island universes of 
about this size and spaced in about 
this manner would continue to suc- 
ceed each other for 600,000 miles. 
This distance represents our present 
limit of vision. When the great 200- 
inch telescope is in use it may be in- 
creased four times. 

This comparison may begin to in- 
dicate the terrifying scale of these 
phenomena. Everything in astron- 
omy seems vast. Distances are stu- 
pendous, temperatures incredibly 
high or low, speeds are such as to 
make our racing aeroplanes seem sta- 
tionary. The easiest way to look at 
astronomy is not to gape continually 
at its vastness, but to gape once and 
for all at our own extreme smallness. 

F. Sherwood Taylor, in Science 

Front, 1939. 



INVESTING IN TREES 
The man who plants a tree conveys 
a lasting benefit to himself and pos- 
terity. What invested money, put to 
work at par in 1850, say, is worth 
loday what was paid for it then? 
Business cycles come and go; so do 
gilt-edge companies. Governments 
change; the races of man trample and 
pass on. Trees remain. . . . Trees are 
friends of men, as they are the 
friends of the birds. Trees have dis- 
tinctive personalities; each has as 
much individuality as a dog or a 
horse. They outlive all such pets; 
they ask nothing. They only give. — 
Donald Culross Peattie, in the Ro- 
tarian. 



By C. O. SWANSON 
Professor of Milling Industry 
When the farmer hauls a load of 
wheat to the local buyer, or when 
a carload of wheat arrives at the ter- 
minal market, the test weight or 
pounds per measured bushel is deter- 
mined. This is done by filling a stand- 
ard measure of wheat and weighing. 
The vessel used in determining the 
test weight has a definite relation to | 
this bushel measure so that as soon 
as its weight full of wheat is read] 
the weight required to fill a bushel is 
known. 

The present value of the test 
weight rests largely upon the impor- 
tance this measure has been given in 
grain grading. According to present 
standards, a sound wheat must weigh 
60 pounds or more per measured 
bushel to grade number 1. Any 
weight between 59.9 and 58 places 
the wheat in grade 2, and any weight 
between 57.9 and 56 places wheat in 
grade 3. Between 55.9 and 54 it 
grades number 4 and between 53.9 
and 51 it grades number 5. 

The reason for the importance 
given to test weight in wheat grad- 
ing is that there is a general relation 
between test weight and flour yield. 
That is, the higher the test weight 
the higher the flour yield, and the 
lower the test weight, the lower the 
flour yield. Experience, however, has 
shown that there are important excep- 
tions. The flour yield which is pos- 
sible from any lot of wheat depends 
primarily on the percentage of the 
endosperm in the kernels. This may 
be as low at 60 percent or even less 
i in shriveled wheat and as much as 85 
I percent in plump wheat. The per- 
centage of endosperm increases as 
the kernels become shorter in rela- | 
' tion to the width, and decreases as ! 
j the kernels become longer in rela- 
| tion to width. 

When wheat falls into the test 
weight vessel it does not occupy all 
the space as would be the case with 
cubical blocks fitted into a rectangu- 
lar box measure. Since the more 
rounded or plump kernels will pack 
more closely than the elongated or 
shriveled, there is less air space ' { 
among the former than among the 
latter. Calculations have shown that 
this air space may be 54.8 percent 
for 50 test weight wheat, 46 percent 
for 57 test weight wheat and 4 4 per- 
cent for 61 test weight wheat. The 
amount of this air space is deter- 
mined by the way the kernels ar- 
range themselves in the test kettle. 
This depends not only on their shape, 
but also on the relative smoothness 
of the bran coat. Kernels with 
smooth bran coats will "flow" easier 
and hence pack more closely than 
kernels which have a rougher bran 
coat. The test weight of wheat may 
be increased several pounds by the 
simple process of scouring, which re- 
moves the roughness of the bran 
coat and thus allows the kernels to 
"flow" easier and thus pack the test 
kettle more closely. 

There is not only the external air 
space, but the internal or air spaces 
within the kernels. This is due to 
variation in the density of wheat or 
mass per unit of volume. This de- 



pends mostly on the closeness of 
packing of the starch, protein, cellu- 
lose, fat and mineral elements of 
which the kernel is composed. Since 
these are not packed solid like cubi- 
cal blocks, there are pore spaces ex- 
tending throughout the kernels. In 
dark and vitreous kernels these sub- 
stances are more closely packed than 
in yellow berry kernels. The average 
density of the various substances in 
the kernel is nearly 1.444. The den- 
sity of the air is only 0.001293 or 
about 1/1 12th of the average of the 
others. Hence, a variation in internal 
air space has much influence on the 
density or specific gravity of the ker- 
nels as a whole. That is, the more 
internal air space, the less is the 
amount of the other substances per 
unit of space or volume. This in turn 
decreases the test weight. 

Wetting wheat by exposure to rain 
after it is dry-ripe either as standing 
grain or in shocks decreases the test | 
weight. This is due to the roughen- 
ing of the bran coat and to the swell- j 
ing of the kernels when they are 
wetted. This wetting pries apart the 
structural arrangements of the In- 
terior and, when these kernels are 
redried, the original compactness is 
not restored. The outside is crum- 
pled like a piece of paper which has 
been wetted and the internal air 
space is increased. The net result is 
a decrease in test weight. 

Wheat which was threshed from 
a shock had 60.1 pounds test weight 
before it was wetted by rain; after 
two rains totaling 1.64 inches, the 
test weight of the wheat threshed 
from the same shock was 56.7 
pounds. After scouring the test 
weights were respectively 63.1 and 
60.2, showing that the condition of 
the bran coat as well as the disar- 
rangement of the internal structure 
affected the test weight. In such wet- 
ting, there is no loss of material and 
hence, the flour yield, figured on the 
60 pound bushel basis, is not de- 
creased. 

Increasing the moisture content 
also decreases the test weight. A 
sample of wheat which had 61.3 
pounds test weight at 10.3 percent 
1 moisture decreased to 58.1 pounds 
test weight when the moisture con- 
tent was increased to 14 percent. 
This was due to the swelling by water 
and to the lower density of water 
which is 1.000 as compared with 
about 1.444 of the wheat substance. 
After this wheat was redried to 10.3 
! percent moisture, the test weight was 
only 58.5 due to the increase in in- 
ternal air space. Thus, rains will in- 
fluence grading of wheat because of 
lowering the test weight. This by 
itself, unless there are other causes 
of damage, will not lower the flour 
yield since there has been no loss of 
substance. 

If dark vitreous kernels are ex- 
posed to much wetting, the color 
changes to bleached or yellow and 
the interior is opaque or chalky. This 
is due mostly to the development of 
more internal air space. The reflec- 
tion of light is affected similar to that 
from snow, while the reflection of 
the vitreous kernels is more like that 
from ice. 



ject, "Industrial Education and Man- 
ual Training." 

J. S. Hazen, '89, in the employ of 
the United States Signal service, was 
transferred from Nashville, Tenn., 
to Apache, Ariz. 

W. T. Swingle, '90, who had been 
assistant in botany since the experi- 
ment station was organized in 1888, 
resigned his position to do similar 
work in the Division of Vegetable 
Pathology of the United States De- 
partment of Agriculture, Washing- 
ton, D. C. 






h 






SIXTY YEARS AGO 
President Fairchild was called to 
j Topeka on College business. 

Professor Ward was giving his 
i bookkeeping class a short term in 
j commercial law. 

The monthly faculty lecture for 

j March was delivered by Professor 

I Piatt at the chapel. His subject was 

"Political Parties in the United 

States." 



KANSAS POETRY 

Robert Conover, Editor 



By Arthur Lloyd Douglas 

Night must fall 

To cover up the day 

That's dead and gone. 

Night birds call 

And all the dusky way 

Is filled with song. 

Softly comes, 

With her shimmering light, 

The harvest moon. — 

Day blends with night. 

Arthur Lloyd Douglas, Pittsburg, 

I is a senior claims examiner of the 

I Unemployment Compensation divl- 

i sion of the State Employment service. 

! His poems have been published in 

! many magazines and in several an- 

1 thologies. He also has contributed 

] technical articles to automotive and 

i aviation trade journals. 



4 



By H. W. Davis 
COINCIDENTAL, PROBABLY 

To have your eight-year-old over- 
coat and your halo of hair grow 
frowzy at one and the same time — 
ithe middle of March, say — is the 
; worst bit of hard luck that can be- 
fall a husband. 



Somehow or other, women don't 
realize that if things can only be 
made to last two or three weeks 
longer, everything will adjust itself; 
and the seeming emergency will van- 
ish like a lesser Balkan state before 
the threat of two panzer divisions. 



Take my overcoat for instance. 
Despite appearances it will hold to- 
gether for all practical purposes, I 
think, until the first of April. That 
is, if I treat it with the respect due 
a garment that has served me so long 
and so well. It is worn, but warm 
enough. The restrainer straps for the 
belt are gone (I cut them off for 
cause three years ago), several of the 
buttons are still on and that cigarette- 
ash blemish in the lower front sector 
hardly shows when I walk fast. Un- 
less Lord Halifax or Anthony Eden 
flies to confer with me before spring 
opens up, it will do. 



partment of Entomology returned 
from Urbana, 111., where he attended 
a meeting of the North Central States 
Entomologists and the Central Plant 
board. Professor Dean appeared on 
the programs of both groups, and also 
addressed the entomological seminar 
of the University of Illinois. 



XL BUT 
On the average, man's brain con- 
stitutes about one-fiftieth of his total 
weight. — From the Pathfinder. 
♦ 
IN OLDER DAYS 
From the Files of The Industrialist 
TEN YEARS AGO 

Fred R. Lindsey, '09, was chief en- 
gineer for the department of public 
works in the division of canals and 
waterways at Albany, N. Y. 

Prof. E. R. Dawley of the Depart- 
ment of Applied Mechanics left for 
Pittsburgh, Pa., to attend a commit- 
tee meeting of the American Society 
of Testing Materials. Professor Daw- 
ley was to present information about 
results of concrete materials tests 
which had been conducted at Kansas 
State College. 

Prof. George A. Dean of the De- 



TVVENTY YEARS AGO 

Mrs. Blanche Westenhaver Pur- 
cell, '13, was a member of the Home 
Economics department at Baker uni- 
versity. 

J. H. Young, '14, was a fellow in 
the Mellon institute, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
He was also a consulting engineer for 
the H. H. Robinson company, which 
was engaged in the manufacturing 
of asbestos products of various kinds. 

Kenneth K. Jones, M. S. '12, was 
in charge of the research laboratory 
of Swift and company of Chicago. In 
connection with his work, he was vis- 
iting some of their poultry feeding 
establishments in this part of the 
country and visited at Kansas State 
College. 



ty Teachers' association at Salina. 

W. H. Andrews, assistant professor 
of mathematics, was the head of a 
delegation to Abilene to attend the 
Methodist Episcopal conference. 

Mrs. Elizabeth (Edwards) Hart- 
ley, '92, of Manhattan, left in Febru- 
ary for Wales to spend the summer 
with her father. She was accom- 
panied by her two small children and 
her sister, Mrs. J. B. Kimball, of Ar- 
cadia, Fla. 



And my hair. It isn't half as bad 
as it might be if I really had hair. 
Only a most painstaking search be- 
tween my ears and up from the back 
: of my neck will reveal startling dis- 
crepancies in length or intent. 



But show me a woman who will 
admit I can possibly last through an- 
other light frost and I'll see you well 
; fed and otherwise properly rewarded. 



THIRTY YEARS AGO 
E. L. Holton, professor of rural 
education, addressed the Saline Coun- 



FORTY YEARS AGO 

Mrs. Nellie Kedzie, '76, of Peoria, 
111., was a teacher of domestic sci- 
ence. 

Carl Rice, '97, of Company A, Six- 
teenth U. S. infantry, was stationed 
at Echague, Philippine Islands. 

It was announced that Harry N. 
Whitford, '90, would conduct the 
classes in phanerogamic botany dur- 
ing the annual session of the biologi- 
cal laboratory of the Brooklyn Insti- 
tutes of Arts and Sciences at Cold 
: Harbor, Long Island, during the 
months of July and August. 


FIFTY YEARS AGO 
Professor Walters lectured in the 
I Salina high school course on the sub- 



Women think I ought to go pur- 
chase a snappy 194 2 model overcoat 
instanter and have my locks shorn 
on the way back. What would people 
think, and maybe say, they warn me, 
if people were to see me in my old 
overcoat and bare-headed simulta- 
neously? What if somebody would 
come to visit me (as anybody well 
might)? Wouldn't I be ashamed to 
take off my muffler and reveal my 
scraggly hair? Would I dare put 
on my overcoat in front of anybody 
who didn't know me and might sus- 
pect my haberdasher of being averse 
to deferred payments? 

Meanwhile, all I can do is stand 
unmoved and mutter prayers that 
light and heavy snows will cease 
their belated 1941 depredations. Any- 
how, women have nothing on me. I 
don't understand them a bit better 
than they understand me. 



> 



\ 



AMONG THE 
ALUMNI 



John B. Brown, M. S. '87, M. S. 
'93, has been reported by his sister, 
Mrs. Walter Burtis, f. s. '85-'88, of 
Manhattan to be at Route 2, Box 372, 
Phoenix, Ariz. He retired from his 
forestry work at St. Joe, Ark. 

Maine (Alexander) Boyd, B. S. 
^02, has been chosen as publicity 
chairman of the Kansas Women's Re- 
publican club. Mrs. Boyd spends 
much of her time in Topeka, now 
that her husband, Frank W. Boyd, f. 
s., is chairman of the State Board of 
Administration. 

Mrs. Boyd was editor of the Kan- 
sas Club Woman for four years and 
is now the editor of the Press Woman, 
official publication of the National 
Federation of Press Women. She 
writes a cblunin, "Homely Chatter 
for Home Folk." 

She is a past president of the Wo- 
man's Kansas Day club and Native 
Sons and Daughters, a charter mem- 
ber of the Woman's Press club, a 
past district president of the Sixth 
District K. F. W. C. and a member of 
the advisory council of the Alumni 
association of Kansas State College. 
She considers one of the greatest hon- 
ors that has ever come to her was to 
be chosen as the most distinguished 
citizen of Phillips county, by popular 
vote conducted by the superinten- 
dents of the schools. Her picture 
hangs in the Kansas Hall of Fame in 
Wichita. She is a member of the 
Phillipsburg Library board and coun- 
" ty chairman for the Crippled Chil- 
dren's commission, and Tuberculosis 
association. 



Wildcats at Hutchinson Fair 

Kansas State alumni play an im- 
Depar mentlportant part in the managing of the 
Kansas State fair at Hutchinson. 

Of the 18 officers and members of 
the board of managers, seven of those 
positions are held by graduates of 
Kansas State College. 

S M Mitchell, '18, is secretary, 
and O. O. Wolf, f. s. '94, is president 
of the fair. Members of the board of 
managers are C. C. Cunningham, '03, 
El Dorado; Perry Lambert 



S E. Morlan, E. E. '04, is owner 
and' manager of the Morlan Motor 
company, Gunnison, Colo. His ad- 
dress is 310 West Tomichi avenue. 

H A Burt, E. E. '05, and his wife, 
Mary (Strite) Burt, '05, are at 2227 
Grape street, Denver, Colo. Mr. Buit 
is with the Public Service company 
in Denver. 

John H. Zimmerman, M. E. '12, 
and Hazel (Fawl) Zimmerman, f. s. 
'11 recently moved from Akron, 
Ohio to 3138 Highland drive, Cuya- 
hoga' Falls. Ohio. This is in the same 
county as Akron. Mr. Zimmerman is 
still with the Goodyear Tire and Rub- 
ber company at Akron. 

DeHellik Branson, Ag. '13, is farm- 
ing at Cambridge, Kan. His wife is 
Alice (Young) Branson, graduate of 
Texas State College for Women. 

Clytice Ross, H. E. '16, M. S. '24, 
writes, "I'm hoping to get back for 
our reunion next May. I am so much 
farther away down here it is going 
to be harder to get there from here 
than it was from Tucumcan. Her 
address is Box 4 55, Las Cruces, N. M.. 
where she has been home demonstra 
Hon agent since June, 1940 



at Wakefield. Mrs. Koerner writes 
that her husband is owner and opera- 
tor of a filling station at Wakefield. 
They have a daughter, Jean Ann, 3. 

Janice (Barry) O'Malley, I. J. '27, 
is at College apartment, 408 East 
Walnut, Springfield, Mo. Her hus- 
band, Fred, f. s., is with the furniture 
department of 
store. 

Clara (Paulsen) Woodden, H. E. 
'28, M. S. '36, was married May 15 to 
Ralph Woodden. She writes that her 
husband is with the United States 
Smelting, Refining and Mining com- 
pany at Fairbanks, Alaska. The posi- 
tion which she formerly held as in- 
structor at the University of Alaska 
is now filled by Rhoda Putzig, H. E. 
'39. 

Clayton Eslinger, f. s. '28, is owner 
and director of the Peebler Funeral 
home in Topeka. A personality 
sketch appearing last fall in the To- 
peka Daily Capital told of his activi- 
ties in that position and other duties 
as a member of the Elks club, North 
Topeka Merchants association, North 
Topeka Civic club and a charter 
member and the first president of the 
North Topeka Kiwanis club. He is 
a member of the Kansas Funeral 
Directors' and Embalmers' associa- 
tion and also the National Funeral 
Directors' association. He and Mrs. 
Eslinger have a son, Bobby, who will 
lie 2 next summer. 

Mabel (Paulson) Herzog, G. S. 
•29 and Robert W. Herzog, K. U. '28, 
have two daughters, Virginia Ruth, 
4, and Barbara Ellen, 2. Their home 
is at Herndon. 

J. Arlie Stewart, A. A. '29, writes 
that he and his wife, Lillian (Jorgen- 
son) Stewart, have a son, James Con- 
rad, 5. Mr. Stewart is assistant to the 
Civilian Conservation corps special 
disbursing agent, finance office, for 
Arkansas district. Their residence 
address is 212 East D street, Park 
Hill, North Little Rock, Ark. 

Warren Dale Moore, Ag. '30, and 
his wife, the former Toy Nelson, have 
two sons: Donald F. is 6 and Roy 
Dale is 1. They live at Copeland 
where they farm. 

Helen Bradley, H. E. '33, recently 



LOOKING AROUND 

KENNEY L. FORD 



graduate of Manhattan high school 
and took a course in business train- 
ing at the Sacred Heart academy. She 
has been employed since her gradua- 
tion from the academy in the Depart- 
ment of Music office of Kansas State 
College. Mr. McMaster is teaching 
vocational agriculture in the Auburn 
high school. 

LEGER — O'NEAL 
Margaret Leger, '39, and Charles 
O'Neal Jr., M. S. '39, were married 
by proxy due to the fact that Mr. 
O'Neal was in Venezuela when they 
were to be married. There is a Vene- 
zuelan law that requires 45 days' 
, residence before marriage. Shortly 
13, Hia- afterward she sailed from New York 
W C Hall, T 207 Coffeyville; I for Venezuela and arrived a bride. 
SSfoVd R- Munson, '33, Junction | They were married^agata November 



RECENT HAPPENINGS 
ON THE HILL 



Last Friday's Collegian appeared 
on green paper — result of the influ- 
ence of the Engineers' Open House 
and St. Patrick's day Monday. 

More seniors have taken senior 
physical examinations to date than in 
any previous year. So far 509 have 
been examined, according to Dr. M. 
W. Husband, director of student 
health. 



City, and J. B. Angle, '19, Courtland. 



Restaurants Are Praised 

The book, "Adventures in Good 
Eating," is recommended especially 
for travelers, as it gives location and 
hours of service of recommended eat- 



7. Their home is now at 618 Fre- 
mont, Manhattan. Mr. O'Neal is with 
the Widmer engineers at Ft. Riley. 



BLACKMAN— PARSONS 
Mary E. Blackmail, I. J. '36, H. E. 
urs ( " '39, became the bride of Hugh Gait 

tna places all over the United States Pai sons, February 22, in St. Louis, 
d Canada ' **" rrhovaras 



Of 2,000 famous places listed for 
quality food, this book gives the most 
space to praise of the Maramor res- 
taurant. The Maramor in Columbus, 
Ohio, owned and operated by Mary 
(Love) McGuckin, f. s. '13, and Mr. 
McGuckin, is cited as follows 



Mo They are at home in the Yorkleigh 
apartments, 4953 West Pine boule- 
vard, St. Louis. Until about a year 
ago, the bride had lived in Manhat- 
tan, working as an assistant to Ralph 
R. Lashbrook, associate professor of 
journalism, in the College News bu- 
reau. She is a member of Pi Beta Phi 



«T~ believe that nowhere will you I sorority. Last spring she accepted 
ftnd a moie splendid combination of a position with the Pet Milk company 
£d ZolvZve and service. Their in St. Louis. Mr. Parsons is tatte 
salads and desserts, which are differ- sales department of the Monsanto 
ent and deudous, deserve particular Chemical company, St. Louis. Heat- 



mention. There are so many things 
about The Maramor that are different 
that only by going there can you 
realize them. There is also a Mara- 
mor shop in the same building where 
you can get some of the finest candies 
I have ever tasted. These candies, 
too, are internationally known and 
you'll probably want to take some 
with you. 

"If I seem to have extended my- 
self about The Maramor, I am also 
echoing the comments of many of the 
'Adventurers' who class it as one of 
the finest restaurants in America. So 



tended the Tome Preparatory school 
in Baltimore, Md., and Western Re- 
serve university, Cleveland, Ohio. 
•♦■ 

DEATHS 



THOBURN 
Joseph B. Thoburn, '93, regarded 
as one of Oklahoma's most authentic 
historians and former curator and 
secretary of the Oklahoma Historical 
society, died March 2 after a paralytic 
stroke. 

The 7 4-year-old Oklahoman, one 
the finest restaurants in America, bo flj ^ scholars t0 delve into Ok- 

if you have to go out of your way to i history, was the author of 



More than 2,000 signs used in the 
Engineers' Open House Friday and 
Saturday were made by a sign com- 
mittee consisting of three members. 
The signs were red, white and blue 
in keeping with the national defense 
theme of Open House. 

Residents of Van Zile hall had 
planned to eat crackers and cheese 
Saturday night, but the delivery boy 
carrying the cheese found the burn- 
ing barracks on the canipus more in- 
teresting. He failed to deliver the 
cheese. Result— Van Zile girls ate 
crackers and butter. 

Four student orators, representing 
the literary societies on the campus, 
are contesting for a prize of $5. Mar- 
cile Norby, Cullison, representing the 
Ionian society; Marjorie Force, 
Wheaton, the Browning society; Or- 
ville Burtis, Hymer, the Athenian so- 
ciety, and John Martin, Lyons, the 
Hamilton, will give their orations 
March 28 in Recreation Center. 

Dr. H. H. King, head of the De- 
partment of Chemistry, is leaving 
this week on an inspection trip of 
schools in Indiana, Missouri, Penn- 
sylvania and New Jersey. He will 
study the qualifications of chemistry 
departments in several colleges and 
universities as part of a program of 
the American Chemical society, of 
which Doctor King is a member, to 
advance training requisites of new 
members. 



„J, recently, if you have to go out of you. way to; hl8 wag the author f 

has accepted a position as school see and enjoy it, by all means , I rec- Qf bookg and a ,. ticles on state 

uch supervisor for the Works Prog- ommend that you ^ so and I hope , j subject8 . Pev haps he was 

luncn supeiviam m „. ,„ Hho vml ma v meet Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm , . nnmnV ehensive his- 



ress administration, Topeka. She 
formerly was associated with the 
Union Gas company, Independence, 
in the capacity of home economist. 

Edna Swank, G. S. '3 6, teaches 
English and American history at Oak- 
ley high school, Oakley. Her i 
deuce address is still Hill City 

E. E. "Gene" Howe, I. C. '36, last 



do so and I hope ( hlstorlcal subje ets. Perhaps he was 
you may meet Mr. and Mis. Malcolm , ^^ known for a comprehensive his- 
McGuckin, who operate this excep- , ^^ Qf oklanoma written by him and 
tional restaurant." ..published in 1916 

Anna Maude Smith, '14, owns and 



Listeners of radio stations KTSW 
in Great Bend and KVGB in Emporia 
did not hear the first 10 minutes of 
the half-hour broadcast from St. Pat's 
prom Saturday night. Station KFBI 
in Wichita, feeder station of other 



nnsneu in "«. in wicnua, leeuei aitn.»«" ~- 

AIUMW.W.. ». Qf " to1 ., fl prior to that and shortly after stations on the Kansas network, neg- 

manages the Anna Maude cafeteria P. £r to gtatehood> Mr. I lecte d to transmit the program until 

in Oklahoma City which is also 2^°™^^ with the late Isaac 11: i p. m. Consequently station 

praised in the book. ' Holcomb collected the material , K SAL in Salina, whose facilities 

Mtv "Few cafeterias have enjoyed such m. " . fl . t outline of the originated the broadcast, and KFBI 

deuce add ; e8S , 8 H St w 1 p H I lU c Ciy 6 last a quick and continued success ,as this \™*™™™MomTeZ published. I Tere the only stations carrying the 

E. E. "Gene" Howe I. a 3 6 Ust ^ the , )ook .. French onion history ot u g 

June completed work for a doctoi s soup a nd vegetable soup are unusual- Jt^Baaoptea »j , in the 

degree in biological chemistry a the good ag weU as hot breads , p i es , ! textbook and eed ^ .eg f X ..^ ^^ 

University of Illinois, Champaign, ^^ and galad8 ))ut tho8e wlth a public scho c wo t ^^ ^ 

and then received a position with ^ fo] . meat gQ for their One ° f M hl ° "%£* Great Plain s in | T e Farm and Home hour broadcast 



Lois M. Peterson, H. E. '38. 
Eunice Pearl Youngquist, 



of music about 



Southern cnicKen, neu lc d... ..»»*, . .qo 4 

baked (honest) hash and other meats , Hehea in i 
I and the best spinach have en- 



one foot high sent to the National 

H- * I a n 5"the"be.t' spinach I have en-l After hi* '^^ 
I -IT. now has a position as utttaa L ountered iu a long time Unusually the ^^^!1SS££ *■ "GreeuW' this was all that was 
M o anA director ot foods at the University of , d galads and de8S erts." Mi . ThobUl n _heca me £ Kangag gtate/ . 

E - 1 *1™1 I Kansas. She is dietitian in charge of ^ ££?£ was the first to discover | W S by Lyle W. Downey, College 



W. L. Thackrey, E. E. '18, and | KanBaB she is dietitian in charge of 
Bessie (Carp) Thtckrey, f. s„ ai-e at, Co)))iii hal , ftnd tne Wat kins Me- 

home at 1452 South Emerson, D«M morlal hospital. 

ver, Colo. Mr. Thackrey ta ' seneral j Tonn , 8g ig die . 

superintendent of the Colo rado-Wy O- , W ^ ^ ^^ ^ 

ming Gas company, 407 Continental ^ ^ 

Oil building, Denver. 



MARRIAGES 



S 



Maj Ray B. Marshall and Frances 
(Casto) Marshall. '2 2, are now sta- 
tioned at Ft. Clayton, Canal Zone, 
Panama. Major Marshall was for- 
merly with the Department of Mili- 
tary Science and Tactics at Kansas 
State College, Manhattan. 

Rollin J. Smith, C. E. '23, asphalt 
engineer for Skelly Oil company, is 
located at 2531 West Fiftieth street, 
Kansas City, Kan. 

James R. Moreland, Ag. '24, re- 
cently took a position with the 
Weather bureau, Airport Station, 
Pampa, Texas. 

C E Hominon. C. E. '25, recently 
closed his 12th year as county engi- 
neer of Clark county, and moved 
from Ashland to Topeka. He has a 
position now in the State Highway 
department and will specialize in 
bridge design and construction. He 
■ and Emogene (Bowen) Hommon, H. 
E. '26, live at 1914 East Twenty- 
First street, Topeka. 

Harry G. Walker, M. S. '26, is en- 
tomologist for the Virginia Truck 
Experiment station. Norfolk, Va. He 
wrl tes "I am engaged in research 
work leading to the prevention and 
control of insect damage to truck 
crops. My wife (Wanda Fry) and I 
have three children: Sara Ann is 8, 
John Martin is 5 and Harriet Mar- 
garetta is 1." 

John W. Koerner, f. s. '27 and 
Esther (Thomas) Koerner, 29, are 



Chemical engineering graduates 
from the class of '40 and their pres- 
ent positions include: 

John Bppard, 19 22 South boule- 
vard, Houston, Texas, is with the 
Sinclair Refilling company at Hous- 
ton. 

Wilbert J. Eoos is working with 
the Kansas Highway department in 
the road materials laboratory, Man- 
hattan. 

William B. Freeman, 4 29 West- 
moreland street, Akron, Ohio, has a 
position with the Pittsburgh Plate 
Glass company, Columbia Chemical 
division, Barberton, Ohio. 

John W. Friedline is with the Mor 



, W I 1 LLC 11 »J *-*J "" ... — 

the mounds in eastern Okla- j 1(and director, and a song written by 
homa and nearby states were each | H . Miles Heberer, associate professor 
HOOVER-THORSON the ruins of a timber-framed, dome- j in the Department of Public SpeaK- 

Dr Clare F. Hoover announces the sha ped. earth-covered human habita- | inR . were among those not cleaied. 
„« u!„ a ia* a .. Tcaain Mav S t j on h u iit five to six centuries ago by . ^. 

the ancestors of the members of the I 



marriage of his sister, Jessie May 

Hoover D. S. '05, to Theodor Thor- tne ance»iuio ^i w*» 

son, February 18, at Emporia. They ; present Caddoan Indian tribes 

"« «'»<■• iftopnt.h ■ 1931 he received a doctor of 

letters degree from Oklahoma City 



will live at 1706 West Fifteenth 
street, Topeka 



BIRTHS 



, university. 



COOK— ROPER 

Norma Elizabeth Cook, M. Ed. '40, 
of Monument and Bueford T. Roper, 
M. Ed. '40, of Atchison were married 

August 25, 1940. They are now liv- 1 gmy of Science in 1921 and an active 
ing at Langdon, where Mr. Roper „„,„,,„,. fm . man v years, 
teaches music. 



To Roger Stewart Ag & ^80. and 
He was a charter mem- j Alice J^nan S = L a smi WU 



Iber of the Oklahoma Society of the 
Sons of the American Revolution, of 

i which he was president in 1919. He 
was president of the Oklahoma Acad 



member for many years. 



MALLAM— STAGQ 

The wedding of Alice Cleo Mallam 

and Beverly D. Stagg, Ag. '40, took 

place February 5 in the home of the 

I Rev. B. A. Rogers of the First Metho- 

ton Salt company, Grand Saline, dlsh ch urch. The couple left for a 

,t~ ._ „ n io,,i -hemis the s i lor t trip and returned February 10 



Ham Roger, born February 21 at the 
St. Mary hospital, Manhattan. Mr. 
Stewart is state representative of the 
federal Bureau of Agricultural Eco- 
nomics. Their home is at 1704 Hum- 
boldt, Manhattan. 



Texas. He is a plant chemist in the 
control laboratory. 

Raymond H. Groth, 415 Hazle 
street, Tamaqua, Pa., is employed by 
the Atlas Powder company at Ta- 
maqua. 

Colter A. Landis, 633 Ludlow, 
Lawrenceburg, Ind., works for Jo- 
seph E. Seagram and Sons, Inc., at 
Lawrenceburg. 

Ralph Marshall, Lester I. Miller 
and Robert D. Miller are all with E. 
I du Pont de Nemours and company, 
Inc Mr Marshall is with the cello- 
phane division at Clinton, Iowa. Les- 
ter Miller is with the explosives de- 
partment, Memphis, Tenn., and Rob- 
ert D. Miller is with the Graselli 
chemical division, East Chicago, Ind. 



ouui 1 11 ip »*»»« .„- — 

to Sedan, where Mr. Stagg is county 
agent. 

TODD— BURK 
The marriage of Marion Todd, H. 
E. '35, to Max Lewis Burk, I. J. '35, 
was February 12 at the home of the 
bride's parents in Leavenworth. They 
are now living at 1446 Laramie, Man- 
hattan. Mr. Burk has an insurance 
agency, selling insurance in Are and 
casualty lines, in Manhattan. 

NELSON— McMASTER 

Moyne Nelson, Manhattan, became 

the bride of Gerald O. McMaster, Ag. 

•40, February 11, in the Nelson home 

in Manhattan. Mrs. McMaster is a 



KANSAS STATE COLLEGE RECORDINGS 

"Alma Mater" and "Wildcat Victory" by the Kansas State 

College Men's chorus 

and 

"Roll on, Kansas State" and "Shoulder to Shoulder" by the College band 

Aii fn„r of the above songs so dear to Kansas State College students and 

association, Manhattan. 

□ Inclosed find $1 for one K. S. C. recording. 

D Inclosed find 15c for one printed copy of "Wildcat Victory." 



Name ... 
Address 



FARRELL EXPLAINS USES 
OF 4-H CLUB-FIELDHOUSE 



PRKSIIJENT WRITES EXPLANATION 
TO STATE LEGISLATORS 



Building w.miIiI Be Utilised Effectively 

Sl\ »nyn n Week Throughout 

School Yenr, He 

Claims 

Pres. F. D. Farrell last week ex- 
plained uses of the proposed 4-H club- 
fleldhouse at Kansas State College 
and pointed out that the building 
"would be used and used effectively 
six days a week throughout the en- 
tire college year." 

President Farrell's statement, to 
clear up misunderstanding regarding 
the use that will be made of the pro- 
posed building, was made in a letter 
to Sen. O. W. Schwalm and Rep. John 
A. Holmstrom. The names of these 
men appear on the 4-H club-field- 
house bills now pending in the Legis- 
lature. 

WOULD USB FOR ROUNDUPS 

"The 4-H club-fleldhouse will be 
used for two primary purposes: (1) 
Physical education and athletics, and 
(2) 4-H club roundups," the Presi- 
dent said. "There doubtless will be 
many incidental uses. But these two 
are the principal ones. 

"The number of 4-H club members 
who can be invited to the College at 
any one time is limited by the accom- 
modations available here. There are 
between 20 and 25 thousand 4-H club 
members in the state and we can ac- 
commodate here not to exceed 1,500. 

"The proposed fleldhouse would 
provide sleeping accommodations for 
a very much larger number, and 
hence would make it possible for a 
much larger number of 4-H club 
members to benefit from club round- 
ups. 

INTRAMURAL CONTEST 

"In physical education the build- 
ing will be used for a great variety 
of specific purposes, including the 
conduct of classes in physical educa- 
tion, the conduct of a large number 
and great variety of intramural ath- 
letics contests and for a smaller num- 
ber but very important group of in- 
tercollegiate contests, particularly 
basketball. 

"As you know, the seating capacity 
of the old gymnasium is much less 
than the student enrolment. This 
fact is the most spectacular but not 
necessarily the most important fact 
about the inadequacy of the present 
building. 



DR. H. L. IBSEN'S 30- YEAR GENETICS RESEARCH 

IS ALL BUT WIPED OUT IN SATURDAYS FIRE 



"I had the only experiment of its 
kind in the world," said Dr. H. L. 
Ibsen, professor of animal husbandry 
and nationally known geneticist, as 
he told of losing from 1,200 to 1,500 
guinea pigs in the fire which burned 
the small-animal laboratory Satur- 
day. 

Doctor Ibsen said that if he could 
get a guinea pig of each type con- 



good condition and so many nice ex- 
periments going," Doctor Ibsen said. 
"Why some of the more difficult types 
had been breeding true strain for 10 
years." 

It is necessary that Doctor Ibsen 
get back different types of the guinea j 
pigs he sent to the laboratory in Bar 
Harbor because only those particular | 
animals are useful with the previous 



A. A. U. P. Will Meet Today 

The American Association of Uni- 
versity Professors planned a luncheon 
meeting in Thompson hall, room 
209C, at noon today. Prof. Robert 
W. Conover discussed plans for the 
spring convention. 



WOMEN'S RIFLE TEAM GETS 
FOURTH IN KEMPER CONTEST 



Vlc- 




UARRACKS NOS. 3 AND 4 



tained in the shipment of 30 which experimental records, 
he sent to an experimental cancer t Many of the guinea pigs were from 
laboratory at Bar Harbor, Me., last stock which Doctor Ibsen worked 
week, he could go ahead with his ex- with 30 years ago at the University 
periment. Otherwise, everything is of Wisconsin and brought here with 
lost, he added. him 20 years ago. This represents 

Doctor Ibsen plans to begin build- years of research which would have 
ing new cages, providing he receives continued had not fire halted the 
the necessary pigs from the Maine [ progress. 



laboratory. At that, it will take from 
one to three years to get started, he 
said. 

"Never have I had the stock in as 



Doctor Ibsen did his undergradu- 
ate and graduate work at the Uni- 
versity of Wisconsin, receiving a doc- 
tor of philosophy degree in 1916. 



KANSAS ACADEMY PROGRAMS 
WILL BE DISTRIBUTED SOON 



Allium! Meeting Will Be Held Here 

April .'!. 4 mid 5; Mntheninticnl Soele- 

Mi'N AIno Will Gather on Campus 

Printed programs will be distrib- 
uted over the state early next week 
for the 73rd annual meeting of the 
Kansas Academy of Science, which 
will be here April 3, 4 and 5. Pro- 
gram arrangements for the meeting 
of the Junior Academy of Science 
which will meet here at the same 
time will be announced later. 

The Kansas Academy of Science 



program will include sectional pro- 
"Kqually important facts are that j grams in botany, zoology, psychology, 
the College lacks adequate facilities j chemistry, physics, entomology and 
for intramural athletic contests of I geology. Dr. Roger C. Smith, profes- 
varioua kinds, for basketball practice sor of entomology at Kansas State 
and practice in other sports, and for : College, is secretary of the academy. 



Two Enter Contest 

Franklin Flynn, Wamego, will rep- 
resent Kansas State College in ex- 
temporaneous speaking, and Frank 
Seymour, El Dorado, will represent 
the school in oratory at the Missouri 
Valley Forensic tournament at the 
University of Kansas March 27 to 29. 
Flynn is a senior in business admin- 
istration and Seymour is a sopho- 
more in industrial journalism. 



TRACK MEN PLACE SEVENTH 
AT ILLINOIS TECH RELAYS 



various other purposes connected 
with physical education but not mak- 
ing a particularly strong public ap- 
peal. 

SIX DAYS A WEEK' 

"Unlike a football stadium which 



The two mathematical societies of 
Kansas and the American Association 
of University Professors also will 
meet April 5 in cooperation with the 
Academy of Science. 

The opening meeting Thursday, 



Is used only 10 or IB days out of a | April 3, will be in cooperation with 
year, the proposed fleldhouse would the Kansas State College chapter of 
be used and used effectively six days I (lamina Sigma Delta. Pres. W. M. 
a week throughout the entire college ' Jardine of the University of Wichita 



year," President Farrell said. "In ad- 
dition it would be used during the 
summer vacation for 4-H club round- 
ups and other events of that sort." 

♦ 
JUNIOR VET ASSOCIATION 

SPONSORS ASSEMBLY SHOW 



Four-Reel Film will Pleiure Romance 

of Ml'llt llllllislry mill Cooking 

"Meat and Romance," a four-reel 
film sponsored by the Junior Ameri- 
can Veterinary Medical association, 
will be shown in a student assembly | 
Thursday at 11 a. m. in the College 
Auditorium. The 40-minute film is 
divided into four sequences, with a 
three-minute technicolor film at the 
end. 

The first part of the film suggests 
attractive and nutritive cuts which 
are not in common use and demand. 
Types of meat cookery which include 
roasting, broiling, braising and cook- 
ing meats in water are shown in the 
second sequence. Efficient and easy 
methods of meat carving also are 
shown. The last part of the film deals 
with meat and nutrition. The story 
is interspersed with the romance of 
a young married couple. 

"The Junior AVMA invites Man- 
hattan housewives as well as stu- 
dents," Dean R. R. Dykstra of the 
Division of Veterinary Medicine said. 

■♦• — 

Ray Runnion Talks Here 

Ray Runnion, editor of the Kansas 
City Journal, was to speak to the 
Contemporary Thought class of se- 
nior journalists Wednesday morning. 



will lecture on Egyptian agriculture. 

A symposium on "Science in Na- 
tional Preparedness," given Friday 
night under the auspices of the 
mathematical societies and the Kan- 
sas Academy of Science, will include 
Prof. William L. Hart, professor of 
mathematics at the University of 
Minnesota, who will speak on "Mathe- 
matics in National Preparedness," 
and Dean A. S. Langsdorf, Washing- 
ton university of St. Louis, who will 
speak on "The Engineering Program 
in National Rearmament." 

At the academy banquet Friday 
evening Dr. J. T. Willard, College 
historian, will give some reminis- 
cences of early academy history. 

♦ 
MAX MARTIN PLAYS VIOLIN 

AT SUNDAY PERFORMANCE 



MInm Alive .Ii-iVitsoii. ANNlHtnut Profen- 
Mor of Music, Accompanist 

Max Martin, assistant professor in 
the Department of Music, played a 
violin recital Sunday afternoon in the 
College Auditorium. 

He was accompanied by Miss Alice 
Jefferson, assistant professor in the 
department. 

The program included the follow- 
ing numbers: "Sonata, D minor," by 
Brahms; "Concerto, D major (Ade- 
laide)," by Mozart; "Menuetto," by 
Milandre-Press; "Nocturnal Tan- 
gier," by Godowsky-Kreisler; "Mon- 
tanesa," by Nin-Kochanski; "Tonado 
Murciana," by Nin-Kochanski, and 
"Impressions of San Gabriel Moun- 
tains," by Horace Alden Miller. 



Two-Mile Sound Wins lis Event, While 

Slim .lohiiNon .miiI I i. nis Alters 

Kaih Get Fourths 

The Kansas State College track 
team collected 17 points and placed 
seventh in the meet as it finished its 
season at the Illinois Tech relays in 
Chicago last Saturday. 

The two-mile relay team made 10 
points and the only first place for the 
Wildcats when it won its event. The 
team included Loyal Payne, Manhat- 
tan; Rufus Miller, Hiawatha; Bill 
Burnham, St. Francis, and Jim Johns, 
Topeka. 

Sam Johnson, Oswego, Kansas 
State middle-distance man, placed 
fourth in the 880-yard dash and third 
in the 440-yard dash to turn in one 
of the best individual performances 
on the Wildcat squad. 

Louis Akers, Atchison, ran fourth 
in the 70-yard dash. 

The Illinois Tech relays were the 
last indoor meet for the Kansas State 
team this year. The first outdoor 
meet will be at the Texas relays at 
Austin, Texas, on April 5. 



After Four Consecutive Annual 
torles, Coeds Lose Trophy 
to Wichita I . 

After four consecutive annual vic- 
tories, the Kansas State College wo- 
men's rifle team placed fourth last 
week-end in the Camp Perry indoor 
meet at Kemper Military academy, 
Boonville, Mo. The trophy went to 
the University of Wichita. 

Those who represented the College 
were Dorothy Swingle, Manhattan; 
Karleen King, Hutchinson; Lucille 
Smith, Kansas City; Harriet Har- 
beck, Abilene; Jeanne Parcels, Hia- 
watha, and Margaret Van Horn, 
Larned. Accompanying them were 
Miss Kathleen Knittle, assistant to 
the dean of women; Sgt. Elmer Lar- 
son, coach of the team, and Lieut. 
Ernest D. Jessup of the Department 
of Military Science and Tactics. 

Dorothy Swingle was awarded a 
medal for placing second with her 
grand aggregate score of 293. Awards 
were made at the annual Kemper- 
Camp Perry military ball Saturday 
night. 

The team left Manhattan Thurs- 
day morning. Friday morning the 
team shot for individual scores, and 
team scores were shot Friday after- 
noon. After shooting targets for the 
expert qualification medal on Satur- 
day morning, the team members were 
guests at mess of the Kemper Mili- 
tary academy and were conducted on 
tours of the school during the after- 
noon. 

The women's scores were: Univer- 
sity of Wichita, 395; Creighton uni- 
versity, 393; University of Kansas, 
389; Kansas State College, 386. 

The basic men's Reserve Officers' 
Training corps team placed fifth in 
the meet. It consisted of Jim Ger- 
lach and David Blevins, Manhattan, 
Martin McMahon, Beattie, and David 
Totten, Clifton. Theodore Stivers, 
Rome, Ga., also made the trip, to par- 
ticipate in the men's individual com- 
petition. 

The basic ROTC scores were as 
follows: University of Iowa, 739; 
Kemper Military academy, 738; Ok- 
lahoma A. and M., 725; Kemper Mili- 
tary academy (team No. 2), 724; 
Kansas State College, 717. 

♦ 
ARBOR DAY RADIO PROGRAMS 
WILL BK GIVEN NEXT WEEK 



42 MEN OUT FOR POSTS 

ZZ AT'BASEBALL PRACTICE 

FIVK WILDCAT LETTER MEN RE- 
TURN FOR THIS SEASON 



President Farrell and Dean I'mberKer 
to Write Messages for Itroadcnst 

Special Arbor day broadcasts will 
be presented over the Kansas State 
College radio station, KSAC, on both 
Thursday and Friday, March 27 and 
28. 

The Thursday program, at 12:30 
a. m., will include a discussion of 
trees and shrubs suitable for plant- 
ing in Kansas for landscaping pur- 
poses and also some practical sug- 
gestions based on research work at 
the Kansas Agricultural Experiment 
station on the control of insects and 
diseases harmful to trees in this state. 

The Friday broadcast, March 28, at 
12:30 p. m., will be in special ob- 
servance of Arbor day and will in- 
clude messages from Pres. F. D. Far- 
rell and Dean H. Umberger, director 
of the State Extension service. 



Veterans of Previous Yenr Include 

Floyd Kirklnnd, Kenneth Graham, 

Warren Hornsby, Chris Lang- 

viinll mid Ray Rokey 

Forty-two aspirants for positions 
on the Wildcat baseball squad are 
working out in Nichols Gymnasium 
this week as they wait for warmer 
weather to permit them to practice 
outside. Practice thus far has con- 
sisted mostly of pitching and catch- 
ing practice and a few pepper games. 

Five of last year's letter men are 
back to form the nucleus of this sea- 
son's team. They include Floyd Kirk- 
land, Junction City, pitcher; Kenneth 
Graham, Framingham, Mass., first 
base; Warren Hornsby, Topeka, 
shortstop; Chris Langvardt, Alta 
Vista, outfielder, and Ray Rokey, Sa- 
betha, outfielder. 

KIHKI,AND OUT FOR PITCHING 
Kirkland is the only letter man to 
come out for the hurling staff this 
season. Several promising rookies 
have turned out, however, and sev- 
eral have had experience on the 
mound for the Wildcats. Among 
these recruits are Lee Doyen, Rice; 
Richard Gleue, Le Roy; Merlin Gus- 
tafson, Randolph; Martin Kadets, 
Natick, Mass.; Dean Nelson, Had- 
dam; Veryle Snyder, Mayetta, and 
Jack Wilson, Burrton. 

Three men have reported to fill 
the vacancy left when catcher Ralph 
Marshall was graduated last year. 
Norbert Raemer, Herkimer; Jim 
Prideaux, Manhattan, and George 
Dalziel, San Mateo, Calif., are the 
Wildcat backstops this spring. 

ROKEY IN OUTFIELD 
Among the 13 men to report for 
infield positions this year are three 
letter men. Ray Rokey, an outfield- 
er last year, has moved up to make 
a bid for the third sack this spring, 
Warren Hornsby has left his short- 
stop position to hold down second base 
and Kenny Graham, first sacker for 
the Wildcats last spring, will be in 
his old place. Other infield candi- 
dates are Oral Brunk, Norcatur; Ivan 
Cheney, Abilene; Dean Engwall, 
Jamestown; Francis Gwin, Leoti; 
Willis Lamer, Hays; William Robert- 
son, Barnard; Gerald Marsh, Troy; 
Jim Vavroch, Oberlin, and Neal Hu- 
gos, Manhattan. 

Candidates for the outfield are 
Chris Langvardt, a letter man last 
year, Alta Vista; Charles Anderson, 
Emporia; Jack Atherton, Waterbury, 
Conn.; Bill Cook, Manhattan; George 
Curtis, Toronto; John Gilkison, 
Larned; Jack Horacek, Topeka; Nor- 
man Kruse, Barnes. 



WILDCAT NET TEAM MEETS 
WASHBURN HERE APRIL 10 



EVERYDAY ECONOMICS 

By W. E. GRIMES 



"Local governmental units that formerly were highly important have be- 
come unimportant and useless with the shortening of distances." 



The development of modern trans- 
portation and communication sys- 
tems has lessened distances. This 
has affected greatly the functions of 
the various governmental units in 
this country. Local governmental 
units that formerly were highly im- 
portant have become unimportant or 
useless with the shortening of dis- 
tances. 

As this process goes on, there is a 
tendency to strengthen the powers 
and increase the duties of the govern- 
mental units covering the larger 
areas. The smaller governmental 
units may gradually lose their sig- 
nificance or they may find a new 
sphere of action in cooperation with 
the governmental units of the larger 



areas. 

The choice between these two al- 
ternatives probably will have far- 
reaching consequences in terms of 
the future position and powers of 
school districts, townships, counties, 
cities, towns and even states. If the 
attitude is one of cooperation with 
the larger units of government, the 
smaller units may find an important 
and highly useful field open to them. 
However, if they do not cooperate 
and the larger governmental units 
gradually take over more and more 
duties and powers, the importance of 
many of the smaller governmental 
units gradually will decline and some 
of them may become merely empty 
shells without power or purpose. 



lOlilon Seohler and Jack Horncek Are 
Only Veteran Players Return- 
ing' I'liii Season 

An inexperienced Wildcat tennis 
team will meet Washburn college 
here April 10 in the first game of the 
season. Only two of last year's letter 
men are returning this season, Eldon 
Sechler, Hutchinson, and Jack Hora- 
cek, Topeka, leaving places for two 
new men. 

The two places probably will be 
filled from four of last year's numeral 
winners. The four are Vernon Platt- 
ner, Coffeyville; Gerald Klema, Wil- 
son; Henry Lau, Arkansas City, and 
Henry Bender, Topeka. 

There will be six games on the 
Kansas State courts this season, and 
the Wildcats will play five matches 
at other schools. 

The schedule: 



Apr. 10- 
Apr. Hi- 
Apr. 18- 
Apr. 1«- 
Apr. 2G- 
May 2- 
May 3- 
May 8- 
May !)- 
May 10- 
May 13- 
May 16- 



— Washburn here. 
—Wichita here. 
— Augustana here. 
—Fort Hays State at Hays. 
—Fort Hays here. 
—Nebraska at Lincoln. 
—Iowa State college at Ames. 
—Oklahoma here. 
-Wichita at Wichita. 
—Kansas at Lawrence. 
—Washburn at Topeka. 
—Missouri here. 



A 



i 



DEAN CONRAD AND SCHOLER 

APPEAR ON ROAD PROGRAM 



I 



Acting Hend of Division Gives Opening 
Talk at Topeka Conference 

L. E. Conrad, acting dean of the 
Division of Engineering and Archi- 
tecture, and Prof. C. H. Scholer of 
the Department of Applied Mechan- 
ics participated in the Kansas High- 
way Engineering conference in To- 
peka last Thursday. 

Dean Conrad gave the opening ad- 
dress Thursday morning. 



HISTORICAL SOCIETY C 

TQPEKA 

KAN 



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The k ansas industrialist 

■ • — . ^_ iA __ ™^j„«^„^ Tw« w h 9.R. 1»41 Number 24 



Volume 67 



KansaaStaieToWe^ Manhattan, Wednesday, March 26, 1941 



THEUNIS KLEINENBERG 

DIES FIGHTING ITALIANS 

GRADUATE OF 1020 IS KILLED IN 
AFRICAN BATTLE 



The Early History of Campus Literary Societies 



Dean L. E. Call Tell* of Student'* Den<h 

ThroiiKh Letter! Faculty Speak* 

Highly ot HI* Day* 

on Campus 

Reported killed in action with 
British forces in Africa on January 
25, Lieut. Theunis Kleinenberg is 
the first Kansas State College fatality 
in the present war, according to in- 
formation received last week by Dean 
L. B. Call of the Division of Agricul- 
ture. 

The news was contained in a let- 
ter to Dean Call from L. L. Houx, a 
former student at the University of 
Illinois who is now in South Africa. 
Although he did not know Mr. Klein- 
enberg, Mr. Houx said he had heard i 
a great deal about him because they j 
had both studied in American col-; 
leges Mr. Houx also included a news- i 
paper article from the Johannesburg | 
Star telling of the Kansas State Col- 
lege graduate's death in action 
against the Italians. 

GRADUATED IN 1926 
Mr. Kleinenberg was born October 
11 1900, a resident of Pietersburg, 
Transvaal, South Africa. He received 
his Bachelor of Science degree in ag- 
riculture here in 1926. 

Dean Call, who had corresponded 
with Mr. Kleinenberg after his gradu- 
ation, said, "He was a student of 
mine, an excellent one. He had a 
practical knowledge of farm prob- 
lems and was a leader in student ac- 
tivities in the Division of Agricul- 
ture." 
MAJORED IN ANIMAL HUSBANDRY 

"Tim." as he was known to every- j 
one here, majored in animal hus- ■ 
bandry, was a better than-avcragc , 
student; a member of Farm House, | 
social fraternity; Alpha Zeta, honor- 
ary agricultural fraternity, and aj 
member of Block and Bridle, animal 
husbandry club. 

While a member of the Cosmopoli- 
tan club, Mr. Kleinenberg visited Miss 
Jessie McDowell Machir, registrar, at 
her home. She recalls that once 
when the Cosmopolitan club met 
there, each member was asked to do 
something characteristic of his own 
country. "Tim" was modest and re- 
fused to perform. Later in the eve- 
ning, when unnoticed, he went to the 
piano and began playing melodies 
reminding him of his native land. 

"That was characteristic of him," 
said Miss Machir. "Tim was a fine 
fellow, modest; everyone that knew 
him will be sad to hear of his death." 
MEM HER OF JUDGING TEAMS 
Mr. Kleinenberg, a member of both 
the junior and senior livestock judg- 
ing teams, "was popular, a sound- 
thinking boy, sincere and hard work- 
ing and a high-ranking man on the 
team," said Prof. F. W. Bell, coach 
of the team. 

Dr. C. W. McCampbell, head of the 
Department of Animal Husbandry, 
the department in which Mr. Klein- 
enberg majored, said, "He was known 
as 'Tim' by his fellow students and 
was a most unusual young man, 
courteous, cultured, kindly, scholar- 
ly and respected by all those who 
were privileged to know him." 

Another faculty member remem- 
bered Tim as the boy with the three- 
quarter-length, sheep-lined coat, with 
the big collar, and when it snowed 
he turned the collar up so all you 
could see was his curly head sticking 
out the top of the coat. 



(* Miss lticc Loaves Today 

Prof. Ada Rice of the Department 
of English at the College, national 
president of the American College 
Quill club, leaves Wednesday to visit 
chapters of the club at Fort Hays 
Kansas State college and the Univer- 
sity of Wyoming, Laramie. Enroute, 
Miss Rice will attend the regional 
meeting of the National Council of 
Teachers of English in Colorado 
Springs, March 27, 28 and 29. She 
will return March 31. 



By J. T. WILLARD 
College Historian 
Throughout a large fraction of the 
history of Kansas State College lit- 
erary societies played an important 
part Without disparagement of the 
work of those which still survive, it 
is certain that they are comparatively 
unimportant now. 

The first organization of this char- 
acter was the Bluemont Literary so- 
ciety, the minutes of the meetings of 
which have recently been brought to 
light. Most of these records were 
very neatly and legibly written, and 
good ink was nearly always used. , 
The minutes of the first three regu- j 
lar meetings were not dated. The 
fourth was held December 17, 1864, 
and as subsequent meetings were held J 
weekly, it seems probable that the 
first regular meeting was held No-, 
vember 26. The minutes of this meet- 
ing are as follows: 

Regular meeting of the Blue- 
mont Literary Society. The first 
that was ever held in the Agri- 
cultural College. The meeting 
was called to order by Mr. Wey- 
bright, the president, after 
which the following question 
was debated: "Resolved that 
the Indians have more cause to 
complain of the abuse of the 
white man than the Negro." The 
chief disputants were Mr. Kim- 
ble on the affirmative and Mr. 
Ayres, senior, on the negative. 
After a sharp contest of near an 
hour the decision was called for 
and given in favor of the nega- 
tive. The house being in com- 
mittee of the whole, after having 
elected Mr. Bliss to a member- 
ship, selected the following ques- 
tion for the next debate: "Re- 
solved that the pen is mightier 
than the sword." 

A motion was then made to 
adjourn and carried. 

J. J. Points, Sec'y. 
These minutes indicate clearly that 
preliminary meetings had been held 
previously, and that the organization 
was primarily for practice in debate. 
At the third meeting the question dis- 
cussed was: "Resolved that the in- 
I vention of printing has been a greater 
! blessing to the world than the inven- 
I tion of gunpowder." The discussion 
I of this question was continued at the 
fourth meeting also. 

At the third meeting, Mary Green, 

i Hattie E. Mather and Ellen Denison 

I were elected to membership, but no 

I mention is made of their participa- 

I tion in debate at later meetings. The 

• primitive character of conditions is 

shown by the record that at the 

fourth meeting, a motion was carried 

which provided for reimbursement 

of Mr. Points for paper and candles 

furnished the society by him. 

One of the provisions of the con- 
stitution was that the society meet- 
ings should be opened with prayer, 
usually designated in the minutes as 
devotion. This practice was followed 
by the societies organized later. It 
is hard to explain the origin of this 
custom for societies having purely 
secular activities. 

The topics chosen for debate were 
varied in type, but usually marked 
the fields of interest of young men 
of that period. Some were abstract 
in nature, but generally a concrete, 
practical question was chosen. As 
months and years went on some ques- 
tions reappeared, perhaps with a 
change in the form of statement. 

When this society was organized 
the war between the states was in 
progress and debates were held upon 
subjects connected with it or with 
war from a general point of view. 
Among these were: 

Resolved that the North is the 
most guilty party in this war. 

Resolved that the late war was 
more beneficial than injurious. 

Resolved that the highest good of 
a state demands occasional wars. 

Resolved that the United States 
should assist in expelling the French 
invaders from Mexico. 



Is Named Dean 



Political and economic questions 
were of constant interest, but party 
differences were not discussed, per- 
haps because sentiment was too one- 
sided in Kansas at that period. The 
following subjects indicate something 
of the range of interest. 

Resolved that the whole of North 
America ought to belong to the 
United States. 

Resolved that George Washington 
conferred greater benefits upon the 
United States than Abraham Lincoln. 
Resolved that woman has the natu- 
ral right to vote and hold office of 
public trust. 

Resolved that the signs of the 
times indicate the dissolution of the 
Republic. 

Resolved that labor has done more 
in developing the age than capital. 

Resolved that the city of Manhat- H0M£R H£NNE Y IS NAMED 

L a uqZ Ul s d aio e on benefited * ^ * DEAN AT COLORADO STATE 




GENERAL SCIENCE LEADS 
DIVISIONS IN ENROLMENT 



TOTAL NUMBER OF STUDENTS THIS 
SEMESTER IS 3,653 



A large fraction of the topics dis- 
cussed were sociological or related to 
education. Many were debated more 
than once with slight variations in 
form. The following are examples: 

Resolved that slavery is a greater 
evil than intemperance. 

Resolved that secret societies are 
beneficial. 

Resolved that education produces 
more happiness than wealth. 

Resolved that married life is pref- 
erable to single life. 

Resolved that constitution has 
more influence over the character and 
actions of men than education. 

Resolved that it is better to edu- 
cate the sexes together than sepa- 

i*h,ig1y. 

Resolved that | female suffrage 
would be a social evil. 

Resolved that capital punishment 
should be abolished. 

Resolved that the teaching of mili 



Graduate Will Head Agricultural Dlvl- j 

Hlon and Dlreet Experiment 

Work at Fort CoIHiih 

Homer J. Henney, Ag. '21, M. S. : 
'28, was appointed dean of agricul- 
ture and director of the experiment 
stations at Colorado State college, 
Fort Collins, Colo., according to an 
| announcement Saturday by the Colo- 
rado State Board of Agriculture. 

Mr. Henney was born in 1897 at 
j Willis, Kan. He completed his high 
! school education at Horton in 1914. 
! After attending Baker university at 
Baldwin for two years, he enlisted 
in the National guard and saw active 
duty along the Mexican border. He 
later attended Kansas State College, 
but was called into service with the 
American Expeditionary forces in I 
France, receiving a commission as a| 
first lieutenant. After the war, the 
army sent him to Montpelier college 
in France to study agriculture. He I 



nesoiveu mat n.c ..<=«*v< D - , was gTa duated from Kansas State 

tary art and science in our state in- [ Co)lege as an animal husbandry ma- 

_xlx..Xl ,..J11 Ua Hatrimontnl to the I . . wnni 



stitutions will be detrimental to the 
best interests of the United States 



Questions of religion were of in- 
terest to these young men and the 
trend of their thoughts, and to a cer- 
tain extent that of the general pub- 
lic, is shown by some of the questions 
debated. Samples from this field are: 

Resolved that a plurality of de- 
nominations is a benefit to the cause 
of religion. 

Resolved that man is an immortal 

soul. 

Resolved that immersion is the 
only scriptural mode of baptism. 

Resolved that the wicked will be 
subjected to endless punishment. 



Many of the debates were upon 
matters that are rather abstract and 
recondite. These must have stimu- 
lated the imagination and the reflec- 
tive powers, and perhaps their dis- 
cussion gave as much pleasure and 
profit as did consideration of more 
tangible and practical things. Some 
of these subjects were: 

Resolved that the invention of 
printing has been a greater blessing 
to the world than the invention of 
gunpowder. 

Resolved that pride and ambition 
have caused more evil than ignorance 
and superstition. 

Resolved that city life is preferable 
to country life. 

Resolved that learning is more 
powerful than wealth. 

Resolved that the hope of reward 
is a greater incentive to action than 
the fear of punishment. 

Resolved that man is the maker of 
his own destiny 



jor in 1921. 

Immediately after graduation, he 
! worked as a herdsman for Shellen- 
barger and Andrews of Cambridge, 
Neb. From June, 1921, to April, 
1925, he was in charge of cost pro- 
duction, a cooperative project with 
the United States Department of Ag- 
riculture and the Department of Ag- 
ricultural Economics at Kansas State 

CoIIgrg. 

He was manager of the Clover Cliff 
Ranch corporation farm of Chase and 
Greenwood counties from 1925 to 
1927, when he returned to Kansas 
State College to teach and do research 
in agricultural economics until May, 
19 38, with the exception of the sum- 
mer of 1929 to do work at Chicago 
, university and a year's study in 1933 
I at the University of Minnesota. 

He left Kansas State College to 
become senior agricultural economist 
for the Federal Crop Insurance cor- 
poration, U. S. D. A.. Washington, D. 
C, until March, 1940. From that 
time until the present he has been 
program-planning specialist for that 
corporation. 

He will begin work at Colorado 
State college next July. 

He is married to the former Grayce 
Cole of Cambridge, Neb., and they 
have a son, Edward Nathan, 15. 



Engineering and Architecture In Sec- 
ond Place, While Home Economic* 
HmikH Third and Aga 
Are Fourth 

The Division of General Science, 
with an enrolment of 1,054 students, 
tops all other divisions for the second 
semester at Kansas State College, ac- 
cording to a tabulated report issued 
last week by Miss Jessie McDowell 
Machir, registrar. 

The net total in enrolment at the 
College is 3,653 students, including 
2,495 men and 1,158 women. A 
' grand total of 3,696 students includes 
| three students with dual assignments 
and 40 students having both gradu- 
ate and undergraduate assignments. 
ENGINEERING IS SECOND 
The enrolment of 1,054 students in 
the Division of General Science is 
divided as follows: general science, 
333; business administration, 187; 
industrial journalism, 140; physical 
education, 78; business administra- 
tion and accounting, 65; preveteri- 
: nary, 61; industrial chemistry, 47; 
; music, 42. 

Second on the list is the Division 
I of Engineering and Architecture with 
ian enrolment of 937 students, five of 
whom are women. The enrolment by 
curricula includes: mechanical engi- 
neering, 317; electrical engineering, 
214; chemical engineering, 147; civil 
engineering, 147; agricultural engi- 
neering, 47; architectural engineer- 
ing, 37; architecture, 25; industrial 
arts, 18. 
AGRICULTURE HAS 664 STUDENTS 

In the Division of Home Econom- 
ics, which ranks third with an en- 
rolment of 816, the curricula enrol- 
ment is divided as follows: home 
economics, 530; institutional 
agement and dietetics, 153; 
economics and nursing, 60; 
economics and art, 40. 

Enrolment in the Division of Agri- 
culture, which totals 664, including 
two women, by curricula is: agricul- 
ture, 347; agricultural administra- 
tion,' 172; milling, 73; specialized 
horticulture, 23; animal husbandry 
and veterinary medicine, 2. 
VETS NUMBER 223 
The Division of Veterinary Medi- 
cine reported a total of 223, includ- 
ing two graduate students and one 
woman student. 

The enrolment for the Division of 
Graduate Study for the second semes- 
ter is 153 men and 59 women, a total 
of 212. 



man- 
home 
home 



LITERARY GROUPS TO VIE 

AT ORATORICAL CONTKST 



MILITARY SCIENCE BUILDING 

IS GIVEN STATE APPROVAL 



Governor Sign* Bill Appropriating 
s:!<u>"0 for New CnmpuH Structure 

Gov. Payne H. Ratner Wednesday 
signed a bill appropriating approxi- 
mately $30,000 for a military science 
building on the campus. The build- 



tag will be financed jointly by the 

In addition to the regular debates | federal govern ment and a state ap- 



extemporaneous speaking upon sub 
jects assigned to members in advance 
or without notice was a constant fea- 
ture of the programs. 

While debating was the chief fea- 
ture of the activities of the society 
provision was made for essays, decla- 
mations, orations and occasional lec- 
tures by outsiders. A society paper 
was to be presented at three-week 
intervals but seems to have been 
(Continued on last page) 



propriation. 

Pies. F. D. Farrell said that the 
new building, which will be started 
as soon as plans have been approved 
by the state architect, will be of white 
limestone to conform with other cam- 
pus buildings. 

The new building is expected to be 
located west of West Waters hall 
near where Seventeenth street enters 
the north side of the campus. 



FOOT Societies Will Send llcst Speakers 
Into Verbal IJnttlc Friday 

Four College students will contest 
for a $5 prize at the annual Inter- 
society Oratorical contest Friday eve- 
ning in Recreation Center. 

The students, who will represent 
the four College literary societies, 
will give orations approximately 10 
i minutes long on subjects of their 
own choosing. Those who will par- 
ticipate in the contest are Marjone 
Force, Wheaton, Browning Literary 
society; Marcile Norby, Cullison, 
Ionian; John Martin, Winfleld, Ham- 
| ilton, and Orville Burtis, Hymer, 
Athenian. 

Judges of the contest will be Mrs. 
M. S. Spencer, Manhattan towns- 
woman; W. C. Troutman, associate 
professor in the Department of Pub- 
lic Speaking, and R. W. Conover, 
professor in the Department of En- 
glish. 

After the contest the four literary 
societies will have a dance in Recrea- 
tion Center. 



Crowds Attend Drama 

Large crowds attended the per- 
formances of "Death Takes a Holi- 
day," production of the Manhattan 
Theatre presented Friday and Satur- 
day nights. More than 1,000 persons 
saw each show. Keith Thompson, 
Wichita, and Mary Marjorie Willis, 
Newton, played the leading roles. 



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Thfl KANSAS INDUSTRIALIST 

Establish ed April 24, 1875 

R. I. TtueMlY Editor 

Jane Rockwell, Raiph Lashbrook, 

Mm i n n KmitHBAUM Associate Editors 

Kinniy Ford Alumni Editor 



Published weekly during the college year by the Kansas 
State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, 
Manhattan, Kansas. 



Except for contributions from officers of the College 
and members of the faculty, the articles in The Kan- 
sas Industrialist are written by students in the De- 
partment of Industrial Journalism and Printing, which 
does the mechanical work. 

The price of The Kansas Industrialist is $3 a year, 
payable in advance. 



Entered at the postomce, Manhattan, Kansas, as second- 
class matter October 27, 1918. Act of July If, ll»4. 



Make checks and drafts payable to the K. S. C. 
Alumni association, Manhattan. Subscriptions for all 
alumni and former students, $) a year; life subscrip- 
tions, |J0 cash or in instalments. Membership in 
alumni association included. 



MEMBER ~^7 

man 



ly disappeared when the economic 
blizzard hit the world. The exten- 
sion of the incidence of war itself 
(la guerre Male) meant that this 
fatigue was probably more wide- 
spread than after any previous con- 
flict since the Thirty Years war. 

This was the more important since 
it was during the Twenties that the 
opportunities should have been 
taken. Though they did not know it, 
the statesmen of that period were 
working against time. They could 
not foresee the effects of the inflation 
in Germany and of the economic 
crisis of 1931. Inertia and fatigue 
encouraged them to regard the new 
institution as a plant and allow it to 
grow. Had they realized what lay 
ahead they might have thought of it 
as a fortress or at least as a break- 
water, and have spent those precious 
10 years in building. — From Inter- 
national Conciliation. 



SCIENCE TODAY 



WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1941 



HKAS91WANCK 

Men will welcome the special ex- 
hibit which is being planned for them 
in connection with the annual Hos- 
pitality days of the Division of Home 
Economics. 

In the first place, the "exhibit will 
provide a special reason for men go- 
ing to Calvin hall. They always en- 
joy the visit but do not often enough 
have a really good occasion for it. 

In the second place, men will wel- 
come the information contained in 
the exhibit, which will deal with fi- 
nancial, nutritional and other prob- 
lems of the home. The apparent in- 
difference of many husbands and 
future husbands to such problems is 
merely a mask for a keen interest 
matched only by an abysmal igno- 
rance which hesitates to reveal itself. 

In the third place, as The Kansas 
State Collegian gravely comments, 
"It will demonstrate that men as well 
as women are necessary in home- 
making. . . ." 

That is indeed a welcome thought 
in topsy-turvy times like these! 



Since fellowships are awarded to 
the relatively young, it was inevitable 
that the Rockefeller Foundation's i 



fellowship program should, of all its 
activities, first feel the effect of war. 
Many fellows who were citizens of 
belligerent nations gave up their ap- 
pointments at once to join the colors. 
Others from neutral lands found it 
inadvisable, in a number of instances, : 
to carry on studies in the institutions 
to which they had been accredited. 
Many adjustments and readjustments 
had to be made. On September 1, 
1939, there were 95 fellows of the 
1938-1939 appointments, most of 
them due soon to return home. At 
the same time there were 207 fellows 
under appointment for 1939-1940, 
some of whom had already arrived at 
their posts and were at work, while 
others were either en route or just 
on the point of leaving for their new 
positions. Following the outbreak of 
war, the Foundation was obliged to 
take action which amounted to a 
temporary cancellation of fellowship 
exchange between Europe and Amer- 
ica. In the case of most Euroepans 
in the group still at home, appoint- 
ments had to be rescinded. European 
fellows already at work in the United 
Stales were notified that the Founda- 
tion was willing to continue all fel- 
lowships to their normal termination, 
but, if the recipients so desired, it 
was prepared to facilitate their re- 
turn home. By the end of 1939, 154 
fellowships had been terminated be- 
cause of the war.— Raymond B. Fos- 
dick. ill the Rockefeller Foundation 
Review for 1939. 



CITIZENSHIP AS A VOCATION 
At the conclusion of the institute, 
Spencer Miller Jr. summarized the 
discussion at the various sessions and 
concluded with the reflection that the 
fellowship that they had enjoyed 
over the week-end upon the campus 
of Kansas State College should help 
them all as they went back to their 
respective organizations in an at- 
tempt to interpret to them the im- 
portance of labor's contemporary 
problems. We have found it possible 
in the atmosphere of an educational 
institution for the representatives of 
the divided household of labor to 
meet and discuss their common prob- 
lems without rancor and with reason. 
It is a promise of the unity which all 
hope will come one day in the trade 
union movement. 

But, Mr. Miller concluded, we are 
all American citizens before we are 
workers or teachers. That is primary. 
The true vocation of every man is to 
be a good citizen in his own com- 
munity and in the world. As citizens 
we must never forget the promise of 
American life to the world. America 
was once the New World — a new 
world to a torn and dismembered 
Europe of that day. America can 
again be a New World to a torn and 
dismembered world. As labor helped 
to build this new world on a new 
continent, it may yet be privileged to 
help America build a New World for 
the family of nations. — From a spe- 
cial number of the Workers' Educa- 
tion News devoted to the Labor in- 
stitute held at Kansas State College, 
in December. 



TIH1E AMERICAN IDEA 
There is what I call the American 
idea. This idea demands, as the 
proximate organization thereof, a de- 
mocracy—that is, a government of 
all the people, by all the people, for 
all the people; of course, a govern- 
ment of the principles of eternal jus- 
tice, the unchanging law of God. For 
shortness' sake, I will call it the idea 
of Freedom. — Theodore Parker. 



SPIRITUAL FA\TEGUE 
We cannot acquit democracy it- 
self It may very well be that the 
conduct of foreign affairs under a 
democracy is much less changeable 
and capricious than under an autocra- 
cy But it is clear that nonetheless the 
tendency to postpone action is even 
more clearly marked in a democracy 
than in an autocracy. In all states, 
whatever may be their constitution, 
inertia plays a most powerful part, 
but in none so much as in a democ- 
racy During the post-war years this 
tendency to postpone considerat on 
of difficult problems was exaggerated 
just because those were the post-war 
years The mental and spiritual fa- 
tigue that followed the war had hard- 



THE MEAT AMERICANS EAT 
According to the Institute of Amer- 
ican Meat Packers, the people of the 
United States last year consumed 
over 18 Vi> billion pounds of meat and 
lard— a total representing 145 
pounds for every man, woman and 
child in the country.— From the 
Pathfinder. 

IN OLDER DAYS 
From the Vil<« of The Industrialist 

TEN VIOAIIS A<!<> 
William N. Moreland, '28, was in 
the weather bureau office in San 
Francisco. 

Ferdinand Voiland Jr., '25, was 
head of the new publishing firm of 
Voiland Printing company in Topeka. 
Mr. Voiland formerly was a member 
of the Department of Public Speak- 
ing. 

Dr. Margaret M. Justin, dean of 
the Division of Home Economics, 
went to Wichita to investigate the 
application of the University of Wich- 
ita for recognition in the American 
Association of University Women. 
Doctor Justin was a member of the 
national committee to examine ap- 
plications. 



By C. O. SWANSON 
Professor of Milling Industry 

Modern taste demands white flour. 
In spite of a quarter of a century of 
efforts to promote the use of whole 1 
grain flour, its consumption at the 
present time constitutes approxi- 
mately only about 2 percent of the ' 
total flour manufactured. 

The wheat kernel consists mainly 
of three parts, the germ about 2 per- 
cent, the bran about 14 percent and 
the inside endosperm about 84 per- 
cent. In milling, however, only about 
72 percent of the wheat is obtained as 
white flour. This is because the en- 
dosperm clings very closely to the 

bran. 

White flour is possible only by 
making a clean separation of the 
bran and germ from the endosperm 
and converting the latter into a fine 
white product. Aside from taste, 
white flour free from bran and germ 
keeps better in storage and this is 
an important consideration in mod- 
ern commercial conditions under 
which flour is shipped long distances 
and stored for considerable periods. 

The wheat kernel was not made to 
be milled into flour, but to produce 
another plant. Since the bran is on 
the outside and the endosperm on the 
inside, the problem of milling is to 
remove the outside bran so that the 
inside endosperm can be crushed in- 
to fine flour. The smallness of the 
flour particles may be realized from 
i the fact that there are over 600,000,- 
! 000 in a pound. 

The one physical characteristic of 
I the wheat kernel which makes mill- 
! ing possible is that the bran and the 
' germ are a little tougher than the 
endosperm. Therefore, under the 
same impact of milling machinery, 
the endosperm is crushed into finer 
particles than the bran and the germ, 
and this makes possible the separa- 
tion by sieves. This differential in 
toughness is increased by adding 
water so as to increase the moisture 
content of the wheat to between 15 
and 16 percent, depending on the 
kind of wheat. This process is known 
as tempering and without this, it is 
not possible to make a pure white 
flour, especially from hard wheat. 
Before the adoption of tempering, 
consumers discriminated against flour 
from hard wheat because of its dark- 
er color as compared with the flour 
from soft wheat. 

In the old process of milling by 
crushing the grain between revolv- 
ing stones, much of the bran was 
crushed so fine that it could not be 
separated by sieves. The first im- 
provement was the so-called high 
grinding, developed in Hungary, and 
was hence known as the Hungarian 
process. The grain was partly ground 
between one pair of stones, then the 
product was sifted so as to remove 
the coarsest bran particles. The 
throughs from the sieves with less 
bran and more endosperm were re- 
ground between another pair of 
stones and the process of sifting and 
regrinding repeated several times, 



KANSAS POETRY 

Robert Conover, Editor 



the number depending on the facili- 
ties of the mill and the kind of flour 
the trade preferred. 

In modern milling, the crushing is 
accomplished by means of steel rolls 
whose general shape is like huge 
rolling pins. The "handles" or axles 
fit into bearings for the transmission 
of power by means of pulleys and 
belts. These rolls are in pairs and 
are made to revolve toward each 
other, one faster and one slower. The 
rolls used for the first crushing proc- 
esses are corrugated, that is, very 
small grooves run lengthwise of the 
rolls. These break open the wheat 
I kernels and then remove the endo- 
1 sperm from the bran in a more or 
! less granular form. The rolls used 
for the secondary crushes have 
smooth surfaces. These pulverize the 
granular endosperm particles into 
the fineness of flour. Because of the 
different speeds of both kinds of rolls 
there is also a shearing action. 

The milling process is mainly one j 
of partially crushing or grinding, ! 
then sifting, recrushing or grinding, 
and resitting. This process is re- 1 
peated time and again. Each time 
more endosperm is removed from the 
bran, or the endosperm is freer and 
freer from the bran. The germ, be- 
cause it is a little more tough, is flat- 
tened in passing between the smooth 
rolls and hence can be sifted out from 
the finer endosperm particles. 

Each time the partially ground ' 
product is sifted, some flour is ob- . 
! tained. Since there are many crush- 
ings and sittings, and since some flour 
i is obtained from each operation, the 
flour grades known as straight pat- 
ent and clear are possible. These 
grades differ from each other, mainly 
in their freedom from bran particles 
and the fineness to which the endo- 
sperm has been crushed. 

But modern milling, by minister- 
ing to the tastes of people, has 
brought a nutritional problem be- 
cause vitamins, particularly vitamin 
B„ are several times as concentrated 
in the bran as in the endosperm from 
which the white flour is made. Since 
the efforts to induce people to con- 
sume more of the outer covering of 
the wheat have seemingly failed, the 
efforts are now directed toward en- 
riching white flour in vitamins. 

It should be remembered that the 
modern milling process was invented 
long before vitamins were known. 
Millers are alive to the importance 
of this problem and have taken 
steps toward the fortifying of white 
flour in vitamins. One question Is: 
Will the public, pay the additional 
cost? The English government has 
made the addition of vitamin B, as 
well as a calcium salt compulsory, 
and these additions must be made at 
the mills where accurate control of 
! the amounts can be achieved. This 
step has been taken to protect the 
' health of the people in the war 
emergency, and the millers are pro- 
tected from loss due to the additional 
cost . 



FOUR ELEMENTS 

By Kenneth Porter 

Late lavish rain 
dissolves the dust: 

on steel and grain 
the taint of rust. 

Father of Fire, 
the welcome sun 

withers to wire 
stalks but begun. 

The ripening wind, 
sooth once as oil, 

gone mad has skinned 
the pregnant soil. 

Elements three — 
fire, water, air — 

their chemistry 
seldom is fair. 

Vicious, they sport 
against the fourth — 

bairn and abort 
the patient earth. 



h 



Kenneth Porter, a native of Ster- 
ling and an instructor in American 
history at Vassar college, Pough- 
keepsie, N. Y., is the author of a col- 
lection of poems, "The High Plains. 
In June, 1940, he was awarded the 
Golden Rose of the New England 
Poetry club, a decoration annually 
conferred by that organization on an 
American poet. 



SUNFLOWERS 
By H. W. Davis 
SELF-DIAGNOSIS 
It isn't "spring" fever. It's some- 
thing else — some other kind. I've al- 
ready had it three or four times this 
troublous year of 1941, but spring 
hasn't shown the slightest symptoms 
of breaking out. 



It isn't laziness either, for my 
laziness has no subtlety. It's just the 
plain work-shy, easy-chair, comfort- 
able mattress type, with more aver- 
sion to all forms of profitable labor 
than Rip Van Winkle exhibited. And 
it's not at all seasonal — not even 
weather-influenced. I'm just as like- 
ly (or sure) to be lazy in a roaring 
blizzard as in a balmy breeze, in De- 
cember as in May, as they say of love 
in the old song. 



I think what I'm suffering from 
this year is a sleepy feverishness 
brought on maybe by a complication 
of things. One of them, I suspect and 
admit, is the delay of spring — these 
cold snaps, local and general snows, 
the insistent refusal of the mercury 
to climb. Another is my inability to 
figure anything out of the world 
situation that appeals effectively to 
what I used to call my intellect. Still 
another is no golf. Other factors may 
be mixed, but I'm too downhearted 
to think them up and make them lie 
down end-to-end on paper. 



You have this dulling feverishness 
too, I'll bet. You display the same 
symptoms I see in me. You look as 
if you sort of suspect that all you've 
tucked away will go for defense taxes 
anyhow, so what's the use? If you 
can just sit and doze away or fling 
yourself on a firm, soft bed some- 
where and get a good nap, every- 
thing will be all right — or as all right 
as things can be until Hitler is elimi- 
nated and the revenue boys have 
squeezed everything squeezable out 
of you. 



versity Publishing company. 

Leo C. Moser, '17, was director of 
the educational and publicity depart- 
ment of the farmers' grain market- 
ing committee. He moved from Des 
Moines, where he had been associate 
editor of the Iowa Homestead, to 
Chicago. 



cepted a position with the Division of 
Forestry, United States Department 
of Agriculture, Washington, D. C, 
effective July 1. 



THIRTY YEARS AGO 
W. H. Edelblute, '92, was elected 
' colonel of the Second Idaho infantry. 
j Mr. Edelblute was United States 
mineral surveyor for Idaho. 

Those elected to YWCA offices for 

the coining year were Mildred In- 

skeep, president; Stella Manley, vice- 

1 president; Murrel Sweet, secretary; 

| Mabel Broberg, treasurer. 

Harlan I. Davis, field secretary for 

! the Kansas State Temperance union, 

| was the speaker in student assembly. 

Mr. Davis told of the progress that 

Kansas had made toward state-wide 

prohibition. 



FIFTY YEARS AGO 

Lieutenant Bolton lectured before 
the students of the Manhattan high 
school on the subject, "The Military 
School at West Point." 

H. S. Willard, '89, returned from 
Kansas City, where he had attended 
the medical university and was again 
studying medicine with Doctor Rob- 
inson. 

Among the names of persons 
granted county certificates as normal 
institute instructors were Bertha 
Bacheller, '88; Lillie B. Bridgman, 
*86; W. J. McLaughlin, '87, and E. 
1 O. Sisson, '86, with E. B. Bacheller, 
third year in 1880, and G. L. Clothier, 
third year. 



Yes, it's an all out affair from 
here on — all out, in and out, out 
and out, down and out. And the 
outest thing of all will be purses and 
pockets. And the only way to win is 
cleverly to beat insolvency to the 
tape with happy resignation — the 
only kind of resigning that doesn't 
involve your job and your grip on 
things. The tax lads can get you un- 
til they can't, you know. There's 
something in that. 



"What's that have to do with my 
phoney 'spring' fever?" you perti- 
nently ask. Maybe a lot. I'm square 
with Uncle Sam for 194 0, I hope. In 
a fortnight or so I'll be square with 
I Kansas, I hope. Before then I must 
| renew the insurance on my home. 
I Shortly after that I must protect my 
car and the things and people it may 
bump Into for another year. Next 
spring everything will be worse. 



i 



TWENTY YEARS AGO 

F. W. Christensen. '00, was pro- 
fessor of animal nutrition at the 
North Dakota Agricultural college. 

After 10 years of service as head of 
the Department of English of this 
College, Prof. J. W. Searson resigned 
to take over his new position as pro- 
fessor of English in the University 
of Nebraska and editor for the Uni- 



FOIITY YEARS AGO 

Prof. Herbert Roberts, M. Be., of 
St. Louis, was elected to the chair 
of botany vacated by Professor Hitch- 
cock. 

President Nichols went to Berea, 
Ky., to attend the funeral services of 
G. T. Fairchild, former President of 
Kansas State College. 

C. A. Scott of the senior class ac- 



HIXTY YEARS AGO 

John A. Anderson visited the Col- 
lege campus. 

E. E. Ewing, editor of the Kansas 
Farmer, was compelled to retire be- 
cause of illness. 

At the meeting of Alpha Beta so- 
ciety the question, "Shall Religious 
Liberty Be Allowed to All?" was de- 
bated by members of the society and 
decided in the affirmative. 



No, maybe it isn't the late spring, 
the world situation, the absence of 
golf, or anything we offer so alibi- 
like. Maybe it's this creeping, crawl- 
ing paralysis of taxes that has us 
dazed. It's tax fever, no more, no 
less. 



What of it? The same defense will 
still work. Beat insolvency to the 
tape with happy resignation. Smile! 
And pay! And still smile. What a 
sandwich! 



* 



AMONG THE 
ALUMNI 



A 



> 



Charles W. Earle, B. S. '90, a 
painter, now lives at 857 Manchester, 
Los Angeles, Calif. 

John Stingley, B. S. '94, 2925 
Mitchell avenue, St. Joseph, Mo., is 
B funeral director. He is the vice- 
president of the Kansas State Alumni 
association group there. 

Frank H. Graham, E. B. '13, has 
changed his address in Wilkinsburg, 
Pa., to 760 Hill avenue. He is an 
engineer with the Amsler-Morton 
company, Fulton building, Pitts- 
burgh, Pa. 

Victor F. Stuewe, Ag. '15, is farm 
service assistant for the Federal 
Land bank, Wichita. He had been 
county agent in Minneapolis until | 
March, when he began his work in 
Wichita. 

Fred Cocherell, B. E. '23, is with 
the plant records department, Public 
Service of Colorado, Denver. His 
daughter, Barbara, is enrolled as a 
sophomore in the Division of Home 
Economics. The Cocherells' Denver 
address is 1125 South University 
boulevard. 

C. W. Currie, f. s. '24, is manager 
of the real estate department of the 
Farmers' and Bankers' Life Insur- 
ance company, Wichita. He was re- 
cently elected president of the Kan- 
sas State alumni group in Wichita. 
He and his wife, Virginia (Carney) 
Currie, f. s. '25, live at 3325 Edge- 
mont place, Wichita. 

E. C. Kielhorn, Ag. '25, cattle man 
of Cambridge, and his wife. Jeanette 
(Stitt) Kielhorn, f. s. '23, live on a 
cattle ranch. 

P. R. Carter, D. V. M. '26, a re- 
serve officer of the army, first lieuten- 
ant, Veterinary Reserve corps, has 
been ordered to one year of active 
duty, training at Ft. Snelling. His 
permanent address is 3736 Forty- 
Seventh avenue, South, Minneapolis, 
Minn. 



worked before volunteering for ser- 
vice with the medium tanks. 

"Hard work, long hours and new 
things to learn make life interesting 
and too full for outside interests," 
he writes. "I noted that Kansas State 
wasn't the best this year on the foot- 
ball field — particularly as I am one 
of two Kansas State graduates in the 
regiment — many being from Mis- 
souri, Nebraska, Wichita university 
and Oklahoma. 

"Orval J. Abel, '35, is the other 
graduate from Kansas State in the 
regiment." 



LOOKING AROUND 

KENNEY L. FORD 



Helen (Clydesdale) Schutte, H. E. 
'28. writes that her husband, Leo, 
was called to active duty in the army 
for one year on January 22. 

"Wo are at Camp Hulen, Texas, 
where he is a major with the Sixty- 
Ninth Coast artillery," she wrote. 
"Our address for the present is Box 
627. Bay City, Texas. So far we are 
the only ones here at this camp from 
the Middle states — all others being 
from New England states and South- 
ern states." 



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u 



Merlin Mundell, G. S. '29. M. S. 
•31 and Joyce (Lee) Mundell have 
a (laughter, Shirley, 6. They live at 9 
Cude avenue. Takoma Park, Md. Mr. 
Mundell is an assistant biochemist. 

Cleo O. Baker, C. E. '30, Prof, j 
Deg. '36 in C. E., is resident engineer i 
tor the Kansas Highway commission. 
Mis wife, Reva (Stump) Baker, was | 
graduated in 1929. They live at 2218 i 
West Thirty-Ninth, Kansas City, Kan. 
Raymond W. O'Hara, Ag. '30, audi 
Sarah (Geiger) O'Hara, f. s. '28, | 
live at 1713 Tyler, Amarillo, Texas. | 
Their daughter, Ruth Elaine, is 4. 
Mr. O'Hara is regional farm manage- 
ment specialist for the Farm Security 
administration, Region 12, with head- 
quarters at Amarillo. 

Paul C. Westerman, I. J. '31, Ann 
Arbor, Mich., has been promoted to 
captain in the Infantry Reserve corps 
of the United States army and or- 
dered to a year's active duty training 
at Ft. Knox. Ky., training headquar- 
ters for the army's armored forces. 
He was employed by the Printing de- 
partment of the University of Michi- ; 
gan, Ann Arbor. 

Ruth (Click) Carr, M. '31, and j 
Dr Robert Carr, a University of Kan- 1 
gas graduate of '29, live at 318 West 
Third, Junction City. They have two 
daughters — Judith. 4, and Jane, 2. 

Adrian E. Winkler, Ag. '31, is ser- 
vice manager at the Gilman garage, 
1111 Moro. Mr. Winkler is married 
• and has three children. Before com- 
ing to Manhattan, he had been a 
mechanic for nine years at Maplehill. 
Ruth E. Jenkins. G. S. '32. was 
married June 9 to Clem Tuggle, and 
they now live at 1126 Kearney street, 
Atchison. Mrs. Tuggle formerly 
taught in the high school at Atchison. 

Henry W. Allard, I. J. '32, a first 
lieutenant, is on extended active duty 
with the regular army in the newly 
created armored force. He is on 
three-year military leave from Cuda- 
hy Packing company for which he 



Ray J. McMillin, P. E. '32, M. S. 
'32, and Mildred (Castleman) Mc- 
Millin, f. s. '31, have three children, 
Alvin, Ann and John. They live at 
124 North Jefferson, Junction City. 
Mr. McMillin is working for the City 
Ice company, a cold-storage and 
private-locker service. 

Robert August Evers, G. S. '33, is 
a science instructor and dean,of boys 
at Quincy junior high school, Quincy, 
111. Mr. and Mrs. Evers have a 4-year- 
old daughter, Marilyn, and live at 
1303 1-2 State street, Quincy, 111. 

Capt. Donald R. Johnston, C. '33, 
has been called into active duty and 
is stationed at Parks Air college, East 
St. Louis, 111. 

Samuel C. Walker, C. E. '33, and 
Helen (Standefer) Walker, f. s., are 
at 539 West Eleventh street, Junction 
City. Mr. Walker is county engineer 
of Geary county. 

Richard S. Bean, E. E. '34, is en- 
gineer for the Champion Paper and 
Fibre company, Houston, Texas. His 
address is 8341 Glenbrook drive, 
Houston. 

Eleanor Jane Irwin, H. E. '34, is 
dietitian at the Marine hospital, Ellis 
Island, N. Y. 

First Lieut. Donald Woodman, Ag. 
'35, has heen ordered to Ft. Warren, 
Wyo., for duty in the United States 
army. Since graduation, he has been 
landscape gardener for the Civilian 
Conservation corps at Ft. Riley. 

Houston B. Bliss, Ag. '37, is a, 
landscape architect with the firm of I 
Baker brothers at Dallas. His ad- 
dress is 2611 Harrison. 

Lizzibell (Bryant) Johnson, f. s. ' 
•37, has moved to 2517 Dirr street 
in Parsons. Her husband, Kenneth 
Eugene Johnson, Ag- '39. is still col- 
lecting for the International Har- 
vester company. 

Verner E. Danielson, Ag. '38, mar- 
ried Alice Crone June 11. They are 
living in Dexter, Mo., where Mr. 
Danielson is with the Doane Agricul- 
tural service as farm manager. 

Visiting the campus were D. C. 
Creighton, M. I. '39, and E. Dale 
Sadler, M. I. '39. Mr. Creighton is 
processing engineer for the General 
Foods corporation, Battle Creek, 
Mich. Mr. Sadler is an apprentice 
miller with Igleheart brothers, Inc., 
Evansville, Ind. 

Mark Leon Greenberg, D. V. M. 
•40, is veterinary inspector for the 
Bureau of Animal Industry at St. 
! Paul, Minn. He was married Septem- 
ber 15 to Goldie Weintraub, a gradu- 
I ate of New York State Teachers' col- 
lege. Their address is 960 Goodrich 
! avenue, St. Paul. 



Alumni with B. A. L 

Alumni who are doing field work 
for the Bureau of Animal Industry, 
United States Department of Agricul- 
ture, in Kansas include Dr. Harry 
Schaulis, '29, at Clay Center; Dr. 
Roscoe E. Fahnestock, f. s. '15, at 
Marion; Dr. Louis H. Smith, '28, 
1610 Partridge avenue, Parsons; Dr. 
L. E. Spong, G. S. '35, D. V. M. '37, 
Enterprise; Dr. Ross L. Jewell, '40, 
Beloit; Dr. G. H. Mydland, '14, Hor- 
ton, and Dr. Ray S. Pyles, '37, with 
the Division of Veterinary Medicine. 



employed by the General Electric 
company in Philadelphia. 

VOSHELL—BARKER 

The marriage of Merlyn Voshell, 
f. s., to Bruce W. Barker, Ag. '39, 
was July 14. Mrs. Barker is a mem- 
ber of Alpha Xi Delta sorority. For 
the past year, she has been employed 
by the state in Topeka. Mr. Barker, 
Alpha Gamma Rho member, worked 
with the Farm Security administra- 
tion after graduation. They are now 
living at Kingsdown. 



RECENT HAPPENINGS 
ON THE HILL 



Livestock Men Elect 

Officers elected at the Kansas Live- 
stock association meeting in Wich- 
ita, March 6, are James Thomson, 
f s '92, Wakarusa, president; Ed- 
ward F. Moody, '39, Phillipsburg, 
vice-president; Roy Freeland, '3 7, 
Topeka, secretary. 

William Ljungdahl. f. s. '05, talked 
about Kansas taxation problems, and 
L. C. Aicher, '10, gave a short talk. 
H. L. Murphey, '28, county agent 
at Coldwater, sent in a list of those 
who registered at a Kansas State 
College alumni luncheon. They in- 
clude Frank S. Burson, '3 4, Manhat- 
tan; F. Dean McCammon, '32, Dodge 
City; L. C. Aicher, '10, Hays; H. E. 
Moody, '22, Wichita; Louis Cooper, 
•40, Wichita; Lot F. Taylor, '31, and 
John H. Shirkey, '26, from El Do- 
rado; A. H. Stephenson, '32, and 
Fred Carp, '18, from Wichita; George 
H. Washburn, f. s. '17, Newton; C. 
W. McCampbell, '06, Manhattan; 
Earl Kielhorn, '25, Cambridge; Fred 
A. Bangs, '23, Madison; W. A. Wish- 
art, '35, Eureka; F. A. Hagans, '25, 
Marion; Howard W. Mathews, '31, 
Swift and company, Chicago; Ira A. 
Wilson. '08, Winfleld; Edward F. 
Moody, '39, Phillipsburg; R. V. 
Christian, '11, Wichita; W. E. Rob- 
inson. '20, Kansas City. Mo.; J. R. 
Nuttle, f. s. '26. El Dorado; A. J. 
Drummond, f. s. '11, Elmdale; D. H. 
Clark, f. s. '06, Douglass; Dan N. 
Jackson, f. s. '12. and H. L. Murphey. 
•28, Coldwater; Herb J. Barr, f. s., 
iLeoti; Roy Freeland. '37, Topeka; 
James G. Thomson, W. J. Brown, f. 
is. '06, and his two sons who are for- 
mer students, and William Ljung- 
dahl, Topeka. 

As guests of the alumni and for- 
j iner students many others attended 
i the dinner. Among them were D. H. 
Putnam. El Dorado; Ashleigh P. 
i Boles. Kansas City, Mo.; Ray Moody, 
I director of the Kansas Livestock as- 
sociation; John R. Crowley, Leon; 
S. R. Stauffer; Dick Denham Jr., 
Kansas City; O. W. Lynam, Burdett ; 
C. E. Waugh, Sharon Springs, and H. 
W. Westmeyer, Medicine Lodge. 



POU LSTON— .1 OH NSON 
The marriage of Mary Jane Foul- 
ston, C. '39, to Keith C. Johnson, Ag. 
'39, was July 17 in Wichita. Mrs. 
Johnson attended Ward-Belmont 
school in Nashville, Tenn. She was 
a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma 
sorority while at Kansas State. Mr. 
Johnson is a member of Sigma Phi 
Epsilon fraternity. Mr. and Mrs. 
Johnson live at Sylvia. 



"Meat and Romance" was the fea- 
ture of a College assembly last week. 
The four-reel movie was sponsored by 
the Junior American Veterinary 
Medical association. 



Qualified members of the College 
YMCA were balloting today on offi- 
cers for the coming year. Candidates 
for president included Robert Randle, 
Riley, and Donald Phinney, Russell. 

Wayne Good, McCune, has received 
a wrist watch from the Standard Oil 
company of Indiana in recognition of 
his outstanding 4-H club achieve- 
ments. Good is a freshman in agri- 
culture. 



HAAS— DAVIS 
Pearl Haas, M. S. '33, of Hutchin- 
son and Hunter P. Davis of Kansas 
City were married February 15 at 
the Country Club Congregational 
church in Kansas City. They will 
make their home at 5310 Rockhill 
road, Kansas City, Mo. Mrs. Davis 
was an instructor in clothing at Penn- 
sylvania State college the past two 
years and head of the Department of 
Home Economics at the University of 
Kansas City before that. 



More than 150 pounds of wieners 
were bought by visitors to the Engi- 
neers' Open House. During the last 
day of the exhibition the chemical 
engineering hot-dog stand bought 
out the entire supply of wieners in 
Manhattan. 



NEVVKIRK— HEBER 
Frances Newkirk and Matthew 

I Reber, M. E. '40, were united in mar- 
riage July 7. Mrs. Reber, a graduate 
of Manhattan high school, attended 
Piatt's secretarial school, after which 
she worked in the social welfare of- 

j flee in the Riley county courthouse. 
She later accepted a position as ste- 
nographer in the Division of College 
Extension. Mr. Reber, a member of 
Phi Kappa Phi, is employed with the 
Indian Territory Illuminating Oil 
company at Oklahoma City, Okla. 
Their home address is 116 Southeast 
Thirty-Eighth street. Oklahoma City. 



Kendall Evans, Amarillo, Texas, 
has been appointed associate editor 
of The Collegian. He was formerly 
copy desk editor of the College paper 
and replaces Robert Rathbone, Man- 
hattan, now assistant editor of the 
Manhattan Morning Chronicle. 

C. S. "Coony" Moll, swimming 
coach at Kansas State, and two mem- 
bers of his 1941 tank team, Marshall 
Stover and Leo Yeo, both of Man- 
hattan, left Tuesday to go to East 
Lansing, Mich., to enter the National 
I Collegiate Athletic association swim- 
ming meet Friday and Saturday. 



A high percentage of the fruit trees 
in the northern half of Kansas was 
killed by the November freeze, ac- 
cording to a recent survey. Dr. W. 
F. Pickett, head of the Department 
of Horticulture, reported that almost 
all of the cherry and peach trees were 
ruined. 



MARRIAGES 



TAYLOR— HAMILTON 

The marriage of Lila Taylor, H. ; 
E. '38, to Clare C. Hamilton, D. V. ( 
M. '39, took place June 23. The bride ; 
has been the dietitian of the Newton 
Memorial hospital at Winfleld. She 
graduated in dietetics from the 
Christ hospital at Cincinnati. Ohio, 
in 19 39. She is a member of Phi 
Omega Pi sorority, of which she was 
president, Enchiladas and Purple 
Pepsters. Doctor Hamilton is a mem- 
i ber of Acacia fraternity, of which he 
served as president, and the Junior 
American Veterinary Medical asso- 
ciation. He is operating the Killian 
Dog and Cat hospital in St. Louis. 
Mo. Their home address is 3 8 20 Gus- 
tine avenue, St. Louis. 
♦ 

BIRTHS 



The local chapter of the Indepen- 
dent Student union will be repre- 
sented at the national I. S. U. conven- 
tion in Dallas, Texas, Friday and Sat- 
urday. Leonard Robinson, Viola; 
Ralph York, Dunlap; Adzianna 
Blochlinger, Concordia; Belle York, 
Dunlap; Irene White, Kingsdown, 
and Opal Thompson, who will chap- 
eron the group, were selected by the 
executive council to represent the or- 
ganization. 



MOORE— COOPER 

June Alice Moore. H. E. '39, and 
Jess R. Cooper, Ag. '39, were mar- 
ried July 20. Their home is in Mul- 
vane, where Mr. Cooper is teacher of 
vocational agriculture. 



Graduates of 1940 in chemical en- 
gineering who are working all over J 
the United States are reported by W. 
L. Faith, head of the Department of 
Chemical Engineering, as follows: 

Park I, Morse, 3805 Sixth street, 
Port Arthur, Texas, is with the Texas 
Oil company there. 

Robert Lee Mueller is a graduate 
student with the department of 
chemical engineering at the Illinois 
Institute of Technology, Chicago. 

Carroll Dean Owensby is a gradu- 
ate student at Columbia university. 
His address is 727 John Jay hall, 
Columbia university, New York City. 
Victor R. Piatt, 1222 Massachu- 
setts avenue. N. W., Washington, D. 
C, is with the United States Civil 
Service commission. 

Virgil L. Simpson is employed by 
the Kanotex Refining company, Ar- 
kansas City. 

George H. Smith works in the road 
materials laboratory for the Kansas 
Highway commission, Manhattan. 

Ivan R. Smith is in the explosives 
division at Memphis, Tenn., of E. I. 
du Pont de Nemours and company. 
His address is 129 Stonewall, Mem- 
phis. 

Morton Smutz is working for the 
Monsanto Chemical company, St. 
Louis, Mo. 

Don A. Snyder is with the natural 
gasoline department, Phillips Petro- 
leum corporation, Borger, Texas. 



YOIINT— STEPHENS 

Nellie Yount, G. S. '40, and John 
A. Stephens, P. E. '38, were married 
July 24 in Abilene. They are living 
in Anna, where Mr. Stephens teaches 
biological sciences and physical edu- 
cation. 

_t 

HOLVERSON — COLLINS 

The marriage of Alvina Holverson, 
formerly of the Agricultural Adjust- 
ment administration, and Wayne D. 
Collins, D. V. M. '39, took place July 
10. They live at Windsor, N. C, 
where Doctor Collins is working with 
swine sanitation and disease control. 



Joe D. Smerchek, '32, and Helen 
I (Tedman) Smerchek, '33, have sent 
| the news that Gene Alan arrived 

March 5, "toothless, clothesless and 
i penniless," and will make his home 

with them and their daughter, San- 
i dra. Mr. Smerchek is county agent at 

Wellington. 



DEATHS 

STAUFFER 

Maurice I. Stauffer, E. E. "07, died 
in Chicago July 12, 1939. He is sur- 
vived by his wife, one daughter and 
two sons. He had been with the Wil- 
son Meat Packing company since 
1922. 



Walter M. Lewis, *35, and Frances 
(Aicher) Lewis, '37, are the parents 
of a daughter, Martha Elizabeth, 
born February 14. They live at 
Lamed, where Mr. Lewis is a farmer , 
and breeder of polled Hereford cat- 
tle. Mrs. Lewis is the daughter of 

|L C Aicher, '10, superintendent of 
the Fort Hays Branch Agricultural 

I Experiment station. 



MUNRO 
A son, Frederick Burgess, born to 
Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Munro on March 
12 at St. Mary hospital, died March 
14. Mr. Munro is an associate profes- 
sor of mathematics at the College. 
Their home is at 508 Bertrand, Man- 
hattan. 



lHK'KETT 

The Department of Electrical En- 
gineering has received word of the 
death of Joseph L. Puckett, E. E. '18, 
November 19. At the time of his 
death he was superintendent of elec- 
trical distribution with the Public 
Service company, Boulder, Colo. 



WIESER— PITMAN 
Coletta Wieser and Edward W. 
Pitman, Ag. '38, were married July 
6. Mrs. Pitman is a graduate of the 
Wichita Hospital Nurses' Training 
school. Mr. Pitman is associated with 
the Kansas extension service at the 
College. He has been with the farm 
bureau office in Kingman since Janu- 
ary, 1939, where they are at home. 

UERGSTEN— REMINGTON 
Eileen Bergsten, Ar. '40, was mar- 
ried to Robert A. Remington, E. E. 
•40, July 23, at the home of the 
bride's mother in Randolph. Mrs. 
Remington is a member of Alpha 
Delta Pi sorority. Mr. Remington, 
graduate of Hutchinson junior col- 
lege, is a member of Sigma Tau, hon- 
orary engineering fraternity. He is 



KANSAS STATE COLLEGE RECORDINGS 

"Alma Mater" and "Wildcat Victory" by the Kansas State 

College Men's chorus 

and 

"Roll on, Kansas State" and "Shoulder to Shoulder" by the College band 

All four of the above songs so dear to Kansas State CoUO£ *JJ«; 

M !Z7o«oll order »,.„* and mil to U» «...» SUtt Co,,.*, A..-.1 

association, Manhattan. 

□ Inclosed find $1 for one K. S. C. recording. 

D inclosed find 15c tor one printed copy of "Wildcat Victory." 



Name ... 
Address 



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UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS 
TO MEET HERE APRIL 5 



ASSOCIATION SESSIONS AT SAME 
TIME AS KANSAS ACADEMY 



The Early History of Campus Literary Societies 



(Continued from page one) 



Dr. Frederick s. Deibler of Northwest- I omitted frequently. Public debates lowing record: 

mm . a • .. ■ ja J. •■iii IK..H a. I. l J 1 i.1 nn /.4Aiir nn 1-k AT* 'Pit ni'ii ll ■ 



I remaining work is shown by the fol- 



ern, National President, Will Talk 

on Organisation's 'Work 

mid Principles 

The Kansas State College chapter 



were often held and the society paper 
called the Bluemont Literary Gazette 
was usually a feature of these ses- 
sions, and members were designated 



»"C i* mi..-....-. ....... ^ V ».~ ~ r H1U11S, ilUU I1ICHIUC1D »»*.«~ «~«. D 

of the American Association of Uni- t0 wr jt e articles for it. It was the 

versity Professors will be host to the p i an to nave every member on for 

Kansas chapters of the A. A. U. P. SO me duty each meeting, but as the 

at a meeting here April 5. The meet- membership increased this must have 

ing will be in connection with the been impossible. 



meeting of the Kansas Academy of 
Science. 

Dr. Fritz Moore, head of the De- 
partment of Modern Languages, is 
president of the Kansas State Col- 
lege chapter. Prof. Robert Conover 
of the Department of English is chair- 
man of arrangements for the pro- 
gram. He is also chairman of the 
central committee of the Kansas 
chapters of the A. A. U. P. 

EXPECT NATIONAL PRESIDENT 
National officers expected to at- 
tend include Dr. Frederick S. Deibler 
of Northwestern university, national 



The minutes of the society were 
neatly kept, though apparently lack- 
ing in completeness sometimes. Oc- 
casionally, copying in the record book 
after approval seems to have been 
neglected. However, none is recorded 
after those for November 11, 1865, 
until November 10, 1866. The last 
minutes in 1865 contain no hint of 
suspension of meetings, and only 
speculation on the cause is possible. 
They recorded the expulsion of Wen- 
dell Williston "for misconduct to- 
ward the society." This suggests that 

The min- 



, lack of harmony existed 
preside.! D. A. Worcester of the j utes of November 10, 1866, contain respect to it 
University of Nebraska, regional I no reference to the break excepting 



There had been a desire 
among quite a number of the 
members for disruption of the 
society. Accordingly, under the 
head of miscellaneous business, 
after other things of unimpor- 
tance, the question was laid be- 
fore the society. After a lengthy 
and hot discussion it was decided 
in favor of the affirmative. Mr. 
Johnson then left the chair and 
"The Bluemont Literary Soci- 
ety" was formally declared dis- 
solved, and its constitution and 
laws null and void. 
Following the disbanding of the 
Bluemont Literary society, the Web- 
ster Literary society was organized 
October 10, 1868, and the Alpha Beta 
Literary society, October 17, or earli- 
er. At its meeting October 17, the 
Websters challenged the Alpha Betas 
to a public discussion, and held a con- 
ference with them that evening in 



chairman, and Dr. John Ise of the 
University of Kansas, member of the 
national council. 

Doctor Deibler will speak on "The 
A. A. U. P., Its Work and Principles." 



that, "A motion was made to adopt 
the old constitution as the standard 
of said society, and carried." After 
holding regular meetings up to De- 
cember 15, the society voted to hold 



A. A. U. P., its wor* ana rrinc.piea. meetings untI1 January 5, 1867 

An associate professor of economtei j J° ™«« « lg min . 

at Northwestern university, he re- j 
ceived his A. M. degree from Harvard 
and his Ph. D. degree from the Uni- 
versity of Wisconsin. Doctor Deibler 



The secretary of the Bluemont so- 
ciety was among those who organized 
the Webster, and doubtless had the 
minutes of the former in his posses- 
sion. At any rate the same book was 
used by the Websters for recording 
their minutes from October 10, 1868, 
to September 24, 1870. This circum- 

r rum uiai time ....... «»•»,, --> , i_t.ii.xi. 

utes were entered for January 5 and ' stance was the means by which the 
March 30 only minutes of the Bluemont Literary so- 

At the 'meeting held December i, ciety were preserved. 

taautW of ■■Principles of Econom- ^^JJE^^JS^ ™ \ WILDCAT BASEBALL SQUAD 

lC8 The program emphasizes discus- have ^"tftt'&S I SPARES TO MEET KANSAS 

sion of the A. A. U. P. and its accom- <uec - °> wuu ." lB "™ i «„•-■* L, . 

become more effective, Professor con- * _i„j a* th<. mwtir? 

.. rvu^An.* Tannin nf . hn ' had been organized. At the meeting 
over said. Theodore Pauinn or tne , 10C >j f j, «w r t. " was 

University of Kansas will preside ^uary JU £«. J*™^,™ 
over the Saturday morning session, again invited . 
included will be a chapter report by ™e made^ orj p^ ^ ^ 

after. The next recorded minutes, 



Doctor Moore, chapter activities re 
ports, and talks by Vice-Pres. S. A 



Marco Morrow to Talk 

Alpha Zeta, honorary agricultural 
fraternity, will entertain with a din- 
ner dance Friday night in the Col- 
lege cafeteria. Marco Morrow, asso- 
ciate publisher, Capper Publications, 
will be the principal speaker. An- 
nouncement of plans for the dinner 
dance was made by Harold Fox, 
chancellor of the chapter. 
♦•- 

HOSPITALITY DAYS HONORS 
FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS 

Girls In Secondary Institutions May 

Compete in Contests (or 

Many Prlises 

Kansas high school girls will com- 
pete for prizes in written and judg- 
ing contests during Hospitality days, 
April 18 and 19. 

The contests will include written 
quizzes covering material in home 
living, art, foods and clothing, and 
judging contests of muffins, canned 
peaches, blouses and vase arrange- 
ment. The questions in the quizzes 
will be compiled from high school 
textbooks of home economics. En- 
trants will judge projects prepared 
for the contest. 

Only one girl from each school will 
be allowed to enter the judging con- 
tests. Preliminary contests at each 
high school are suggested as a meth- 
od of choosing entrants for the con- 
tests here. 

In order to be eligible for prizes 
each high school must enter at least 
one girl in the judging contests and 
at least six girls in the written con- 
tests. Kansas State letter openers 
will be given to the six highest scor- 
ers in the quizzes and Kansas State 
compacts to the four highest scorers 
in the judging contests. "Practical 
Cookery" books will be awarded the 
two high schools having the greatest 
total number of points. 

Last year 400 high school girls en- 
tered the contests. This year 450 
quiz blanks are being prepared. More 



FOOTBALL VETERANS WIN 
CLOSE GAME FROM FROSH 

RAY nOKEY STARTS LONG DRIVE 
FOR TOUCHDOWN 



mid Lniigvardt Lead Hitting 
Sprees at Practice Contest 
Saturday 

The Kansas State baseball squad, , 
under the direction of Frank Myers, entrants are expected because of 
assistant to the director of athletics, added interest in the project, accord- 
is now working out on the diamond mg j Jeanne Stephenson, Larned, 
as it prepares for the first contest of CO ntest chairman, 
the season with the University of i Members of the contest committee 



- -- . . March 3U, UlClUae Mils, wu muuuu me oeciDuii mi" hh »*•*•»»»•»•■># — . meiuueiB ui me luiucni liuwuunmi 

Nock of Kansas Mate college, anu . 'Constitution* of the 'Western' Kansas Friday and Saturday of next are wilma Evans, Hutchinson, Lor- 

Doctor Deibler national A. A UP. 'Bv-Laws' of the 'Blue- week. raine Corke, Studley, foods; Betty 



raine Corke, Studley, foods; Betty 
Last Saturday, the Flannigans and Hutchinson, Goddard, Marguerite 
the Yannigans, two squads made up stagg, Manhattan, clothing; Mar- 
CONCLUDE with TifiA | a union of the two societies, which from among the 42 Wildcat baseball j garet Smies, Courtland, Wilma Han- 

Miss Mary E. Cochran of Kansas ' na(] probably been arranged by pre- \ hopefuls, met for a practice game on nan Beloit, home living; Lois Mace, 
State Teachers' college, Pittsburg, j v j ous conferences or meetings of the ' the campus diamond. Led by the Willis, Pauline Blackwell, Rozel, art; 

will nrpfiide over the afternoon meet- : * 01 - -.-a««*i««. *v»ia mntlrm alunro-iricr rtf Rill Pnnk Manhattan. t-\«».«+v,*, r».»ti,tff T\Ta,-itio*tQri cronoml 



president. A luncheon win' follow Society, and 'By-Laws' -of the -Blue- , 
TV ,. I mont' were then adopted with the 

the meeting. , n&me rf ^ , atter _» This indicates 

CONCLUDE WITH TEA | & un , on Qf the two s0c ieties. which 



one of the disputants 

(Query. Did Williston after his 
expulsion from the "Bluemont" so- 
ciety work up the organization of the 
"Western" society, and their combi- 
nation at this time constitute a sort 
i of treaty of peace?) 

September 24, 1867, J. C. Soupene, 

J. B. Mudge and M. R. Mudge were 

appointed a committee to ask the 

RECEIVES WIDE COMMENT Foung ladies to organize a debating 

society, and offering them one of then- 
secretary's books. Two weeks later 
Mr. Soupene reported the ladies un- 
willing to organize on their own ac 



a discussion of how the A. A. U. P. 
may become more effective locally, 
in the state and nationally. The 
meeting will conclude with a recep- 
tion and tea for members of the Kan- 
sas Academy of Science and the A. 
A. U. P. 

♦ 

COLLEGE RADIO PROGRAM 



CoiiKratiilatlmiM Come to KSAC from 

Virginia to California; Former 

Students Listen to Show 

The Kansas State College radio count. October 2 ,1867 Miss Laura 



production of "Green Gold" on the 
Farm and Home hour over the Na 
tional Broadcasting company's Blue 
network March 19 was a success as 



Emma Haines, who had been gradu 

ated the previous June, was invited 

to deliver a lecture before the society 

but respectfully declined. There is 



Myers, gained an early lead over the Glenn Duncan Advances to Semiflnni 
Flannigans under the direction of of National Collegiate Meet 

M. F. "Mike" Ahearn, director of Leland Porter, Dellvale, 155-pound | 

athletics, by a tally in the first inning, wrestler from Kansas State College 

In the second inning, Cook's triple and runnerup in his weight in the | 

for the Flannigans scored Warren Big Six conference, lost in the final 

Hornsby, Topeka, to knot the count match of the National Collegiate 



Karl \\ Illinois. DodKe City. Kicks Field 

Goal for "White" Team to Give 

Numeral Winners 

Early Lead 

After trailing the "whites," 3-0, 
for more than a quarter, the Kansas 
State "gold" team, led by hard-hit- 
ting Ray Rokey, returning backfield 
letter man, started a 75-yard drive 
from its own 25-yard line and scored 
on an off-tackle plunge by Rokey to 
win the game, 6-3. 

The "gold" team was made up of 
regular squad men and varsity letter 
men from last fall's eleven, while the 
"whites" were, for the most part, 
freshman numeral winners. 

FRESHMEN WIN EARLY LEAD 
After a scoreless first half, the 
freshmen earned a 3-point lead in the 
third period when Earl Williams, 
Dodge City, kicked a field goal from 
the 15-yard line. 

Candidates out for spring drills in- 
clude: 

Ends: Letter men — Jim Watkins, 
Manhattan, and Charles Kier, Man- 
kato. Freshmen — Bill Engelland, 
Sterling; Clarence Heath, Leoti; Zeno 
Berger, San Diego, Calif.; Darren 
Schneider, St. Francis; Jim Machen, 
Abilene; Chet Peters, Valley Falls; 
Leon Halbrook, Neodesha; Wayne 
Sundgren, Hays. 

NO VETERAN GUARDS 
Tackles: Letter men — Lawrence 
Duncan, Lucas, and Norbert Raemer, 
Herkimer. Freshmen — Earl Hunter, 
Iola; Wayne Welty, Hill City; Lay- 
mon Weddle, El Monte, Calif.; Wil- 
liam Funk, Abilene; Edgar McNeil, 
Effingham; Marvin Hamilton, Man- 
kato; Albeit Nelson, Chicago; Bob 
Fanshier, Great Bend; Norman 
Whitehall-, Abilene, and Verl Bau- 
mann, Atchison. 

Guards: No letter men. Squad 
me n — Leon Warta, Ellsworth, and 
Cliff Makalous, Cuba. Freshmen — 
Joe Glavinich, Kansas City; Lauren 
Edgar, Manhattan; Dick Lanphere, 
Osawatomie; Fred Sprague, Lincoln; 
Phil Lane, Manhattan; Fred Budden, 
Manhattan; Herb Vanderlip, Manhat- 
tan: George Button, Concordia; John 
Higham. Wichita; Loren Thompson, 
Harper. 

Centers: No letter men. Squad 
man — John Hancock, St. Francis. 
Freshmen — Don Shaffer, Wichita; 
Roy Thompson, El Dorado; Roy 
Sherrell, Lincoln; Mark Hulings, Ef- 
fingham; Homer Socolofsky, Marion. 
Quarterbacks: Letter men — -Bill 
Quick, Beloit, and Lewis Turner, El 
Dorado. Squad man — Francis Gwin, 
Leoti. Freshmen — Ronald Conrad, 
Clay Center; Mike Zeleznak, Kansas 
City; Lee Jones, Pretty Prairie. 



r*^ 



at 1-all. In the third frame, Lang 
vardt tripled to bring in Neal Hugos, 
Manhattan, for the second score and 
a lead the regulars neve 
quished. 

Cook led the hitting for the aftei 



wrestling meet at Lehigh university 
in Bethlehem, Pa., last Saturday. 
He was defeated by Earl VanBeb- 
relin- ber, Oklahoma A. and M., in a close 
3-2 match. The Oklahoma team fin- 
ished in first place in the tournament 



Sated by letters and cards received j uotblng In the minute. of this society 



to indicate participation by young 
women except that they frequently 



noon with two hits out of three trips to retain its N. C. A. A. mat crown 
to the plate, one of them a three- j Glenn Duncan, St. Francis, the 
bagger. Langvardt got two hits in other Wildcat wrestler to enter the 
five chances. meet, advanced to the semifinals of ; 

♦ the 145-pound class in the meet be- 1 

Library Adda 400 Books f re he was finally stopped by Haas- j 

The Kansas State College Library , inann from Iowa State Teachers' col- 
recently added more than 400 books ! lege. In the third-place match, Dun- 1 
and other publications to its shelves, can defeated Schachlman of Franklin 



concerning the show. 

Congratulations were sent to the wome " ex . ce , pt „!**! „ indapVin the |The list includes 12 new periodicals and Marshall college by one of the 
College from Virginia, Oklahoma, wel ' -«<* — «»'- »•.<■ ** -«<>«♦ nhm.nrt I rlnaest et. 7-6. 1 

Iowa, Illinois, Ohio and California as 
well as various places in Kansas. 
Many of the letters were from gradu 



public debates 

Minutes were recorded regularly 
for meetings from May 18, 1867, to 



ates or former students of Kansas June 20, 1868. Many of them were 
qtatP Cnlletre 'public debates accompanied by a 

btate college. nnUa „ a number of the Gazette. Debating was 

Stan Dwyer Kansas State College "^ on , activity of tne 

graduate, heard the broadcast off the ; » * T > h tl 

west coast of Mexico on a ship. He < 



liked the program and asked for a 
copy of the script. 

From Chicago, Glenn E. Webster, 
another Kansas State College gradu- 
ate, sent word that he heard the pro- 
gram with pride. Mr. Webster is an 
NBC studio engineer in Chicago. 

A telegram was sent soon after 
the show by Sam Schneider of the 
Oklahoma Extension service and 
John C. Baker, radio extension spe- 
cialist from Washington, D. C, who 
was in Oklahoma City at the time. 
They said the program was "swell" 
and was splendidly cast and pro- 
duced. 

Jack Groody, former Kansas State 
College student in Ohio, said the pro- 
gram was excellently presented. 

A girl in Vassar college whose home 
is in Virginia thought the show so 
good that she had to tell the College 
so. 



June 20, which was public, the ques- 
tion for discussion was "Resolved 
that social reunions are an injury to 
institutions of learning." The lead- 
ers appointed had each chosen four 
assistants, but when the debate was 
called four of the disputants were 
absent, and another refused to debate 
the question. This seems to indicate 
that an unhealthy condition of the 
society existed that was not disclosed 
by minutes of preceding meetings. 

At the first meeting of the society 
within the College year 1868-69, Sep- 
tember 19, 1868, a motion was passed 



1 UK not iih niiii-n ±u u^h j/v.1 *v»*»»^«*»w _ -»■-— «- * 

and serials and 25 recent unbound ; closest scores of the meet, 7-6. Dun- 
documents in the continuations de- can is Big Six champion in the 14 5- 
partment. pound class. 



EVERYDAY ECONOMICS 

By W. E. GRIMES 



TWO FULLBACK LETTER MEN 

Left halfbacks: Letter men — Max 
Timmons, Fredonia. and Gene Sny- 
der, Junction City. Squad man — Jun- 
ior Erickson, Neodesha. Freshmen 
— Ned Rokey, Sabetha; LeRoy Ram- 
age, Lyons. 

Right halfbacks: Letter man — Ray 
Rokey, Sabetha. Squad men — Dick 
Rogers, Manhattan, and Gilbert 
Dodge, Dighton. Freshmen — Tom 
Zouzas, Ellsworth; John Bortka, 
Kansas City; Larry Kaminski, Kan- 
sas City; Calvin Miller, El Dorado. 

Fullbacks: Letter men — Lysle Wil- 
kins, Delphos, and Kent Duwe, Lu- 
cas. Freshmen — Bill Cochrane, Sa- 
lina, and Earl Williams, Dodge City. 

COLLEGE RADIO STATION 

WILL STAY ON FREQUENCY 



"The smooth functioning of our modern economic system is dependent 
upon saving and the use of that which is saved to provide a con- 
tinued flow of goods and services in future times." 



Merely increasing the size of bank 
accounts does not improve standards 
of living. However, if larger bank 
accounts are put to work in produc- 
ing goods, standards of living may 
be improved. 

Purchasing power in the bank is 
unproductive unless it is used for 
productive purposes by the one hav- 
ing it, in which case his bank ac- 



"to consider the division of the so- —^ wm dwindle or lt may De put 
ciety three weeks from tonight." Ati t _ ,. ., *, «... n , MO ™ M n f 



that meeting interest in parliamen- 
tary law was first recorded by a vote 
to give five minutes each evening to 
reading Cushing's Manual. 

October 7, 1868, after the trans- 
action of some ordinary business, the 



to work through the processes of 
loans made by the bank to other peo- 
ple who devote the purchasing power 
to productive purposes. 

Refraining from use of all of one's 
income without putting that which 
is saved to productive use Is hoard- 



ing. Hoarding gets a people nowhere. 
If everyone hoarded his savings, 
there would be little to buy and, con- 
sequently, little to enjoy. Standards 
of living would fall rapidly under 
widespread hoarding just as they did 
in 1932 and 1933 when people were 
afraid to put their purchasing power 
into productive uses. Much purchas- 
ing power was hoarded in those 
years and the depressing effects re- 
quired years to overcome. The 
smooth functioning of our modern 
economic system is dependent upon 
saving and the use of that which is 
saved to provide a continued flow of 
goods and services in future times. 



KSAC to Be Found at 580 Kilocycles 
Despite General "MovIiir Day" 

Radio station KSAC at the College 
will not move to a new radio fre- 
quency on "radio moving day" as 
most of the nation's radio stations 
will. 

March 29, which was designated by 
the Federal Communications com- 
mission as the moving date, will find 
KSAC still at 580 kilocycles. The sta- 
tion will continue to share the posi-^ 
tion with WIBW, the Capper Publi- 
cations' station, Topeka. 

The shift in frequency assignments 
comes as a result of the Havana 
treaty signed between United States 
officials and representatives of the 
other countries of the Western 
Hemisphere. A general plan was 
agreed upon for regulating all broad- 
casting stations in these countries. 
Certain air channels were assigned 
to stations in Mexico, Canada and 
other countries, as well as in the 
United States. 



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HISTORICAL SOCIETY C 

TOPEKA 

KAN. 



The K ANS AS INDUSTRIALIST 

■ - ~77~r^T~ ^-_*._* A „_ tmt^a^ca^ a™.ii 9 ift4l Number 25 



Volume 67 



^^^ii^^^ Manhattan, Wednesday, April 2, 1941 



500 ARE EXPECTED HERE 
FOR ACADEMY MEETINGS 

THRKB-DAY SESSIONS WILL START 
ON THURSDAY 



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More Than 60 Faculty Member* and 

Student* on Thin Year's Program 

Will Represent College In 

Proceeding* 

The Kansas Academy of Science 
will hold its 73rd annual meeting on 
the Kansas State College campus this 
week-end. Approximately 500 per- 
sons are expected to attend the three- 
day meeting, starting Thursday. 

More than 50 Kansas State Col- 
lege professors and graduate students 
will take part in the program. Pro- 
fessors and students of colleges and 
junior colleges in the state and other 
Kansas people interested in science 
will participate in the academy meet- 
ings. Affiliated organizations include 
the Kansas Entomological society and 
the Weather-Crops seminar, while 
the Kansas Association of Teachers 
of Mathematics, the Kansas chap- 
ter of the Mathematical Association 
of America and the American Asso- 
ciation of University Professors will 
meet at the same time. 

NINK ON BOTANY PROGRAM 
Kansas State College professors 
taking part in the botany section of 
the three-day meeting include F. C. 
Gates, professor in the Department 
of Botany and Plant Pathology; T. 
M McCalla, instructor in the Depart- 
ment of Bacteriology; V. D. Foltz, as- 
sistant professor in the Bacteriology 
department; James C. Bates, instruc- 
tor in botany; W. H. Metzger, asso- 
ciate professor in the Department of 
Agronomy; Kling Anderson, assistant 
professor of agronomy; John Parker, 
Manhattan, student in general sci- 
ence; James Gerlach, Manhattan, 
general science student, and John C. 
Frazier, assistant professor in the 
Botany department. 

Appearing on the program of the 
chemistry section are H. F. Haas, 
graduate assistant in bacteriology; 
M. F. Yantzi, Kansas City, graduate 
student, and L. D. Bushnell, head of 
the Department of Bacteriology. 

In the geology section, Arthur B. 
Sperry, professor in the Department 
of Geology, and Frank Byrne, assis- 
tant professor of geology, are on the 
program. Harold H. Munger, Man- 
hattan, and Jack Branson, Belleville, 
students, also are included. 

Prof. A. B. Cardwell, head of the 
Department of Physics, and James S. 
Allen, associate professor of physics, 
will participate in the program of the 
physics section. 

ZOOLOGY DRAWS 19 

Kansas State representatives on 
the program for the meeting of the 
zoology section number 19. They are 
Dolf Jennings, instructor in the De- 
partment of Zoology; E. J. Wimmer, 
associate professor of zoology; Harry 
R. Bryson, assistant professor in the 
Department of Entomology; A. W. 
Grundmann, research assistant in en- 
tomology; Dr. J. E. Ackert, dean of 
the Division of Graduate Study; E. 
H. Herrick, associate professor in 
zoology; Irene Wassmer, graduate 
assistant in zoology; Irene Monson, 
Osnabrock. N. D., graduate student; 
Mary T. Harman, professor of zool- 
ogy; Roger P. White, Buda, 111., 
graduate student; Paul A. Schoon- 
hoven, Manhattan, graduate student; 
S. A. Edgar, instructor in zoology; 
Robert W. Bray, graduate assistant 
in the Department of Animal Hus- 
bandry; Gladys E. Vail, associate 
professor in the Department of Food 
Economics and Nutrition, and David 
L Mackintosh, associate professor of 
animal husbandry. Charles M. Good 
Jr., Plevna; Ralph Peterson, Manhat- 
tan, and Robert G. Chapman, Man- 
hattan, all graduate students, also 
will appear on the program. 

NABOURS ON PROGRAM 
On the Kansas Entomological so- 
ciety program will be Prof. R. K. 
Nabours, head of the Department of 
Zoology; R- H. Painter, associate pro- 
fessor in the Department of Ento- 
mology; A. W. Grundmann, entomol- 
ogy assistant; H. R. Bryson, assis- 
tant professor of entomology; E. G. 
(Continued on last pace) 



Former Student Writes of Navy 

Prof. R. G. Kloeffler of the Depart- 
ment of Electrical Engineering re- 
cently received a letter from Ray 
Murray, a former student, now sta- 
tioned with the U. S. S. Oglala in 
Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii. 
Murray told of travels in Hawaii, 
Johnston and Palmyra Islands. Mur- 
ray was a junior in electrical engi- 
neering before he left college last fall 
for training in the Naval Communi- 
cation reserve. 



AG EXPERIMENT STATION 
TO SELL CORN HYBRIDS 

KANSAS - DEVELOPED VARIETIES 
ARE OFFERED FOR FIRST TIME 



COOPERATIVE CONFERENCE 
WILL BE HELD APRIL 10-11 



A nl Meeting* Are Sponsored by 

KJUUMM Farm Organisations 
and the College 

Members, directors and officers of 
Kansas cooperatives will meet on the 
campus April 10 and 11 for their an- 
nual cooperative conference. 

Dr. W. E. Grimes, head of the De- 
partment of Economics and Sociol- 
ogy, said, "The program will deal 
with subjects of vital concern to co- 
operatives and to agriculture and will 
emphasize the problems growing out 
of the national defense program and 
the war in Europe." 

This annual conference is spon- 
sored by Kansas farm organizations 
and cooperatives in cooperation with 
Kansas State College. 

Personal impressions of the war in 
Europe and its effects on cooperatives 
will be discussed by M. Dykstra, man- 
ager of the International Cooperative 
Trading agency, London, England, 
The only other out-of-state speaker 
will be Frank Robotka of Iowa State 
college, who will talk on "The Duties 
and Responsibilities of Directors of 
Cooperatives." The other speakers 
of the conference will be Kansans 
who have had outstanding success in 
their respective fields of cooperative 
work. 

Among topics to be discussed will 
be the duties and responsibilities of 
directors of cooperatives, the effects 
of the national defense program and 
the European war on cooperation and 
I on agriculture — both in the Immedi- 
ate and the more remote future — 
1 federal taxation as it affects coopera- 
tive organizations and grain storage 
| problems in view of the large sur- 
pluses of wheat and corn and the 
prospects for a large wheat crop in 
1941. 

The program will start at 2 p. m. 
Thursday, with a banquet that eve- 
ning, and will continue through Fri- 
day. All sessions will be in the west 
wing of Waters hall on the campus. 
The meetings are open to those in- 
i terested in the cooperative move- 
ment. 

The Kansas Association of Cooper- 
ative Creameries will meet Wednes- 
day evening preceding the conference 
and continue sessions through Thurs- 
day morning, joining the larger group 
for the meetings Thursday afternoon 
and evening and all day Friday. 



College and United States Department 

of Agriculture Hnve Spent Years 

Working Out Types 

for State 

Seed of Kansas-developed corn hy- 
brids is now available to farmers for 
planting, according to Dr. R. W. 
Jugenheimer, United States Depart- 
ment of Agriculture corn breeder 
located at the Kansas Agricultural 
Experiment station here. 

This year is the first that hybrids 
developed in this state have been re- 
leased to farmers, Doctor Jugenheim- 
er said. 

HYBRIDS ARE PROMISING 
The Kansas Agricultural Experi- 
ment station, in cooperation with the 
United States Department of Agri- 
culture, has been working for a num- 
ber of years on the production of corn 
hybrids suitable for Kansas condi- 
tions. Preliminary results indicate 
that some of these hybrids are prom- 
ising, Doctor Jugenheimer said. 
These include yellow and white dent 
hybrids, and popcorn hybrids, none 
of which are in commercial produc- 
tion. 

For several years, Doctor Jugen- 
heimer has received requests for seed 
from county agents, teachers of vo- 
cational agriculture and farmers for 
testing some of the more promising 
Kansas-developed corn hybrids. As a 
result the experiment station last 
season increased seed supplies of 12 
more promising hybrids. Seed of 10 
of these hybrids will be sold in peck 
or half-bushel lots to individuals in- 
terested in comparing them with 
their own local corn or with other 
hybrids in adjacent plantings. Nine 
of the hybrids are yellow, and the 
other one is white. 

COLLEGE WILL, SELL 
Peck lots of seed will be sold at $2 
and the half-bushel lots for $4. 
Orders for seed may be sent to the 
Department of Agronomy, Kansas 
State College, Manhattan. 

Doctor Jugenheimer warned that 
there is a limited supply of these hy- 
brids and said that there were only 
three bushels of two hybrids, but that 
as much as 50 bushels are available 
of other hybrids. 



Ackert on Iowa Program 

Dr. J. E. Ackert, dean of the Divi- 
sion of Graduate Study, left Saturday 
for Ames, Iowa, where he was to par- 
ticipate in the program of the 25th 
anniversary of the graduate school 
at Iowa State college on Monday. 



COMMITTEE IS STUDYING 
STUDENT UNION MEASURE 

GOVERNOR SIGNS BILL, SATURDAY 
AS DELEGATION WATCHES 



CEREAL CHEMISTS TO MEET 
ON CAMPUS THIS WEEK-END 



BUSH FRUIT CULTIVATION 

DISCUSSED IN BULLETIN 



l»r. G. A. Flllngcr Says Acreage Decline 

In Slate Since 11)15 Due Chlelly 

to Pests 

The value of bush fruits and how 
to grow them in Kansas is the topic 
of a circular written by Dr. G. A. 
Filinger, professor in the Depart- 
ment of Horticulture. This circular 
has been published recently by the 
Agricultural Experiment station at 
Manhattan. 

The cultivation of bush fruits in 
Kansas has been on a decline since 
1915, Doctor Filinger wrote, and has 
decreased from 3,855 acres to 569 
acres in 1939. This large decrease 
has been due mostly to drouth and 
inadequate methods of controlling 
pests, he said. 

The bush fruit varieties include 
blackberries, raspberries, dewberries, 
gooseberries and currants. 

Bush fruits cannot be profitably 
grown in the western half of Kansas, 
and the best area is the eastern one- 
fourth, the professor said. This is 
mostly due to the unfavorable cli- 
matic conditions of western Kansas. 



Program Includes Whent tlunllty and 

Vitamin Discussions by Various 

College Faculty Members 

Approximately 100 members of the | 
American Association of Cereal 
Chemists are expected to attend the J 
annual tri-sectional meeting of the 
association at the College Friday and 
Saturday. The sections of the asso- 
ciation meeting here include Kansas 
City, Nebraska and Pioneer divisions. 
Wheat quality will be the main 
subject of discussion, said Dr. E. G. 
Bayfield, head of the Department of 
Milling Industry. Vitamin quality, 
protein characteristics in judging 
hard winter wheats and the baking 
qualities will be discussed by various 
members of the College Milling In- 
dustry department. 

Because of the increased interest 
in the vitamin content of bread, a lec- 
ture and demonstration on the tech- 
niques employed in vitamin analysis 
will be a part of the Friday evening 
program. The demonstration will be 
given by Dr. Walter J. Peterson, bio- 
chemist on the state of the Kansas 
Agricultural Experiment station. 

Chairmen of the three sessions to 
be held are Rowland Clark, Shella- 
barger Mill and Elevator company, 
Salina, chairman of the Pioneer sec- 
tion, who will preside at the Friday 
evening session. Howard Burrus, 
Crete mills, Crete, Neb., chairman of 
the Nebraska section, will preside at 
the Saturday morning session, and 
J. W. Whitacre, Larabee Flour mills, 
Kansas City, Mo., chairman of the 
Kansas City section, will preside at 
the Saturday afternoon session. 



FARRELL NAMES COMMITTEE 
TO STUDY DRAFT DEFERMENT 

Group Visits Topeka to Confer with 

State Director's Assistant on 

College Policy 

Pres. F. D. Farrell has appointed 
a College Committee on Selective 
Service to systematize the efforts of 
the College in arranging for defer- 
ment of students whose deferment is 
in the interests of national defense. 

In announcing the membership of 
the committee, President Farrell 
pointed out that the committee is 
not ready now to answer questions. 
The committee is studying the prob- 
lem and hopes to be ready to begin 
functioning by the end of the present 
school year, the President said. 

The College Selective Service com- 
mittee includes Prof. C. H. Scholer, 
chairman, representing the Division 
of Engineering and Architecture; Dr. 
Herman Farley, representing the Di- 
vision of Veterinary Medicine; Dr. 
Roy C. Langford, representing the 
Division of Graduate Study; Prof. 
D. L. Mackintosh, representing the 
Division of Agriculture, and Prof. A. 
B. Cardwell, representing the Divi- 
sion of General Science. Members of 
the committee went to Topeka Mon- 
day to confer with the assistant to 
the state selective service director. 

The purpose of the Topeka meet- 
ing was to see what the College can 
do to help the state and local selective 
service boards decide who is to be 
deferred. The committee accepts no 
responsibility for official action. 
Final official action is entirely up to 
the selective service boards. The Col- 
lege committee will merely systema- 
tize College efforts to give the official 
boards information which will best 
serve the interests of students and 
national defense efforts. 

The appointment of the committee 
I by President Farrell followed a re- 
I quest by a representative of the state : 
. selective service director for aid from 
S the College in dealing with the mat- 
1 ter. 

President Farrell said Monday that 
i the College is anxious to cooperate in 
1 the national defense program by help- 
ing to postpone the drafting for mili- 
tary service of students who, in the 
interests of national defense, should 
complete their training for technical 
services. The matter of which ones 
are to be recommended for deferment 
is for the committee to decide. Defer- 
ment will not be recommended for 
students with poor scholastic records, 
regardless of their field of study, the 
President said. 



DON PHINNEY IS SELECTED 
NEW YEA R'S YMCA PRESIDENT 

Former Treasurer of Freslininn Com- 
mission Succeeds Ralph York 
of Duiilnp 

Don Phinney of Russell was elect- 
ed president of the YMCA Wednesday 
at the annual election. Phinney, a 
sophomore in chemical engineering, 
was treasurer of Y. M. Freshman 
commission. He succeeds Ralph York 
of Dunlap as president. 

Other new officers include Keith 
Thompson, Wichita, first vice-presi- 
dent; Cordon West, Manhattan, sec- 
ond vice-president; George Yost, Vas- 
sal-, third vice-president, and Newton 
Fehr, Kansas City, recording secre- j 

tary. 

Student members elected to the Y. 
M. board include Bill Bixler, Em- 
poria; Kent Duwe, Lucas; Thaine 
High, Abilene; Danny Howe, Stock- 
dale, and Keith Wallingford, Man- 
hattan. 

O. M. Rhine, president of the Uni- 
versal Securities company of Manhat- 
tan, is the representative business 
man for the board. Faculty advisers 
include M. F. Ahearn, head of the 
Department of Physical Education 
and Athletics, and Dr. J. H. Burt, 
head of the Department of Anatomy 
and Physiology. 



Corporation of Faculty Members, Alum- 
ni and ITndergrnduates Will Be 
Organised to Sell Bonds 
for Structure 

A copy of the Student Union law, 
passed by the State Legislature and 
signed last Saturday by Gov. Payne 
H. Ratner, is being studied by mem- 
bers of the Union committee. Until 
all the legal aspects of the measure 
are cleared up, only general plans for 
the Student Union building will be 
made, Pres. F. D. Farrell said. 

The governor signed the long- 
sought-for measure while a delega- 
tion of students and College repre- 
sentatives looked on approvingly. 

Organization of a corporation 
made up of faculty members, stu- 
dents and alumni will be the first 
step taken. The corporation will sell 
the bonds which will be issued to 
construct the building to the highest 
bidding bonding company. The bonds 
will be self-liquidating by a $5 Stu- 
dent Union fee added to each semes- 
ter's enrolment charges until they are 

retired. 

STUDENTS WILL PAY 
The bonds probably will carry a 
3 1-2 percent rate of interest. At $5 
a semester to be paid by each stu- 
dent, approximately $40,000 a year 
will be raised, liquidating the bonded 
indebtedness in about eight years. 

The first bonds to be issued will be 
for $250,000 to build the first unit of 
the Union. This will include a lounge, 
ballroom, post-office, game rooms in- 
cluding self-supporting bowling al- 
leys and offices for College organiza- 
tions such as the Students' Govern- 
ing association, YWCA and YMCA. 

"No positive decision as to the lo- 
cation of the Student Union has been 
made, but several places are under 
consideration," President Farrell 
said. "The north part of the quad- 
rangle south of Engineering hall, the 
site of old Denison hall and a posi- 
! tion east of Thompson hall have been 
considered." 

MAY START THIS SUMMER 
Though it will take some time to 
work out the details of the plans for 
the building, President Farrell hopes 
that construction will begin within 
the next six months and will be com- 
pleted within 18 months to two years. 
The President pointed out that it may 
take longer due to the present pre- 
paredness program which has made 
other construction so uncertain. 

"Seniors in the Department of Ar- 
chitecture have prepared plans for the 
proposed Student Union. They will 
no doubt be studied in greater detail 
and perhaps visits will be made to 
other schools' student unions to be- 
come better acquainted with the es- 
sentials and general functions of such 
buildings," said Prof. Paul Weigel, 
head of the department and chairman 
of the Student Union committee. 

WILL BUILD DORMITORY 

The bill also provides for the build- 
ing of a women's residence hall. 
Before this hall can be built, a cor- 
| poration also must be organized. 
! President Farrell said he was not 
i sure yet whether the Student Union 
i organization also could be used for 
! this purpose. 

The proposed dormitory, which will 
be built near Van Zile hall, will be 
financed by net operating revenues 
from the two residence halls. Only 
the basic plans of the dormitory and 
the Union will be made in the Archi- 
tecture department here; detailed 
plans for both buildings will be drawn 
by the state architect. 



Phi Alpha Mu Initiates 

Ten new members were initiated 
into Phi Alpha Mu, honorary general 
science organization, last week. The 
new members are Betty Lou Davis, 
Severance; Virginia Delano, Hutch- 
inson; Mary Dillin, Hutchinson; Vir- 
ginia Holbert, Manhattan; Bernice 
Horton, Wayside; Reva King, Coun- 
cil Grove; Eloise Morris, Wichita; 
Marjorie Rogers, Manhattan; Jeanne 
Marie Tarvin, Marysville, and Doro- 
thy Triplett, Humboldt. 



The KANSAS INDUSTRIALIST 

Established April 24, 1875 



R. I. Thachkey Editor 

Jane Rockwell, Ralph Lashmook, 

Him ii r Kkiii.iihaiim Associate Editor! 

Kenney Fokd Alumni Editor 



Published weekly during the college year by the Kansas 
State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, 
Manhattan, Kansas. 



Except for contributions from officers of the College 
and members of the faculty, the articles in The Kan- 
sas Industrialist are written by students in the De- 
partment of Industrial Journalism and Printing, which 
docs the mechanical work. 

The price of The Kansas Industrialist is »J a year, 
payable in advance. 



Entered at the postoffice, Manhattan, Kansas, as second- 
class matter October 27, 1911. Act of July It, 1*94. 



Make checks and drafts payable to the K. S. C. 
Alumni association, Manhattan. Subscriptions for all 
alumni and former students, $J a year; life subscrip- 
tions, $50 cash or in instalments. Membership in 
alumni association included. 




WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1941 



A SIGNIFICANT ANNIVERSARY 

Kansas State College properly cele- 
brates its Founders' day in February, 
but an April day in 1855, eight years 
before the College was founded and 
86 years ago this month, also has an 
important claim to significance in 
College annals. Dr. J. T. Willard 
tells the story in his history. 

It was on April 18, 1855, that the 
minutes of the trustees of the com- 
pany formed from the consolidation 
of the interests of the Boston Colony 
with those of earlier arrivals in the 
vicinity of what is now Manhattan, 
carried the notation: 

"Voted that Mr. Park he invited 
to address the trustees in reference 
to an agricultural school. Mr. Park 
responded to the invitation." 

The "Mr. Park" referred to was 
Col. George S. Park of Parkville, 
Mo., who look a claim just east of 
the mouth of Wildcat creek as early 
as June, 1854, and built on it a cabin 
which served as a blacksmith shop. 
In the fall of 1854 a town known as 
Canton was located on the west side 
of the Blue river (then two miles 
west of its present channel) below 
Bluemont hill. The Boston Colony 
arrived late in March, 1855, and im- 
mediately moved to consolidate its 
interests with those of the men al- 
ready in the area. It was the trustees 
of this combined group to which Colo- 
nel Park spoke "in reference to an 
agricultural school." 

Colonel Park's address was given 
several weeks before the arrival of 
the Cincinnati and Kansas Land com- 
pany and the adoption of the name 
Manhattan for the new town. 

Nearly three years later George S. 
Park was one of the incorporators 
of the Bluemont Central College as- 
sociation, and Doctor Willard records 
that he was one of the most generous 
contributors to the fund to erect the 
first building. The articles of incor- 
poration empowered the trustees to 
establish an agricultural department. 
Colonel Park kept his Manhattan 
interests for several years, saw the 
Bluemont Central college property 
turned over to the state as the site 
for Kansas State Agricultural Col- 
lege. In 1875 Colonel Park founded 
Park college at Parkville, Mo., com- 
bining the scholastic features of 
education with industrial work and 
establishing a pattern which still dis- 
tinguishes that successful institution. 
No one can now evaluate the im- 
portance of the role of George S. 
Park in establishing an agricultural 
college at Manhattan, but it is plain 
that he advocated the establishment I 
of such a school from the first; that 
there was provision for this type of 
work in the character of Bluemont 
college, and that the trustees of Blue- 
mont college responded quickly when 
the opportunity to aid in locating the 
new land-grant school at Manhattan 

came. . , . 

As Doctor Willard comments in His 
discussion of the address of Colonel 
Park on April 18, 1855: 

"This trivial incident may be re- 
garded as the beginning of Kansas 
State College!" 

■•■ 
AMERICAN 'CULTURE' 

Having nothing better to do the 
other day, two or three of us were 
talking about culture. American cul- 
ture, we agreed, could not survive a 
Nazi victory. But presently we dis- 
covered that we were not talking 
about the same thing. To some of 
us culture referred to taste and 



knowledge acquired by study. To the 
rest of us culture was the whole 
process by which men and women 
develop into maturity from child- 
hood. From this point of view culture 
may be good or bad according to the 
beauty or brutishness of the mature 
individual, but it is all part of the 
process by which an American civili- 
zation is being developed in an en- 
vironment of liberty. 

"Our Town" and "Mourning Be- 
comes Electra" are examples of a 
finer culture than the strip-tease of 
the burlesque theaters. But the strip- 
tease is still part of the American 
culture, and when we are talking 
about an American culture we are 
talking about the whole thing. Ben- 
jamin Franklin had a coarser nature 
than Thomas Jefferson. But if the 
Franklin influence were eliminated 
from the American tradition the 
American culture would lack the 
practical common sense that has 
made it work. Emerson said: "I like 
a man who can admire a fine barn 
as well as a fine tragedy." From any 
comprehensive point of view, Emer- 
son's connoisseur of barns and trag- 
edies would he the completely culti- 
vated man. 

The word "culture" does not 
arouse much enthusiasm among de- 
fenders of democracy because it has 
been blindly used, as if culture were 
a pastime or an artificial adornment , 
of the mind. There is plenty of his- 
torical authority for that misappre- 
hension. A half century or so ago 
culture was reverently approached as 
if it were something that inhabited 
a rarefied atmosphere apart from the 
common usage of men and women. 
A good deal of contemporary art was 
escaping from life as fast as it could. 
When Browning wrote a drama for 
Macready, he turned away from con- 
temporary ideas to a historical period 
in which he could imitate Shake- 
speare, who was then, as now, the 
apotheosis of culture. Tennyson in- 1 
stinctively did the same thing. Al ! 
though Thomas Bailey Aldrich had a 
charming environment to write about, 
and did so with engaging humor in 
"The Story of a Bad Boy," he wrote | 
of "Judith of Bethulia" for the stage, 
because that seemed to be a cultured 
subject worthy of a well-bred poet, i 
Remoteness from actuality created 
an aura of refinement. Pater wrote 
a studied prose that was as remote 
as possible from the common speech, j 



SCIENCE TODAY 



By MISS GLADYS MYERS 

Home Management Specialist 
College Extension Service 



and cultured people took it serious 
ly. In the last quarter of the 19th 
century rich people fled from the 
coarseness of America to Europe in 
search of culture. Separating culture 
from the ordinary habits of daily life 
had some appalling consequences 
here. We still suffer from some of 
them. That was how we acquired the 
domestic architecture that twisted 
houses into abominable shapes and 
weird planes and sheathed their 
porches in wooden lace. To separate 
culture from life is to burden a na- 
tion with ugliness and eccentricity. 
— Brooks Atkinson, in the New York 
Times. 



Every homemaker has a "trick of 
the trade" to make the housekeeping 
dollar go farther. Recently 168 Kan- 
sas rural homemakers were asked 
about their "pet" economies. 

"We get 'most all of our fruits and 
vegetables from our own garden," 
said a Marion county homemaker. 
"During the growing season, we al- 
ways have enough food for ready use. 
And I always plant more than I know 
we'll need so that I'll have some left 
to store and can. My garden feeds us 
all the year around, and saves us 

money." 

Other women cut food costs by 
raising chickens to eat, and to sup- 
ply eggs for the family. Keeping | 
cows for the milk, cream, butter and 
cottage cheese needed was agreed to i 
be a wise practice. 

Baking bread at home, canning — 
especially of fruit — and butchering 
done on the farm also were suggest- 
ed. One woman believed she saved 
money by making her own salad 
dressing. Another made all the sand- 
wich spread used -she filled several 
lunch boxes daily. 

Those living near flour mills used 
flour and breakfast cereals milled 
from their home-grown wheat. One 
homemaker showed that she had re- 
turns of 38 pounds of flour from one 
bushel of wheat. 

Although these women cut food 
costs in some way, they did not sac- 
rifice food value. They realize that 
eating less food or eating a cheap 
quality of food does not always solve 
the problem — in fact, it will promote 
I poor health and poor spirit. 

Today the homemaker clips cor- 

! ners on food costs through home 

! production, storing, canning and 

freezing, and wise choice of food. 

Records in Farm bureau offices show 

J that more and more families are pro- 

I ducing their own food supply — 

resulting In less cash outlay and bet- 

i ter nutrition. 

Planning menus in advance helped 
to use up leftovers and also helped to 
save time, one woman reported. Plan- 
ning the family's needs and buying 
in quantities was another suggestion. 



"Last year we just spent too much 
on Christmas gifts," one woman con- 
fided. "So this year we're going to 
make our gifts. I'm going to give 
away butter, jam and jellies and 
fruit cakes." 

Home sewing saved money for 
more than half of the group. Feed 
sacks frequently were used to make 
house dresses, pajamas, kitchen cur- 
tains, lunch cloths, dresses for small 
daughters and comforter tops. 

Many mothers made over clothes 
for their children. 

"I always see to it that there's at 
I least one new thing when I fix up a 
j hand-me-down. A brand-new belt or 
1 new buttons or new trimming, for 
instance, make Helen feel that she's 
I wearing an entirely different dress 
' than the one Catherine wore so much 
two years before. Of course, I al- 
ways try to remake the dresses in a 
little different style, too," explained 
1 one mother. 

"My pet economy is making rugs," 
related a woman in Greenwood 
county. "In the evenings, my husband 
reads aloud to our son, John, and me, 
and while he's reading I crochet rugs 
out of any kind of material or old 
clothing I have in the house. This 
winter we read four books together." 
General repair of the house and 
its furnishings is done by several 
homemakers and their families. This 
includes paper-hanging, painting and 
small carpentry work. Refinishing 
and renovation of furniture is carried 
on in many communities, following 
lessons on this work given by home 
demonstration agents and extension 
specialists. The making of slip covers 
at home is another money-saving 
item. 

Paying bills by check has helped 

one family keep closer control of their 

I money. They found this method of 

! payment was a restraint on their 

spending, as well as an easy way to 

I keep accounts. 

Sheep on the farm provide warm 
wool comforters for many Kansas 
families. Home washing and carding 
of the fleece requires a knowledge of 
the care of wool that is valuable in 
the correct washing and care of fam- 
ily clothing. 



on Education in the Kansas State 
grange. 

Misses Conwell, Gilstrap and 
Pierce were delegates to the district 
conference of the YWCA which was 
held at Lecompton. 



SIXTY YEARS AGO 
John A. Anderson visited the Col- 
lege. 

The Scientific club made an excur- 
sion to Professor Hofer's farm, near 
Rocky Ford, to investigate an Indian 
or mound-builder's grave. 

F. D. Coburn, manager of the Kan- 
sas Farmer for two months, was an- 
nounced as the new editor due to the 
retirement of E. E. Ewing. 



h 



KANSAS POETRY 

Robert Conover, Editor 



By Glen Baktr 
They sleep peacefully, these pioneer 

dead, , . 

I In Blue .Mound Burying Ground when 
March winds croon 
A dirge through the hare branches 

overhead .. 

And tumbling clouds roll out across the 
moon, ,. . 

They are not aware of storms that 
I hovei- 
Over their isolated resting place, 
Nor of the blankets of snow that cover 
i Closely and tenderly each long dead 
face. 

But when blue April swings her censer 

out, ,, 

I And pale violets break the winter spells, 
' When spring the harbinger is just with- 
out .. . 
Who can say they do not stir in their 
narrow cells 
i And dream of Kansas with her warm 
spring days 
And eottonwoods in leaf in country 
ways! 

Glen Baker of Detroit, Mich., has 
had prose and verse published in the 
1'nited States and abroad in such pub- 
lications as the National Historical 
magazine, Christian Century, Univer- 
sity Review, Prairie Schooner, Lon- 
don Mercurv, Cornhill magazine, Dub- 
lin Review and others. At the present 
time, he is working on a novel ana 
plans to publish a volume of poems, 
"Motley to the View," sometime this 
year. 



that control, they lead us down the 
road of tyranny. Thus the universi- 
ties have a tremendous responsibility 
in shaping the minds of young men 
and women and of interpreting the 
truth to them. 

We in democracies today are chal- 
lenged to prove that we can be strong 
in will and action. We cannot have 
the advantages of democracies if we 
do not accept the responsibilities, 
however. — Dr. Clarence A. Dykstra, 
former director of Selective service 
and president of the University of 
Wisconsin. 



GREEN GOLD 
The following verse was used as 
the conclusion and climax of "Green 
Gold," the radio program presented 
March 1!» by the College on the Na- 
tional Farm and Home hour of the 
National Broadcasting company. H. 
Miles Heberer, associate professor of 
public speaking, was director of the 
show. 

The verse: 
In fifteen forty-one or two, at least so 

I've been told, 
Francisco Coronado came to Kansas 

seeking gold. 
The land was rich with buffalo, and 

grass was ev'rywhere; 
I'.ni Coronado found no gold . . . imagine 

Ills despair. 

A rainbow dream, an ancient theme of 

Indian stories told, 
Led Coronado in his search for places 

rich with gold. 
He missed the shining wealth he sought. 

he missed the shining green 
In blades of grass where cattle pass; 

in soil, in hill, in stream. 

If Coronado came today he'd find his 

rainbow's end 
On glassy ledges where the cowboys 

grazing herds attend. 
He'd hear the men of Kansas pledge, 

from foothills to the plains: 
"This land is ours — this land well love, 

conserve, protect, defend!" 
♦ 

DEMOCRACY ON THE CAMPUS 
We have always guarded truth on 
the campus of our universities, and 
now ve must guard freedom as well. 
And we must teach self-government 
and cooperation so that our future 
citizens also will guard these prin- 
ciples. 

Who controls men's minds today 
controls the future, and when one 
man or a small group of men have 



Poisoning by words goes deeper 
and is more lasting than poisoning by 
gas. Gas diffuses itself in the atmos- 
phere, which soon contains no more 
a deadly dose. But poisoning by 
words pervades our minds. Its ef- 
fects are contagious. The victim him- 
self becomes a voluntary agent of 
contamination. "That which causes 
man's unhappiness," reads a Greek 
inscription in the tower of Mon- 
taigne, "is not so much facts (or 
events) as theories about facts." We 
have anti-aircraft guns; we need anti- 
wordcraft batteries. — Andre Maurois 
in the Saturday Review of Literature. 



TWENTY YEARS AGO 
Dr. J. T. Willard, dean of the Divi- 
sion of General Science and vice- 
president of the College, was elected 
president of the Kansas Research 
council. W. A. Lippincott, professor 
of animal husbandry, was elected 
secretary- 
Charles A. Campbell, '91, was 
pastor of the First Presbyterian 
church at Elizabeth, N. J. He was 
the author of three books, "The 
Greatness of Service," "The Manhood 
of Roosevelt" and "War, Women, 
and Work." 

Prof. W. E. Davis and Prof. F. C. 
Gates, both of the Department of 
Botany and Plant Pathology, re- 
ceived certificates of fellowship in the 
American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science, an honor con- 
ferred upon them during the meet- 
ings in Chicago. 



By H. W. Davis 
KEEP YOUR FINGERS CROSSED! 
April, tearful thirty-days of fool- 
ishness, furtive smiles, showers of 
weeping and all-round uncertainty, is 
once again all over us. But this time 
she very probably does not fancy us 
any more than we fancy her. 

From the beginning, we guess, 
April has been the haywire month of 
all months, the season for going ber- 
serk, slipping out of gear, running 
amuck into love, war, whatnot. Why 
the psychologists and psychiatrists 
have not done tons of dissertations 
upon April, and earned themselves 
thereby hundreds of higher degrees, 
I cannot see nor say. 



i 



"But in furious 1941 gusty April 
meets her match. She creeps upon a 
world more perturbed and going 
more places than she herself. Yes, 
this old world of 19 41 ought to be 
a cinch for April, for she should be 
able to throw the whole works into 
hysterical frenzy by wiggling no more 
than one little finger. We are that 
upset and ready to disintegrate. 



IN OLDER DAYS 

From the Files of The Intlvsliialim 

TEN YEARS AGO 

F. F. Fockele, '01, was president of ( 
the People's National bank at Ottawa. 

Prof. Paul Weigel, head of the De- 1 
partment of Architecture, and John 
F. Helm, assistant professor of archi- 
tecture, attended the meeting of the 
American Federation of Arts in Kan- 
sas City. 

Seven members of the faculty and , 
24 seniors from the Division of Engi- \ 
neering drove to Lawrence to attend 
a demonstration lecture by S. P. 
Grace, assistant vice-president of the 
Bell Telephone laboratories, New 
York City. Faculty members attend- 
ing were R. G. Kloeffler, R. M. 
Kerchner, O. D. Hunt, L. M. Jorgen- 
son, H. S. Bueche, G. F. Corcoran, 
and E. L. Sitz. 



THIRTY YEARS AGO 
Roscoe T. Nichols, M. S. '99, was 
a candidate for mayor at the spring 
election at Liberal. 

S. C. Mason, '90, was in the Bureau 
of Plant Industry of the United States 
Department of Agriculture, Washing- 
ton, D. C. 

W. R. Ballard, '05, was at the Mary- 
land Agricultural Experiment station. 
He was experimenting with the graft- 
ing of walnuts. 



Therein lies my only hope. May- 
be April will consider it beneath her 
dignity and ability to take advantage 
of such a pushover. Maybe just for 
spite she will turn herself into a paci- 
fists, old-maid month with antique 
earrings and two graying curls on 
each temple. Maybe she will coyly 
pass the honors to mellow May time, 
just to be stubborn and just to smear 
sweet, gentle May. 



FORTY YEARS AGO 
Prof. J. T. Willard was absent from 
the College for one week in the inter- 
est of the College experiment station. 
E. W. Curtis, instructor in butter 
making, left for his home in Council 
Grove, where he operated a hand 
creamery plant. 

Some of the dairy students who 
went to Topeka to visit the Conti- 
nental creamery experienced a per- 
sonal encounter with Mrs. Carrie 
Nation, in her battle array. 



But that is merely hope, and there- 
fore hokum. If 1941 April does not 
turn out to be the craziest month in 

I the last six or seven hundred years, 
I'll rip off my shingle as "prognosti- 

, cator" and saw it up into toothpicks. 



FIFTY YEARS AGO 
President Fairchild attended a 
meeting of the State Board of Educa- 
tion at Topeka. 

Secretary Graham was reappointed 
a member of the standing Committee 



For look you! April, 1941, is going 
t to have to start a flaming war in the 
I Balkans, or else. She will have to 
I initiate a rumpus in or near Singa- 
I pore, or else. She is going to have to 
i start an American convoy system for 
j British-bound freight, or else. She is 
j going to have to usher in an invasion 
| of England, or else. She is going to 
j have to crack the defense-industry 

strike bottleneck in America, or else. 
j Five high probabilities, and each of 
! them loaded to the roof with T. N. T. 
i The "or else" in each case means 

something worse. 



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By May 1 we may be mighty glad 
that April is one of those four months 
that hath only 30 days. 



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AMONG THE 
ALUMNI 



A. A. Gist, '91, writes from Phoe- 
nix, Ariz.: "After a very delightful 
winter here in the 'Valley of the Sun' 
we are leaving for our home at 701 
South Highland avenue, Chanute, 
Kan. Please change the address of 
our Indistkiamst. We will be seeing 
you at commencement time." 

J. B. Houser, B. S. '04, called at 
the Alumni office last month while 
visiting in Manhattan at the home of 
C. G. Elling on his way to attend a 
meeting of North Central States En- 
tomologists at Columbia, Mo. Mr. 
Houser is chief of the entomology 
department at Ohio Agricultural Ex- 
periment station, Wooster, Ohio. He 
and Bessie (Mudge) Houser, '03, live 
at 136 East University street in 
Wooster. Mrs. Houser is a sister of 
Mrs. Elling. 

Mary L. Hoover, H. E. '14, is at 
home at 2619 Cass, Detroit, Mich. 
She is a teacher of home economics 
in the Detroit public schools. 

Kathleen Hamm, H. E. '18, heads 
dietetic work at the residence halls 
on the campus of the University of 
Michigan. She lives at 1101 Henry 
street. Ann Arbor, Mich. 

Mary Fidelia Taylor, B. S. '19, E. 
E. '31, now is with the Central Hous- 
ing committee of Washington, D. C. 
She says that activities in the low- 
cost, low-rent, and defense housing 
fields make her work interesting. 
Miss Taylor was an assistant profes- 
sor in household economics at Kan- 
sas State College from 1926 to 1934. 
Her Washington address is at 16 24 
Riggs place, Northwest. 

Arthur N. Burditt, B. S. '20, has 
a real estate business in Wichita. He 
may be addressed P. O. Box 18 73, 
Wichita. 

Merton L. Otto, Ag. '21, is doing 
research work in the Department of 
Economics and Sociology at Kansas 
State College. He and Katherine 
(Kinman) Otto, f. s. '20, live at 920 
Leavenworth, Manhattan. 

Grace Van Scoik, H. E. '22, was 
married August 16, 1940, to Andrew 
L, Haag, a cabinet maker and finish 
carpenter in Long Beach, Calif. They 
live at 2 218 East Anaheim street, 
Long Beach. 

Homer V. Fleming, M. E. '23, is 
employed by the Timken Roller Bear- 
ing company in Canton, Ohio. He is 
a special sales engineer. Until re- 
cently he was in Chicago, but now 
his headquarters are at 1008 Martin 
building, Birmingham, Ala. 

I). B. Meredith, M. S. '24, is agrono- 
mist in the agricultural section of the 
African Explosives and Industries, 
Ltd., at Johannesburg, South Africa. 
Alvin V. Ritts, G. S. '25, and Laura 
(Russell) Ritts, '25, are at 402 West 
South street, Arcanum, Ohio. He is 
minister of the Arcanum Methodist 
church there. 

.John F. Allen, R. C. '26, has 
changed his residence to 819 East 
Fifth, Galena. 

Elwyn W. Rutherford, E. E. '27, 
912 Lawrence avenue, Bristol, Va., 
is electrical distribution superinten- 
dent with the East Tennessee Light 
and Power company. 

Mary Frances Reed, I. J. and H. E. 
'28, is working on her doctorate 
while she is teaching half time at 
the University of Illinois. Her ad- 
dress is 1106 South First, Cham- 
paign, 111. 

Theodore R. Freeman, Ag. '29, 
writes: "I have accepted a newly 
created position at the University of 
Florida which will involve full-time 
research on dairy-manufacturing 
problems. As I do not want to miss 
any issues of The Indobtbiaubt, I 
would appreciate it if you would 
change my mailing address to Dairy 
Products laboratory, University of 
Florida, Gainesville, Fla." 

H. A. Williamson, M. S. '30, is 
principal of the Tonganoxie high 
school. His wife is Marguerite (Akin) 
Williamson, '27. 

Donald M. Telford, G. S. '31, 
teaches in the high school at Borger, 
Texas. He also coaches football there. 
Gerald E. Cain, E. E. '32, is an 
operator and electrician for the 
Southern California Edison company, 
Ltd , Los Angeles, Calif. Margery 
(Farnham) Cain, f. s. '30, and he 
live at 1313 Buena Vista, Ventura, 
Calif. 

Dr. E. W. Peck, D. V. M. '33, and 
Lela (McCann) Peck have a son, 
Eugene Jr., 1. Doctor Peck has ai 



private practice at Auburn, Neb. 

Arthur R. Thiele, D. V. M. '34, is 
supervisor of the Bureau of Animal 
Industry at 71-02 Thirty-Fourth av- 
enue, Long Island, Jackson Heights, 
N. Y. 

Leslie E. Murphy, M. E. '34, is an 
accountant with the Federal Bureau 
of Investigation. His address is 357 
Madison avenue, Grand Rapids, 
Mich. His wife is Willa (Ward) Mur- 
phy, a graduate of the Kansas City 
Thompson conservatory. 

Lois Anne Lumb, H. E. '35, has 
been home demonstration agent for 
Adams county, Colo., since December 
26, 1939. Her address is 275 South 
Third, Brighton, Colo. 

Emma Anne (Storer) Marx, I. J. 
'35, writes: "Please change the ad- 
dress Of OUr INDUSTHIALIBT to 4216 

Fairmount street, Dallas, Texas. 
Edmund, '35, was transferred here 
the day after Christmas and I joined 
him February 1. So don't forget us 
if you come to Dallas or if there are 
any alumni activities near here. I 
have already made plans to visit 
Klizabeth (Dedrich) Maneval, f. s. 
'31, and Ruth (Stiles) Brady, '33, in 
Houston. Edmund is occupational 
analyst for the government, working 
under the Social Security board and 
has most of Texas for his territory. 
We are renting a brand new cottage 
at Dallas and, although it Is small, 
there is always room for one more 
K-Stater." 

Virgil L. Weaver, E. E. '35, is an 
J electrical engineer with the instru- 
: ment engineering department, Gen- 
I eral Electric. His address is 8 Har- 
vey park, Lynnfleld, Mass. 

Clyde R. Getty, C. E. '36, is chemi- 
cal engineer for the Sinclair Refining 
company, East Chicago, Ind. He lives 
at 1644 West 107th street, Chicago. 

Obed Keith Lassen, D. V. M. '36, 
and L. N. Butler, D. V. M. '37, are in 
partnership at Phoenix, Ariz. They 
opened a small-animal clinic this 
winter. Doctor Lassen and Gene 

(Brandeni)urg) Lassen, f. s., live at 

Route 5, Phoenix. Doctor Butler and 

Evelyn (Hammels) Butler, '3 7, live 
at 2916 North Fifteenth avenue, 

l'hoenix. 

Thomas Mitchell Potter, Ag. '37, 

is a sheep salesman for the John 

Clay Livestock Commission company 

at Kansas City, Mo., in the sheep de- 
partment. He and Martha (Wright) 

Potter, H. E. '39, live at 3736 War- 
wick. 

Keith Underwood, Ar. '37, 818 

Bertrand, Manhattan, is architectural 

draftsman for F. O. Wolfenbarger. 

For the past 1 1-2 years he has been 

with Richard J. Neutra, Los Angeles, 

as an apprentice. 

Irwin W. Wayne, Ag. '39, is in 

school at Middlesex university, Wal- 

tham, Mass., classified as a freshman 

vet. He writes: "From the time I 

graduated from Kansas State, I have 

worked for the milk, water and shell- 
fish department, New York City 

Board of Health, and for the Kraft 

Cheese company in Jersey City. I 

was employed in the capacity of bac- 
teriologist and chemist at both 

places." 

John B. Sutherland, B. S. '39, M. 

S. '40, and last year an assistant in 

the Kansas State College Department j Cameron court 

of Chemistry, is employed by the 

Texas company. Port Arthur, Texas 

His address is 3838 Proctor. 

L. F. Stutzman, M. S. '40, is teach 

ing at Hillier junior college, Hart 

lord, Conn. 



LOOKING AROUND 

KENNEY L. FORD 



Praises College Recording 

Ralph W. Sherman of Bloomfleld, 
N. J., writes: "Thank you for send- 
ing the recording of the four college 
songs. It arrived in good condition. 
The spirit and tones of the vocal and 
instrumental music are exceptionally 
good. We will surely use this at our 
next New York alumni meeting." 



Pa. Mr. Myers is with Westinghouse 
Electric and Manufacturing company 
there. 



Alumni with General Electric 

Many engineers from Kansas State 
College are employed by General 
Electric company. Those who are 
employed in the Chicago plant include 
Earl Abbott, E. E. '24, sales engi- 
neer; R. B. Mcllvain, E. E. '25, switch 
gear specialist; C. F. Joss, E. E. '21; 
T. E. Johntz, M. E. '22, and T. F. 
Skinner, M. E. '36. L. 0. Sinderson, 
E. E. '23, is a construction engineer, 
but he is now working on the defense 
program and is on leave from that 
position. W. E. Swenson, C. '32, is 
with the company's merchandise de- 
partment. 



ADAMS— ALTER 

Hazel Adams and Elwyn La Verne 
Alter Jr., '39, were married July 28 
at the First Christian church in Man- 
hattan. Mrs. Alter has been a beauty 
operator in Manhattan for two years. 
Mr. Alter is advertising manager of 
a daily paper in Hutchinson. Their 
address is 414 East Avenue A, Hutch- 
inson. 



RECENT HAPPENINGS 
ON THE HILL 



The third intrasquad practice game 
during the present session of spring 
football training will be next Satur- 
day. In the last contest, the Golds, 
composed of regular squad men, de- 
feated the Whites, the reserves, 14-0. 



BOREN- LUTZ 

The wedding of Frances Boren of . 
Hutchinson and Charles Lutz, C. '35, Council to insure the eligibility of 

The election date is 



The petitions for the 24 Greek and 
independent candidates for Student 
Council and Board of Publications 
now are being checked by the Student 



took place July 28. The bride, a 
graduate of the University of Mis- 
souri, has been secretary to the man- 
ager of the Kansas Power and Light 
company. Mr. Lutz, a member of 
Beta Theta Pi fraternity, is head of 
the men's department of Wiley's store 
in Hutchinson. 



the candidates. 
April 8. 



MARRIAGES 



SHUBBKfi- SHHETZ 

Marriage vows were exchanged by 
Doris Shuberg and Charles J. Sheetz, 
C. E. '40, August 9. Mr. Sheetz is 
sanitary engineer for the State Board 
of Health in Topeka. 



Olson, 
M. Ed. 



OLSON— KIMMI 
The marriage of Marie 
Dwight, to Anthony Kimmi 
'40, took place August 25 
attended Salt City Business college in 
Hutchinson. For the past 2 1-2 years 
she has been employed as stenog- 
rapher by the Division of College Ex- 
tension. Mr. Kimmi is supervisor of 
instrumental music in the South 
Haven public schools. They will 
make their home in South Haven. 



Miss Jane Rockwell, instructor in 
the Department of Industrial Jour- 
nalism and Printing; Ema Lou Bire- 
line, Lewis, and Mary Morris, Chap- 
man, were initiated into Theta Sigma 
Phi, women's honorary journalism so- 
ciety, last Thursday. 



Applications for entrance into 
The bride ' either the advanced or primary flying 
i course this summer will be taken 
' after May 1, according to Prof. C. E. 
Pearce, director of the Civil Aero- 
nautics authority at Kansas State 
College. 



JOHNSON— GREEN 
Jean Johnson, M. Ed. '39, and Roy 
Green. Ag. '39, were married August 
10. They are living at 710 South Wa- 
ter street, Wichita, where Mr. Green 
is with the Federal Land bank. 



WILLIS— EBERLE 

LaNelle Willis, f. s 
and Cecil H. Eberle were married 
August 3. Mr. Eberle, a member of 
Acacia fraternity, is a member of the 
faculty of the Delia high school. 



DAVIS— PHOUT 
Frances A. Davis, H. E. '39, and 
Lynn Prout, f. s. '40, were married 
August 11. Mrs. Prout since her 
graduation from Kansas State Col- 
lege has been employed in connection 
with the Christian Youth movement. 
Mr. Prout attended Oklahoma A. and 
M. at Stillwater before coming to 
Kansas State College for work in 
t journalism. They are at home at Ness 
! City where Mr. Prout is employed by 
Manhattan; | (he federal goverument . 



BOZARTH— DAVIS 

Marriage vows were read for Mil- 
dred Bozarth, f. s. '40, and Charles 
W. Davis, Ag. '40, August 4. They 
are at Concordia. Mr. Davis is em- 
ployed by the Concordia creamery. 



1HRIG— HARTWIG 
Esther L. Ihrig and Dr. Charles F. 
Hartwig, D. V. M. '12, were married 
.July 29. Besides practicing as a vet- 
erinarian, Doctor Hartwig is exten- 
sively engaged in stock raising and 
farming at their home in Goodland. 



BUSCH— NASH 

Mar Beth Busch, H. E. '39, became 
the bride of Charles W. Nash, Em- 
poria, July 14. Mrs. Nash, a member 
of Delta Delta Delta sorority, taught 
home economics in Williamsburg last 
year. Mr. Nash attended the College 
of Emporia and Kansas State Teach- 
ers' college of Emporia, where he be- 
longed to Phi Delta Chi social fra- 
ternity. They will make their home 
in Emporia where Mr. Nash is em- 

[ ployed by the Rural Electrification 

I administration. 



Six college students attended the 
Independent Student union national 
convention at Austin, Texas, last Fri- 
day and Saturday. Those making the 
trip were Ralph York, Dunlap; Leon- 
ard Robinson, Viola; Adzianna Bloch- 
linger, Concordia; Belle York, Dun- 
lap; Irene White, Kingsdown, and 
Opal Thompson, chaperon, Manhat- 
tan. 



ROTC students will participate in 
the celebration of Army day here 
Monday. At 2 p. m. there will be a 
parade of the ROTC units from Kan- 
sas State College, the military band 
and mechanized equipment from Ft. 
Riley. The program is being arranged 
by the Department of Military Science 
and Tactics at the College, the Man- 
hattan Chamber of Commerce and 
officers at Ft. Riley. 



H U X M A N— M URPHY 
The marriage of Pauline Huxman, 
Sublette, and Duane Murphy, Ag. '3 8, 
also of Sublette, took place July 2 8. 
Mr. Murphy is supervisor for the 
Farm Security administration in 
Sheridan county. They live at Hoxie. 



BERGGRBN— SCHOOLEY 

Frances Berggren, H. E. '39, and 
Maurice Schooley, D. V. M. '38, were 
married July 19. He is state veteri- 
narian of North Carolina and has 
charge of the state laboratory in 
Raleigh. Their home is South 2B 
Raleigh, N. C. 



HARDING— BLACKBURN 

In a ceremony July 10, Katharine 
Harding, M. '30, was married to S. 
Robert Blackburn. Mrs. Blackburn, 
a member of Alpha Xi Delta sorority, 
for the past five years has been grade 
school music supervisor in Great 
Bend. Mr. Blackburn was graduated 
from the University of Kansas and 
took postgraduate work at Leland 
Stanford university, Palo Alto, Calif. 
He is a practicing attorney at Great 
Bend. Their home is at 2715 Six- 
teenth street, Great Bend. 



Miss Anna M. Stunner, associate 
professor in the Department of En- 
glish, announced this week that the 
annual Shakespeare dinner will be 
Monday, April 21, from 5:30 to S 
p. m., on the second floor of Thomp- 
son hall. Shakespearean comedy — 
high comedy, low comedy and farce 
— will lie the subject of the program 
this year. Pies. F. D. Farrell will 
speak, and Prof. William Lindquist 
of the Department of Music will have 
charge of the music. 



Josephine Wheeler, G. S. '40, was 
selected as second-grade teacher for 
one of the elementary buildings in 
the Mt. Vernon (Ohio) schools. 

"There has been little letup in ac- 
tivity since then," she writes. "This 
week I have been doing double duty. 
One little girl has been out of school 
with pneumonia. I have been tutor- 
ing her at her home after school. 

"Mt. Vernon is a town of about 
12,000. There are 1,200 in the high 
school and there are six elementary 
buildings. I teach at Elmwood which 
has 180 pupils in six grades. There 
are 23 in my class — it is really above 
average and has a high I. Q. rating, 
so I am having a good time. 

"The Mt. Vernon system has just 
completed an extensive building pro- 
gram in which each elementary build- 
ing was remodeled and a new high 
school was built. 

"One of my sorority sisters is at- 
tending Ohio State in Columbus and 
I understand that M. C. Moggie, '29, 
is there this winter. I am going over 
sometime soon and hope to see both 
of them. I hope you are having an- 
other fine year at Kansas State." 



RADDE — KIMEN 
Gretchen Radde, Cleveland, Ohio, 
and Peter Kimen, '37, were married 
August 23 at Christ Episcopal church, 
Houston, Texas. The couple will 
make their home in Pasadena, Texas, 
where Mr. Kimen is employed at the 
Champion Paper and Fibre company. 



SLAGG — BURDITT 

Ruth Arline Slagg, G. S. '39, be- 
came the bride of George F. Burditt, 
I. C. '40, September 20. They are at 
home in the Rossington apartments, 
3031 Troost avenue, Kansas City, Mo. 
Mr. Burditt is employed by the Gus- 
tin-Bacon Manufacturing company, 
Kansas City. 



MILLER— SCHRUBEN 
Abbie M. Miller, H. E. '40, was 
married to Leonard W. Schruben July 
21. Mrs. Schruben is a member of 
Omicron Nu and Phi Kappa Phi, na- 
tional honorary organization. Mr. 
Schruben is a member of Alpha Zeta 
and Gamma Sigma Delta, national 
honorary organizations, and Alpha 
Gamma Rho, social fraternity. Mr. 
Schruben, who received his master's 
degree from the University of Illi- 
nois, is a member of the Department 
of Economics staff of that institution. 
Their home is at 702 West Green, 
Urbana, 111. 



Dr. Andre Baude, a French physi- 
cian who participated in the evacua- 
tion of Dunkerque, returned to 
France to fight with the reorganized 
forces, was captured by the Nazis 
and later escaped, will speak at the 
Manhattan high school auditorium 
Thursday night. Doctor Baude's sub- 
ject will be "The Fall of France." 
He is appearing under the sponsor- 
ship of Sigma Delta Chi, professional 
journalism fraternity, and the Man- 
hattan Junior Chamber of Commerce. 



DEATHS 



CASE 
S. U. Case, Ag. '23, died March 23 
at his home in Girard. He suffered a 
stroke more than a month ago. He 
had been county agent in Crawford 
county for eight years, and teacher 
of vocational agriculture at Oska- 
loosa previous to that. He is survived 
by his widow, Vida (Ayers) Case, '22. 



AMTHAUEU— FREEMAN 

The marriage of Christine Am- 
thauer, f. s., to William B. Freeman, 
Ch. E. '40, took place August 10. 
They live at 429 Westmoreland 
street, Akron, Ohio. Mr. Freeman 
works for the Columbia Chemical 
division, Pittsburgh Plate Glass com- 
pany, Barberton, Ohio. 



COLLINS— MYERS 

Elizabeth Collins was given in 
marriage by her father, E. K. Collins, 
registrar of the Carnegie Institute of 
Technology, to Earl Harry Myers, E. 
E. '3 7, August 17. The couple live 
at 411 Montview place, Wilkinsburg, 



KANSAS STATE COLLEGE RECORDINGS 

"Alma Mater" and "Wildcat Victory" by the Kansas State 

College Men's chorus 

and 

"Roll on, Kansas State" and "Shoulder to Shoulder" by the College band 

All four of the above songs so dear to Kansas State College students and 
alumni recorded on one standard phonograph record will be mailed any- 
where in the United States for $1 each. Alumni in foreign countries should 
add the necessary additional postage. 

If you wish one of these records for your home or alumni meeting, All 
out the following order blank and mail to the Kansas State College Alumni 
association, Manhattan. 

□ Inclosed find $1 for one K. S. C. recording. 

□ Inclosed find 15c for one printed copy of "Wildcat Victory." 

Name 

Address 



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HOSPITALITY EXHIBITS 

TO DISPLAY MALE LIFE 



BOOTHS "ESPECIAIXY FOR 
ARE INCLUDED 



MEN" 



SUMMER SCHOOL OFFERS 
MORE THAN 400 COURSES 

DEAN HOLTON ANNOUNCES PRO- 
GRAM FOR 1941 SESSION 



MnHcullne Place In HomemnklnK and 

Distribution of Family Income on 

Fair IImnIs Will Be Shown 

In April 

Men will share in the 11th annual 
home economics Hospitality days 
April 18 and 19 in a way that they 
have not shared in previous exhibi- 
tions. A display "especially for men" 
will be offered to show the part that 
men play In homemaking. 

Home management and its relation 
to the men who live in their own 
homes are to be shown in estimates 
of how great a proportion of his an- 
nual income a man should spend in 
buying and furnishing a home. An 
ideal reading corner for the head of 
the house will be arranged, and the 
points to be observed in choosing 
chairs and lamps will be explained to 
visitors. 

DISPLAY TYPICAL HOBBIES 

Typical men's hobbies — chemical 
laboratory, photography dark room, 
woodworking shop, collections of rare 
stamps and coins, amateur astronomy 
— will be displayed as part of the 
appeal to men. Projects developed 
in such hobbies will be shown and 
the operation of a telescope in study- 
ing astronomy will be explained. 

That men engaged in sedentary 
work require different foods than 
men engaged in active work will be 
demonstrated in the foods display. 

Representative foods in correct 
proportions and combinations that 
have been prepared in the most 
healthful ways will be presented at 
the exhibit. Essential food require- 
ments for men in one type of work 
will be contrasted with those for men 
in other types. 

MALE FASHION SHOW 

Seam construction, concentration 
of strength of material at points of 
greatest wear and other points to ob- 
serve in choosing an overcoat will be 
shown. 

Correct attire for sport, business 
and formal occasions and methods of 
pressing, cleaning and caring for 

such clothing will be a feature of the ^ ■ ^^ ^ 

clothing exhibit Accessor es to be J of ^^ ^ 

worn With each type of c lo-thi. g and 
methods of choosing them for each 



Faculty Will Include 175 Instructors In 

Arts nnd Science, Agriculture, Home 

Economics, Engineering 

nnd Vet Medicine 

More than 400 graduate and under- 
graduate courses will be offered this 
year in summer school at Kansas 
State College May 28 to July 26. 
Announcement of the 1941 summer 
school program was made by E. L. 
Holton, dean of the summer school. 

The summer school faculty will 
include 175 instructors for courses 
in arts and science, agriculture, home 
economics, engineering and veteri- 
nary medicine. 

AID TO DEMOCRACY 

"When President Lincoln signed 
the Morrill act creating the 'new type 
of college to democratize higher edu- 
cation' he said that they would be the 
first line of defense for our American 
democracy. Not in great emergencies 
only, but year in and year out, and 
every year, the controlling purpose 
of Kansas State College of Agricul- 
ture and Applied Science is to defend 
and perpetuate our American democ- 
racy," Dean Holton declared. 

A three weeks' guidance clinic, 
June 2 to 21, will be among the 
special features of the 1941 summer 
school. The clinic is designed for ad- 
ministrators and directors of gui- 
dance, and for graduate students 
looking toward guidance and counsel- 
ing responsibilities as superinten- 
dents, principals, guidance super- 
visors and teachers. 

Leaders and advisers will include 
R. E. Brewster of the United States 
Office of Education, Washington, D. 
C; W. T. Markham of the State 
Board for Vocational Education, To- 
peka; Dr. C. V. Williams, Dr. V. L. 
Strickland and Dr. J. C. Peterson, all 



type also will be shown. 

♦ 
WLW SCHOLARSHIPS OPEN 

TO THREE RADIO STUDENTS 



Jardine to Talk at Seminar 

Dr. William Jardine, former presi- 
dent of Kansas State College, will 
speak at the agricultural seminar at 
4 p. m. Thursday in the College Audi- 
torium. Doctor Jardine, now presi- 
dent of the University of Wichita, 
left Kansas State College in 1925 to 
become United States secretary of ag- 
riculture. Later he was minister to 
Egypt. 

BEEKEEPING IS FACTOR 

IN SOIL CON SERVATION 

Prof. R. L. Parker Describes Opportuni- 
ties in Areas Having Alfnlfn 
and Sweet Clover 

"There is a golden opportunity for 
beekeepers in areas where alfalfa 
and sweet clover have become a defi- 
nite part of the soil conservation pro- 
gram," R. L. Parker, professor of 
apiculture, wrote in a recent article 
printed in the American Bee Journal. 
Professor Parker estimated that 
there are about 25,000 colonies of 
bees in the eastern half of Kansas. 
Under favorable conditions for bee- 
keeping, he estimates that this num- 
ber could be increased to 200,000 or 
3 00,000 colonies because of the 
greatly increased acreage of alfalfa 
and sweet clover that now is being 
grown as a part of the soil conserva- 
tion movement. 

In those parts of the state where 
soil conservation work has greatly 
increased the acreage of legumes, 
he pointed out that beekeepers should 
increase the number of colonies now 
kept. The increase in the number of 
bees in these areas not only will be 
beneficial to the beekeeper, but also 
will assist the farmer who grows the 
alfalfa and sweet clover. The bee, 
seeking nectar, brings about the pol- 
lination of the flower on these plants 
and thus assures a more uniform seed 
crop, Professor Parker stated. 

Every acre of alfalfa or sweet clo- 
ver can support a colony of bees, ac- 
cording to the bee specialist. In a 
recent survey of the eastern part of 
Kansas in the soil conservation areas, 
beekeepers and entomologists noticed cation. 

that there were few and sometimes wiggam will lecture 

no honey bees in areas where there ! Also included in the summer school 
were large acreages of sweet clover i will be the fourth annual Rural High 
and alfalfa. Professor Parker urged I School clinic, June 9, and a lecture 
that the bee population in these areas by Dr. Albert E. Wiggam, philosopher 
be increased, not only for the sake I and psychologist and author of "Ex- 
ploring Your Mind," a newspaper 
column. The Henry Thompson play- 
ers will give an entertainment, and 
the Ben Greet players will present a 
Shakespearean play during the sum- 
mer. 



Gill to Address Banquet 

Murray F. Gill, president of the 
Kansas Gas and Electric company, 
will address the first annual Kappa 
Sigma district leadership award ban- 
quet at the Gillett hotel, the evening 
of April 5. Mr. Gill is an alumnus of 
the University of Texas chapter of 
Kappa Sigma. He will speak after 
presentation of the leadership award 
to the most outstanding senior under- 
graduate member of the Kappa Sigma 
fraternity from the chapters of Kan- 
sas and Nebraska. 



PATRICK HENRY'S DESCENDANT 
TAKES ORATORICAL HONORS 



WILDCATS WILL BATTLE 
KANSAS NINE NEXT WEEK 

FLOYD KIRKLAND, JUNCTION CITY, 
TO PITCH OPENER 



Mnrclle Norby, Culllson, Is Judged Best 

In Annual Intersoclety 

Competition 

Marcile Norby, Cullison, won the 
41st annual intersociety oratorical 
contest Friday night with her ora- 
tion on "True Americanism." Miss 
Norby, who represented the Ionian 
Literary society, is a great, great, 
great, great granddaughter of Pat- 
rick Henry, American Revolutionary 
patriot. 

Taking second was Orville Burtis, 
Hymer, who represented the Athenian 
society and talked on "Our Good 
Earth." Other contestants were Mar- 
jorie Force, Wheaton, Browning rep- 
resentative, and John Marten, Win- 
field, representative of the Hamilton 
society. Miss Force talked on "The 
Jericho Road" and Marten on the 
Kansas quartocentennial Coronado 
celebration. 

Judges of the annual contest were 
Mrs. Merle Spencer, Manhattan, Prof. 
R. W. Conover of the Department of 
English and William Troutman, as- 
sociate professor of the Department 
of Public Speaking. 

Virginia Goodwin, Hiawatha, sang 
a solo, and Margaret Schnacke, La 
Crosse, played a violin solo during 
the program. Dr. J. T. Willard, Col- 
lege historian, presided for the 41st 
r^oU^e^ar^enToTEdu: time at an oratorical contest. 



I), FARRELL ANNOUNCES 
TWO FACULTY RESIGNATIONS 



Conch Frnnk L. Myers Announces Prob- 
able Starting Line-up with 
Five Letter Men and 
Two Rookies 

Floyd Kirkland, a letter man from 
Junction City, will start on the mound 
for Kansas State College in the first ( 
of two games against the University 
of Kansas at Lawren ce April 7 and 8. 

Coach Frank L. Myers announced 
a probable starting line-up of five let- 
ter men, two squad men from last 
year and two rookies. Judging from 
spring workouts, the Wildcats will 
offer a smooth-working infield to 
their opponents this season. 

MYERS ANNOUNCES LINE-UP 

The probable line-up for Monday's 
game includes Kirkland and Charles 
Kier, Mankato, pitchers; Norbert 
Raemer, Herkimer, catcher; Kenny 
Graham, Framingham, Mass., first 
base; Ray Dunlay, Parsons, second 
base; Neal Hugos, Manhattan, third 
base; Warren Hornsby, Topeka, 
shortstop; Ray Rokey, Sabetha, left 
field; Chris Langvardt, Alta Vista, 
center field; Veryle Snyder, Mayetta, 
right field. Kirkland, Graham, 
Hornsby, Langvardt and Rokey are 
letter men. The first-year men are 
Dunlay, Hugos and Kier. 

Pitching choices for the second 
game probably will be Harold Hoss- 
feld, Willis, and Jack Wilson, Burr- 
ton. 

REGULARS LOSE TO RESERVES 

Monday afternoon, the Flannigans, 
composed of regulars on the Wildcat 
squad, were defeated, 10-11, by the 
Yannigans, the reserves, in a six- 
inning practice game. The players 
made five errors in the second intra- 
squad contest of the season. 

Three men, Bill Cook, Manhattan, 
Hornsby and Kier, connected with 
homers in the six innings. Cook 
made his in his first time at bat with 
three men on base to bring in the 
first four scores for the reserves. 
i Hornsby made four bases on a long 
drive deep into center field in the 
second inning, and Kier, a husky 
southpaw, knocked one over the 
right-field fence in the fifth frame for 
the last homer. 

♦ 
ENGINEERING VERSATILITY 

SHOWN BY LOCAL PROFESSOR 



i 



Mm. 



Nina M. Ithoades, Van /.lie Hall 
Social Director, Will Leave 

Pres. F. D. Farrell has announced 
the resignation of two members of 
the College staff, Mrs. Nina M. 
Ithoades and Dr. A. C. Tregidga. 

The resignation of Mrs. Rhoades, 



Merlon Emmert Won Award In 11)30 to 
Spend Six Months at Radio Station 

WLW, Cincinnati radio station, has lne UO nege in, «ir». »iua m. (>r Senford De) 

announced its annual scholarship ■ U i 10il des and Dr. A. C. Tregidga. . . ».„„„_*_,._,„« 

awards competition for 1941, accord- Tne re8igna tion of Mrs. Rhoades, Five seniors in the Department of 

tag to word received by James P. ! 80clal dlre * tor of V an Zlle hall, the Chemical V**™™**™™*™ 

Chapman, assistant extension editor, , wome „- B dormitory, becomes effec- positions with E. I. du Pont de Ne- 

from George C. Biggar, WLW Pro- Lye June 30. Mrs. Rhoades has been moura and company, Inc., in Wil- 

associated with the College since — ^^^ wUl become ef- Kansas chapter of the Mathematica 

The resignation of Doctor Treg id- feetive soon after graduation e»r, ; A- ociatlon of Aj™^- "^ 

ga, instructor in the Department of cises n May, according to Proi. W. 



gram director. 

The awards, founded two years 
ago, during each of the past two 
years have enabled two young men 



500 ARE EXPECTED 

(Continued from page one) 
Kelly, professor in the Division of 
College Extension, and Roger C. 
Smith, professor of entomology. 
Graduate students on the program 
are Floyd Holmes, Prescott; Richard 
Schwitzgebel and Lyle Edelblute, 
both of Manhattan, and H. P. Boles, 
Wilmore. 

On the program of the psychology 
divisional meeting will be John C. j 

„ j „ r a* • i.i„„j „,.„ Dr. W. T. Thomson Wins Awards In 

E.VE CHEM.OAL ENG.NEERS \ ^0'"* l£ES°SiEi < — — ' — ' * ?T 7" '"" 

ACPFPT DU PONT POSITIONS tion If award- we]e available for ver- 

ACCE11 DU The Kansas State chapter of the satility in the field of engineering, 

M«v Grndnnte. win Work nt Wllmlnfc- | American Association of University Kansas State could well nominate 

Professors will present Fritz Moore, \ Dr. W. T. Thomson, assistant pro- 
president of the Kansas State College I fessor of applied mechanics, his as- 
chapter, and S. A. Nock, College vice- 1 « 
president. 

Representatives of Kansas State 
College at the joint session of the 



A few days ago, about the time 
Doctor Thomson announced he would 
resign, effective April 19, to do re- 
search for Boeing Aircraft at Seattle, 
he received a $50 award and a cer- 
tificate for the best paper presented 



young men ga , instructor in the Department of cis es "^Z^™ 11 *^™^ ™ f ^ tics w i„ be Helen Moore, dean of last year to the American Society for 
agriculture Electrical Engineering, was effective , L. Fa th head of the Depaitmem 01 Babcock, dean of the Testing Materials. The award was 



with college training in 
and some radio experience to go to 
Cincinnati and learn agricultural ra- 
dio under guidance. 

In the first competition in 1939, i 
Merton Emmert, Kansas State Col- 
lege agricultural student, won one 
of the two scholarships. 

This year, according to Mr. Big- 
gar, three awards will be made. One 
of these will go to a senior in agri- 
culture for specialized ability dis- 
played in planning and executing ag- 
ricultural radio programs; one will 
be made for general announcing, 
writing and production, and a third 
for radio promotion and market re- 
search. 

toIn^i^BeniolS mdta qS" "Our present standards of living are based on the fullest possible use of ^^^SSS. t££ 



March 31. Chemical Engineering. 

♦ The five include Tom R. Woods, 

Three Named to Pro List Burden, who will join the commer- 
Virgil Whitsitt, Phill.psburg; Vic- explosIve8 department, Wilming- 

tor Volsky, Pittsfield, Mass., and Manhat . 

Walter Martin, Pratt, have been J™ ^ £ J ft ^ 

added to the list of journalism profes- ' tUlu . ' , "***' TV. ' B| wn 

i f *i,„ n„n„.tm on t nf TnrtiiH military explosives department, Wil- 
sionals of the Department or Indus- J » „„„,, qv,o/i q T? Q n 

I trial Journalism and Printing. Whit- mington, Del.; and Hugh Shade Ran- 

Isitt, a transfer student, won a $100 . toul, and Ralph Thomas, Indepen- 
Kansas City Board of Trade scholar- deuce, with the nylon division at 

ship last September. Seaford, Del. 



EVERYDAY ECONOMICS 

By W. E. GRIMES 



women; R. W. Babcock, dean of the 
Division of General Science, and H. 
C. Fryer, assistant professor in the 
Department of Mathematics. 

Local committee members for the 
meeting are Professor Bushnell, gen- 
eral chairman ; Professor Byrne, ban- 
quet; Professor Frazier, registration; 
A. L. Olsen, instructor in the Depart- 
ment of Chemistry, exhibits; Profes- 
sor Herrick, meeting rooms and 
equipment; Ralph Rogers, Manhat- 
tan, junior academy, and L. E. Hudi- 
burg, assistant professor in the De- 
partment of Physics, room reserva- 
tions. 

A feature of the program is a Sat- 
urday morning meeting for college 
students. This is the second time the 



flcations enrolled in state universi- 
ties, land-grant colleges and colleges 
which are members of, or approved 
by, the Association of American Uni- 
versities. Each winning candidate will 
spend six months at WLW, starting 
July 1, and will receive a $500 schol- 
arship award, this amount to be ap- 
portioned over the 26 weeks. 
•♦ 
New Phi Belt Housemother 
Mrs. E. C. Brownson of Kansas 
City Mo., recently was chosen to re- 
place the late Mrs. Grant Mathias as 
housemother of Phi Delta Theta, 
social fraternity. Mrs. Brownson, who 
lived at 3327 Park street, Kansas 
City, takes over her duties in Manhat- 
tan April 2. She formerly was em- 
ployed by the Columbia National 
bank in Kansas City. 



modern transportation and communication facilities." 

The development of modern trans- I the use of modern transportation and 
portation and communication systems communication systems in making 
has increased the interdependency of 
peoples in all parts of the world. 
Widespread war in Europe in the 
time of Napoleon had far less effect 
on the people of America than the 
present European war. The develop- 
ment of transportation and communi- 
cation systems has lessened distances 
nnd increased the degree to which 



contacts with other countries must 
be restricted. With such restrictions, 
of course, would come decreased use 
of the goods and services secured 
from these other parts of the world. 
Since many of these goods cannot be 
obtained at a reasonable cost in this 
country, their use would have to be 
reduced or abandoned. This would 



disturbancesaffect people throughout | the avai i a ble to satis- 

the world. Remote neighbors have ^ ^ & ^^ ^^ 

become near neighbors and tneir 



quarrels disturb our peace and inter- 
fere with the conduct of our business 
affairs. 

If America is to become isolated 
from much of the rest of the world, 



ards of living correspondingly. Our 
present standards of living are based 
on the fullest possible use of modern 
transportation and communication 
facilities. 



part of the academy meeting, accord 
ing to Roger C. Smith, professor in 
the Department of Entomology and 
secretary of the association. M. W. 
Allen, graduate of Kansas State Col- 
lege and instructor at the Coffeyville 
junior college, will preside over this 
meeting. The Texas Academy of Sci- 
ence is the only other state academy 
maintaining such a meeting for col- 
lege students, said Professor Smith. 

Those from Kansas State College 
who will take part in the college stu- 
dent program will be Capt. Delos C. 
Taylor, assistant professor in the De- 
partment of Military Science and 
Tactics; Ray Bukaty, Kansas City, 
and Phillip Myers, Formoso, students 
in the Division of Engineering and 
Architecture, and Kemp G. Stiles, 
Topeka, student in general science. 



Testing Materials. The award was 
made for the best paper on the gen- 
eral subject of concrete aggregates. 
Doctor Thomson's paper was on "A 
Method of Measuring Thermal Dif- 
fusivity and Conductivity of Stone 
and Concrete." 

He previously had won an award 
on an electrical engineering subject. 
This, plus his most recent award and 
his appointment to a research job in 
a defense industry, gives him recog- 
nition in the fields of civil engineer- 
ing, electrical engineering and aero- 
nautics. 

Will Compete at Austin 

Coach Ward Haylett will take a 
squad of 16 Kansas State College 
track and field men to Austin to com- 
pete in the annual Texas relays Sat- 
urday. Probable K-State entries in- 
clude Jim Johns, Manhattan; Rufus 
Miller, Hiawatha; Wilfred Burnham, 
St. Francis; Loyal Payne, Manhattan; 
James Upham, Junction City; Sam 
Johnson, Oswego; Thaine High, Abi- 
lene; Don Borthwick, Beeler; Ed 
Darden, Manhattan; Gilbert Dodge, 
Dighton; Louis Akers, Atchison; 
Ken Makalous, Cuba; Les Droge, 
Seneca; Richard Peters, Valley Falls, 
and Bill Thies, Marion. 
♦ 
Arbor Day Broadcast 

A transcribed message by Gov. 
Payne H. Ratner was presented on 
a special Arbor day broadcast from 
the College radio station, KSAC, Fri- 
day noon. 



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HISTORICAL SOCIETY 

TOPEKA 

KAN. 



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The Kansas Industrialist 



Volume 67 



Kansas^taTe^onegToTAgriculture and Applied Science, Manhattan, Wednesday, April 9, 1941 



Number 26 



HOME PANEL WILL OPEN 
HOSPITALITY ACTIVITIES 

I>H. ALICE SOWERS OP OKLAHOMA 
HAS PLACE! ON PROGRAM 



H 



AMMHiMT IMhcummIoii on Family Mfe 

Will Officially Ilearln Two Dn>M 

of DIvInIoiiiiI Open 

Hoiihc 

A panel discussion on "Home, the 
First Defense" officially will open the 
Hospitality days program at an as- 
sembly in the College Auditorium on 
Friday, April 18. Dr. Alice Sowers, 
head of the Family Life institute of 
the University of Oklahoma, will lead 
the discussion. 

Doctor Sowers will discuss family 
problems and other members of the 
panel will elaborate points presented 
in her speech. Others participating 
on the panel will be Dr. Katharine 
Roy, head of the Department of Child 
Welfare and Euthenics; Mrs. A. L. 
Clapp, Manhattan; Dale Rundle, Ax- 
tell; Marianna Kistler, Manhattan; 
Garland Childers, Augusta, and Bill 
Hickman, Kirwin. 

EXHIBITS OPKN TWO DAYS 
Exhibits, housed in Anderson and 
Calvin halls, will remain open from 
1 p in. to 10 p. m. Friday and from 
8 a. m. to 3:30 p. m. Saturday. These 
exhibits will represent work done in 
each department of the division and 
aid in interpreting the work to the 
general public. 

Contests open to all high school 
visitors will be held Saturday morn- 
ing. Judging contests and written 
examinations covering art, foods, 
clothing and home living will be of- 
fered, with Kansas State compacts 
and letter openers to be given as priz- 
es to the highest scorers. 

Preliminary to the official opening, 
an all-division banquet will be served 
Thursday veiling. At. the banquet, 
honors received by home economics 
students throughout the year will 
be announced, including names of 
those co-eds elected to Phi Kappa 
Phi all-school honorary society. The 
senior woman and the sophomore 
woman who have ranked highest 
scholastically during their years In 
school will be honored. New officers 
of the Margaret Justin Home Eco- 
nomics club will be installed at that 
time. Recognition will be given the 
women's meat judging team. 

LUNCHEON FOR VISITORS 
Luncheon for the high school girls 
will be given Saturday at noon in 
Recreation Center. Dorothy Beezley, 
Girard, general chairman for Hospi- 
tality days, will be toastmistress. In- 
dividual musical numbers and group 
singing will be the program for the 
luncheon. 

An assembly honoring high school 
visitors Saturday afternoon will in- 
clude a style show. Miss Helen 
Moore, dean of women, will speak, 
and Miss Margaret M. Justin, dean of 
the Division of Home Economics, will 
discuss training offered in home eco- 
nomics at Kansas State. 

Teas for the high school girls will 
be given at Van Zile hall and Thomp- 
son hall Saturday afternoon. Hospi- 
tality days will end with Hospitality 
hop on Saturday night. Matt Betton's 
orchestra will play for the dance. 



Jardlne Talks at Seminar 

Dr W M. Jardlne, president of the 
University of Wichita, former presi- 
dent of Kansas State College and 
former United States secretary of ag- 
riculture, told students at an agricul- 
tural seminar Thursday that farmers 
are due for a turn for the better now. 
Discussing the national debt, he said 
that if each of the United States 
workers contributed two hours week- 
ly the nation's indebtedness could 
be reduced at an astonishingly rapid 

rate. 

♦ 

Londoner to A<l<lioss Co-ops 

Waling Dykstra, the Londoner 
who bandied a million dollars' worth 
of international trade a year for 17 
cooperative wholesales in 14 coun- 
tries until the war dynamited the 
business and a bomb destroyed his 
office, will speak at the Co-op con- 
ference banquet Thursday night. 



Radio Program on Hogs 

Hog raisers may listen to tips on 
creep feeding pigs, and advice on the 
market outlook for pigs this year, 
Friday at 12:30 p. m. during the 
Farm Hour program over the College 
radio station, KSAC. 



GENERAL SCIENCE FACULTY 
ADOPTS ENGLISH PROGRAM 



PHI KAPPA PHI HONORS 
GIVEN TO 44 STUDENTS 

NATIONAL, SCHOLASTIC HONORARY 
UROIP ANNOVNCES MST 



Student* Will Re Ileqnlrcil to P«M 

I.mik'iiiikp Proficiency Examination 

lleforc Graduation 

The Division of General Science 
faculty, in an effort to improve the 
proficiency of College students in the 
use of English, last week adopted a 
plan for tests in English for stu- 
dents in that division. The plan 
probably will go into effect at the be- 
ginning of the 1942-43 school year. | 
The proposal calls for the appoint- 1 
ment of a committee of seven by the 
dean of the division. 

The plan, as adopted by the Gen- 
eral Science faculty, provides that a 
student must pass the qualifying 
examination to be eligible for gradu- 
ation. The examination, to include 
written composition and objective 
tests, is to be given once a semester 
each year for second-semester 
juniors, for transfer seniors and for 
those students who have failed pre- 
viously. The plan provides that 
there always be one member from 
the Department of English and one 
member from the Department of Pub- 
lic Speaking on the committee. 

General Science faculty members 
adopted the plan after a study by a 
faculty committee. This committee, 
headed by Miss Nellie Aberle of the 
Department of English, made a sur- 
vey of plans in use at other institu- 
tions and spent several months study- 
ing these plans before submitting the 
recommendations to the General Sci- 
ence faculty at Kansas State College. 
Chief aims of the plan are to pro- 
vide an incentive for students to 
maintain the standards of English 
proficiency attained during the fresh- 
man year in Rhetoric I and Rhetoric 
II courses. Most members of the fac- 
ulty feel that students have a ten- 
dency to become careless in written 
and oral English after English cours- 
es have been completed. The exami- 
nation is expected to provide an in- 
centive for maintaining skills and 
possible further improvement. 



Engineers Get Jobs 

Two more chemical engineering 
seniors who are candidates for de- 
grees this spring at Kansas State Col- 
lege have accepted positions begin- 
ning June 1. They are Emery Levin, 
Lindsborg, who will work for the 
General Chemical company, Chicago, 
and C. B. Sprague, El Dorado, with 
the Socony-Vacuum Oil company, 
Augusta. 



To Be Accorded Recognition, Candl- 

datex Mu»t Rnnk In Highest 10 

Percent of Their 

Clam 

Forty-four new members have been 
elected to the Kansas State College 
chapter of Phi Kappa Phi, national 
scholastic honorary organization. To 
be elected to Phi Kappa Phi, students 
must rank in the highest 10 percent 
of their class scholastically. 

The newly elected members and 
their divisions: 

BIGHT FROM AGRICULTURE 
Division of Agriculture — Frank Al- 
len Slead, Neosho Rapids; Orville ! 
Walter Love, Neosho Rapids; Paul El- 
bert Smith, Lebanon; Leland Leon 1 
Groff, Parsons; Eugene Ellsworth 
Woolley, Osborne; John Stanley Win- 
ter, Dresden; Doyle Wayne LaRosh, 
Natoma, and Arden Reiman, Byers. 

Division of Engineering and Archi- 
tecture — Keith Leon Witt, Indepen- j 
dence, Mo.; Shirley Frederick Eye- 
stone, Wichita; John Richard Romig, 
Bethany, Mo.; Byron White Jr., Neo- 
desha; Elmer John Rollins, Manhat- 1 
tan; Ralph John Wahrenbrock, En- 
terprise; Harold Raymond Harris, 
Geuda Springs; Garland Baxter Chil- 
ders, Augusta; John Gilbert Brewer, 
Concordia; Charles Elmer Webb Jr., 
Hill City. 

TEN FROM HOME EC 
Division of General Science — Rob- 
ert Earhart Crow, Harper; Robert 
Thomas Cotton, Manhattan; Nancy 
Patricia Wilkins, Steelville, Mo.; 
Henry S. C. Lau, Arkansas City; Mary 
Marvel Kantz, Wichita; Bernice 
Maude Horton, Waysiue; Richard 
Warren Cope, Holton; Kathryn Eliza- 
beth Blevins, Manhattan, and Walter 
Woodrow Martin, Pratt. 

Division of Home Economics — 
Maxine Beryl Bishop, Abilene; Eliza- 
beth Lurene Titus, Cottonwood Falls; j 
Mildred Blanche Bozarth Davis, Con- 
cordia; Joan Miller, Milford; Kath- 
jerlne Jean Wadley, Silver Spring, 
Md.; Dorothy Beyer, Sabetha; Mar- 
jorie Jane McKee, Chanute; Dorothy 
Elizabeth Axcell, Chanute; Florence 
Verda Gwin, Junction City, and Leila 
Alouise Roberts, Parsons. 

FOUR GRADUATE STUDENTS 
Division of Veterinary Medicine — 
Robert Donald Immenschuh, San 
Diego, Calif.; Glover Wilson Laird, 
Kansas City, Mo., and Richard Wil- 
liam Swart, Manhattan. 

Division of Graduate Study — Franz 
Leidler, Manhattan; Hsien Tsin 
Chang, Shanghai, China; Lyman 
Philip Frick, Kansas City, Mo., and 
Charles John Birkeland, Manhattan. 



Mrs. Farrell to Visit East 

Mrs. F. D. Farrell, wife of the Col- 
lege President, will leave tonight for 
a three weeks' trip in the East. She 
will visit her daughter, Mrs. H. E. 
Ross, and Mr. Ross in West Hartford, 
Conn., and on her return trip will 
stop in New York, Washington, D. C, 
and St. Louis, Mo. 



JOHN FRAZIER IS NAMED 
SEC RETARY OF AC ADEMY 

SCIENCE GUOl P PICKS LOCAL MAN 
TO SUCCEED ROGER SMITH 



COLLEGE FAVORS A. A. U. P. 
MORE THAN K. S. C. FACULTY 

— NOCK 



Independents Capture Eight Offices 

in Hotly Contested Election Battle 



Vlee-Prentdeiit Explalna Admlnlntrn- 

tlOB Im Eiithiidhmtlc About 

Organization 

Kansas State College is unusual in | 
that the administration, as represent- j 
ed by the President at any rate, is I 
much more enthusiastic about the 
American Association of University 
Professors than are the members of 
the faculty, Dr. S. A. Nock, College 
vice-president, told members of the 
Kansas chapters of A. A. U. P. at a 
meeting Saturday in connection with 
the Kansas Academy of Science. 

Doctor Nock, in carrying the Col- 
lege administration's message, said 
most of the faculty members of Kan- 
sas State College do not join the A. A. 
U. P. because they seem to regard it 
as a sort of lost defense of forlorn 
| hopes rather than a national organi- 
zation valuable to people who are not 
! in danger as well as to people who 
j are. It is unfortunate that there is 
not more of the cooperative spirit 
which would lead our faculty to in- 
terest itself in the problems of other 
faculties, Doctor Nock said. 

Prof. Frederick S. Deibler, North- 
western university, national A. A. U. 
P. president, gave a short history of 
the organization and its principles. 
He compared the organization to the 
professional societies of lawyers and 
! physicians. The organization tries to 
1 iron out. difficulties which arise from 
I time to time between a college admin- 
! istration and its faculty. It also 
! works toward the advancement of 
i the standards and ideals of the col- 
, lege teaching profession. 

Dr. Fritz Moore, head of the De- 

partment of Modern Languages and 

j president of the local chapter of the 

A. A. U. P., gave a speech in which 

' he stressed the desirability of infor- j 

tnality in teaching. He also said that 

good teaching is of more importance 

■ than academic scholarship. 

During the afternoon session, Dr. 
A. B. Sageser, Kansas State College 
Department of History and Govem- 
l ment, was elected chairman of the 
i central committee of the Kansas 
| chapters of the A. A. U. P. The other 
members of the central committee 
this year will be chosen by the vari- 
ous local chapters instead of elected 
at the annual meeting, as formerly. 

Doctor Sageser succeeds Prof. 
Robert Conover, College Department 
of English, as central committee 
chairman. Professor Conover had 
been chairman of this committee 
since its inception five years ago. 



TWO CANTATAS PRESENTED 

AT TUESDAY'S ASSEMBLY 



In one of the liveliest elections in 
recent years, the student body yester- 
day selected eight Independent and 
four Greek candidates for next year's 
Student Council and the Board of 
Publications. A total of 2,523 stu- 
dents voted, 80 more than a year ago. 

Several dozen students paraded 
through Anderson hall throughout 
the day, wearing sandwich-board 
signs telling of their candidates. 

The Student Council balloting was 
as follows: 

Division of Home Economics (two 
elected) — Dorothy Beezley, Girard, 
Independent, 1,600; Jane Haymaker, 
Manhattan, Pi Beta Phi, 1,386, and 
Helen Woodard, Topeka, Indepen- 
dent, 1,330. 

Division of General Science (two 
elected)— Ralph Perry, Oskaloosa, 
Independent, 1,343; Marjorie Spurri- 
er, Kingman, Kappa Kappa Gamma, 
1 26 0; Alma Deane Fuller, Court- 
land, Independent, 1,161, and Don 
Kortman, Manhattan, Sigma Nu, 

1,057. 

Division of Veterinary Medicine 



(one elected) — Richard Gorman, 
East Hartford, Conn., Independent, 
1.311, and Robert Lank, Kansas City, 
Alpha Gamma Rho, 1,140. 

Division of Engineering and Archi- 
tecture (two elected) — Larry Spear, 
Mission, Independent, 1,654; Don 
Moss, Miltonvale, Independent, 1,464, 
and Robert Dunlap, Liberal, Sigma 
Alpha Epailon, 1,210. 

Division of Agriculture (two elect- 
ed) — Ray Rokey, Sabetha, Alpha 
Gamma Rho. 1,460; Robert Single- 
ton, Kansas City, Independent, 1,216; 
Pierce Wbeatley, Gypsum, Kappa 
Sigma, 1,180, and George Wreath, 
Manhattan, Independent, 1,03 4. 

Balloting for the Board of Publi- 
cations' three positions was as fol- 
lows: 

Martha Payne, Manhattan, Inde- 
pendent, 1,964; Kenneth Hamlin, 
Manhattan, Sigma Phi Epsilon, 
1,323; Gordon West, Manhattan, In- 
dependent, 1,243; Jack Curtis, Gar- 
den City, Independent, 1,156, and 
John Koger, Cheney, Delta Tail Del- 
ta, 1,143. 



Darter Program Im Given Under Direc- 
tion of Prof. Edwin Sayre 

Two cantatas, "Joshua" and "Gal- 
I lia," were presented by the College 
vocal ensemble at the YWCA-YMCA 
sponsored Easter assembly Tuesday 
at 2 p. m. in the College Auditorium. 
The ensemble is under the direction 
I of Edwin Sayre, associate professor 
in the Department of Music. 

The assembly program included an 

organ prelude by Miss Marion Pelton 

of the Department of Music, and a 

| reading by Marjorie Spurrier of 

I Kingman. 

The vocal ensemble of college stu- 
dents included Helen Dahl, Manhat- 
tan, Mary Dillin, Hutchinson, Clara 
Jane Billingsley, Belleville, and 
Nancy Wilkins, Steelville, Mo., so- 
pranos; Jeanette Coons, Canton, 
Irene Limper, Manhattan, and Jean 
Wright, Manhattan, altos; Leon 
Findley, Kiowa, and Val Gene Sher- 
rard, Great Bend, tenors; Hal Eye- 
stone, Pittsburg, Norris McGaw, To- 
peka, and George Eberhart, Jewell, 
basses. 



Dr. Frank C. GateH, Chonen n Year Ago, 

Taken Over Position of New 

PrcNiilent of KnunnH 

Organization 

Dr. John C. Frazier, assistant pro- 
fessor in the Department of Botany 
and Plant Pathology, was elected 
secretary of the Kansas Academy of 
Science for the coming year at the 
final general meeting held last Sat- 
urday. He succeeds Dr. Roger C. 
Smith, professor of entomology. 

Dr. Frank C. Gates, professor in 
the Botany department, is the new 
president of the academy after serv- 
I ing a year as president-elect. 

Approximately 700 persons attend- 
I ed the various sessions of the 73rd 
annual meeting of the Kansas Acad- 
emy of Science held Thursday, Friday 
and Saturday on the Kansas State 
College campus. 

CARDWBLL NAMED EDITOR 
Dr. L. D. Bushnell, Department of 
Bacteriology, was chosen for the 
academy's executive council. Dr. A. 
B. Cardwell, head of the Department 
of Physics, was chosen to edit the 
proceedings of the physics section. 

Travis Brooks, Kansas State Col- 
lege, received the Reagan research 
award for research on the Myxomy- 
cetes of Kansas. Leslie L. Eisen- 
brandt, University of Kansas City, 
now doing research work at Kansas 
State College, received a $40 award 
from the American Association for 
the Advancement of Science for his 
work in the study of intestinal mu- 
cosa for an inhibitory nematode 
growth factor. A $35 A. A. A. S. 
award went to Leonard H. Moulden, 
Kansas State College, for collecting 
insects at various altitudes by air- 
plane. 

FORMER 1'KESIDENT TALKS 
The academy meetings opened with 
an address by Dr. W. M. Jardine, 
president of the University of Wichita 
and former president of Kansas State 
College, on Egypt, its agriculture and 
its place in the present world conflict. 
Doctor Jardine spoke under the joint 
auspices of the academy and Gamma 
Sigma Delta, honorary agricultural 
fraternity. He told of the strategic 
position Egypt holds in the present 
crisis. 

He said that the reason that Egypt 
has not declared war against the Axis 
powers is because her irrigation sys- 
tem could be destroyed by bombs very 
quickly. Doctor Jardine said many 
Italians living there would form an 
I effective fifth column. 

Dr. William L. Hart, professor of 
mathematics at the University of Min- 
nesota, gave an address on "Mathe- 
matics and National Service." Mathe- 
matics is of utmost importance at the 
present time because military science 
is essentially a mathematical science. 
Most of the skilled workers employed 
in the defense industries must have 
considerable knowledge of mathemat- 
ics to do their jobs. 

OTHER GROUPS MEET 
Organizations participating in the 
academy meetings included the Kan- 
sas Entomological society; Junior 
Academy of Science of Kansas; the 
Mathematical Association of America* 
Kansas section; Kansas Association! 
of Teachers of Mathematics, and Kan- 
sas chapters of the American Asso- 
ciation of University Professors. 

Sections making up the academy 
program included botany, chemistry, 
physics, psychology, zoology, geology, 
biology teachers and a special section 
for college students. 



Mackintosh on Eastern Tour 

D. L. Mackintosh, associate profes- 
sor in the Department of Animal 
Husbandry, left Sunday for a two 
weeks' cattle feeders' tour in the 
East. The tour, under the sponsor- 
ship of Swift and company, will in- 
clude three-day stops in Chicago, 
Boston, New York City, Baltimore 
and Washington, D. C. Taking the 
trip will be about 20 cattle feeders 
from over the United States. 






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The KANSAS INDUSTRIALIST 

Established April 24, 1875 

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Jane Rockwell, Ralph Lasmbrook, 

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1941 




•MOT IT RAJIV 

Time was when several consecu- 
tive days of wet weather would have 
dampened the spirits of all but the 
most determinedly cheerful, but most 
Kansans not only were still able to 
smile, but felt like doing it, on the 
fourth day of our recent rainy spell. 

Kansas has become water-conscious 
in the past decade, in part because of 
the natural reaction to heat and dry 
weather, in part because of the able 
presentation of the importance of 
water conservation to the future of 
the state. 

The writings of George S. Knapp, 
chief engineer of the division of wa- 
ter resources of the Kansas State 
Board of Agriculture, and of R. I. 
Throckmorton of the Department of 
Agronomy of this College, have been 
distributed in tens of thousands of 
copies by the agricultural committee 
of the Kansas Bankers' association. 
The story also has been told in person 
by Knapp and Throckmorton and by 
dozens of other able and informed 
speakers. Newspapers, magazines and 
radio stations have played an impor- 
tant part in bringing home the seri- 
ousness of such facts as that runoff 
in Kansas streams decreased by 20 
to 50 percent in the 1931-1939 period 
as compared with 1922-1930. The 
fact that the Walnut river, for ex- 
ample, was reduced 48 percent in 
stream flow by an 18 percent defi- 
ciency in rainfall and a 2.8 percent 
rise in average temperatures over a 
nine-year period, has become a men- 
acing rather than a merely annoying 
fact. The average Kansan has been 
made to realize that unless the avail- 
able water supply is conserved 
through better cultivation practices 
and an increase in storage reservoir 
capacities, both the state's agricul- 
tural and m a mi lac Miring industries 
will lace an increasingly difficult 
water-supply situation. 

A decade of wanner weather, de- 
creased rainfall, sharply rising per- 
centages of evaporation, has brought 
even the city dweller face to face with 
a fundamental fact the farmer never 
forgets for a moment: that human 
existence depends on the forces of 
nature being limited to a rather nar- 
row range of fluctuation. 

Temperature and rainfall charts of i 
the past decade are an unpleasant re- 
minder of what nature might do to 
us if she started out in earnest. That 
uneasy knowledge lies behind some 
of the smiles over our recent rainy 
spell, behind the often-voiced com- 
ment: "It can't rain too much to suit 
me!" 

♦ 

APPLYING SCIENTIFIC METHODS 
As I see It, ours is not an age of i 
science. Men are still driven by greed 
and confused by guile, rather than 
guided by reason based on our ex-: 
panding knowledge. Science has 
greatly enlarged man's understand- 
ing, conquered many of his diseases, 
lengthened his life, multiplied his 
joys, decreased his fears, and added i 
much to his physical comforts and 
powers. But man may and does use 
these and other achievements for a j 
greater social injury, instead of for 
a further social advance. Science is j 
specifically human, in that it stems 
from the innate curiosity of all men,, 
and the conspicuously plastic brains 
of the ablest, if not the noblest, of 
our fellows. If this be so, it follows 
that the scientific method and its 
products cannot be, in any funda- 



mental and permanent sense, in con- 
flict with human nature, though our 
present human society, a product 
of the past, dominated by greed, 
force and fear, may be and Is in con- 
flict with the scientific method. 
Whether science and the scientific 
method, whether understanding, hon- 
esty, reason and justice can contrive 
survival values equal, if not superior 
to the blind forces of nature which 
shaped man's past, is as yet in the 
laps of the gods. Still, we cannot 
deny the possibility, and we will 
nurse the hope that the hairy ape 
who somehow lost his tail, grew a 
brain worth having, built speech and 
song out of a hiss and a roar and 
stepped out of the cave to explore 
and master the universe, may some 
day conquer his own irrational and 
myopic behavior toward his kin. — 
From an address, "Science Versus 
Life," made by Dr. A. J. Carlson of 
the University of Chicago, before the 
American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science. 
♦ - 
ESSENCE OF RHYTHM 

Repetition is of the very essence 
of rhythm and harmony. It is not an 
eddy in the current; it is the current 
itself deepened and less obstructed. 
It is not something added from with- 
out; it is an enlargement and enrich- 
ment from within. 

All rhythm is repetition. In poetry 
there is first the recurrence of defi- 
nitely numbered and definitely or- 
dered feet, then of lines, then of ter- 
minal or interior rhymes, till the 
stanza, a symphony of antlphonal 
repetitions, emerges complete. Then 
the march begins, stanza following 
stanza, line-length playing to line- 
length, rhyme answering to rhyme, 
and perhaps a terminal refrain sum- 
marizing and projecting the melody 
of the whole. 

But to Poe's ear this was not 
enough. He diffused other repetitions 
through his stanzas, and these rep- 
etitions not only made each stanza a 
more musical unit in itself but linked 
stanza to stanza in an unbroken 
strain of marching music unheard till 
then but heard continuously since 
then.— C. A. Smith, in "Edgar Allen 
Poe." 



SCIENCE TODAY 



TROJAN HORSES 

A perusal of history reveals count- 
less "Trojan horses," in many coun- 
tries, and from earliest times right 
down to certain events of the last few 
months. Egypt used the Trojan horse 
strategy some 300 years earlier than 
the classical example which enabled 
the Greeks to take Troy and reclaim 
the fair Helen. The fall of Troy oc- 
curred about 1200 B. C. About 1500 
B. C. there was a war between the 
Egyptians and the Prince of Jappa 
(Jaffa). The Egyptian general Thu- 
tiy's campaign had been unsuccess- 
ful, and the prince was apparently 
close to victory. During a discussion 
of peace prospects, Thutiy managed 
to get the prince asleep with power- 
ful potations, and then clubbed him 
senseless. To the prince's wife Thu- 
tiy sent 500 soldiers carrying sacks. 
They brought a message that the 
Egyptians had surrendered, and that 
the sacks contained booty. Admitted 
within the city gates, they opened 
the sacks, and out came 200 more 
soldiers, providing a force strong 
enough to capture the city. — From 
Field Museum News. 
♦ 
DUST BOWL PHENOMENA 

When dense clouds of wind-blown 
dust blanket a dust bowl, electrical 
phenomena occur which are often of 
a surprising nature. Press reports 
in the wake of these storms have 
described such effects as corona on j 
radio antenna lead-ins and fences, 
failure of automobile ignition sys- 
tems, interference with airplane 
communications, flashovers on power 
systems at insulators and lightning 
arrestors, and even the electrocution 
of wheat in the fields. These phe- 
nomena are of direct concern also to 
communication companies, and the 
possibility of their occurrence must 
be taken into consideration in the 
design of open-wire telephone cir- 
cuits. If appropriate preventive 
measures are not provided, severe 
noise disturbances may be caused on 
important circuits during dust 
storms.- -Prom the Bell Laboratories 

Record. 

♦ 

The language of tones belongs 
equally to all mankind, and melody 
is the absolute language in which the 
musician speaks to every heart. 

— Richard Wagner. 



By MISS W. PEARL, MARTIN 

Home Health and Sanitation Specialist, 
College Extension Service 

Wholesome recreation in family 
life is a goal worth achieving. Like 
other worthwhile things, it takes 
some thoughtful planning in order to 
be a success. Every member of the 
family should be considered as a 
social being, and the age and needs 
of each individual should be carefully 
thought out. 

Women complain that there are 
so many outside diversions and activi- 
ties that they cannot get their fami- 
lies together enough. So I am discuss- 
ing a program of family recreation 
which has seemed to fill a need, and 
which has been very popular in the 
past year because of the wish of many 
mothers to have father, mother and 
children at home together at least 
one evening in the week. 

Keeping in mind that family recre- 
ation can be inexpensive and at the 
same time rich in social values, get 
your family together in family coun- 
cil. With the opinions of the whole 
family before the house, sort out 
ideas and plan for the program. 

Winter always has been house 
time. During the long winter eve- 
nings, reading aloud by some mem- 
ber of the family who can read well 
or even by those members who simply 
need the practice can be part of an 
evening's entertainment, while the 
others sew or do handicraft of some 
kind. The family might spend one 
evening choosing the books and read- 
ing material which they wish for the 
winter. The youngsters may work 
on this. The school libraries contain 
much excellent matter which every- 
one will enjoy. 

Toward spring when the days are 
longer and getting out is desirable, 
plan for short walks — distances with- 
in the ability of all members of the 
family. Gather wild flowers or hunt 
for specimens of butterflies. Perhaps j 
a small microscope may be obtained j 
for examining these articles. It is | 
amazing how much beauty can be 
discovered in the most insignificant 
leaf or flower. 

A picnic can be planned as the ob- 



jective at the end of the walk. Noth- 
ing elaborate; just have some excuse 
to get out in the air and to be to- 
gether. Advance preparations insure 
success. Longer trips, if desired, can 
be planned. There are newspaper 
plants, dairies and laundries to visit 
in most localities. Such trips can be 
made educational. Nothing should 
be pursued to the point of weariness; 
remember the main object is having a 
good time together — recreation. 

Some women like to build their 
own fireplaces in the back yard and 
have a steak or wiener roast any time 
of the year. If the whole family plans 
the fireplace and spends a few eve- 
nings making it, the interest will be 
greater. Remember that these fire- 
places are really simple in construc- 
tion and not at all expensive. 

I wish you could see some of the 
work that has been done. 

One family utilized two large con- 
tainers which had been discarded by 
an ice plant. One container is placed 
above the other; then the door is 
hinged on the open end of the top 
one. The fire is made in the top one, 
and the lower container may be used 
as an oven to keep food warm or to 
heat buns. The only cost was two 
pieces of stove pipe and a few bolts. 
This stove is kept in the family's out- 
door living room, but it can easily be 
loaded in a truck and taken to the 
creek or other picnic grounds. 

Another family studied a number 
of plans and finally chose one, doing 
the work themselves. They chose 
native stone for the material. It has 
wings extended outward for seats. 

The landscaping around the fire- 
place in the back yard may develop 
into an outdoor living room. These 
outdoor living rooms can be very sat- 
isfactory from the viewpoint of com- 
fort and beauty; closed from at least 
three sides, privacy may be had much 
like the old-world gardens which are 
so notable for beauty and comfort. 

But whatever the plans, keep in 
view the main issue — keeping the 
family together contented and happy, 
all through the week and all through 
the year. 



ton, to succeed E. B. Purcell and W. 
L. Challiss. 

At the meeting of the Alpha Beta 
society the following officers were 
elected: F. M. Jeffery, president; J. 
T. Willard, vice-president; Miss Pope, 
secretary; C. H. Stiles, treasurer; 
W. J. Jeffery, marshal. Thirty-five 
members were present at the meeting. 



KANSAS POETRY 

Robert Conover, Editor 



By Alberta McMahon Shirwin 

Where the river flows with lazy grace 
Wending its way from place to place, 
I'ast vine-clad banks and poplar 

spars, 
Past dredging boats with clanking 
jars, 
It moves with peaceful even pace. 

Sometimes a flood with turbid race 
Gathers debris in widening space, 
And rapids leave their yawning 
scars, 

Where the river flows. 

The Kaw, that amber soils deface, 
Is never clear of muddy trace; 

Still it reflects the gleaming stars. 
And robed in red and tawny bars 
Sunset is held in its embrace, 

Where the river flows. 



Mrs. Alberta McMahon Sherwin was 
born in Minnesota, but has lived most 
of her life in Kansas City, Kan. She 
is a member of the Poetry Society of 
Kansas, the Kansas Authors' club, 
the Poetry Society of Great Britain 
and America, Kansas City Quill club 
and the Kansas City branch of the 
National League of American Pen 
Women. Her poems have been pub- 
lished in more than 50 poetry columns 
and magazines and in many anthol- 
ogies. She is the author of a book of 
poems, "Tapers to the Sun," published 
in 1939. 



SUNFLOWERS 

By H. W. Davis 

RUMBLINGS OP SPRING 

It has been a long, tardy coming of 
spring. No buds are yet coaxed into 
swelling, no crocuses have peeped 
and very few yards — 



That jams us right into what I'd 
rather not think about, but must. 
I've heard rumblings for two weeks 
or more, rumblings to the dolorous 
effect that something must be done 
about the yard. Only yesterday I 
played golf with a man who barely 
escaped a sentence of one-half day at 
hard labor raking off leaves and rub- 
bish and giving tender young sprouts 
the "go" sign. 



PROGRESS IN SCIENCE 
Our modern progress is not solely 
due to efforts of the present genera- 
tion, stupendous and admirable as 
they may be, but presents the process 
of a gradual evolution of ideas which 
have grown out of the imagination, 
endeavors, experiments, triumphs 
and failures of many past ages. 
Stress must be laid on the word 
"imagination," for there is no field 
of human exertions in which the 
imagination and romantic dreams 
have played a greater role and have 
proved more fertile than in the devel- 
opment of aviation. . . . 

We have conquered the air in this 
age of science and unprecedented 
progress of mechanics, but in the last 
instance this conquest goes back to 
the trend of man's mind toward the 
romantic and adventurous. Describ- 
ing merely the gradual perfection of 
mechanical devices does not make 
that count — the idea itself means 
everything. — Dr. Berthold Laufer, in 
"The Prehistory of Aviation." 
♦ 

IN OLDER DAYS 

From the Files of The Industrialist 

TEN YEARS AGO 

J. B. Norton, '97, of El Centro, 
Calif., was in Hartsville, S. C, work- 
ing on asparagus breeding methods 
for Coker's Pedigreed Seed company. 

Three members of the home eco- 
nomics faculty, Dr. Helen Sharp, Dr. 
Lucile Harrison and Mrs. Leone Kell, 
were hostesses at a buffet supper. 
The freshman girls to whom these 
teachers were advisers were the 
guests. 

Ted Skinner, Manhattan, was elect- 
ed president of the College YMCA. 
Other new officers were James Chap- 
man, Manhattan, first vice-president; 
O. B. Moody, Ogden, second vice- 
president; J. P. Kesler, Overbrook, 
third vice-president; Clarence Keith, 
Ottawa, recording secretary. 



was graduated with honors from this 
College when 19 years old, was elect- 
ed president of the Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology, Boston. 

Dr. Henry J. Waters, former presi- 
dent of the College, and Pres. William 
M. Jardine were the principal speak- 
ers at an alumni dinner given by the 
Greater Kansas City Alumni associ- 
ation. 



THIRTY YEARS AGO 
J. H. McClung, '10, was in the 
hardware business at Jewell City. 

Carl E. Rice, '9 7, was studying 
law in connection with his work in 
the Bureau of Customs, Manila, Phil- 
ippine Islands. 

William L. Hall, M. S. *98, was ap- 
pointed by James Wilson, secretary 
of agriculture, to establish a 
$10,000,000 national forest reserve 
in the East. Mr. Hall formerly had 
charge of the Department of Forest 
Productions in Wisconsin. 



If women only knew what a won- 
derful effect on the figure raking 
leaves and burning them in the back 
alley have, they would never allow 
us husbands the agony of tidying up 
the yard in spring. Not all the ath- 
letic boat-rowing and horse-riding 
equipment in a super home- 
gymnasium can do as much toward 
slenderizing the waist and contouring 
the hips as a badly adjusted lawn 
mower can. 



What I'd like to see made go is a 
nation-wide campaign for the out- 
door slenderizing of all women on the 
home estate. It will solve practically 
all of the spring problems of the 
American husband except tax-paying, 
and allow him to get his golf game 
in shape for the early tournaments. 



FORTY YEARS AGO 
Prof. Fredric A. Metcalf gave a 
recital at the Christian church in 
Manhattan. 

Henry Watterson lectured at the 
Manhattan opera house on "The Life 
of Abraham Lincoln." 

C. C. Winsler, student and assistant 
to Professor Curtis during the term 
of the dairy school, began work with 
the Belle Springs Creamery company, 
Abilene. 



Driving a lawn mower and pulling 
a rake are ideal forms of exercise. 
They tend to the development of the 
girlish figure even in men, and are 
perfect plus, or thereabout, for 
i women. 



FIFTY YEARS AGO 
The Rev. A. R. Drake of the Con- 
gregational church of Manhattan 
led the weekly chapel exercises. 

Professor Failyer's name appeared 
on the Citizens' ticket as a candidate 
for councilman from the Third ward. 
Professor Popenoe and Assistant 
Swingle were on the program of the 
Manhattan Horticultural society with 
papers on "Spraying Apparatus for 
Orchard and Vineyard"and "Common 
Diseases of American Grapes." 



Tidying up the environs of the 

i home fits into woman's psychology, 

, too. It lacks organization usually, 

and the plans, if any, can always be 

I completely revamped on a moment's, 

or without a moment's, notice. This 

i often happens, you may remember, 

even when the husband is doing all 

the work, and thinks he is boss. I 

have always held that after the house 

and garage are built and driveways 

and walks laid, the husband should 

withdraw — the farther the better — 

.and let the wife's finer sense of color 

and design and mood have utterly 

free play. 



TWENTY YEARS AGO 

W. B. Adair, '16, was county agent 
of Rice county, with headquarters in 
Lyons. 

Dr. Ernest Fox Nichols, '88, who 



SIXTY YEARS AGO 

Governor St. John appointed as 

regents of the Agricultural College 

for three-year terms — John Elliott, 

Manhattan, and V. V. Adamson, Hol- 



If we could hook up vitamin B„ 

; the sulpha compounds, Culbertson's 

: latest ideas on opening bids and na- 

I tional unity with beautifying the 

, lawn, the campaign would go over 

I with a $7,000,000,000 bang. All that, 

together with the waist line, would 

make it as impossible for a husband 

to get hold of the lawn mower as it 

is for him to get hold of the car. 



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That's another thing — control of 
the family bus, an absolute essential 
to early mid-season form in golf. 



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John C. Christensen, B. S. '94, is 
controller and assistant secretary of 
the University of Michigan. He and 
Alice V. (Ipsen) Christensen, f. s. *06, 
live at 2127 Woodside road, Ann 
Arbor, Mich. 

Grace Allingham, D. S. '04, recent- 
ly sent to the College Alumni associ- 
ation office a clipping from the college 
catalog of Fresno State college. After 
her graduation from Kansas State, 
she qualified herself for the position 
of associate professor of homemaking 
at Fresno State by getting a bache- 
lor's degree at Columbia university in 
1911 and a master's degree there in 
1929. She was home economics in- 
structor in special schools six years; 
at the State Normal school, Peru, 
Neb., for two years, and in high 
schools for three years. She has been 
at Fresno State college since 1918. 
Her address is 1365 Wishon, Fresno, 
Calif. 

Earl Wheeler, E. E. '05, is a con- 
sulting engineer. His address is 329 
West Chicago avenue, Hinsdale, 111. 
For several years he has been con- 
nected with the electric sales depart- 
ment and then was technical director 
for Sears, Roebuck and company in 
Chicago. 

"Louberta (Smith) White," writes 
Ruth Crawford, "of the class of 1910 
stopped in my office the other day. 
She is to have dinner with me soon. I 
found that she was back to visit Kan- 
sas State in 1930 and that her address 
in Grants Pass is 1001 North Tenth 
street." Miss Crawford, '32, is home 
demonstration agent in Grants Pass, 
Ore. 

Dr. M. E. McDonald, '12, chief of 
tuberculosis control, Department of 
Agriculture, Sacramento, Calif., in 
charge of the dairy work of the Cali- 
fornia Department of Agriculture, 
was called to his home in Dickinson 
county, Kan., because of the death 
of his father. He spent a few hours 
at the College visiting faculty mem- 
bers and other friends. 

Virgil David Stone, E. E. '13, 2625 j 
East Tennessee, Denver, Colo., is field 
superintendent of Lowry field, Den- 
ver. He is a major in the air corps 
Of the Colorado national guard, 
Forty-Fifth Aviation division. 

George F. Haas, D. V. M. '14, and 
Edith (Arnold) Haas, '16, of Veteran, 
Wyo., visited her parents in Manhat- 
tan. He is operating a ranch with 
many cattle and hogs. Some of their 
children have graduated from, and 
others are enrolled in, the University 
of Wyoming. 

L V. Fickel, E. E. '15, is sales en- 
gineer with the Westinghouse Elec- 
tric and Manufacturing company, 
Denver He and Cora (Tempero) 
Fickel. '14, live at 1560 Park avenue. 
V. Q. Hartwig, D. V. M. '16, 312 
Federal building, Boise, Idaho, is en- 
gaged in both tuberculosis eradica- 
tion work and Bang's disease control 
work for the United States Bureau of 
Animal Industry in Idaho. 

Stella Harriss, B. S. '17, M. S. '19, 
began service with Kansas State Col- 
lege in 1917 and assumed the posi- 
tion of assistant professor of chemis- 
try in 1927. She is a 1908 graduate 
of the State Normal school at Peru, 
Neb. 

Charles Swingle, Ag. '20, and Mil- 
dred (Berry) Swingle, H. E. '20, live 
at 1800 Leavenworth, Manhattan. 
Mr. Swingle is horticulturist with the 
Soil Conservation service here. 

Hazel D. Howe, H. E. '21, M. S. '35, 
has been an instructor in clothing 
and textiles, College Division of 
Home Economics, since 1936. Before 
that time, she taught in Goodland 
and Raymond, Kan., and Mobile, Ala. 
Oliver B. Reed, Ag. '22, M. S. '28, 
is a warehouse foreman in Bell, Calif. 
He moved there last year from Beloit, 
Kan where he had been working 
with the Farm Security administra- 
lion His wife is Cecil (Mann) Reed, 
and they live at 700 2 East Gage, Bell. 
Maurice D. Laine, I. J. '22, and 
Helen (Coons) Laine, f. s„ live at 16 
Hanover road, Royal Oak, Mich. Mr. 
Laine is advertising representative of 
the Curtis Publishing company. 

O H Aydelotte, E. E. '23, is ac- 
countant for the Public Service Com- 
pany of Colorado, Denver. He has 
been working in Denver since his 
graduation. He lives at 840 South 
Ogden. 

Dr. E. C. McCulloch, D. V. M. '24, 



of the faculty of the College of Vet- 
erinary Medicine, Washington State 
college, Pullman, has written an 
article which appeared in the Janu- 
ary, 1941, number of the American 
Journal of Veterinary Research. 

H. "Ding" Burton, R. C. '25, and 
Florence (Swenson) Burton, f. s., 
live at 3400 West Coleman road, Kan- 
sas City, Mo. Mr. Burton, a former 
Kansas State football star, is sales 
manager of the Ash Grove Lime and 
Portland Cement company. 

R. L. Dennen, G. S. '25, has been 
re-elected to head the Colby Consoli- 
dated schools and the Colby Com- 
munity high school. He has been 
superintendent there for eight years. 
Susie Geiger, H. E. '26, writes that 
she is now dietitian for the Holy 
Cross hospital, Salt Lake City, Utah. 
She went there from the St. Joseph 
hospital, St. Joseph, Mo. 

Mary Ellen Collins, H. E. '27, was 
married June 30 to John R. Black. 
They live at 64 Washington avenue, 
Nashville, Tenn. She was formerly 
dietitian at the St. Francis hospital, 
Litchfield, 111. 

Dr. G. L. Dunlap, D. V. M. '28, is 
with the Ashe-Lockhart laboratories, 
800 Woodswether road, Kansas City, 
Mo. He is secretary-treasurer for 
1941 of the Kansas City Veterinary 
Medical association. He and his wife, 
Pearl (Fairchild) Dunlap, '39, live 
at 5726 Charlotte, Kansas City, Mo. 

F. Gerald Powell, E. E. '32, is em- 
ployed under civil service as inspector 
of engineering materials (aeronauti- 
cal) for the United States navy at 
Bendix, N. J. His work is to inspect 
instruments that go into navy planes. 
His address is c/o Resident Inspector 
of Naval Aircraft, U. S. N., Eclipse 
Aviation, Bendix, N. J. 

Robert S. Cassell, G. S. '37, was 
married September 7 to Verna 
Walker. He reported for active duty 
December 30 as lieutenant with the 
coast artillery at Savannah, Ga. He 
had been with the credit department I 
of the Ohio Fuel Gas company fori 
three years. 



LOOKING AROUND 

KENNEY L. FORD 



Expect Big '16 Reunion 

Zane Fairchild, '16, writes: "If re- 
turns continue to come in as they 
have during the past two weeks, be- 
tween 100 and 150 can be expected at 
the 25th reunion of the 1916 class. 
This is no surprise, though. The '16 
class always did things that way! 

"More than one quarter of those 
on the class roll today, who were sent 
cards, have replied. Thirty members 
said that they'll surely be back; 27 
others said they will make every ef- 
fort to be there. These 57 will have 
nearly that additional number of 
wives, husbands and children along 
with them. And the cards have just 
started to come in. Replies have been 
sent from New York to California, 
from Idaho to Tennessee and from 
Texas to Ohio. They have come from 
18 states in all. 

"A program is being planned for 
Friday evening and Saturday of com- 
mencement week. An effort will be 
made to show the present generation 
how we used to do it in the days a 
few years ago." 



place August 31. The bride is a 
former student of Washburn college 
and a member of Zeta Tau Alpha 
sorority. She has been employed in 
the state house for the past few 
months. Mr. Hoag, also a graduate 
of the Kansas University School of 
Law, has a private law practice at 
Pleasanton, where the couple will 
live. 



RECENT HAPPENINGS 
ON THE HILL 



VICKBURG — LUKENS 
Helen L. Vlckburg, G. S. '35, and 
Robert W. Lukens, Ag. '33, were 
married July 15. For the past five 
years, Mrs. Lukens taught English 
and sciences in the Talmage and Bev- 
erly high schools. For two years 
after graduation, Mr. Lukens was j 
employed in Jewell, Russell and Reno 
counties as resettlement adviser. 
Since that time he has operated a 
farm southwest of Beloit. The couple 
is now at home at Linn, where Mr. 
Lukens is employed as teacher of vo- 
cational agriculture in the high 
school. 



Overalls and calico aprons reigned 
at the Ionian and Hamilton calico 
ball last week-end. Gingham dogs, 
calico cats and balloons served as 
decorative notes in the dance of the 
two literary societies. 



Plans for the Varsity fair, which 
was to have been held later this 
month, will not be completed. Herbert 
Hollinger, Chapman, president of Sig- 
ma Delta Chi, professional journalism 
organization and sponsor of the fair, 
said this week that it would not be 
held. 



MARRIAGES 



McDANIEL— COVEY 
Edith McDaniel, H. E. '36, and 
Paul R. Covey were married Septem- 
ber 7. They are now at 201 Moss 
avenue, Peoria, 111. 



JENKINS— SCHLAEGEL 
The marriage of Lola Ann Jenkins 
to Francis N. Schlaegel, D. V. M. '40, 
was September 28. They live at Neo- 
sho, Mo., where Mr. Schlaegel is a 
practicing veterinarian. 



SHELLENBERGER— SCHLIFFKE 
The marriage of Marjorie Jean 
Shellenberger and Earl Schliffke, 
both of Kansas City, took place Au- 
gust 10. The bride is a member of 
Delta Delta Delta sorority and Theta 
Sigma Phi, women's journalism fra- 
ternity. She has been working with 
the advertising department of Emery, 
Bird, Thayer in Kansas City. Mr. 
Schliffke was graduated from Iowa 
State college and is a member of Phi 
Gamma Delta fraternity. He is in- 
dustrial engineer for Procter and 
Gamble company. They live at 4527 
Main street, Kansas City, Mo. 



As soon as classes are over to- 
morrow, Kansas State College stu- 
dents will be heading for the home 
town. Easter vacation officially be- 
gins as 6 p. m. tomorrow and will 
end Monday at 6 p. m. Classes will 
begin Tuesday and will end with the 
semester finals in May. 



New president of Alpha Mu, honor- 
ary organization for milling students, 
is Don Fleming, Ottawa. Other of- 
ficers elected last week are Donald 
Dubois, Burlingame, vice-president; 
Edward Mayo, Indianapolis, Ind., 
secretary-treasurer, and Ralph Kue- 
ker, Belleville, corresponding secre- 
tary. 



Charles W. Pence, Ag. *3 8, recent- 
ly moved to 910 Neosho avenue, 
Burlington. He was transferred there 
as Coffey county rural rehabilitation 
supervisor for the Farm Security ad- 
ministration. He was married to 
Louise Sunderland, Centralia, Octo- 
ber 5. 

"Since we have moved here," he 
wrote, "I have made the acquaintance 
of several Kansas State graduates 
here in Burlington. They include 
Ruth Bishop, '39, who is the home 
management supervisor of the Farm 
Security administration, and Arthur 
Leonhard, '39, who is county agent 
here. I am always happy to meet old 
college friends." 



CLAYWELL— CAMPBELL, 

Rosamond Claywell, H. E. '40, and 
Hugh B. Campbell, D. V. M. '38, were 
married September 15. They are liv- 
ing in Geneva, Ind., where Mr. Camp- 
bell is associated with his father in 
practice. 



DEATHS 



HAYNES 
Benjamin F. Haynes, B. S. '02, died 
March 4. For the past 40 years he 
had farmed in Boise valley, Boise, 
Idaho. He is survived by his widow, 
two sons and two daughters. 



COWAN— RISINGER 
Arlene Cowan and C. Allan Risin- 
ger, Ag. '39, were married October 
11. They live in Ness City, as it is 
Mr. Risinger's headquarters as assis- 
tant rural rehabilitation supervisor, 
Farm Security administration. 



Spring fashions was the theme of 
last Friday's Kansas State Collegian. 
In this spring fashion issue, the latest 
things in both men's and women's 
clothing were presented. Several 
pictures of students modeling the 
spring styles that will be seen on 
American college campuses this year 
were published. 



TOOKE K— WAGLER 
Marguerite Tooker and Simon R. 
Wagler, E. E. '39, were married Octo- 
ber 13. Mr. Wagler is a statistical 
analyst for Transcontinental and 
Western Air, Inc. They live at 4919 
Main street, Kansas City, Mo. 



Frank W. Jordan, Ag. and D. V. M. 
'39, writes: "I have recently changed 
my address from State College, Miss., 
where I was head of the Veterinary 
department at Mississippi State Col-. 
lege, to 309 Wateree road, Columbia, 
S. ('. I should appreciate your send- 
ing Tiik Industrialist to my present : 
address. 

"I took my appointment to the 
army post here, Ft. Jackson, August 
18 and am serving under the eonimis- i 
sion of first lieutenant in the Veteri- 
nary corps. My wife (Gwendolyn 
Romine, I. J. '40) and I are living in 
Columbia. It may interest you to 
know that Bill Dieterich, '39, is sta- | 
tioned with the Veterinary corps at 
the fort here also." 



DAWLEY— STEPS BNSON 
Hope Dawley, P. E. '29, and Dr. 
Harry M. Stephenson of Iola were 
married September 22 In the home of 
the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. ; 
A. Dawley, Manhattan. They will be j 
at home in Iola where he is practicing. 



I -A I tSONS— P E3TE RSON 
Jocelyn Parsons, f. s., and Melvin 
H. Peterson, Ag. '40, were married 
September 29. They are living at 
Columbus, Ohio. Mr. Peterson is do- 
ing work on a master's degree in the 
Horticulture department, Ohio State 
university. 



/ 



All the students of the Department 
of Milling Industry graduating last 
semester have now obtained jobs. 

William Ball, Oswego, is with the 
Washburn-Crosby mills in Kansas 
City, Mo., as secretary to the super- 
intendent and draftsman. 

George Fittell, Beloit, will be at the 
Chicago office of the Hartford Fire 
Insurance company for two months 
as fire insurance inspector. He will 
then be transferred to the Dakota 
territory. Paul L. Mann, who was 
acting head of the Milling department 
at Kansas State College in 1922, is 
Mr. Fittell's employer. Mr. Mann is 
inspecting engineer for the Hartford 
Fire Insurance company in the mill 
and elevator department. 

Russell Blessing, Emporia, is lo- 
cated at Kansas City, Mo., as an assis- 
tant chemist for the Kansas Flour 
mills. 

John Geddis, Lamed, who is finish- 
ing his college work by correspon- 
dence, is employed by the Washburn- 
Crosby mills in Chicago as secretary 
to the superintendent and draftsman. 



McCOMB— KELLEY 
William F. Pickett, head of the 
Department of Horticulture, has re- 
ceived an announcement of the mar- 
riage of Mary Jane McComb, Land- 
scape Design '3 7, to Charles Otis Kel- 
ley on September 3. They are at 
home at 433 North Terrace drive, 
Wichita. 



BERRY 

Manhattan lost a prominent busi- 
ness man and an outstanding civic 
leader when James W. Berry, B. S. 
'83, died March 21 from heart disease. 
Although Mr. Berry had been in 
failing health since 1937, he had 
worked at his office at the Golden 
Belt Lumber company at 231 Pierre 
and had taken an active part in af- j 
fairs of the community. He had been 
president of the Golden Belt Lumber 
company since it was organized in 
19 21. He was a contractor and a 
builder, having constructed many 
early-day residences in central Kan- 
sas and numerous public buildings 
for various county and state institu- 
tions, including Kansas State Col- 
lege. He was appointed to the State 
Hoard of Regents in 1903 and served 
a number of years. He had been a 
member of the Alumni Advisory 
board and the stadium committee of 
Kansas State College. 

He was a 3 2nd-degree Mason and 
a member of the Chamber of Com- 
merce, having served as president of 
that organization. He was an active | 
member in the Presbyterian church, 
having served on the church board of 
trustees for many years. 

Survivors include the widow, Hat- 
tie (Peck) Berry, '84, and seven chil- 
dren, Arthur J. Berry, Portland, Ore.; 
Albert Berry, '12, Kensington; Lucile 
(Berry) Wolfe, '13, and Mildred (Ber- 
ry) Swingle, '20, both of Manhattan; 
Lynn N. Berry, '33, Ellsworth; 
Lenore (Berry) Bennett, '24, Wash- 
ington, D. C, and T. M. Berry, '25, 
Schenectady, N. Y. One brother, nine 
grandchildren and one great grand- 
child also survive. 



Only 100 more pages of the Royal 
Purple remain to be sent to the print- 
ers, according to the last report of 
Editor Don Makins, Abilene. The 
last deadline for copy is April 15. 
The first section of the yearbook is 
being printed now by the Capper 
Printing company in Topeka. There 
will be 3,735 books printed. 



BIRTHS 



Eleanor (Weller) Moon, M. Ed. 
'3 6, and her husband, James Earl 
Moon, f. s., have named their daugh- 
ter, born February 9, Wanda Marie. 
The Moons live at 229 North Boyles- 
ton, Apartment 104, Los Angeles, 
Calif. Mrs. Moon formerly taught 
music at Greenleaf, Kan. 



Janet Helen is the name chosen by 
Beatrice (Lasswell) Pine, '39, and 
Wilfred H. Pine, Ag. '34, M. S. '3 8, 
for their daughter born March 4. 
They live at 1723 Leavenworth. Mr. 
Pine is an assistant professor in the 
College's Department of Economics 
and Sociology. 



BENEDICK— HORSEMAN 

The marriage of Lottie Nevella 
Benedick, H. E. '29, to Dr. Russell 
Keaton Horseman took place Sep- 
tember 28. Doctor Horseman has 
been assigned to one year's active 
service in the medical corps of the 
United States army at Ft. Benjamin 
Harrison, Ind. . 



Judith Ann is the name chosen by 
Lieut, and Mrs. Gerald Ingraham, Ft. 
Knox. Ky., for their daughter born 
February 10. Mr. Ingraham, M. I. 
'40, formerly was employed by Joseph 
E. Seagram and Sons at Louisville, 
Ky. 

Charles A. Patterson, Ag. '38, M. S. 
•3 8, and Lora (Neudeck) Patterson, 
•38, are the parents of a son, Charles 
Stephen, born February 11 at the St. 
Mary hospital in Manhattan. Mr. and 
Mrs. Patterson live at 615 North Ju- 
liette. He is assistant statistician 
with the Agricultural Adjustment 
administration. 



McINTOSH— DENDURENT 
Lucille Mcintosh, G. S. '40, and M 
S. Dendurent, M. S. '39, were mar 
ried September 1 in the Methodist 
church at Palmer. The Dendurents 
make their home at 427 Highland 
avenue, South Charleston, W. Va., 
where Mr. Dendurent is employed as 
a research chemist with the West- 
vaco Chlorine Products corporation. 



KANSAS STATE COLLEGE RECORDINGS 

"Alma Mater" and "Wildcat Victory" by the Kansas State 

College Men's chorus 

and 

"Roll on, Kansas State" and "Shoulder to Shoulder" by the College band 

All four of the above songs so dear to Kansas State College students and 
alumni recorded on one standard phonograph record will be mailed W- 
where in the United States for $1 each. Alumni in foreign countries should 
add the necessary additional postage. „„» ta « flu 

If you wish one of these records for your home or alumni meeting, Ml 
out the following order blank and mail to the Kansas State College Alumni 
association, Manhattan. 

□ Inclosed find $1 for one K. S. C. recording. 

□ Inclosed find 15c for one printed copy of "Wildcat Victory." 



MITCHELL— HOAG 
The marriage of Marjorie Mitchell 
to Marshall K. Hoag, R. C. '26, took 



Name 



Address 



HALF OF ELIGIBLE MEN 

SEEK MORE R. 0. T. C. 

APPROXIMATELY 225 APPLY FOR 
ADVANCED TRAINING 



Applicant! Selected Will SIkii Contract* 
and He Given Deferment 
by Their Draft 
Ilonrdx 

More than half of the 414 eligible 
sophomore men have applied for en- 
rolment in the advanced Reserve Of- 
ficers' Training corps, according to 

Lieut.-Col. J. K. Campbell, head of | 13 to 3 victory in 1926. 
the Department of Military Science ♦ 

and Tactics. j NEED MOISTURE RESERVES 

Approximately 225 men in their 
second year of basic R. O. T. C. have 
voiced a preference to complete their 
defer military 



To Play Texas, Duquesne 
Texas and Duquesne universities 
are on Kansas State College's non- 
conference football schedule for 
1942. The Wildcats will open with 
the Longhorns at Austin September 
26, and meet Duquesne in a night 
game at Pittsburgh October 9. Kan- 
sas State College defeated Duquesne 
12 to In 193 5 in the only game be- 
tween the schools. Texas holds a 2 to 
1 edge over K-State. The Longhorns 
won 46 to in 1913 and 41 to 7 in 
1927. The Wildcats chalked up a 



FOR FEED CROP SUCCESS 



COLLEGE ENTOMOLOGIST 
WARNS OF CHINCH BUGS 



DONALD A. WILBUR TELLS 
FARMERS MAY CHECK 



HOW 



college course and 
training under the Selective Service j 
act. Students applying must sign a 
contract to that effect before the] 
close of the present school year. 
MAY INCREASE QUOTA 

Kansas State College this year had 
an allotment of 100 men to fill, 50 for 
infantry and 50 for coast artillery. 
However, the Military department 
has announced that they will ask the 
War department for a larger quota 
for next year. 

Sophomore men in their second 
year of basic R. O. T. C. training who 
want to complete their college course 
and defer military training under the 
Selective Service act need only to be 
accepted in the advanced R. O. T. C. 
unit and sign a contract to that effect 
before the close of the present school 
year. This applies only to students 
who are taking their second year of 
basic R. O. T. C. training. 

Having applied for enrolment, the 
student must be approved, after tak- 
ing a physical examination, sign a 
contract and notify his local draft 
board of his change in classification. 
Lieutenant-Colonel Campbell added 
that the Military department will be 
able to take care of only a limited 
number of applications. 

PLACED IN DEFERRED CLASS 

College men enrolled in an ad- 
vanced R. O. T. C. course and those 
students who have completed two 
years' basic training and whose ap- 
plications have been approved for 



Prof. R. I. Throckmorton Writes Bul- 
letin TellliiK of Investigation* 
Throughout Stnte 

Reserves of moisture in the soil be- 
fore seeding are necessary for suc- 
cessful production of barley and the 
sorghums as well as wheat in the 
western counties, and for alfalfa pro- 
duction in all sections of the state 
excepting where the crop is grown 
under irrigation. Summer fallowing 
is an effective moisture-storing prac- 
tice for building up such reserves. 

In a bulletin recently prepared for 
the Kansas Bankers' association, 
Prof. R. I. Throckmorton, head of 
the Department of Agronomy, wrote 
that fallowing is as important in the 
production of feed crops as in the 
production of wheat. 

The average yield of milo at Hays 
from 1914 to 1937 was 15.9 bushels 
per acre on cropped land and 33.3 
bushels per acre on fallow, the 
agronomist reports. At Garden City 
from 1921 to 1937, milo produced 
an average yield of 13.3 bushels of 
grain on cropped land and 30.7 on, 
fallow. At Colby, the average yield 
of milo per acre was 10.4 bushels on 
cropped land and 22.2 bushels on fal- 
Milo crop failures were only 



Hnstern Third of Knnsns Reports Indl 

cnte Large Number of Insects 

Went Into Winter 

Quarters 

On the basis of fall surveys and 
more recent reports from county 
agents, the threat of chinch bugs 
may be worse this spring than for 
quite some time, warned Donald A. 
Wilbur, assistant entomologist at the 
Kansas Experiment station and as- 
sistant professor of entomology. 

However, he pointed out that 
spring conditions might alter the en- 
tire picture if they are unfavorable to 
the bugs. 

FARMERS SHOULD CHECK 

Professor Wilbur warned that 
farmers in the eastern third of Kan- 
sas should check on their farms this 
spring for the presence of chinch bugs 
because of the large number that 
went into winter quarters. 

The most likely place to look for 
chinch bugs is in the clumps of bunch 
grasses, particularly little bluestem, 
growing along fence rows, roadsides, 
slopes of ravines and especially those 
which are reasonably close to sor- 
ghum or corn fields in which they 
were working last summer, Professor 
Wilbur said. 

HOW TO DETECT BUGS 

An easy way to check for the pres- 
ence of chinch bugs is to carefully 
pull clumps of bunch grasses from 
areas near fields that were infested 
last fall, break up the clumps and 
shake out the chinch bugs so that 
they can be counted, he said. Dead 
chinch bugs differ from live ones in 
that their legs are wide-spread, while 
the legs of live bugs are tucked close- 
ly under their bodies. 

If more than 10 live chinch bugs 
per small clump are found in several 



Postpone Baseball Games 

The initial baseball games of the 
season, to have been played with the 
University of Kansas Jayhawkers at 
Lawrence Monday and Tuesday, were 
postponed after several days of rain. 
♦ 

AMERICANS UNAPPRECIAT1VE 
OF LIBERTIES, SAYS BAUDE 



BACKFIELD SHOWS SPEED 
WITH PROMISING FROSH 

COACH ADAMS SAYS NEW PLAYERS 
MAY Ol'ST SOME VETERANS 



low. 

about one-half as frequent on the 

fallow as on the cropped land. Simi- , . warning 

,ar results have been obtained with ^^ attestation of the wheat, 
Kafir at the three stations. ° Jn the geasoni 

The need for moisture reserves for 



Professor Wilbur said 

Tests have shown that burning the 
bunch grasses destroys chinch bugs 
chiefly by removing their protective 
covering and, contrary to common be- 
lief, the burning in itself actually 



French Medical Officer Discusses Euro- 
pean Situation at Journalism Lec- 
ture and High School Talk 

Americans don't know how good 
it is to be on the right side of the 
Statue of Liberty, Dr. Andre Baude, 
French medical officer, told his audi- 
ence last week in the Manhattan high 
school auditorium. 

Approximately 350 persons heard 
Doctor Baude, who was brought to 
Manhattan by Sigma Delta Chi, pro- 
fessional journalism fraternity, and 
the Manhattan Junior Chamber of 
Commerce. Doctor Baude also spoke 
at the journalism lecture Thursday 
afternoon. 

He said, "You don't realize or ap- 
preciate the liberty you Americans 
have. Your country is the most won- 
derful in the world. Keep it that 
way." 

Doctor Baude was among those 
trapped at Dunkerque when the Ger- 
mans invaded France. He told of es- 
caping twice from German custody. 
He finally was able to obtain pas- 
sage to the United States on a ship, 
after reaching Portugal by way of 
Africa. Doctor Baude was able to 
come to America because his wife 
was a native of the United States. 
Her family home is at Independence, 
Kan. 

In excellent English he explained 
that the French lost the war May 12 
and 13 when the Germans broke 
through at Sedan. Telling of his 
personal experience during bombings, | 
he said, "If the Germans see some- 
thing suspicious they bomb it; if they 
don't see anything suspicious, they 
think the French are just hiding and 
bomb it anyway." 

Doctor Baude declared that if Hit- 
ler had been able to land the Germans 



is because the British had almost no 
equipment at that time. Equipment 



make room for the men escaping 
from Dunkerque. 

As to the possibility of the French 



alfalfa production is illustrated by 

the fact that at Manhattan alfalfa 

, extracted all of the available mois- 

idvanced R O. T. C. course have ture from the soi to a depth of 20 

College men who are now taking Boon be destroyed • each other, I won't beheve It. 

their first year of advanced R. O. T. "Alfalfa responds profi ably to fa 1- • ^ interested in protecting 

lowing in most sections of the state cninch bugs> Mr . 

Professor ™«**^~ i £*£. Wilbur said, will find the most effec- 
in general, only through allowing ^^ ^ protectlon of corn and 

quirements. upon eompm— » — i^S^STS oTplants dui- sorghums is to have these fields ad- 
advanced course the cadets will re- ! n ^ "^/drou-ht " J° inIn * alfalfa ' SWeet Cl ° Ver ° r & *Z 
ceive their commissions and become i "iR penods of di ought. not 8Ubjected t0 chln ch 



Mike Zeleanab and John Bortkn, Kan- 
sas Cltyt Ronald Conrad, Clay Center; 
Earl Williams, DodKe City, and 
Xed Rokey Star 

The Kansas State 1941 backfleld 
is expected to show more speed and 
power, thanks to freshmen who are 
giving the veterans mighty tough 
battles for their jobs. 

Improvement of the yearling backs 
has been one of the more pleasing 
features of spring football drills to 
Coach Hobbs Adams. The freshmen 
are eager to play, and several appear 
versatile enough that if they can't 
oust a veteran at one position, they 
may do it at another. 

ZELEZNAK MAKES BID 

Mike Zeleznak, Kansas City, for- 
mer Ward high school athlete, is 
making a strong bid for the quarter- 
back assignment. A shifty runner, 
he may develop into the passer Coach 
Adams has been trying to uncover 
since spring practice began. Another 
freshman passing prospect is Ronald 
Conrad, Clay Center. Bill Quick, Be- 
loit, and Lewis Turner, El Dorado, 
are returning "K" men who must 
work hard to keep their jobs. 

John Bortka of Kansas City, for- 
mer Wyandotte high school star, is 
the leading candidate to fill the right 
halfback spot vacated by Chris Lang- 
vardt, last year's captain. Larry Ka- 
minski, another former Wyandotte 
high athlete, is offering Bortka plenty 
of competition. Because of his speed 
and passing ability, Kaminski will be 
used some at quarterback. 

Ned Rokey, Sabetha, and Earl Wil- 
liams, Dodge City, are the yearlings 
pushing letter man Max Timmons, 
Eureka, and Junior Erickson, Neode- 
sha, for the blocking back job. Wil- 
liams, a field-goal kicker and a sturdy 
blocker, also has been used at full- 
back. 

LETTER MAN IMPROVES 

Encouraging has been the improve- 



f 



♦ 



in England in July, he might have ment of letter man Lysle WilWns, 
won the war. The reason, he added, Delphos, at fullback. The tall, wiry 



lad has served notice he intends to be 
the regular fullback in spite of foi 



equipment at mat nine. miiuipiuciiL — - - -- - , 

wVleft on the shore of France to »«£• *^~ •"■"•£". "£ 



C. will be permitted to finish their 
training next year and receive com- 
missions, provided they meet all re- 
quirements. Upon completion of the 



SUMMER FALLOW DISCUSSED 

IN AG STATION BULLETIN 

Prof. H. I. Throckmorton and Dr. H. E. 

Myers Are Authors of New 

Publication 

Summer fallow, a moisture con 



the fact that Kent Duwe, now out for 
track, will be working at that spot 
next fall. Leading freshman candi- 
dates are Bill Cochrane, Salina, and 
Lee Jones, Pretty Prairie. Jones can 
pass, run and kick and may be tried 
at the quarterback spot before spring 
practice ends. 

In Saturday's intrasquad battle be- 
tween the Whites, the Wildcat re- 
serves, and the Golds, made up of 
regulars and "K" men, the Golds won 
their third successive game since 
spring practice started, 9-0. 
GWIN SCORES GOLD TOUCHDOWN 



must (1) have completed the ad- 
vanced R. O. T. C. course, (2) be 21 



vaneed R. o. T a. course „ B y* ~ ^ start8> and £al 

years of age and (3) have attended . „, ted Bufflclen t 



camp during a summer period. Those 
men who are not 21, but who have 
passed other qualifications, will re- 
ceive certificates of their training. 

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ENCHILADAS PICKS OUT 26 

FOR DANCING ORGANIZATION 



low land must be cultivated sufficient 
ly throughout the summer to prevent 
weed growth. Tillage operations dur- 
ing the summer should be with a type 



Social Group Announces Names of Mem- 
bers Chosen from Sororities 

Twenty-six new members were 
selected last week for membership in 
Enchiladas, social dancing honorary 
organization. New actives included: 

Alpha Delta Pi, Ruth Ramsay, 
Norton ville; Mary K. Brown, Kansas 
City, Mo., and Peggy McClymonds, 
Lincoln, Neb. Alpha Xi Delta, Doro- 
thy Johnstone, Milford; Thula Mae 
Muchow, Topeka, and Patricia Bell, 
Perry. Chi Omega, Lucille Elmore, 
McCracken, Winifred Boomer, Kan- 
sas City; Nan Sperry. Overland Park, 
and Faye Elmore, McCracken. Clovia, 
Marjorie Simmons, Barnard; Adaline 
Poole, Manhattan, and Marguerite 
Stagg, Manhattan. 

Delta Delta Delta, Margaret Mack, 



quired, he advised. 

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Cereal Chemists Meet 

Approximately 125 members of 

the American Association of Cereal 

of implement that will leave the soil chemists attended the tri-sectional 

rough and cloddy to aid moisture mee ting here Friday and Saturday. 

penetration. The sections of the association in- 

♦ ! eluded Kansas City, Nebraska and the 

Spring Basketball Practice j Pioneer section. A lecture and dem- 

Jack Gardner, head basketball onstration of the various methods of 

coach, announced' spring practice for vitamin analysis were presented by 

his cagers would get under way next Dr. W. J. Peterson, assistant chemist 



Francis Gwin, diminutive quarter 
servation practice essential to crop J back frQm Leoti> made tne only Gold 

production in western Kansas, is dis- f touchdown of tne game when he 

cussed in a recent publication of the j plunged over from the one-yard line 

Kansas Agricultural Experiment sta- j after the regulars had drive n the ball 

tion 



from the White 3 8-yard line. Lee 
Jones, Pretty Prairie, a freshman 
back playing with the regulars, kicked 
the extra point. 

The Golds scored once more in the 
second period when a White kick 
from behind their own goal line was 



Tuesday. 



of the Experiment station. 



EVERYDAY ECONOMICS 

By W. E. GRIMES 



The bulletin, "Summer Fallow in 
Kansas," was written by R. I. Throck- 
morton, head of the Department of 
Agronomy, and Dr. H. E. Myers, as- 
sociate professor of agronomy at 
Kansas State College. 

"The vield of wheat in western 
ine yieu ui wu at blocked by regulars for a safety 

Kansas is influenced materially by j ' 

the amount of moisture in the soil at 
the time the crop is seeded in the 
fall," the authors state in pointing 
out the necessity of summer fallow- 
ing, or storing a part of the rainfall 
in the soil for the use of crops the fol- 
lowing year. 

Because of atmospheric conditions 
in western Kansas — high tempera- 
tures and low humidity — the amount 
of moisture required to produce a 



GOLF AND TENNIS SQUADS 

TO OPEN SEASON TOMORROW 



-Saving is going on cons.an.ly, and ,he resources .ha. are saved arejpu. ^«**~2?S*Z££ 
to uses that will insure a flow of consumable goods at future times. 



to produce a pound of similar dry 
plant matter in eastern Kansas, the 



ThP maintenance of existing stand- ital goods would not be brought into , 

.,Inf iv ^n^s dene .dent upon sav- existence, and those now in use would authors state in calling attention to 

g In saving peopte wUn from wear out and not be replaced or im- j the necessity of fallow In western 

Sng all of their productive resourc- g^*** the ^ability Jo pro- Kansas ^ ^ 

. es to obtain goods and services that duce won d be lowered ar the A icultural Ex _ 

Manhattan; Nancy Williams, Topeka; are immediately consumable and de- quanti gn of goods ava lame t J ^ ^^ ^ 

Barbara Vandaveer, Hutchinson, and J vote a part o these ,»»» r ce. to the a ^f^^^,^ "f the se stand- tinuousiy for 27 years has failed to 

jane Riddell, McPherson. Kappa production oi S°° ds ^f * re "° ,^ having is going on constantly, produce yields of more than five 

Delta, Betty McLeod, Manhattan. ""™^.ately available fo^ per acre in „ yea r« while 

faction of the wants of men. inese turn uic i« — „ rhant „ n fn ii n wprt land has failed 



Kappa Kappa Gamma, Mary Pauline 
Peder El Dorado; Marjorie Benson, 
Sabetha, and Betty Glidden, Osborne. 
Pi Beta Phi, Patricia Townley, Abi- 
lene; Marty Alexander, Hutchinson, 
and Ruth Weigand, Topeka. Zeta 
Tau Alpha, Esther Dumler, Gorham; 
Jeanne Knisell, Overland Park, and 
Margaret McNeal, Edna. 



goods that are not immediately avail- put to uses that will nsure a flow of 
able for the satisfaction of wants are I consumable goods at future times 
used in further production. They are I This saving and the productive use of 
capital goods such as factories, | a portion of our resources are ,essen- 
machines, productive livestock and tial if the required quantities of 
all other tools and equipment used goods and services are to be available 
in modern production. to maintain and improve the stand- 

If saving were to stop, these cap- 1 ards of living of the future. 



wheat on fallowed land has failed 
only eight years, the bulletin states. 

Methods of fallowing for produc- 
tion of sorghums, oats, corn and bar- 
ley also are discussed, in addition to 
a discussion of the influence of fallow 
on soil fertility losses, contour tillage 
of fallow and other related topics. 



Wildcats Will Meet Wnshlmrn College 
Here in Iiiitinl ('lushes 

Kansas State College's golf and 
tennis teams will open their spring 
schedules here Thursday afternoon 
against teams from Washburn college 
of Topeka. 

Arlin Ward, Manhattan; Hall 
Milliard, Manhattan; Dick Gorman, 
Hartford, Conn., and Willard Mona- 
han, Leavenworth, will form Coach 
M. F. Ahearn's golf team. Ward and 
Gorman are letter men. Milliard and 
Monahan are sophomores. Jim Paus- 
tian, Manhattan, a letter man, and 
Walter Keith, Manhattan, a squad 
man, are alternates. 

Coach C. S. Moll's tennis team in- 
cludes two letter men — Jack Horacek 
of Topeka, and Eldon Sechler, Hutch- 
inson. Four sophomores, freshman 
numeral winners last spring, are 
battling for the two remaining posi- 
tions. They are Vernon Plattner, 
Coffeyville; Henry Bender, Topeka; 
Gerald Klema, Wilson, and Henry 
Lau, Arkansas City. 



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The Kansas Industrialist 



Volume 67 



Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, Manhattan, Wednesday, April 28, 1941 



Number 27 



PHI ALPHA MU HIGHEST 
ON SCHOLARSHIP ROLLS 



GENERAL SCIENCE ORGANIZATION 
RETAINS FIRST PLACE 



Council President 



PI Beta Phi Heads Lint of Sororities, 

and Farm House la Ahead on 

■in 4 In km of Greek 

Organisations 

Phi Alpha Mu, honorary general 
science society, has the highest 
scholarship of all organizations at 
Kansas State College during the first 
semester of the 1940-41 academic 
year, according to an announcement 
last week by Miss Jessie McDowell 
Machir, registrar. The group's 
scholarship average was 2.764. Phi 
Alpha Mu has headed the list since 
the second semester of the 1934-35 
school year. 

Second in the entire list was Omi- 
cron Nu, honorary home economics 
organization, with an average of 
2.589. Mortar Board, honorary se- 
nior women's organization, was third 
with an average of 2.453. 

FARM HOUSE LEADS GREEKS 

Pi Beta Phi headed the list of 
sorority scholarship ratings with an 
average of 1.672. Farm House fra- 
ternity ranked first in the men's social 
organizations with an average of 
1.891. 

The list of social organizations and 
their grade averages follows: 

Sororities — Pi Beta Phi, 1.672; 
Alpha Xi Delta, 1.529; Kappa Kappa 
Gamma, 1.506; Chi Omega, 1.492; 
Alpha Delta Pi, 1.426; Delta Delta 
Delta, 1.422; Zeta Tau Alpha, 1.408; 
Clovia, 1.395; Kappa Delta, 1.021. 

Fraternities — Farm House, 1.891; 
Alpha Kappa Lambda, 1.649; Delta 
Sigma Phi, 1.555; Alpha Gamma 
Rho, 1.475; Tau Kappa Epsilon, 
1.396; Pi Kappa Alpha, 1.358; Kap- 
pa Sigma, 1.272; Sigma Phi Epsilon, 
1.226; Acacia, 1.1641; Beta Kappa, 
1.152; Sigma Nu, 1.146; Sigma Al- 
pha Epsilon, 1.052; Phi Kappa Tau, 
.949; Delta Tau Delta, .917; Phi 
Delta Theta, .896; Alpha Tau Omega, 
.889; Beta Theta Pi, .876; Phi Kap- 
pa, .830; Theta Xi, .693. 

OMICRON NU IS SECOND 

The entire list of organizations 
according to their rank, including 
sororities and fraternities, follows: 

Phi Alpha Mu, 2.764; Omicron Nu, 
2.589; Mortar Board, 2.453; Dynam- 
is, 2.207; Quill club, 2.206; Alpha 
Zeta, 2.122; Athenian, 2.093; Theta 
Sigma Phi, 2.040; Alpha Mu, 1.949; 
Mu Phi Epsilon, 1.912; Klod and 
Kernel, 1.895; Farm House, 1.891; 
Pi Kappa Delta, 1.825; Ionian, 1.769; 
Sigma Tau, 1.759; Pi Beta Phi, 
1.672; Alpha Kappa Lambda, 1.649; 
Browning, 1.642; Delta Sigma Phi, 
1.555; Alpha Xi Delta, 1.529; Amer- 
ican Society of Mechanical Engineers, 
1.526; Block and Bridle, 1.520; 
Kappa Kappa Gamma, 1.506; Chi 
Omega, 1.492; Sigma Delta Chi, 
1.484; Alpha Gamma Rho, 1.475; 
Phi Epsilon Kappa, 1.427; Alpha 
Delta Pi, 1.426; Delta Delta Delta, 
1.422; Zeta Tau Alpha, 1.408; Tau 
Kappa Epsilon, 1.396; Clovia, 1.395; 
Pi Kappa Alpha, 1.358; American 
Road Builders' association, 1.356; 
K fraternity, 1.339; Alpha Kappa Psi, 
1.336. 

Kappa Sigma, 1.272; Dairy club, 
1.266; American Society of Civil En- 
gineers, 1.237; Sigma Phi Epsilon, 
1.226; American Institute of Elec- 
trical Engineers, 1.1644; Acacia, 
1.1641; Beta Kappa, 1.152; Sigma 
Nu, 1.146; Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 
1.052; Kappa Delta, 1.021; Ameri- 
can Society of Agricultural Engineers, 
.977; Scabbard and Blade, .952; Phi 
Kappa Tau, .949; Delta Tau Delta, 
.917; Phi Delta Theta, .896; Alpha 
Tau Omega, .889; Beta Theta Pi, 
.876; Phi Kappa, .830; Theta Xi, 
.693; Hamilton, .622. 
♦ 
Go to Kansas City 

Members of classes in Principles of 
Cooperation and Marketing of Farm 
Products made a field trip to Kansas 
City Monday. While in Kansas City 
the group visited the livestock ex- 
change, the grain exchange, the Con- 
sumers' Cooperative association and 
the Midwest Wool Marketing asso- 
ciation. 




LARRY SPEAR 



LARRY SPEAR IS SELECTED 
HEAD OF NEXT YEAR'S SGA 



COMMENCEMENT WILL BEGIN 
WITH ALUMNI DAY, MAY 24 

IS CLASSES PLANNING REUNIONS 
FOR THIS YEAR 



Engineering; nnd Architecture Division 

Hepresentntlve Named 

by New Council 

Larry Spear, Mission, has been 
chosen president of the Student Gov- 
erning association by the new Stu- 
dent Council. Spear is an Indepen- 
dent from the Division of Engineering 
and Architecture. 

Vice-president of the SGA is Ray 
Rokey, Sabetha, one of the three 
Greek candidates to be elected to the 
council. Dorothy Beezley, Indepen- 
dent representative of the Division 
of Home Economics, is recording 
secretary. Donald Moss, Miltonvale, 
Independent engineer, was chosen 
corresponding secretary, and Ralph 
Perry, Oskaloosa, Independent, gen- 
eral science, was elected treasurer. 

These officers were chosen at a 
meeting of the new and old councils 
last week. This meeting was held as 
one of the two that the two councils 
will have together. By the SGA con- 
stitution, they are required to meet 
two times before the new council 
takes over its duties. 

New members of the Board of Pub- 
lications will assume their positions 
sometime this spring. The two Inde- 
pendent and one Greek candidates 
elected to the board are Martha 
Payne, Gordon West and Kenneth 
Hamlin, all of Manhattan. 

ENGLISH TEACHERS PLAN 

SPEECHLESS' CONFERENCE 



Luncheon at Noon and Banquet at Night 

HlKhlig-ht Saturday's Proa-ram, While 

Graduation Will Be Monday 

In Memorial Stadium 

Announcement of commencement 
activities on May 24, 25 and 26 was 
made today by Kenney L. Ford, Col- 
lege Alumni association secretary. 

Thirteen classes will hold reunions 
on Alumni day, May 24. All classes 
since '76 with "6" or "1" as the last 
number in their graduation year will 
have luncheons Saturday noon, May 
24. All alumni will register in Rec- 
reation Center from 10 a. m. to noon 
Saturday. 

BANQUET SATURDAY NIGHT 
At 2 p. m. an alumni business meet- 
ing will be in Recreation Center. 
Saturday's activities will come to a 
climax at 6 p. m. with the Alumni- 
Senior banquet in Nichols Gym- 
nasium. 

Sunday's program includes the 
commencement recital in the Audi- 
torium at 4 p. m. At 7:10 p. m. the 
academic procession to Memorial 
Stadium will begin, and at 7:30 the 
baccalaureate services will start. Dr. 
George G. Stoddard, dean of Grad- 
uate college, State University of 
Iowa, Iowa City, will give the bacca- 
laureate sermon. 

GRADUATION IN STADIUM 
The Alumni-Senior reception in the 
President's home from 3 to 4:30 
p. m. will start Monday's activities. 
The academic procession to the Stadi- 
um will begin again at 7:10 p. m. 
Capping the three-day alumni-senior 
activities will be the graduation ex- 
ercises in Memorial Stadium at 7:30 
p. m, Monday A * the last senior 
walks across the stage with his 
diploma, the 1941 commencement 
program will end. 



Itoiindtnble Discussions Will Replace 

Set Papers at Meetings Here 

'I'h Is Week-end 

A "speechless conference" com- 
prises the program of the 25th annual 
Kansas College English Teachers' 
conference, which will be here this 
week-end. Roundtable topics, such 
as "We Foster Illiteracy," "Modern 
Grammar" and "The Onrush of the 
Contemporary," will take the place of 
speeches. 

The two-day meeting will begin 
Friday at 2:30 p. m. in Kedzie hall 
and continue through Saturday. Ap- 
proximately 100 college teachers of 
English representing many of the 40 
Kansas colleges are expected to at- 
tend, said Prof. H. W. Davis, head of 
the Department of English and con- 
ference chairman. 

At 2:30 p. m. Friday, Miss Nellie 
Aberle of Kansas State College will 
preside at a discussion of English 
proficiency tests for college students. 
At 9:30 a. m. Saturday, Dr. Samuel 
A. Nock, vice-president of Kansas 
State College, will preside over a dis- 
cussion entitled, "We Foster Illiter- 
acy." 

The annual banquet of the English 
teachers will be at the Manhattan 
Country club at 6:30 o'clock Friday 
evening. 



1941 COMMENCEMENT 
CALENDAR 



Class 


Reunions 


'76 


•11 


'81 


•16 


•86 


'21 


'91 


'26 


'96 


'31 


'01 


•36 


'06 





SATURDAY, MAY 24 

Alumni Day 

10-12 a. m. Alumni registration, 

Recreation Center. 
12 noon. Class luncheons. 
2 p. m. Alumni business meet- 
ing, Recreation Center. 
6 p. m. Alumni-Senior banquet, 
Nichols Gymnasium. 

SUNDAY, MAY 25 
4 p. m. Commencement recital, 

Auditorium. 
7:10 p.m. Academic procession. 
7:30 p.m. Baccalaureate ser- 
vices, Memorial stadium. 
Sermon by Dr. George D. 
Stoddard, dean of Gradu- 
ate College, State Univer- 
sity of Iowa, Iowa City. 

MONDAY, MAY 26 
3-4:30 p.m. Alumni-Senior re- 
ception, President's resi- 
dence. 
7:10 p.m. Academic procession. 
7:30 p.m. Graduation exercises, 
Memorial Stadium. 



HOSPITALITY PROGRAMS 
ATTRACT 3,550 VISITORS 

STUDENTS AND TEACHERS FROM 
117 HIGH SCHOOLS HERE 



Operative Millers Meet 

Approximately 100 members of the 
Association of Operative Millers from 
Districts Nos. 1 and 2 met on the 
College campus last Saturday for 
their 16th annual joint meeting. The 
program, arranged by Dr. E. G. Bay- 
field, head of the Department of Mill- 
ing Industry, was presented by mem- 
bers of the departmental faculty and 
members of the association. 



Graduate Writes on Diets 

Miss Grace Mary Gustafson, H. E. 
'38, is co-author with Miss Aubyn 
Chinn of "The Economy of Combina- 
tions of Dairy Products in Low-cost 
Adequate Diets" which has been pub- 
lished in the February issue of the 
Journal of the American Dietetic 
Association. The article reports the 
results of a demonstration study in 
which the diets of 12 low-income 
families of Chicago were analyzed. 
The authors found that with supple- 
ments of fluid and concentrated milk 
and a wiser choice of other foods, 
these diets could be made adequate 
in all food nutrients without exceed- 
ing the cost of 11 cents per adult 
meal, which was the average of food 
costs to these families at the time 
the study began. 



Recent Legislation Affecting the College 



The Kansas Legislature at the reg- 
ular session of 1941 appropriated a 
total of $2,467,400 for the support 
of the College, including the branch 
experiment stations and the Exten- 
sion service, during the biennium be- 
ginning July 1, 1941. For the branch 
experiment stations, the appropria- 
tions amount to $125,000. The 
$2,342,400 appropriated for the Col- 
lege, including the Extension service, 
is $237,000 more than the corre- 
sponding appropriation of 1939. 

The 1941 appropriation includes 
$30,000 for three home management 
houses, $50,000 for a small animal 
laboratory building, $19,500 as in- 
demnity for losses resulting from the 
fire that occurred on March 15 and 
$30,000 for a Works Progress admin- 
istration approved project to con- 
struct a military science building to 
cost $125,000. 

While the total appropriation is 
substantially larger than that made 
in 1939, the appropriation for main- 
tenance, repairs and improvements 
is $10,000 a year less than was ap- 
propriated for this item two years 
ago. This fact, together with the 
fact that the faculty and the student 
enrolment are larger while the gen- 
eral institutional financial balance is 
much less than it was two years ago, 
makes it necessary to deplete exten- 
sively the departmental financial 
balances. 

In addition to the appropriation 



bills, the Legislature enacted several 
other bills affecting the College. 
These include a bill fixing a quarter- 
mill tax levy that will raise approxi- 

1 mately $600,000 a year for a building 
program at the five state schools, 
specific allocations from the fund to 
be made by future legislatures on 
recommendations to be made by the 
State Board of Regents; a bill author- 
izing the state schools to construct 
student union buildings, to be paid 
for with student union fees, and 
dormitories to be paid for out of net 

1 operating revenues, and a civil service 
merit bill that will affect certain non- 
teaching, non-research and non- 
administrative positions at the state 
schools. 

A bill to authorize county commis- 
sioners and the College, instead of 
county farm bureaus and the College, 
to appoint county agricultural agents 
failed of passage as did also a bill to 
establish a state department of 
finance with new powers affecting 
the finances of state institutions and 
a bill making an appropriation for a 
new fieldhouse. 

While the appropriation for Col- 
lege operating expenses is decidedly 
less than is necessary for the highest 
efficiency, the other appropriations 
and the legislation authorizing the 
construction of a student union 
building and a new residence hall for 
women are decidedly beneficial. 



New Record Number of Institutions 
Sends Representatives to Attend An- 
nual Division or Home Econom- 
ics Two-day Show 

Students and teachers from 117 
Kansas high schools visited Hospi- 
tality days exhibits last week-end, ac- 
cording to Virginia Siebert, Pretty 
Prairie, registration chairman. 

A total of 3,550 people, including 
Kansas club women, Manhattan 
townspeople and college students in- 
spected the exhibits. Of this number 
1,700 were high school girls. 

WAMEGO SENDS MOST GIRLS 
Although total attendance dropped 
from last year's 3,733, the high 
schools registered increased from 101 
last year, and number of high school 
girls attending showed an increase 
over last year's 1,618. 

Wamego had the largest represen- 
tation with 60 girls; Chapman was 
second with 46 and Highland Park 
high school at Topeka third with 43. 
High scorer in the judging contest 
offered for high school visitors was 
Miriam Colyer, Saffordville. In the 
written quizzes the winner was Reva 
Jennings, Morrowville. 

INA PALMER WINS AWARD 
The program for the two days in- 
cluded assemblies, teas and a lunch- 
eon given in honor of the high school 
students. The annual all-division 
banquet for students in home eco- 
nomics opened activities Thursday 
night. Hospitality hop closed the af- 
fair on Saturday evening. 

Honored at the banquet was Ina 
Palmer, Sabetha, who received the 
annual $10 freshman Omicron Nu 
award. Her name will be engraved 
| on a loving cup in Dean Margaret 
Justin's office. Dorothy Green, Wichi- 
| ta, was chosen an outstanding senior 
woman in home economics activities 
and as holder of the high scholarship 
record for four years. Helen Mar- 
shall, Wheaton, 111., was honored for 
high scholarship for her last two 
years of work. 

ALL DEPARTMENTS INCLUDED 
Exhibits represented work done in 
all departments in the Division of 
Home Economics. Modern household 
furnishing was contrasted with old- 
style equipment to show the advances 
made in that field in recent years. 
Students demonstrated various meth- 
ods of food preparation and made 
suggestions for meal planning with 
use of vitamin-enriched foods. 

Projects carried out in classes in 
art, clothing, food economics and nu- 
trition and child welfare were dis- 
played. Improvement of family liv- 
ing by means of good music, furniture 
arrangement and lighting was 
stressed. 

MRS. AVIS CARLSON, WICHITA, 
SPEAKS AT MATRIX BANQUET 



Theta SIkiiiii Phi, Honorary and Profes- 
sional Journalism Group, Is Sponsor 

Mrs. Avis Carlson, magazine writer 
from Wichita, spoke before 125 wo- 
men at the annual Matrix Table din- 
! ner at the Manhattan Country club 
i Tuesday night on "Doors for Women 
j Journalists." The dinner was spon- 
1 sored by Theta Sigma Phi, honorary 
and professional organization for wo- 
men journalists. 

Mrs. Carlson has received wide 
recognition for articles which have 
appeared in such magazines as Har- 
pers, Atlantic Monthly, Forum and 
Coronet. She was introduced by Jen- 
nie Marie Madsen, Dwight, president 
of Theta Sigma Phi and toastmistress 
for the evening. 

Prominent Kansas newspaper wo- 
men, Manhattan women, faculty mem- 
bers and outstanding students com- 
prised those present. Miss Jane 
Rockwell, instructor in journalism, is 
faculty sponsor and an associate mem- 
ber of the organization. Alumna ad- 
viser for Theta Sigma Phi is Mrs. R. 
I. Thackrey, wife of the head of the 
Department of Industrial Journalism 
and Printing. 



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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1941 



Barbara is the daughter of Lawrence 
E. Will, Belle Glade, Fla. 

Will highway is 22 feet wide and 
one of the best roads in Florida. 
"The grade is built of solid rock laid 
upon a solid underground rock 
foundation. All the material in the 
highway is of native rock except the 
bituminous surface." The road paral- 
lels the North New River canal and 
extends southeasterly from South Bay 
on Lake Okeechobee to highway 149, 
from which Ft. Lauderdale and Mi- 
ami are readily reached. The dis- 
tance from South Bay to Ft. Lauder- 
dale is 67 miles, and to Miami 78.5 
miles. The everglades region is thus 
given a very desirable outlet for tour- 
ists and growers of fruits and vege- 
tables. 

The exercises connected with the 
opening of the highway were held 
at Twenty-mile bend, west of Ft. 
Lauderdale, and at that point a 



SCIENCE TODAY 



By R. C. LANGFORD 
Associate Professor of Psychology 
How long will it take you to read 
this article? It will take the average 
college student two and a half min- 
utes. A few can read it in a little less 
than one minute. 

The question which immediately 
comes to mind is "Does the rapid 
reader comprehend as well as the 
slow reader?" Research shows that 
for easy reading material the rapid 
readers in general have better com- 
prehension than slow readers. This 
relation does not hold, however, for 
difficult reading material such as 
mathematics and science 



Improvement in reading ability 
gTaTiteThaft has* been erected'to'the j la an ever-present need. When we 
memory of Doctor Will. In view of I consider the amount of time we spend 
the many years of labor given by him reading, we are forced to realize that 



to the general development of the 
Everglades and to obtaining this 



for many of us, at least, reading is 
one of our most important skills. Ac- 



road, the naming of the highway for curacy of understanding is essential 

1 . . .. I. ,. f 4 1.,. .. , wi rt i n nr urn r\ t\ '111/1 I M 1 1 



THE COLLEGES \sn NATIONAL, 
DBFKHfMD 

The land-grant colleges always 
have been agencies of national de- 
fense. Chartered by an act of Con- 
gress approved by President Lincoln 
on July 2, 1862, at about the darkest 
period of the Civil war, these colleges 
have never lost sight of their obliga- 
tion to help to foster the industrial, 
agricultural, military and social fit- 
ness of the country to defend itself. 

If the land-grant colleges made no 
changes at all in their normal activi- 
ties — in research, in resident instruc- 
tion and in extension — they still 
would contribute substantially to 
national defense. The trained engi- 
neers, chemists, bacteriologists, vet- 
erinarians, agriculturists, nutrition- 
ists and other scientific specialists 
that these colleges turn out are of 
incalculable value in defense. Each 
year in their normal activities the 
land-grant colleges turn out more 
than 5,000 reserve officers for the 
army and navy, and they provide 
basic military training to at least 
50,000 additional men. The exten- 
sion work in agriculture, home eco- 
nomics and rural engineering that 
these colleges perform is indispen- 
sable to effective national defense. 

But, like the other land-grant col- 
leges, Kansas State has not been con- 
tent simply to continue in the usual 
way. It has intensified and expanded 
its contributions to the national de- 
fense. It has lent its dean of engi- 
neering to the federal government to 
serve as director of the national pro- 
gram of engineering defense training. 
In addition to its regular work in the 
training of men for engineering ser- 
vice, the College has set up five 
special courses in engineering defense 
training at the college level. In co- 
operation with the federal Civil Aero- 
nautics administration, the College is 
operating two training courses for 
airplane pilots and is turning out 
about 100 pilots a year. Seven mem- 
bers of the College faculty are serv- 
ing, one of them as chairman, on the 
state committee on nutrition in rela- 
tion to national defense recently ap- 
pointed by the governor. Various 
other faculty members are serving 
in other special capacities in defense 
activities. Twenty-eight faculty 
members are United States army 
reserve officers or national guard of- 
ficers. Already eight of these have 
left the College to enter active mili- 
tary service. These are only a few 
instances of the College's special 
contributions to national defense 
activities. 

By its nature, by its own tradition 
and by its preference, the College is 
an important factor in the national 
defense. Its regular work is its major 
contribution. Its special activities, 
begun within recent months, are an 
important additional contribution. 
♦ 

THOMAS 10. WILL MEMORIAL 
HIGHWAY 

On April 11, 1941, Florida high- 
way number 26 was officially opened. 
In recognition of the prolonged, per- 
sistent work of Dr. Thomas E. Will 
in promoting this highway, the Flor- 
ida legislature named it in his honor. 
At the opening a red, white and blue 
ribbon across the road was cut by 
"small but very composed Barbara 
Ann Will, granddaughter of the late 
Thomas E. Will who conceived the 
highway and spent the later years of 
his life advocating it." 

Doctor Will died March 5, 1937. 



him and the erection of the monu 
ment in his honor seem highly 
appropriate. 

Thomas Elmer Will was president 
of Kansas State College from July 
1, 1897, to June 30, 1899. — J. T. 
Willard. 



MUSIC 

Stratton Recital 

From the beginning of the Franz 
Schubert "Sonata in A major, Op. 
120," with all its melodious smooth- 
ness and simplicity, to the end of 
"Mephisto Waltz," the third of a 
group of dynamic, intricate, brilliant 
Franz Liszt numbers, Charles Strat- 
ton, assistant professor in the College 
Department of Music, was complete 
master of his program and his audi- 
ence last Sunday afternoon at the 
Auditorium. Never before in his 
many appearances in Manhattan has 
Mr. Stratton been so easily powerful 



in much of the reading we do, and the 
rate of reading determines the amount 
of work we can get done or the 
amount of leisure time after the work 
is done. 

Speed and accuracy of reading are 
the product of a number of factors. 
Among them should be mentioned the 
efficiency of vision, mental ability, 
background of experience and last, 
but certainly not least, the manner in 
which one has learned to read. It is 
the latter to which psychology has 
made a large contribution. 

The older methods of teaching 
reading were quite logical. Words 
are composed of letters. That being 
the case, it was assumed that the al- 
phabet should be taught first, then 
the words could be spelled out and 
so read. A second of the older meth- 
ods is called "phonetic." By this 
method one learned to read by read- 
ing aloud. 

Logical and psychological proce- 
dures often differ. In the case of 
learning to read, this suggestion was 



as a pianist. 

Besides the Schubert sonata, Mr. 
Stratton did four Chopin numbers: made ^ ag0 by Come nius and 

"Valse in A flat ma or,' Etude in G 10fl agQ by QUr own great 

sharp minor," "Nocturne in C minor |J 11Mtnr h^^p M,nn. Rothsue- 
and "Ballade in F minor;" a modern 



group: Francis Poulenc's "Pastou- 
relle (L'Eventail de Jeanne)" and 
Debussy's "Ballade" and "Danse"; 
and Franz Liszt's "Waldesrauschen" 
and "sur le 104e Sonnet de Pe 



educator, Horace Mann. Both sug- 
gested that the beginning teaching 
of reading should»be by words, not by 
letters. 

It is strange that though people 
have read for centuries the true be- 



■ le L: e ♦« nLfnJ havior ° f the e y es in doing so was not 

arque" in addition to the closing dJscovered untj , lg79 . In that ye ar 



"Mephisto Waltz." 

The program was particularly wide 
I in its appeal to lovers of piano music. 
Those who like mellow smoothness 
and simplicity found it in Schubert, 
| those who ask for crystal clear, melo- 
[ dious brilliance found it in Chopin, 
\ those who sway emotionally to star- 
tling harmonies and surprise progres- 
sions found them in Poulenc and De- 
1 bussy and those who thrill to the 
1 smooth execution of the terrifically 
I intricate found that in the Liszt 
group. 

The task of presenting such a pro- 
gram is one that few recitalists would 
impose upon themselves, but Mr. . 
Stratton took up the burden and 
turned it into a delight for both him- 
1 self and his listeners. 

Perhaps a plurality in the audi- 1 
ence enjoyed the Chopin most and 
perhaps the Chopin was the most de- 
lightfully done. But undoubtedly a 
considerable few, of which the writer 
was oii(!, were most pleased by the 
super-brilliant Liszt numbers and the 
neatly interpreted unconventionali- 
ties of the modernists, Poulenc and 
Debussy. — H. W. D. 
♦ 
WARTIME GOLF RULES 
A golf club near London has now 
a set of rules framed to meet current 
conditions. 

"During gunfire or while bombs 
are falling," we read, "players may 
take cover without penalty for ceas- 
ing play." 

Apparently, however, this rule is 
only for particular emergencies, for 
another permits "a player whose 
stroke is affected by the simultaneous 
explosion of a bomb or shell or by 
machine-gun fire to play another ball 
from the same place." This proce- 
dure involves a penalty of one stroke. 
Full provision is made for all pos- 
sibilities. "The positions of known 
delayed-action bombs are marked by 
red flags placed at a reasonably, but 
not guaranteed, safe distance," while 
"a ball moved by enemy action may 
be replaced as near as possible where 
it lay." For this, it seems, there is 
no penalty. — From Bulletins from 
Britain. 



the French scientist, Javal, by use of 
of mirror, noticed that the reading 
eye did not move smoothly along the 
line, but by a series of very rapid 
jumps and pauses. Some 20 years 
later the American psychologist, 
Dodge, devised a technique of photo- 
graphing the reflection in the cornea 
of the eye of a spot of light. Dear- 
born and later many others have 
adapted a special kind of motion pic- 



ture photography to the recording of 
eye movements. 

Literally miles of motion picture 
records have revealed many interest- 
ing and important facts about the 
behavior of the reading eye. Among 
them are: 

The eye does not see during the 
shifts from pause to pause. 

More than 90 percent of the time is 
spent in pauses or fixations. 

A good adult reader averages 80 
fixations per 100 words. 

Regressive movements (from right 
to left) are much more frequent in 
poor than in good readers. 

These facts coupled with the reali- 
zation that almost all of our reading 
is silent emphasized the need for 
changed methods of teaching reading. 
It was discovered that many silent 
readers moved their lips or otherwise 
got the meaning from the printed 
matter by an "inner voice." They had 
been taught by reading aloud. This 
method of getting meaning is neces- 
sarily slow. Furthermore, since good 
readers average one fixation for each 
one and one-fourth word, children 
should be taught to read by the con- 
figuration of the word rather than by 
the letters composing it. 

Recommended methods of teach- 
ing reading are rather complex. Em- 
phasis is placed on recognition of 
words by their general contour rather 
than by the letters which compose 
them. However, the word method is 
not employed exclusively. 

These considerations suggest that 
parents might do even a bright child 
a disfavor by teaching it to read be- 
fore it starts to school. Unless they 
are acquainted with more effective 
methods of teaching, they may give it 
handicapping habits. 

Remedial training for poor read- 
ers, whether child or adult, is receiv- 
ing much attention from research 
I workers at present. There are avail- 
J able now for diagnostic and reme- 
j dial work such instruments as the 
Ophthalm-O-Graph which makes eye- 
movement records while the subject 
reads and the Metron-O-Scope for 
establishing better habits of eye- 
movement. However, aid for the in- 
efficient reader is not dependent upon 
the use of such instruments. Many 
diagnostic tests of the paper and 
pencil sort are available, and some 
of the best procedures for improving 
reading speed and comprehension 
call for no apparatus whatever. 

There is available a large amount 
of recent literature on improving 
reading speed and comprehension. 
The adult who wishes to improve by 
his own efforts can find many useable 
suggestions in such a book as Albert 
J. Harris' "How to Increase Reading 
Ability," published by Longmans, 
Oreen and company. 



occupied by President Fairchild, who 
lectured on "The Poet's Place." 

Professor Ward delivered a lecture 
on cooperation before the Manhattan 
Grange. 

At the regular meeting of the Web- 
ster society, R. K. Peck was initiated 
as a new member. 



KANSAS POETRY 

Robert Conover, Editor 



SOCIETY EDITOR 

By Caroline Cain Duriet 

In school she wrote exhilarating prose 
With ease and grace; while any scratchy 

pen 
Or stubby bit of pencil that she chose 
Began at once to scribble poems when 
She touched it. Now, years later, all 

she writes 
Is local news about a little town: 
She .stresses who, what, where and 

when; recites 
Details of decoration, food and gown. 
Sometimes she sighs above her daily 

stint, 
Not dreaming countless readers seek 

her page 
To find their names and doings there in 

print 
And clip them for a lasting heritage. 
Her notes of social life, simply ex- 
pressed, 
Are pure Americana at its best! 



Mrs. C. C. Durkee, formerly of Au- 
gusta and now of Kansas City, Kan., 
during the past year has written a 
number of poems, given several talks 
to a young people's group and written 
a one-act play, "Edda's Motto," used 
at eight fall and winter conferences 
by the Kansas District Girl Reserve 
clubs. Her three-act play on Colum- 
bus, "The Admiral Sails "West," won 
a trophy in the World's Pair Hobby 
Olympics. 

-•- 

SUNFLOWERS 

By H. W. Davis 

SLOW WORK 

The old, old graybeard with the 

sharp, sad eyes turned and said: 



"Yes, you folks down there on 

earth might as well conclude that at 

last the forces of human liberty are 

' definitely at war with the brigands 

i of human regimentation in what 

' looks to be a final do-or-die struggle. 

i But it isn't? It's only the beginning 

of a long, tough fight." 



'So what?" I grumbled. 



"Well, for one thing," and he 
frowned, "you'd better decide what 
you are going to do about it. Individ- 
ually and collectively, both. 



"Here's the line-up. Take it or 
leave it. Great Britain, Yugo-Slavia 
and the two Americas under the lead 
of the United States seem to favor — 
in varying degrees — living in a world 
in which there's a bit of free play 
for everybody. France, the low 
countries, Finland, Sweden, Norway, 
and the Balkans would prefer that 
too, if they had a preference. 



"The rest of the world favors the 
snap of totalitarian control and the 
sinking of individual liberty in a 
thing called 'the best interest of the 
state'." 



IN OLDER DAYS 

From the Files of The Industrialist 

TEN YEARS AGO 

A. E. Bate, '19, was with the Unit- 
ed States Bureau of Animal Industry 
at Denver. 

L. E. Woodman, '27, was with the 
Missouri Power and Light company 
at Jefferson City, in the position of 
sales engineer for the company. 

Six women from the Manhattan 
chapter of the American Association 
of University Women attended the 
meeting of the organization at In- 
dependence. They were Dean Mary 
P. Van Zile, Mrs. Grace Varney, Mrs. 
C. O. Swanson, Miss Emma Hyde, 
Dr. Margaret Justin and Miss Myra 
Scott. 



in the Indian service for many years, 
was appointed superintendent of the 
Indian school at Chilocco, Okla. 

O. E. Reed, assistant in dairying, 
went to Holton to judge the herd of 
R. J. Linscott, who had one of the 
largest and best-known herds in 
Kansas. 



"Yes, that's more or less right," I 
said, "but what — " 



FORTY YEARS AGO 
Prof. O. D. Otis returned from a 
visit to the University of Missouri at 
Columbia. 

Miss Florence Corbett, '9 5, accept- 
ed a position with King's County hos- 
pital, Brooklyn. 

Schuyler Nichols, '98, was gradu- 
ated in medicine from the Barnes 
Medical college, St. Louis. 



"If human progress were not so 
pokey," he ignored me, smiling a bit 
sourly, "I'd say the next 10 years 
would settle the matter for all time. 
But you earth creatures are dull and 
dumb, and the next 10 years will 
only be the worst of it." 



"Talk 
thought. 



on, you old pessimist," I 
"Get it out of your system." 



TWENTY YEARS AGO 
Emma Stratton, '15, was head of 
the Department of Nutrition at the 
Iowa State Teachers' college, Cedar 
Falls. 

W. P. Terrell, '04, was director of 
the Mechanical Arts division, Prairie 
View State Normal and Industrial 
college, Prairie View, Texas. 

Dr. W. A. Hagan, '15, professor of 
veterinary pathology at Cornell uni- 
versity, was granted a leave of ab- 
sence to spend a year at the Rocke- 
feller institute as special research 
worker in animal diseases. 



THIRTY YEARS AGO 
Mrs. Mary P. Van Zile, dean of 
women, read a paper on the education 
of girls before the Chaldaean club 
of Topeka. 

Edgar A. Allen, *87, who had been 



FIFTY YEARS AGO 

J. G. Harbord, '86, took his exami- 
nations for a commission at Van- 
couver barracks, Washington. 

W. T. Swingle, '90, received his 
commission as assistant in the patho- 
logical division of the United States 
Department of Agriculture and 
planned to leave Manhattan immedi- 
ately for Washington. 

M. A. Carleton, '87, professor of 
natural history in Garfield university, 
Wichita, was commissioned by the 
secretary of agriculture to gather 
notes on the distribution of plants 
and make collections in southern 
Kansas and the Indian territory for 
the national herbarium. 



"The immediate outlook for liberty 
is practically zero, I warn you. Lib- 
erty, merely because it is liberty, 
does not know how to handle the 
super-power you mortals have rigged 
up for yourselves since that practice 
war a quarter of a century ago. 
Super-power gives the totalitarian 
just what he wants and likes to use. 
Believe me, he knows how to handle 
it to get results. 



, "But don't let your children and 

i grandchildren start worrying. By the 

| time they get around to hurting too 

| much the brigands will begin fighting 

among themselves and common folks 

can start scheming to get their rights 

j back. All you have to do is make peo- 

' pie see that power-gadgets are devils 

, as well as gods. They usually are 

devils at first, even though scientists 

: and engineers don't mean them to be. 



SIXTY YEARS AGO 
Because of illness, Professor Po- 
1 penoe was unable to act as Friday- 
afternoon lecturer. The hour was 



"Yes, don't let your grandchildren 
despair," he snickered. 



t 



* 



The old, old man from somewhere 
yawned, got up stiffly from the bench 
and tottered away up a long hill. 



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SUPPLEMENT TO 

KANSAS INDUSTRIALIST 

April 23, 1941 



•WELCOME HOME "jj 
HAN GS OUT C ftLUMNl 

THIRTEEN CLASSES MAKING 

REUNION P e ' 

Tift* 

Local Committee* Wojend Prog . ram » 

for Commencement i «8| t | eB ( 

Group* Grada n 

°™ » Bd es, 

The "Welcome Hoiaic^gn i B ou t 
at Kansas State Colle ue| a u alum- 
ni who return for encement 
May 24, 25 and 26. ^ g 

Returning alumni *' Mi ^ Q a beau- 
tiful campus, thanl^jg^ generous 
spring rains. They f y^m fl n d a 
busy Poyntz avenue, Ba y ft0 the de- 
fense activities at Ff T jy Those 

the Ware- 

18 id send in 

reservations for roo< ^ early a8 

possible. „ 

PLAN 13 CLASS Tw ;k>NS 

Local committees i inn i n g for 

class reunions for th gjes of . 7 6 ( 

'81, '86, '91, '96, '0 thl . llf -16, 

•21, '26, '31 and '36 following 



who are planning to si 
ham or Gillett hotels! , 



Ive following 
letters are written bj ' senta tives 
of the various reunio?^ W8eB; 
CLASS Ol 

We are indebted tj 
Frank Waugh, Her 
Clay Coburn, for the; 
in having a reunion 
Kansas State. Throu 
we shall have letters 
ing members of our 
sibly one exception, 
ful of seeing many o 

Those of you who 
possible to attend o' 
unions, can scarcely , af , tne p i ea 
sure which comes fro.f 
fellowship after the s 



a Annates, 
very and 
ha<e interest 
spring at 
eir efforts 
8, ill the liv- 
b( with pos- 
sf are hope- 
is here, 
isb'und it not 
e evious re- 



wing class 
g '. years and 
from seeing the growt^l beauty of 
College and camp^u? h /we are 
privileged to call o'.'^w 

As a native of Ma. ^ J want to 
add my cordial wisJ ovhat all of 
you may this year sn Diec j S prospec- 

i! .u nn »«a uriHl lift 1 



tive pleasure with us 



rec( e Little. 



CLASS oP eT _ 

One spring 45 y ea £ on ', though it 
does not seem that lo. inoat ot U s, 
the class of '96 graspt,Ho. r diploma s 
and went out into th.at Jd tQ make 
their fortunes. Beb hem were 
four happy years, an\. s.^ or them 
was the future. i S. 

It is spring again. dbo more other 
boys and girls are gr Ot: ing ] UBt as 
we did. Why not u com.*. t0 Kan- 
sas State? Forg^rifers' ass, or tw0 
the war, the incre. t income 

tax, the price of whe ylegd tne dark 
shadows that wrap u-bovorld. For 
this little time, for on ma , e in a long 
while are we able to Ca turn ba ck 
the pages to anoth*, g , Back to 
the time when "C as , e ultzed with 
the Strawberry Blontf mptld a bU ggy 
ride was real sport. ]( back( an d 
prove to the classes f n owe d us, 
that we were not be [^ ; ye ars too 



diplomas to a class of more than 700 
and recognition of the members of 
the class of 1901. 

This program allows time for our 
class to get together for group and 
personal visits on early Sunday af- 
ternoon and up until 3 p. m. Monday. 
We, the Manhattan members of the 
class of 1901, extend a most cordial 
invitation to each of you to come to 
Manhattan for the 1941 commence- 
ment week-end. We want to see you 
and yours, and to renew our acquain- 
ance, and we want an opportunity 
to make acquaintance of your fami- 
lies. Make your plans now for your 
summer vacation and be sure you in- 
clude a week-end at Manhattan on 
May 24 to 26, to renew your ac- 
quaintances with your pals of 40 to 
44 years ago. There are no friends 
like old friends. Friends of 40 years 
or more can rightly be called "old 
friends." It will do you good to stroll 
over the campus and recall events 
and incidents of years ago and to note 
the changes that have taken place 
since your student days here. 

You will be welcomed at every 
turn. Let us know when you will ar- 
rive and we will meet you at the 
depot or bus station. We will reserve 
accommodations for you in desirable 
homes. On account of activities at 
Camp Funston and Ft. Riley, army 
officers and construction company em- 
ployees have a monopoly on hotel 
rooms in Manhattan. However, there 
are plenty of good rooms in modern 
homes, and we will gladly see that 
you are comfortable and conveniently 
located. 

President Farrell has promised to 
give us the keys to the College during 
the week-end. We can go where we 
like, ring the bell, climb the flag-pole, 
shinny up the smoke stack to our 
hearts' content and have all the fun 
we can cram into the three days we 
are together. 

Sincerely yours, 
Charles A. Scott 
Del Mar Akin 
Charles J. Burson 
Ina F. Cowles 
Trena Dahl Turner 
Manhattan residents of the class of 
1901. 



"I Know a Spot That I Love Full Well" 




REX MAUPIN, AG GRAD, 
DIRECTS NBC ORCHESTRA 

VISIT TO CHICAGO STUDIO TURNING 
POINT OF HIS CAREER 



Thirteen classes for the years ending in one andsixare plUBJWjgNU 
who come back to join with others in paying tribute to the.r Alma Mater. 



soon. 



S. 
_^; ( r , tn Strauss. 

CLASS 0». 1 



Sue 



Greetings from tl*'-H >me Q U ard, 
and a gentle remind** » t tlme flle8 . 
The 40th anniversar$acl )Ur gradua- 
tion from the KanssPoy ate Conege 
will be celebrated di commence- 
ment exercises May 2ha.t2$. At that 
time the members olj a w^gg in at- 
tendance will be hon.) at eB ts. Brief- 
ly, the high points oj commence- 
ment program for th^^ claBBi in _ 
laws and children arj g fi 

Saturday noon, g reU nion 

luncheon at Thomps^ M ( Co n e ge 
cafeteria). At. 2 *p. ' lU mni asso- 
ciation business /•tier ini Recrea- 
tion Center (Ola' 0* ™ ~\t «:1B 
alumni senior bantf ^ ln Nic hols 
Gymnasium. There f - )e a spec ial 
table for our class. 



CLASS OP '06 
The members of the class of 1906 
who reside in or near Manhattan have 
assumed the responsibility of a recep- 
tion committee to welcome members 
of our class who return for this year's 
reunion at commencement time, and 
let us assure you this will be a happy 
experience. 

The associations and friendships of 
our undergraduate days meant a lot 
to us then and they still mean a lot. 
We are sure a reunion this year will 
be a happy occasion for all. 

It will please us a lot if you will 
write soon telling us you plan to be 
with us at commencement time. If 
you cannot return, please tell us 
something of what you have been 
doing the past 35 years and we will 
try to compile this information and 
send a copy to each member of the 
class. 

Yours very truly, 

C. W. McCampbell 

Winifred Dalton 

Martha S. Pittman 

Jessie (Reynolds) Andrews 

Henry Otto 



Appreciates The Industrialist 

A. Wallace Benson, '28, Clay Cen- 
ter, recently wrote the following let- 
ter to Kenney Ford, secretary of the 
Kansas State College Alumni asso- 
ciation: 

"It is so easy for us to kick about 
the things we do not like and fail to 
mention the things we do. I want to 
write just a word to tell you how 
much I appreciate The Industrialist. 

"Twelve years ago someone sold 
me a life membership in the College 
Alumni association. In the last few 
weeks before graduation that $50 
looked like a lot of money, but with 
a steady income and no family it was 



soon paid and forgotten. 

"Now and during the eight years 
that we have been farming, The In- 
dustrialist arrives regularly, when- 
ever school keeps. It is probably 
read more thoroughly than any other 
paper we receive because practically 
everything is of interest to us. 

"Through it we learn of faculty 
changes, 'Recent Happenings on the 
Hill* and the degree of success 
achieved by our friends in both busi- 
ness and matrimony. Even the 'Sun- 
flowers' column has its appeal. It is 
an investment that has already been 
worth the cost, and I hope to be on 
the mailing list for some time yet." 



Member of '22 Claaa Haa Never Hlaaed 

Broadcast; Worked Way Through 

Kansaa State College with 

Hla Mnalc 

A visit in Chicago in 1923 to see 
the WLS studios, which had been 
opened only a short time before, 
proved to be the turning point in the 
musical career of Rex Maupin, Ag. 
'22, now orchestra director in the 
Chicago studios of the National 
Broadcasting company. 

Prior to that time, Mr. Maupin had 
appeared on stations in Ft. Worth 
and San Antonio, Texas, with his or- 
chestra. While visiting the WLS 
studios, Mr. Maupin met Glenn Row- 
ell (now Glenn of Gene and Glenn) 
who put him to work the same day 
as an accompanist. Since that time, 
Mr. Maupin has been associated with 
various Chicago studios — musical di- 
rector of KYW from 1929 to 1935, 
director of CBS during 1935 and 
since 1936 associated with NBC. 
BEGAN AT AGE OF 7 
Beginning at the age of 7, Mr. 
Maupin has been busy in the musical 
world for 35 years. His first profes- 
sional appearance was with his 
father's band and orchestra. Later 
he swung into chautauqua and Lyce- 
um work with concert groups, bands 
and orchestras. He estimates he has 
played for probably 100 phonograph 
records. 

Mr. Maupin has made radio his 
hobby, with a venture into amateur 
radio. He owns his own transmitting 
station at his home, located in Win- 
netka, 111., and holds license W9VNW. 
Add to that a habit of collecting 
burned-out radio tubes and you can 
well realize Maupin is "sold" on ra- 
dio business. 



A Useful Alumni Association 

Never before in the history of Kansas State College have so many ser- 
vices been offered by the Alumni association at so UKMM£* 

Memhers of the College Alumni association receive The Industrialist 
eac^weeko^ the school year. Addresses of College friends and classmates 
are furnished on request Local committees are helped in arranging alumni 
me^Ts anywhere' Each class ^^^^^^S^ASSi 

members A phonograph record of "Alma Mater," "Wildca Victory" and 
^o other K S C. songs can be bought for $1. New motion Pictures in color 
o7 Kansas State Tare being prepared for alumni meattng.. The ^Watire 
urogram of the Alumni association continues to enroll effective workers 
Fn behalf of the College. More than $40,000 is loaned to students on the 
pnmnnq each vear from the alumni loan fund. 

Ca But more y im P ortant than all of the above is the realization o what i 
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Monday, May 26, : president's 
reception for alumrP- 4 memD ers 
of the graduation cl'»- > the presi- 
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Commencement exer*. ln tne sta . 
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CLASS OF '11 
Station KSAC calling all mem- 
bers of the 1911 class: 

Now fellow classmates, I do not 
think I have missed it very far by 
saying "that by radio is about the 
only way to get in touch with all of 
you." Say, wouldn't I get a big kick 
out of it if I could just talk to you 
lover the air and know that you all 
! would be listening, and tell you how 
iwe would like to see you all again. 
I The wife (Pearl Smith) is saying it 
i sure would be great to have them all 
back. Then, too, I am wondering if 
I the wife has something else in mind 

I since she has lived with me for 28 
years. You know you never can tell. 

Now folks, we want all of you that 
can come back to be sure and be here. 

I I know that you want to see every- 
body else and everybody else wants 

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NEVER MISSED BROADCAST 
Mr. Maupin has never missed a 
radio broadcast in his 18 years on 
the air, but he had one narrow escape 
when the elevator stalled on its way 
to the studios. Rex made his exit 
"just in time." 

Mr. Maupin is an enthusiastic sup- 
porter of aviation and says he hasn't 
ridden, except as a commuter, on a 
train since 1926. 

Rex and Norine (Weddle) Maupin, 
G. S. '21, live at 720 Forest Glen 
drive, Winnetka, 111. They have two 
children, Ardeth and Craig, 8 and 3 
years, respectively. Rex says his 
"favorite amusement" is playing with 
his children, and his favorite sport 
is skiing. 

EARNED WAY THROUGH COLLEGE 
A Sigma Nu during his college 
days, Mr. Maupin was able to earn 
all of his expenses through his music. 
He early developed considerable tal- 
ent as a composer and arranger and 
has written more Sigma Nu songs 
than any other member of the fra- 
ternity. He is currently acting as 
one of the judges in its song contest. 
Mr. Maupin's radio work includes 
a variety of the different types of pro- 
grams. On the average, he is respon- 
sible for three programs a day: one 
may be a dramatic program with a 
medium-sized orchestra playing all 
original music, another will assume 
the form of a variety program such 
as "Club Matinee" with a dance-type 
orchestra and he usually winds up 
the day's work by conducting a large 
concert orchestra. He does consider- 
able writing, especially on dramatic 
shows, and produces popular songs 
regularly in addition to composing 
all of the themes which are used on 
his programs. Though he plays al- 
most any instrument one can name, 
he has done nothing but conducting 
since 1929. Mr. Maupin estimates he 
has played over 12,000 broadcasts, 
made about 2,500 arrangements f»r 
orchestra and written nearly 500 
compositions. 

STRONG DIRECTS BAND 
Bob Strong, f. s. '23, whose orches- 
tra played this year for the Kansas 
State St. Pat's prom, has one of the 
NBC orchestras under Mr. Maupin's 
supervision at Chicago. 



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: 



DR. WALTER T. SWINGLE 
IDENTIFIES DRUG PLANT 

THREE-YEAR BOTANICAL MYSTERY 
SOLVED BY GRADUATE 



Retired Department of Agriculture 
Worker Reports on Finding", in 
Current lasue of Harvard Wnl- 
veralty Publication 

A drug plant brought out of a re- 
mote part of China three years ago 
by a National Geographic society ex- 
pedition and found to be unknown to 
botanical science, finally has been 
identified and given its proper classi- 
fication in the plant world by Dr. 
Walter T. Swingle, botanist of the 
United States Department of Agri- 
culture, who retired early this year. 

Doctor Swingle received his bach- 
elor of science degree from Kansas 
State College in 1890, his master of 
science degree here in 1896 and his 
doctor of science in 1922. 
NAMED FOR GEOGRAPHIC HEAD 
Doctor Swingle announces and de- 
scribes the new plant in the April 
issue of the Journal of the Arnold 
Arboretum of Harvard university. 
He has given it the name "Momordica 
Grosvenori" in honor of Dr. Gilbert 
Grosvenor, president of the National 
Geographic society, who, he states, 
"for many years has encouraged 
liberally the geographic ^and botani- 
cal exploration of China." 

The fruit, called "lo-han" by the 
Chinese, has long been used in the 
dried form in outer China as a house- 
hold remedy— made into a sweet soup 
for colds, sore throat, minor stom- 
ach and intestinal troubles and for 
other ailments. Quantities valued at 
thousands of dollars are shipped an- 
nually to Chinese residents in Amer- 
ica. But despite this wide use of the 
dried fruit, its source remained a 
mystery, and its classification baffled 
botanists. 

In Canton, one of the chief markets 
for the medicinal fruit, it was sold in 
paper wrappings some of which pic- 
tured it as growing on trees. In 1937, 
an expedition under the leadership of 
Dr. George W. Groff of Lingnan uni- 
versity, Canton, was sent by the Na- 
tional Geographic society to find the 
"trees." Lo-han kuo cultivation 
finally was located in the mountain- 
ous region of northeast Kwangsi 
province, but the plant turned out to 
be a vine and the fruit gourdlike. 
Culture of the plant was found to be 
carried on by the Miao, a primitive, 
aboriginal people driven from the 
fertile lands of central China to this 
isolated mountainous area a century 
and a half ago. The territory of these 
non-Chinese people has remained 
closed to the Chinese, and Doctor 
Groff probably was the first white 
man to penetrate into this country. 
EXPEUT ON CHINESE PLANTS 
The dried fruit, photographs of the 
vine, specimens of leaves, flower and 
fruit, with analytical drawings, were 
turned over to Doctor Swingle by the 
expedition. Doctor Swingle, an ex- 
pert on Chinese plant life, spent 
months examining ancient Chinese 
herbals (treatises on plants), as well 
as botanical works of Europe and 
the United States. Lack of adequate 
material for the male flowers further | 
complicated the problem. 

"It Anally became evident, upon 
careful study of this material," Doc- 
tor Swingle writes, "that it consti- 
tutes a new species of Momordica, 
very distinct from any known to 
botanists." 

The fruit grows on a vine which 
the Miao people train over rough 
horizontal arbors of saplings about 
six feet high. They utilize small 
patches of land on the mountain 
slopes about 2,000 feet above sea 
level. The climate is semitropical but 
cool and rainy in summer. 

FERTILIZE BY HAND 
To the great surprise of the ex- 
pedition members, it was found that 
the Miao cultivate only the female 
plants and fertilize them by hand 
pollination from male vines growing 
in the wild state scattered through 
the mountains. This is one of the 
very few cases known in which primi- 
tive people practice this highly arti- 
ficial method of crop production. 
As much as a thousand tons of the 
, ripened lo-han fruit is delivered every 

year by the Miao growers to proces- 
sors in the nearby Chinese city of 
Kweilin. The fruit is partially dried 
naturally, and then more than 80 
percent of the moisture is driven off 
by drying over charcoal fires. So 
highly is it prised in Chinese coastal 
cities that the dried fruits bring 



about 20 cents each in Canton silver 
and about as much in American 
money in the United States. 
SIZE OF HEN'S EGG 

The fruit varies from the size of 
a hen's egg to that of a goose egg, 
and when ripe is greenish yellow or 
dull reddish brown. The dried shell 
is brittle and contains an excessively 
sweet fibrous material and flat seeds 
somewhat similar to those of a water- 
melon, but larger and thicker. 

Special importance has attached to 
Chinese drugs since the discovery, 
from the Chinese drug "ma huang," 
of the medicinal properties of ephe- 
drin and its contribution to medical 
science. Ephedrin was unknown out- 
side of China 25 years ago; today 
sales of the drug in the United States 
reach hundreds of thousands of dol- 
lars a year. 



ULA M. DOW WILL RETIRE 

AS SIMMONS COLLEGE PROF 

Graduate In '05 Clan* Taught Here and 

linn Home Management House 

Named for Her 



Miss Ula M. Dow, '05, professor 
of foods and home management at 
Simmons college, Boston, since 1914, 
will retire at the close of the present 
college year, Pres. Bancroft Beatley 
of Simmons announced last month. 

Miss Dow, who went to Simmons 
from Kansas State College to take 
charge of the foods branch of the 
School of Home Economics when Dr. 
Alice F. Blood became director of 
that school, has contributed greatly 
to the reputation of the department 
for being sensible and practical as 
well as scientific. The retirement of 
Doctor Blood at the close of the pres- 
ent year was announced several 
weeks ago. 

Professor Dow graduated from 
Kansas State College in 1905 and 
taught here for a number of years 
after graduation. Among her achieve- 
ments was the organizing of movable 
schools for farm women in Kansas 
before any federal program of this 
kind existed. A home economics prac- 
tice house at Kansas State College 
is named for her, and she was given 
the honorary degree of doctor of sci- 
ence at the celebration of the 75th 
anniversary of the founding of the 
College in 1938. 

In addition to her teaching work 
at Simmons, Miss Dow had much to 
do with organizing the unusual gui- 
dance plan there, and was, until this 
year, chairman of the committee on 
advisement, which administers the 

plan. 

She is the author, with Marjorie 
Heseltine, of "Good Cooking," writ- 
ten primarily to give help to brides 
and other inexperienced cooks, but 
used extensively as a laboratory 
manual. 



'WELCOME HOME' SIGN 
HANGS OUT FOR ALUMNI 

(Continued from preceding page) 
to see you, and here at our 30th grad- 
uation anniversary is a good place to 
get the job done. Now if you cannot 
get back, write us a letter and if you 
have some pictures send them along 
with the letter. To all of you folks 
that cannot be here and write us a 
letter I will see that we will send you 
an account of the meeting and all the 
letters that came in. But the thing 
that we want most is you and all of 
y 0ur8 — it will be a great trip for you. 
I have been out over the state 
quite a bit in the last four years and 
have come in contact with a lot of the 
members of the 1911 class, and they 
are sure planning to make this a real 
reunion. Some of the members I have 
seen are Newell Robb, Laura Nixon, 
Bob Christian, Ed and Dick Small 
down Wichita way. Dave Roth, 
Moundridge; John Schlaefli, Cawker 
City Bill Honska and George Camp- 
bell,' Salina; Harry Skinner, Beverly; 
Walter Robinson, Nashville; Willis 
Kelly Hutchinson; Dick Getty, 
Down's; Percy Davis, Lenora; Harry 
Fearey, Independence; Bob Moseley, 
Wamego; Hap O'Brien, RUMji 
Lawrence Osmund, Lamed; Bert Mc- 
Fadden, Mullinville; Bertha Plumb 
and Erne Adams, Kansas City, Kan.; 
Alma Levengood, Kensington; Gladys 
Seaton and Clif Stratton, Topeka; 
Lyle Price, Seneca; Mary Simmons, 
Arlington; Abner Engle, Chapman; 
Oscar Crouse, Harlan; Roy Coleman, 
Atchison; Georgia Randel, Fredonia; 
Florine Fate, Inman; Elnore Cheney, 
Great Bend, and Ed Larson, Vesper. 

And we have a few living here in 
Manhattan, and we are going to try 
and make your visit here one to be 
remembered. Those here are Elsie 
Rogler, Bunt Speer, Dora Otto, Mil- 
dred Huse, Edna Soupene, Hilmer 
Laude, Ellen Batchelor, Maria Mor- 
ris Edwin Grandfleld, Pearl Smith 
and then myself. Now, folks, sit 
down and write a letter telling us of 
your plans and if you have any sug- 
gestions let us know about them be- 
cause we want to make this party 
a time long to be remembered by all 

of you. 

Yours for a rousing 1911 class re- 
union, I am, 

Sincerely yours, 
Harvey Roots. 



ken ones. We began a new pattern 
of class loyalties, and colleges and 
alumni associations haven't caught 
on yet. We were transients. Today 
we were here; the day after some of 
us had gone; the next day the vacan- 
cies were filled by strangers. Twenty 
boys — one out of every 20 — who as 
freshmen sat in class with us or 
worked over test tubes with us went 
away and never came back. They 
are with us here on the campus al- 
ways in their youthful likenesses 
paneled in a memorial frame as a 
reminder and a reproach. 

We haven't had a reunion — one 
cannot reunite broken parts. But 
could we not meet again this year on 
the campus, we who finished together 
a little part in College and personal 
history that early summer of 1921? 

There are good things here. Warm 
heart. And youth is still here. And 
under its gay, perennial pattern is 
the sober serenity of scholarly pur- 
pose kept alive by a faculty and an 
ideal, a something finer than any in- 
dividual that makes up the institu- 
tion. You loved something here. 
Come back and remember. 

I don't believe our reunion could 
be like that of any other class. We 
have affiliations with time that others 
had not, and because we have those 
affiliations we are less attached to 
place. But the Place awaits you and 
will welcome you though its face — 
and your face — is changed. 

Plans are being made for your 
pleasure. Plans are being made for 
your share in the business of things. 
But somehow I believe that under all 
that and aside from all that you will 
find the spirit that evades planned 
schedules yet pervades the place. 
Will you come? The College greets 

you. 

Myra Scott 

Nora (Corbet) Lingelbach 

Charles D. Davis 

Marguerite (Hammerly) Bock 

Hazel D. Howe 

Anna (Neal) Muller 

Ruby Orth 

Merton Otto 

Elma (Stewart) Ibsen 



RAISPCP OF CLASSES 
l£J £ MEMBERS 



Class 

1867 

1876 

1879 

1880 

1882 

1883 

1884 

1885 

1886 

1887 

1888 

1889 

1890 

1891 

1892 

1893 

1894 

1895 

1896 

1897 

1898 

1899 

1900 

1901 

1902 

1903 

1904 

1905 

1906 

1907 

1908 

1909 

1910 

1911 

1912 

1913 

1914 

1915 

1916 

1917 

1918 

1919 

1920 

1921 

1922 

1923 

1924 

1925 

1926 

1927 

1928 

1929 

1930 

1931 

1932 

1933 

1934 

1935 

1936 

1937 

1938 

1939 

1940 



52 
35 



al 



119 



in 



116 i, 
146 :he 

219 naj2 
231 

230 er 

283 

223 OUll- 
342 o^9 
197 1q 

215 was*? 

167 fori 
260 IOr J 
248 V, W% 

342 & 

335 nil llo 
341 k„ Tl 

357 he l\ 
429 stau 

469 -CUt J 

iii f 1 

M3 I <i 

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470 , 



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5211onJ ^ 

710 ill £ 
Undergrade doi 

Total tern. 

Number de[ Ta- 

Living 



Life Percent 
nbers 

20. 
20. 
33.33 
14.28 
11.11 
33.33 
11.76 
14.28 
19.04 
33.S3 
22.72 
4. 

14.81 
21.15 
11.42 
7.69 
7.89 
22.8 

6.06 
20. 
13.23 
7.4 
15.61 
11.66 
7.69 
10.9 
12.74 
14.01 
9.37 
10.08 
9.48 
8.90 
12.76 
5.48 
6.49 
6.95 
8.48 
5.82 
7.31 
9.64 
4.18 
6.58 
8.85 
6.45 
7.38 
6.15 
9.65 
16.41 
14.36 
22.68 
15.38 
15.4 
12.15 
7.54 
6.17 
4.01 
4.49 
4.25 
5.23 
1.72 
2.19 
1.66 




Rank 

6 

6 

1 

14 

23 

1 

20 

14 

7 

1 

I 

52 
12 
5 
22 
33 
38 
2 
44 
6 
16 
35 
» 
21 
33 
24 
18 
15 
29 
25 
28 
30 
17 
46 
40 
38 
32 
45 
37 
27 
50 
39 
31 
41 
36 
43 
26 
8 
IS 
4 
11 
10 
19 
84 
42 
51 
48 
49 
47 
54 
53 
55 
56 



April 11, 1941. 



KANSAS FARM HOMEMAKERS 

TO STUDY AMERICAN FLAG 



Mian Georglann H. Smurthwalte An- 
nounces Subject for Programs 

The American flag — its code, his 
tory, uses — will be studied by hun- 
dreds of Kansas farm homemakers 
this year on citizenship programs of 
farm bureau units, Miss Georgiana 
H. Smurthwaite, state home demon- 
stration leader of the Kansas State 
College Extension service, announced. 
Because women enrolled in state 
home demonstration units wanted to 
understand more fully their place in 
our government, the citizenship pro- 
gram was organized in 1940. These 
programs are designed to give knowl- 
edge of the government and its work- 
i ings as It applies to women citizens. 
Although each unit plans its own 
program, last year many groups in- 
i vited public officials to speak at meet- 
ings. Legislators, doctors, merchants, 
lawyers, county commissioners, coun- 
I ty school superintendents, district 
school board members, health nurses 
and city officials appeared on these 
programs. 



CLASS OP '16 

Do you remember we pledged our- 
selves to a big reunion in 1941? Well, 
1941 is here and how about it? Lets 
have a real roundup. 

I realize it is a bad situation the 
world is in. War in Europe threatens 
the Western world. The class of 1941 
is facing the same situation we faced 
25 years ago. Let us rally around 
them and show them it can be faced 
with the chin up. 

"Zane" has started the ball rolling 
for our big reunion, so let's all get 
behind it and give it a big shove. 

I'll be seeing you in Anderson hall, 

May 24. 

Yours, 
Ada Billings. 

Other members of the class who 
reside in Manhattan are Wilma 
(Burtis) Bayer, Henry B. Bayer, 
Grace (Currie) Howenstine, Asa F. 
Flanagan, Josie M. Griffith, Lillian 
(Lathrop) Bennett, Phoebe (Lund) 
Caulfield, Reah (Lynch) Muir, Flor- 
ence (Peppiatt) Warren, Archie M. 
Richards, Margaret (Schneider) Pri- 
deaux, Luther Willoughby and Emily 
(Wilson) Swedenburg. 



CLASS OF '26 
Twenty members of our class are 
in Manhattan to welcome you at 
commencement time this year. We 
hope many of you plan to be with us 
May 24, 25 and 26. If it is impossible 
for you to come — send a note telling 
us about yourself so that we may 
read it at our class luncheon, May 24. 
Manhattan, the College and the 20 
19 26ers, Hazel (Anderson) Zahnley, 
Ida (Conrow) McGehee, Esther Cor- 
many, Bernard Conroy, Miriam 
Dexter, Charles Dominy, Herman 
Farley, Rachel (Herley) Frey, Earl 
Herrick, James Hoover, Mrs. Etna 
(Place) Lyons, Sidney McCracken, 
Mabel Smith, Charles Stratton, 
Louise (Wann) Harwood, Kathryn 
(King) Chappell, Bertha (Worster) 
Pierce, Nora (Yoder) Wilson, Lucile 
(Heath) Shaidnagle, Ruth (Long) 
Dary, are looking forward to seeing 
you in May. 

Sincerely, 

Ruth (Long) Dary. 



Tal M'earf • Caldwell, Owen L. 

Talbot, M. w L Cousin8( Nina 
Cochrane, »Jt p> Kipper> Martin 
Edelblute, W g& D Krausei Law - 
S. Klotzba h «p rte E p r entice, Ay- 
rence NoH,» ki Ada (Wiese) 

leen (Hst- funkier and Grace 
Scheel, A 
(Zeller) G< 



We, whi 
anticipating 
pleasure y 
reunion, 
which you 



is OP '36 

in Manhattan, are 
h a great deal of 
•eturn for our first 
organizations to 
iiged on the campus 
> ai ,ns for a week-end 
are makin^ ing- So pac k up your 
worth rem* e gome (and T know 
twins if yo , o has) Bring your 
at least oi sid( gmile to greet your 
most imprt lb anfl we promige that 
old college ba |come awaita you . 
a most roy )be s>eeBOn) Mona han. 

3U f' Manh Q? the claas wn0 

Other.ornwell.jk Jeggie (Ya hn) 

live in "a Osborf Bo yies, Gerald J. 

Andrews, i-ell^ , Mannein Harold 

Brown, Mi 



CLASS OP '31 
Greetings to the 424 members of 
•31. Let's get together in Manhattan 
on May 24 and make our 10th re- 
union one we'll always remember! 
Ruth Helstrom Hostetler. 
Other members of the class living 
in Manhattan are Gladys (Benson) 



(Chappell) Harold, 
Hal F. Eier, Delbert 
Finney, Robert M. 
ard J. Haas, F. 
Vinton G. Johnson, 
.) Lashbrook, Allen 
eth W. Miller, Ken- 
Karl G. Shoemaker, 
^rtibo, Trena (Turner) 
Charles R., k |j Twie haus, Dorothy 
Marden, ME ctl 4, , eh Robert E. 

(Washingt( ln X 
Wallerstedt 



Mary E. Cc 
Eshbaugh, j t 
Groesbeck, , j 
Maxine Hot^ f 
Ruthana ( 
V. Lester, 



neth J. Pb 



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CLASS OP '21 

Twenty years — and the reel is com- 
pleted in the history of the world, 
and starts again. We entered 1917 
to the sound of martial music; we 
enter 1941 to the sound to martial 
music. Don't you feel as the film 
flickers along its track that "this is 
where we came in?" 

We were a class — one of the bro- 



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dd, tORY 



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Nellie (Sawyer) Kedzle Jones, A. 
B. '76, M. S. '83, LL. D. '26, Kansas 
State's oldest living graduate, is pro- 
fessor emeritus of the Home Econom- 
ics division of the University of Wis- 
consin. She lives at 320 Lathrop 
street, Madison, Wis. 

Wilmer K. Eckman, B. S. '79, 305 
South Fredonia street, Longview, 
Texas, is bookkeeper for the G. A. 
Kelly Plow company. 

Emma (Knostman) Huse, B. S. 
•80, lives at 301 North Fifteenth, 
Manhattan. She plans to attend com- 
mencement activities on the campus 
this spring. 

Flora (Donaldson) Rhodes, B. S. 
'81, moved recently from Lakewood, 
Ohio, to 15103 Lake avenue, Suite 
No. 1. 

Mattie (Mails) Coons, B. S. '82, 
lives at 1922 Leavenworth, Manhat- 
tan. She took a trip to Michigan last 
fall to see a daughter, Mrs. Maurice 
D. Laine, f. s. Mrs. Coons says that 
she enjoys The Industrialist from 
beginning to end. 

Melvin J. Boots, f. s. '84, is chief 
operator of the Meridian Terminal 
company at Meridian, Miss. He and 
Mrs. Boots live at 1305 Twenty- 
Second avenue. 

Gen. James G. Harbord, B. S. *86, 
M. S. '95, LL. D. '20, writes that he 
may return for the 55th anniversary 
reunion of his class this spring. His 
address is Room 5322, 30 Rockefel- 
ler plaza, New York City. 

Frederick A. Marlatt, B. S. '87, and 
Mrs. Marlatt (Annie Lindsey) live 
at 344 North Sixteenth, Manhattan. 
Mr. Marlatt is proprietor and man- 
ager of the Blue Valley foundry. 

Daniel W. Working, B. S. '88, and 
Ella (Booth) Working may be ad- 
dressed at 710 South Forest street, 
Denver. They moved to this farm 
after Mr. Working served as historian 
of Colorado State college. He was 
formerly dean of agriculture at the 



Mr. Kinsley retired January 1 as 
manager and consulting veterinarian 
of the Kinsley laboratories. 

Harry M. Bainer, Ag. '00, is gen- 
eral agricultural agent for the Pan- 
handle and Santa Fe Railway com- 
pany. His address is 1612 Taylor, 
Amarillo, Texas. 

Erma Locke, D. S. '01, is teaching 
her 26th year in the Phillipsburg 
high school. The Alumni association 
office recently received a clipping 
from the Phillips County Leader 
which expressed the appreciation of 
the community for the work done 
there by Erma Locke. Hers is the 
longest continuous high school teach- 
ing record in Phillips county. She 
writes that she cannot attend her 
class reunion this year because she 
will be vacationing in Salem, Ore. 
She sends her regards to her class- 
mates of 1901 and other friends. 

Leslie A. Fitz, B. S. '02, is grain 
exchange supervisor of the Commod- 
ity Exchange administration with the 
United States Department of Agri- 
culture. He lives at 604 Maple ave- 
nue, Wilmette, 111. 

Clara Pancake, D. S. '03, lives at 
472 2 Warrington, Philadelphia. For 
the past several years, she has been 
head of the Home Economics depart- 
ment at the Philadelphia Normal 
school. 

Lawrence V. Sanford, Ag. '04, 
Oneida, is a farmer and stockman. 

Walter J. Brant, M. E. '05, is a 
construction superintendent in Wich- 
ita. He lives at 1810 South Water 
street. 

George A. Spohr, B. S. '06, recent- 
ly asked about his class reunion. He 
said he is planning to attend. He is 
Pacific coast manager of the Black- 
hawk Manufacturing company of 
Milwaukee. His home is at 1012 
Sunny Hills road, Oakland, Calif. 

Lois Failyer, B. S. '07, is home 
economist with the Federal Bake 
shop in New York City. Her address 
there is Apartment 1516, 25 Pros- 
pect place. 

Frank C. Harris, Ar. '08, M. S. '17, 
is design engineer of the American 
Mono-Rail company, Cleveland, Ohio. 
His home is at 16301 



LOOKING AROUND 

KENNEY L FORD 



Please Notify Alumni Office 

All Kansas State College men 
who are on active duty with the 
army, navy or marine corps 
should always notify the College 
Alumni association office of their 
changes of address. Please in- 
clude rank and organization. 



Buildings administration, was a Man- 
hattan visitor recently. 

The Kansas State Grange this year 
awarded a scholarship of $65 to Har- 
lan Dean Colglazier, Lamed, son of 
Harry C, Ag. '18, and LaFaun (Wil- 
kins) Colglazier, f. s. Mr. Colglazier, 
a former president of Kansas Grange, 
is now state lecturer for that organi- 
zation. The Colglaziers operate a 
farm near Lamed. Mr. Colglazier 
was formerly county agent at Law- 
rence. Harlan will graduate this 
year from the Zook high school and 
will enroll in general science at Kan- 
sas State next fall. 

Myrtle A. Gunselman, H. E. '19, 
is assistant professor in household 
economics at Kansas State College. 

Homer C. Wood, Ag. '20, and Etha 
(King) Wood, f. s. '31, live at 402 
South Pine, Pratt. Mr. Wood is em- 
ployed by the Farm Security admin- 
istration there. 

Rolla Wade McCall, Ag. '21, is 
associated with the Soil Conservation 
service. He recently has been trans- 
ferred from his position as project 
agronomist at Hereford, Texas, to 
Seneca, Kan. 

Claire A. Downing, I. C. '22, is 
sales engineer for the American Bitu- 
muis company, Baltimore, Md. His 
home is at 503 North Twenty-Ninth 
street, Beverly Park, Camp Hill, Pa. 

Edna (Bangs) Hinshaw, G. S. '23, 
M. S. '25, writes: "We have been at 
Davis nearly 11 years now. My hus- 
band, William R. Hinshaw, M. S. '26 



in veterinary medicine there. 

Katharyn Ann McKinney, P. E. '34, 
teaches women's physical education 
in high school and junior college at 
Bartlesville, Okla. Her address there 
is 716 Wyandotte avenue. 

Elsie Marie Fulks, H. E. '35, is 
supervisor at the Quadrangle at Mon- 
tana State college, Bozeman. 

Lyman Abbott, P. E. '36, lives at 
24 School street, Bellows Falls, Vt., 
where he is an athletic director and 
coach. 

Roy C. Kirkpatrick, E. E. '37, 
teaches in the vocational school of the 
New Castle, Pa., public schools. He 
may be addressed at 1023 Adams 
street, New Castle. 

Eldon E. Retzer, I. C. '38, is work- 
ing on engineering in the defense 
training program with the Depart- 
ment of Chemical Engineering, Kan- 
sas State College. 

Thomas J. Sette, C. E. '39, recently 
resigned as junior inspector for the 
Texas State Highway department to 
accept a position as engineering 
draftsman in the highway and rail- 
road division of the Tennessee Valley 
authority. He is located at Chatta- 
nooga. 

Phil Gainey, E. E. '40, who was en- 
rolled as a graduate student at Kan- 
sas State this year, left here for 
Albert Lea, Minn., where he has a 
position with the Interstate Power 
Company of Dubuque. 

Raymond Stewart, last-semester 
graduate, takes the position of Ernest 
Wells as vocational agriculture in- 
structor in Centralia high school. Mr. 
Wells resigned to pursue graduate 
work at Kansas State. 



RECENT HAPPENINGS 
ON THE HILL 



The College orchestra will give its 
first concert of the spring season in 
the College Auditorium at 4:15 p. m. 
Sunday. 



Pres. F. D. Farrell spoke at the 
annual state conference of Alpha Phi 
Omega, service fraternity, which met 
here Sunday, on the services that 
could be rendered on the campus. 



Annual inspection for Reserve Of- 
ficers' Training corps units at Kansas 
State College will be next Monday. 
Approximately 1,350 cadet officers 
and men will participate in the in- 
spection this year. 

Greek organizations on the campus 
will present songs characteristic of 
their respective fraternities and so- 
rorities in the annual interfraternity 
sing in the quadrangle north of Nich- 
ols Gymnasium tonight. 



Winner of a $25 award is Reva 
King, Council Grove, junior in the 
Division of General Science. The 
award was made by Chi Omega 
sorority for her work in the field of 
sociology, as based upon high scholar- 
ship and merit. 



BIRTHS 



Glen L. Dunlap, D. V. M. '28, and 
Pearl (Fairchild) Dunlap, '39, are 
the parents of Dorothy Lou, born 
March 14. They live at 5726 Char- 
lotte, Kansas City, Mo. 



The annual roundup and feeders' 
day at the Ft. Hays Experiment sta- 
tion will start Saturday morning with 
a meat-cutting demonstration on 
pork and mutton by Prof. David L. 
Mackintosh of the Department of 
Animal Husbandry. 



Raymond Adams, Manhattan, se- 
nior in the Division of General Sci- 
ence, will begin three years' work 
toward a doctor of philosophy degree 
next September at the California In- 
stitute of Technology. Adams is high 
senior in a class of 700. 



The 4-H Who's Whoot magazine 
will appear on the campus about 



riculture, University of California, 



University of Arizona. 

Walter R. Browning, B. S. '89, j Heights boulevard, Lakewood, Ohio. ; "- — . tyfQ boyg Da vid and Rob- 
lives at 908 Laramie, Manhattan. I Herman L. Cudney, B. S. '09, and nQW g and 4 respectively." 

- ..... ,,.!., i^ti.,,1., i PnHnov 'Qfi live ^ _ 



Hugh G. Myers, Ag. '38, and Alice 
, (Sloop) Myers, H. E. '38, have writ- 
is veterinarian in the experiment sta- ten of the arrival of Garry Don Myers ; May L Martha wreath, Manhattan, 
tion and associate professor of vet- I February 10. They live at 297 North editm . o£ the Colleg iate 4-H club's 
Lakewood binary science at the College of Ag- ' 



Since his daughter, Nina Browning, 
H. E. '23, M. S. '27, is an instructor 
in foods at the College, he has turned 
his hobby of gardening to providing 
pansies every year for centerpieces in 
meal service. 

E. C. Pfuetze, B. S. '90, recently 
was re-elected commissioner of 
streets and public utilities in Man- 
hattan. He lives at 712 Fremont. 

Charlotte Jane (Short) Houser, 
B. S. '91, M. S. '93, is living at 1002 
South Vernon, Dallas, Texas. 

Daniel H. Otis, B. S. '92, M. S. '97, 
and Mary (Lyman) Otis, B. S. '94, 
M. S. '01, live at 1822 Chadbourne 
avenue, Madison, Wis. Mr. Otis is | 
director of the agricultural commit- 
tee for the American Bankers' asso- 
ciation. 

Maude (Knickerbocker) Pyles, B. 
S '93, lives at 1913 Knickerbocker 
place, La Canada, Calif. Her mailing 
address is Box 124, Montrose, Calif. 

Charles R. Hutchings, B. S. '94, 
is mechanical engineer for the Kan- 
sas City Structural Steel company. 
His address is 3319 Metropolitan 
avenue, Kansas City, Kan. 

Prof. George A. Dean, B. S. '95, 
M. S. '06, is head of the Department 
of Entomology at Kansas State Col- 
lege, and entomologist with the Kan- 
sas Agricultural Experiment station. 
He has held these positions since 
1913. He and Minerva (Blachly) 
Dean, B. S. '00, live at 17 25 Poyntz, 
Manhattan. 

John B. Dorman, B. S. '96, has re- 
tired from teaching. He and his wife, 
Helen (Knight) Dorman, live at 24 
Court street, Deposit, N. Y. 

John E. Trembly, B. S. '9 7, has re- 
tired but he still lives on his farm 
at Council Grove. 
f Henry W. Rogler, B. S. '98, and 
Maud (Sauble) Rogler, D. S. '01, 
live at Matfleld Green. In addition to 
his duties on his farm there, Mr. Rog- 
ler participates in the functions of 
the College Alumni association. In 
addition to his two years' service &t 
president, he now is a member of thi 
board of directors. The Roglers have 



Gertrude (Stump) Cudney, '96, live 
at Trousdale. Mr. Cudney was on the 
state committee of the Agricultural 
Adjustment administration from 



Fred F. Lampton, Ag. '24, M. S. 
'29, 1658 South Santa Fe, Wichita, 
works with the wing assembly depart- 



tssrssmSTusrs. * .»« -« »■ •* °— A,rer!,,t cor,,OT, 



Ethyl (Danielson) White, H. E. 
'25, and her husband, Wallace M. 
White, f. s. '36, have a daughter, 
Karla Maurine, born December 1, 
19 40. The Whites live on a farm 
north of Coldwater. 



Collegiate 4-H club's 
publication, reported last week that 
all copy has been submitted and a 
dummy oi the magazine sent to the 
printer. 



an AAA field man at large. 

Lillian (Lowrance) Mickel, D. S. 
'10, and L. Blanchard Mickel, Print. 
'10, live at Pelham Manor, N. Y. Mr. 



tion. 

Foster A. Hinshaw, E. E. '26, is a 
member of the technical staff of the 

Bell Telephone laboratories. He is 

iu, live ai jreuiaiu mauur, ix. i. «•.*. i . , .. . , _-_* „* r QV 

Mickel is superintendent of bureaus ! engaged in the development of Car- 
et the United Press associations. His j ™r telephone systems. He «d StoU. 
office address is United Press, Daily (Baker) Hinshaw, G. S 31, visited 
News building, New York City. frj^^fc. I~ Y. 

•irwSrthirr^u^S' retum rt ** w . ^ *. -*™-** 

this year for her class reunion and , designing engineer for the Allis- 
Lopes to see many of her classmates. \ Chalmers Manufacturing company, 
Mrs. Shaffer lives at the Chalfonte La Porte . llld - 
apartments, 1601 Argonne place, | M. C. Axelton, Ag. '28, lives at 609 



Northwest, Washington, D. C. She 
included in her letter a picture of 
Nancy Alden Strong, 17-year-old 
"cherry blossom queen" for Wash- 
ington this year. Nancy's father is 
Col. Alden G. Strong, E. E. '11. Miss 
Nancy drew the full-page cover to the 
roto section of the Washington Sun- 
day Post recently. 

Nellie Aberle, B. S. '12, M. S. '14, 
is assistant professor of English at 
Kansas State College. Miss Aberle 
has been with the Department of En- 
glish since 1921, and has held her 
present title only since 1935. 



Penn street, Holton. His hobby is 
collecting "pencils plus personali- 
ties." Mr. Axelton is county agent. 

Glade W. Hurst, E. E. '29, 1110 
Highly street, is assistant results en- 
gineer for the St. Joseph Railway, 
Light, Heat and Power company. 

Arthur Vance, E. E. '30, recently 
was recognized for his work in the 
development of the electronic tube. 
He is research engineer for the R. C. 
A. Manufacturing company, Camden, 
N. J. 

Daisy McMullen. H. E. '31, is 



Marianna Kistler, Manhattan; 
Katharine Chubb, Topeka, and James 
Kendall, Dwight, have been selected 
Ralph Barnhart, Ag. '32, M. S. '33, j for Sigma Delta Chi scholarship 
and Thelma (Reed) Barnhart, H. E. ! awards this year. The awards are 
and N. '32, recently sent an an- made by the professional journalism 
nouncement of the arrival of Michael fraternity to senior journalism stu- 
Reed, March 28. Mr. Barnhart is a dents who are in the upper 10 percent 
florist in Coldwater. of the graduating class. 

George Inskeep, Manhattan, is 
new president of the Block and 
Bridle club, departmental club in an- 
imal husbandry. Vice-president is 
Bruce Robertson, Barnard. George 
Wreath, Manhattan, is secretary; 
Jack Cornwell, St. John, treasurer; 
Robert Osborne, Rexford, marshal, 
and Darrell Bozarth, Liberal, re- 
porter. 



Warren C. Jackson, M. E. '39, and 
' Bee (Moll) Jackson, 486 South Pearl, 
' Denver, have a daughter, Barbara 
Bee, born March 6. Mr. Jackson is 
j with the gas division of the Federal 
' Power commission, 800 Central Sav- 
I ings Bank building. 

James W. Caughron, C. '31, and 
Mrs. Caughron have named their son, 

i born September 26, James W. Caugh- 

1 ron II. Mr. Caughron is tax repre- 
sentative of the St. Joseph division of 

I the Standard Oil company. Their 
home is at 916 South Noyes, St. Jo- 

< seph. 



Howard Kipfer, C. E. '32, writes 
that Charles Creath Kipfer was born 
March 23. Mr. and Mrs. Kipfer re- 
side at 410 West Pecan, Bowie, Texas, 
but his permanent address is still 
Drawer 1267, Ponca City, Okla., c/o 
.l^SSTJ-oSrS £ Position aslaeophysicalDivisionof Conoco. Mrs. 
Ethel T. Grimes, D. S. '13, is book- district school lunch supervisor, Fed- Kipfer is the former Daisy Shepard, 
keeper and secretary for an insurance J eral Works agency. She writes: f - s - 
company at Greenwood, Mo. "School lunch work is very interest- 

George E. Werner, C. E. "14, is i ing. I have 43 school lunch projects 



Called to Active Navy Duty 

A letter from Mrs. Wally C. Wet- 
laufer, the former Helen Young, '37, 
reached the Alumni association office 
this week from Webster Groves, Mo.: 

"Wally (P. E. '38) left yesterday 
for Norfolk, Va., where he has been 
called to active duty for the navy. He 
has been an ensign in the communi- 
cation reserve since before he left 
school at Manhattan. I plan to join 
him there about the first of June. I'll 
send his address as soon as I get one 
from him." 



contractor and owner of the Indus- 
trial Installation service at Norwood, 
Ohio. He and Edith (Boyle) Werner, 
H. E. '16, live at 2470 Hudson 
avenue. 

Bruce H. Cummings, M. E. '15, 
works with the United States engi- 
neer's office, Davidson building, Sev- 
enteenth and Main, Kansas City, Mo. 
He lives at the YMCA, Kansas City, 
Kan. 

A. C. Apitz, Ag. '16, recently sent 
word that his address is now 6230 
Kenmore, Chicago. He said, "When 
the Kansas State Wildcats meet the 
Northwestern Wildcats this fall, I 
will be wearing purple and white for 



in 10 counties which I supervise. 
These are the 10 northwest Kansas 
counties including Norton. In the 43 
schools there are 4,210children served 
a complete well-balanced meal at 
noon every day. The results are very 
gratifying to the school administra 



KANSAS STATE COLLEGE RECORDINGS 



uuaru oi unov.iw. u . .. — — c - ..... ~~ — „ . 

four children, all of whom are gradu- both schools. It's going to be hard 

to tell where my heart will be, with 
Waldorf and Fry assisting on the 



ates of Kansas State College. 
A. T. Kinsley, B. S. '99. M 



S. '01, 
and Anna (Smith) Kinsley, B. S. '01, 
have their residence at 616 East 
Fifty-Ninth street, Kansas City, Mo. 



sidelines." 

Ferdinand E. Hayes, Ag. '17, Chi- 
cago, an architect with the Public 



"Alma Mater" and "Wildcat Victory" by the Kansas State 
College Men's chorus 
and 
"Roll on, Kansas State" and "Shoulder to Shoulder" by the College band 
All four of the above songs so dear to Kansas State College students and 
tors as well as to the communities at alumni recorded on one standard phonograph record will be mailed any- 
large. The majority of my schools | where in the United States for $1 each. Alumni in foreign countries should 

add the necessary additional postage. 

If you wish one of these records for your home or alumni meeting, fill 
out the following order blank and mail to the Kansas State College Alumni 
association, Manhattan. 

□ Inclosed find $1 for one K. S. C. recording. 

□ Inclosed find 15c for one printed copy of "Wildcat Victory." 



are consolidated schools. I have one 
project that serves 290 children, from 
kindergarten through high school." 

Russell James, M. E. '3 2, resigned 
his position as office manager and 
personnel director of the Manhattan 
Agricultural Adjustment administra- 
tion office, to begin work in the man- 
agement department of the Stearman 
Aircraft company, Wichita. 

Wilmer I. Conger, D. V. M. '33, 
and Grace (Workman) Conger, f. s., 
live at 2420 North Forty-Third street, 
Kansas City, Kan. He has a practice 



Name 



Address 



GRADUATE GROUPS KEEP 
THEIR K. S. C. CONTACTS 

ROUND-ROBIN LETTERS AND MIME- 
OGRAPHED BULLETINS USED 



Hundreds of College-trained Officers 

Are Serving in Country's Armed Forces 



One of Bent Off-Campus Publications Is 

Twenty Tooter Edited by Millnrd 

C. "Wally" Watklns; Some 

Issued Here. Too 

Round-robin letters and other 
forms of keeping in touch with each 
other among members of groups with 
common interests play an important 
part in maintaining Kansas State 
College loyalty. 

Dean R. R. Dykstra sends a mimeo- 
graphed bulletin of Division of Vet- 
erinary Medicine alumni news to all 
veterinary graduates. The Depart- 
ment of Industrial Journalism and 
Printing publishes annually The 
Fourth Estate for graduates in jour- 
nalism. There are many others, in- 
cluding chapter letters of fraternities. 

TWENTY TOOTER ONE OF BEST 

One of the best off-campus publi- 
cations which comes each year to the 
College Alumni association office is 
the Twenty Tooter. This is a neatly 
bound booklet of mimeographed let- 
ters from each member of the 1922 
class in electrical engineering. Mil- 
lard C. "Wally" Watkins is the editor 
of the Twenty Tooter. Each '22 E. E. 
is asked to send his letter to Wally 
about Thanksgiving time with a small 
contribution to cover expenses of 
mimeographing and mailing. 

The '22 E. E.'s have a high per- 
centage returning to the campus for 
their five-year class reunions. Many 
of them are active in their local and 
the College alumni associations. 
Thanks to Wally, they are keeping up 
through the years a fine friendship 
which began in college. 

The '22 E. E.'s with their address 
and the company they work for 

follow: 

Ersal J. Beyer Jr., 304 West Seven- 
teenth street, Hutchinson, Hilton 
Electric company; W. Raymond 
Bradley, Dawn, Mo.; George H. Bush, 
110 East Stadium, West Lafayette, 
Ind., Division of Education and Ap- 
plied Psychology, Purdue university; 
O K Brubaker, 9 28 Field avenue, 
Plainfleld, N. J., Western Electric 
company, 100 Central avenue 
Kearny, N. J.; R. L- Chapman, 220 
Cherokee drive, Erie, Pa., General 
Electric company; R. M. Crow, 8716 
Hoover avenue, Richmond Heights, 
Mo American Telephone and Tele- 
graph company; Earl H. Domoney, 
1316 Howard street, Saginaw, Mich., 
Consumers' Power company, 600 
Federal avenue; Richmond K. Elli- 
ott, 1408 Carmen avenue, Chicago, 
Commonwealth Edison company; 
Asa H. Ford, 914 Chicago avenue, 
Downers Grove, 111., Western United 
Gas and Electric company. 

•22 LIST OF ENGINEERS 
Gerald L. Garloch, 712 North Fifth 
street, Garden City, Kan., Construc- 
tion company; George M. Glendening, 
20 East Fifty-Fourth street, Kansas 
City Mo , Commercial Investment 
Trust company; P. J. Hershey, Tele- 
type corporation, Western Electric 
company, 195 Broadway, New York 
City H G Hockman, 32 8 Dresser 
street, Cheboygan, Mich., Michigan 
Public Service company; K. O. Hous- 
er 528 South Belmont street, Wichi- 
ta' Kansas Gas and Electric com- 
pany R. S. Jennings, 1344 Emerson 
avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah, Utah 
Power and Light company; Thornton 
J Manry, 1016 Walnut street, Kan- 
sas City, Mo., the Green company; 
Paul M. McKown, 4130 Ellington, 
Western Springs, 111., Western Elec- 
tric company; Charles C. McPherson, 
403 2 Hawthorne, Dallas, Texas, Stan- 
ley Home Products company. 

Marshall J. Miller, 1809 Albans 
road, Houston, Texas, Rice institute; 
Harold S. Nay, 746 Litchfield, Wichi- 
ta Kansas Gas and Electric company; 
Frank E. Nordeen, 713 Huron hill, 
Madison, Wis., General Electric com- 
pany; Paul J. Phillips, 207 South 
Union avenue, Havre de Grace, Md.; 
George H. Reazin, 924 North Spring 
avenue, La Grange Park, 111., Union 
Special Machine company, 400 North 
Franklin, Chicago; L. E. Rossel, 4314 
Cranford drive, Normandy, Mo., 
Maloney Electric company; J. J- 
Seright 5230 Randolph street, Lin- 
coln Neb., Seright Publication bu- 
reau- H. I. Tarpley, 240 East Hamil- 
ton avenue, State College, Pa., Penn 
State college; Earl E. Thomas, 15473 
Indiana avenue, Detroit, Thomas 
Products company; Millard C. Wat- 
kins 418 Greenleaf avenue, Wil- 
mette, III., Commonwealth Edison 
company; Earl H. Woodring, 461 
Madison street, Denver. 



Hundreds of Kansas State College 
reserve officers now are serving in 
the armed forces of the country. 

The following men, practically all 
engineers, are on extended active duty 
with the army, most of them in the 
Coast Artillery corps: 

CAPTAIN MESEKE AT TOPEKA 
Capt W. C. Meseke, f. s. '27, execu- 
tive officer, Topeka military office, 
Topeka; First Lieut. A. B. Cash, E. 
E. '26, Reception center, Ft. Leaven- 
worth; Capt. John J. Jewett, C. E. 
•38 Kelly Field, Texas; Capt. Ernest 
W.' Bennett, f. s., E. E. '31, Camp 
Davis, Hollyridge, N. C; Capt. D. C. 
Taylor, C. E. '25, Kansas State Col- 
lege; Capt. Charles F. Smith, Ar. E. 
*32, staff and command school, Ft. 
Leavenworth. 

Capt. A. O. Flinner, M. E. '29, Kan- 
sas State College; Capt. Clemont C. 
Parrish, C. E. '31, Porto Rico; Maj. 
Harold Stover, Ag. E. '29, Kansas 
State College; First Lieut. Don Col- 
lins C E. '37, Ft. Riley; First Lieut. 
Lynn Berry, C. E. '33, Camp Haan, 
Riverside, Calif.; First Lieut. Charles 
W. Evans, E. E. '33, Ft. Monmouth, 
N J.; First Lieut. George L. Quigley, 
E. E. '30, Ft. Worden, Wash.; First 
Lieut. William R. Stewart, E. E. '33, 
Camp Haan, Riverside, Calif.; First 
Lieut. Hal McCord, Ar. E. '34, Hous- 
ton, Texas. 

First Lieut. Lawrence W. Kil- 
bourne, E. E. '31, Ft. Monmouth, N. 
J • First Lieut. Leonard R. Adler, E. 
B. '34, Camp Davis, Hollyridge, N. 
C; First Lieut. Joseph D. Ward, Ar. 
•38, Camp Haan, Riverside, Calif.; 
First Lieut. Ivan Welty, f. s., C. E. 
•32, Ft. Bragg, N. Ci First Lieut. 
Millard W. Wilcox, C. E. '35, Ft. 
Worden, Wash. 

Second Lieut. Edward I. Allen, C. 
E '39, Camp Haan, Riverside, Calif.; 
Second Lieut. Charles B. Bayles, C. 
E -39, Camp Haan, Riverside, Calif.; 
Second Lieut. Russell C. Buehler, C. 
E '39, Ft. Amador, Panama Canal 
Zone ; Second Lieut. Duane G. Jehlik, 
C E '40, Camp Clatsop, Ore.; Sec- 
ond Lieut. Floyd E. Wiley, f. s., C. 
E '39, Panama Canal Zone; Second 
Lieut. Hilary J. Wentz, f. s., Ind. 
Arts '38, Canal Zone; Second Lieut. 
Richard M. Gillispie, f. s., E. E. '40, 
Ft Bliss, Texas; Second Lieut. Har- 
old V. Henderson, C. E. '40, Camp 
Clatsop, Ore.; Second Lieut. Louis 
Rotar, C. E. '39, Ft. H. G. Wright, 
N. Y. 

PLYLEY AT OMAHA HEADQUARTERS 
Maj. R. C. Plyley, G. S. '24, Seventh 
Corps Area headquarters, Omaha, 
I Neb.; Maj. Ira D. S. Kelly, C. E. '24, , 
' executive to the construction quar- 
termaster, Ft. Riley; Maj. William 
N. Hornish, f. s., C. E. '25, Seventh 
Corps Area headquarters, Omaha, 
Neb • First Lieut. Robert C. Besler, 
M E. '33, Camp Haan, Riverside, 
Calif.; First Lieut. Fred E. Brady, 
E E. '36, Ft. Monmouth, N. J.; First 
Lieut. William V. Warren, M. E. '36, 
Ft Riley; First Lieut. Woodrow W. 
Templer, G. S. '36, Camp Callan, San 
Diego Calif.; First Lieut. Ralph 
Roderick, C. E. '32, Ft. Worden, 
Wash. 

First Lieut. Clair M. Worthy, C. 
E. '32, Ft. Crockett, Texas; First 
Lieut. Elbert E. Wheatley, f. s., C. 
E '34, Ft. Bragg, N. C; First Lieut. 
Max McCord, C. E. '39, Ft. Bliss, 
Texas; First Lieut. William P. Simp- 
son, C. E. '34, Ft. Amador, Panama 
Canal Zone; First Lieut. Gayle H. 
Foster, G. S. '36, Camp Haan, River- 
side, Calif.; First Lieut. John F. 
: Gaumer, E. E. '39, Ft. Bliss, Texas; 
1 First Lieut. William T. Walters, C. 
I E. '36, Ft. H. G. Wright, N. Y.; First 
Lieut. Anton S. Horn, Ag. '37, Ft. 
Bliss, Texas. 

First Lieut. Edwin G. Orrick, f. s., 
C. E. '34, Ft. H. G. Wright, N. Y.; 
First Lieut. Blair Forbes, M. E. '34, 
Ft Bliss, Texas; Second Lieut. Wood- 
row Bell, G. S. '40, Ft. Hancock, N. 
J.; Second Lieut. Harold C. Boley, 
f. s., C. E. '30, Camp Davis, N. C; 
Second Lieut. Charles E. Roper, E. 
E. '38, Ft. Worden, Wash.; Second 
Lieut. Clarence A. Powers, f. s., M. 
E. '40, Ft. Monroe, Va. 

Second Lieut. Buford D. Tackett, 
E E. '39, Camp McQuaide, Calif.; 
Second Lieut. Fred M. Crawford, Ag. 
E '38, Ft. Richardson, Anchorage, 
Alaska; Second Lieut. Walter E. Bur- 
rell, M. E. '40, Ft. Richardson, An- 
chorage, Alaska; Second Lieut. Wil- 
liam G. Bensing, f. s., E. E. '41, Camp 
McQuaide, Calif.; Second Lieut. 
Frederick J. Gardner, f. s., Ar. '40, 



Ft. Worden, Wash.; Second Lieut. 
Charles M. Heizer, Ar. E. '38, Camp 
McQuaide, Calif.; Second Lieut. Gus- 
tave E. Fairbanks, f. s., Ag. E. '41, 
Kansas State College. 



Harlan Addresses Sigma Tau 

Hal Harlan, president of the Man- 
hattan Chamber of Commerce, spoke 
Friday night at the spring banquet 
of Sigma Tau, honorary engineering 
fraternity. 



HOBBS ADAMS' 
FOOTBALL LETTER 



VOLKEL STATIONED IN KANSAS 
Capt. Vernon E. Harvey, C. E. '31, 
Camp Wallace, Texas; Capt. Walter 
H. Murray, C. E. '29, Camp Davis, 
N. C; Capt. Leslie R. King, C. E. 
•31, Lake City Ordnance plant, Inde- 
pendence, Mo.; Capt. Gerald M. Dona- 
hue, E. E. '32, Camp Davis, N. C; 
Capt. Max W. Coble, M. E. '30, Ft. 
Francis E. Warren, Wyo.; Capt. M. 
M. Ginter, E. E. '29, Ft. Monroe, Va.; 
Capt. Clifford J. Woodley, M. E. '34, 
Moffett Field, Calif. 

Maj. Forrest B. Volkel, E. E. '29 
instructor, staff and command school 
Ft Leavenworth; First Lieut. How- 
ard S. Spear, f. s., E. E. '34, Ft. Wil- 
liams, Me.; First Lieut. Ralph O. 
Smith, E. E. '33, Camp Haan, River- 
side, Calif.; First Lieut. David E. 
Deines, C. E. '27, Moffett Field, 
Calif.; First Lieut. Roy O. Crist, Ag. 
E. '35, Randolph Field, Texas; First 
Lieut. Marvin A. Weihe, Ar. E. '35, 
Ft Bragg, N. C. ; First Lieut. Gerald 

D. Van Pelt, E. E. '29, Ft. Bliss, 
Texas; First Lieut. Archie French, 

E. E. '35, Camp Haan, Riverside, 
Calif. 

First Lieut. William H. Roth, C. 
E. '35, Ft. Worden, Wash.; First 
Lieut. Charles F. Monteith, f. s., C. 
'32, Ft. Barry, Calif.; First Lieut. 
Guy S. Guthrie, f. s., C. E. '32, Ft. 
Worden, Wash.; First Lieut. George 

D. Haynes, C. '37, Ft. Bragg, N. C; 
First Lieut. George Jobling, Ch. E. 
'35, Camp Haan, Riverside, Calif.; 
Second Lieut. James O. Ridenour, M. 

E. '40, Ft. Barry, Calif.; Second 
Lieut. Elmer L. Vinson, f. s., E. E. 
'40, Lowry Field, Colo. 

JOERG AT FT. HANCOCK 
Second Lieut. Harold W. Under- 
bill, Ar. E. '41, Ft. Bliss, Texas; Sec- 
ond Lieut. F. W. Toomey, E. E. '30, 
Ft. Rosencrans, Calif.; Second Lieut. 
Roy S. Martin, Ch. E. '38, Ft. Bliss, 
Texas; Second Lieut. James R. Ham- 
mitt, B. A. '40, Ft. Worden, Wash.; 
Second Lieut. Dale V. Davis, C. E. 
'39, Ft. Riley; Second Lieut. Lester 
L. Peterie, C. E. '40, Ft. Bragg, N. C. 
Second Lieut. Ernest M. Joerg, f. 
s., Ar. E. '24, Ft. Hancock, N. J.; 
Capt. V. H. Meseke, C. E. '31, Con- 
struction Quartermasters' corps, 
Baltimore, Md.; Second Lieut. A. 
Sidney Holbert, G. S. '40, Ft. Bliss, 
Texas, and Second Lieut. Charles F. 
Manspeaker, M. I. '40, Philippine 
department; Capt. Ezra Howard, C. 
E. '25, Signal office, Ft. Riley. 



WILDCAT CAGE CANDIDATES 
COMME NCE SPRING PR ACTICE 

FIVE-WEEK PROGRAM IS PLANNED 
TO IMPROVE SOUAD 



Judging Class to Abilene 

Members of the advanced judging 
class at the College will attend the 
Dickinson County Hereford show at 
Abilene April 24. Prof. F. W. Bell of 
the Department of Animal Husbandry 
will accompany the group and will be 
one of the judges at the show. 



Alpha Mu Holds Banquet 

Alpha Mu, honorary milling fra- 
ternity, held its annual dinner Friday 
night at the Gillett hotel. Edgar S. 
Miller of the staff of the Northwest- 
ern Miller, Minneapolis, Minn., was 
the principal speaker. 



Any discussion of Kansas State's 
football outlook for 1941 eventually 
boils down to this question: "How 
good are the sophomoreB?" 

Faced with heavy graduation loss- 
es of last year's regulars, we must 
depend largely upon sophomores to 
fill in as regulars and to form the 
bulk of the reserve supply. The re- 
turning veterans must carry big loads 
next fall. But the number of experi- 
enced men is small and for this 
reason it is the sophomores who more 
or less hold the key to the 1941 
season. 

At the best, sophomores are in- 
experienced and uncertain. How- 
ever, I feel this year's freshman 
squad includes many boys who will 
make strong bids for regular jobs, 
perhaps ousting veterans for starting 
calls. 

The six weeks of spring practice 
which ends Saturday, April 26, has 
taught us one thing— we have a 
squad of boys who are eager to play 
football. They have hustle and deter- 
mination, qualities necessary for any 
good team. The sophomores are bent 
upon making the ball club. If they 
can't make the grade at one position, 
some of them probably will be good 
enough to do it at another. 

There is no substitute for experi- 
ence, especially against such tough 
opponents as Northwestern, Fort 
Hays State college, South Carolina 
and Arizona as well as our conference 
foes whom we meet next fall. Realiz- 
ing this, we have held a practice game 
every week during spring drills to 
give the sophomores and inexperi- 
enced squad men as much work as 
possible under Are. 

Only 13 of last year's 26 letter men 
will be available next season. Four 
of these boys are not out for spring 
practice, and three others are sharing 
time between football and baseball. 
Consequently, we have devoted most 
of our time this spring to funda- 
mental work for the freshmen. 
Encouraging has been the progress 
of the ends and backs. Several fresh- 
man wing men with pass-receiving 
possibilities are giving the veterans 
a hard run for their jobs. The same 
is true in the backfleld. Freshmen 
have improved rapidly and should 
add speed and power to our attack. 
While the outlook is uncertain, we 
can assure Kansas State fans they 
will be represented on the gridiron 
by a fighting team of boys who love 
to play the game. 

Since I came to Kansas State Col- 
lege, I have had the opportunity to 
meet many of the school's alumni 
and friends. Their fine support of 
the College and its athletics program 
has been most helpful. In behalf of 
the coaching staff, I want to express 
our sincere appreciation for this 
wholehearted loyalty and invite all 
of you to drop in at the coaches' office 
when in Manhattan. We enjoy visit- 
ing with you. 

Sincerely yours, 



Conch Jack Gardner Centers Attention 

on Job of Molding Freshmen Into 

Experienced Varsity 

Possibilities 

The job of molding inexperienced 
freshmen into the Kansas State Col- 
lege basketball team of 1941-42 be- 
gan last week as Coach Jack Gardner 
launched a five-week spring practice 
program. 

Freshmen are getting the bulk of 
attention, with the emphasis on fun- 
damental work. Later Coach Gard- 
ner plans to experiment on variations 
of his offense and work on individual 
defense as it applies to his style of 
play. 

The first-year men must develop 
enough to compensate for the Iobb of 
four letter men — Norris Holstrom, 
Topeka, guard and captain; Chris 
Langvardt, forward; Tom Guy, Cof- 
feyville, center, and Kenny Graham, 
Framingham, Mass., guard. All are 
seniors except Guy, who has been 
called by the army. 

Dan Howe, Stockdale, forward, and 
Larry Beaumont, El Dorado, guard, 
are the only returning letter men able 
to report full time for spring practice. 
Jack Horacek, Topeka, forward, Is on 
the tennis team, while George Men- 
denhall, Belleville, guard, and Dean 
Lill, Mt. Hope, center, are out for 
track. 

Among the freshman forward can- 
didates are Fred Kohl, Kansas City, 
Mo.; Bruce Holman, Powhattan; Leo 
Headrick, Kansas City; Frank Kirk, 
Kansas City, Mo.; Calvin Miller, El 
Dorado; Ken Weaver, Mullinville, 
and Boyd Rostine, Hutchinson. Cen- 
ter prospects are Darren Schneider, 
St. Francis; Bill Engelland, Sterling; 
Jim Green, Manhattan, and Brinton 
Dirks, Moundridge. Working for 
regular guard assignments are Eldon 
Hawks, Nickerson; John St. John, 
Wichita; John Bortka, Kansas City; 
Kenny Messner, Arkansas City; Max 
Roberts, Chanute, and Paul Schroe- 
der, Lorraine. 



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FROZEN FOOD LOCKER GROUP 
BEGINS MEETINGS TODAY 



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EVERYDAY ECONOMICS 

By W. E. GRIMES 



Ed Squires, Representative of National 
Association, Will Attend Ses- 
sions on Campus 

Kansas State College will be host 
to the Kansas Frozen Food Locker 
association for its second annual 
meeting today and tomorrow. 

The conference is sponsored jointly 
by the association and several College 
departments. Ed Squires, representa- 
tive of the national association, will 
be here for the meeting. 

The program for the conference is 
based on requests received from lock- 
er operators in Kansas. The new Kan- 
sas code for the frozen food industry 
will be discussed in a session presided 
over by N. E. Vandyne, president of 
the association. 

Dr. H. H. Plagge of the Iowa Agri- 
cultural Experiment station, Ames, 
will discuss varieties, preparation and 
temperatures for fruits and vegeta- 
bles. The economic plan of the in- 
dustry will be discussed by R. J. Eg- 
gert, assistant professor of economics 
and sociology. 

The handling and preservation of 
poultry and meats will be discussed 
and demonstrated. Many exhibits per- 
taining to all phases of the industry 
will be on display during the confer- 
ence. A banquet will be held tonight. 

♦ 
LOCAL MINISTERS' DAUGHTERS 

NAMED TO EDIT PUBLICATIONS 



"To understand supply and demand it is necessary to know the condi- 
tions under which people buy and sell." 

Prices are governed by the laws of | it is necessary to know the conditions 



supply and demand. To some people 
this statement is a blind behind which 
they can hide and not be bothered 
with further thinking. The statement 
is true but is so general that it is 
almost without meaning. The forces 
of supply and demand are human 
forces. They express what people are 
willing and able to do either in sell- 
ing goods and services or in buying 
goods and services. In large measure, 
the forces governing supply and de- 
mand are man made. Supply in any 
given market is made up of a vast 
variety of human forces. People 
make decisions or are forced to make 
them, and these decisions determine 
supply and demand 



To understand supply and demand I determination. 



under which people sell or buy. Some 
people are weak bargainers in selling 
or buying particular products or ser- 
vices. Other people may be in a 
strong position and may exert strong 
bargaining power. All of these things 
contribute to the working of the laws 
of supply and demand. An under- 
standing of these man-made forces 
is necessary to understand price 
determination in any market. It is 
true that prices are determined by 
supply and demand but merely to say 
so does not tell the story. Deeper 
knowledge of the human forces mak- 
ing up supply and demand is neces- 
sary for an understanding of price 



Mary Margaret Arnold and Mnrjorle 
Rogers Are Chosen 

Two Manhattan ministers' daugh- 
ters — Mary Margaret Arnold and 
Marjorie Rogers — have been selected 
to edit The Kansas State Collegian, 
semiweekly student paper, and The 
Royal Purple, College yearbook, re- 
spectively, for the next semester. 

Miss Arnold, a sophomore in indus- 
trial journalism, is the daughter of 
the Rev. J. David Arnold, Manhat- 
tan's mayor. Miss Rogers, a Junior in 
industrial journalism, is the daugh- 
ter of the Rev. B. A. Rogers, director 
of the Wesley Foundation. 

William Hall, Phillipsburg, junior 
in industrial journalism, was named 
business manager of The Kansas 
State Collegian, while David Lupfer, 
Lamed, sophomore in chemical en- 
gineering, was selected business man- 
ager of The Royal Purple. 



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HISTORICAL SOCIETY C 

TOPEKA 

KAN. 



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The Kansas Industrialist 



Volume 67 



Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, Manhattan, Wednesday, April 30, 1941 



Number 28 



FAVORABLE ROTC RATING 
EXPECTED FOR COLLEGE 

ANNUAL INSPECTION OK MIMTARY 
UNITS IS HDLD MONDAY 



Robert Wells, Manhattan, ninl Charles 
Ailcock, Washington, D. Cm Arc 

Selected for Permanent 

Army (' Missions 

A favorable rating for the Reserve 
Officers' Training corps as a result of 
the annual military inspection Mon- 
day was predicted today by Lieut.- 
Col. J. K. Campbell, head of the De- 
partment of Military Science and 
Tactics. The official report of the in- 
spection will not be received for sev- 
eral weeks, but Professor Campbell 
believes the Kansas State College 
ROTC units will rank excellent among 
others in the Seventh Corps area. 

Six cadet officers from the Seventh 
Corps area have been granted per- 
manent commissions in the United 
States army. Two of these were Rob- 
ert Wells, Manhattan, and Charles 
Adcock, Washington, D. C, Kansas 
State College students. 

AWAlin HONOR PLAQUE 

Company F and Battery H, both 
Monday afternoon units, were 
awarded the Honor plaque, given by 
the Manhattan chapter of the Reserve 
Officers' association. Cadet Capt. 
Paul Schafer, Vermillion, commanded 
Company F, and Cadet Capt. Vincent 
Ellis, Urbana, 111., commanded Bat- 
tery H. 

The basis used in selecting these 
two groups for the award was excel- 
lence in drill, appearance and gen- 
eral proficiency. The name of the 
honor company and battery will be 
inscribed on the plaque, which will 
remain on display in the military 
show case in Nichols Gymnasium. 
THREE WIN MEDALS 

Medals presented by Mortar and 
Ball, honorary society for advanced 
ROTC students, were given to Wayne 
MacKirdy, Manhattan, son of Lieut.- 
Col. and Mrs. Howard S. MacKirdy; 
Robert Schreiber, Garden City, and 
Harold Davidson, Leavenworth. All 
are second-year basics of the Coast 
artillery units. 

Reviewing officers for the inspec- 
tion were Lieut. -Col. William F. 
O'Conaghue, University of Nebraska, 
and Capt. Charles II. Stuart, United 
States army, retired, Washington uni- 
versity of St. Louis. Pres. F. D. Par- 
rel! and Honorary Cadet Col. Shirley 
Karns, Coffeyville, and attendants re- 
viewed the troops on the parade 
grounds with the inspecting officers. 
♦ 
To Give "Twee dies" 

The Manhattan Theatre will pre- 
sent "Tweedles," a comedy by Booth 
Tarkington. Friday and Saturday at 
the College Auditorium. 



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1941 COMMENCEMENT 
CALENDAR 

Class Reunions 



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'81 
•86 
•91 
'96 
•01 
•06 



•11 
'16 
•21 
•26 
'31 
•36 



SATURDAY, MAY 24 
Alumni Day 

10-12 a.m. Alumni registration, 

Recreation Center. 
12 noon. Class luncheons. 
2 p. m. Alumni business meet- 
ing, Recreation Center. 
6 p. m. Alumni-Senior banquet, 
Nichols Gymnasium. 

SUNDAY, MAY 25 
4 p. m. Commencement recital, 

Auditorium. 
7:10p.m. Academic procession. 
7:30 p.m. Baccalaureate ser- 
vices, Memorial stadium. 
Sermon by Dr. George D. 
Stoddard, dean of Gradu- 
ate College, State Univer- 
sity of Iowa, Iowa City. 

MONDAY, MAY 26 
3-4:30 p.m. Alumni-Senior re- 
ception, President's resi- 
dence. 
7:10 p.m. Academic procession. 
7:30p.m. Graduation exercises, 
Memorial Stadium. 



HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS 
MEET HERE IN CONTESTS 

Competition in vocatioxal ag 

IIRING3 1,200 



Banquet Speaker 



DR. F. O. GATES TO TEACH 

AT MICHIGAN THIS SUMMER 



Botany I'rofcNKor <o Conduct Rcscnrch 
mill Instruct Connie In Plant EcoloRy 

Prof. F. C. Gates of the Depart- 
ment of Botany an<l Plant pathology 
will go to the University of Michigan 
Biological station this summer to 
teach a course and to conduct re- 
search in plant ecology. This will be 
the 26th consecutive summer that 
Professor Gates has taught at the 
biological station, which will conduct 
its 3 3rd session in northern Michigan 
from June 28 to August 23. 

The biological station, a regular 
part, of the summer session at the 
University of Michigan, gives courses 
and conducts research in botany and 
zoology. Its faculty and students 
come from all sections of the country. 

The biological station is on a 4,000- 
acre tract of forest land in the 
sparsely settled lakes district of 
Michigan. It has a wide diversity of 
habitats, including sand dunes, 
grassy plains, hardwood and conif- 
erous forests, streams, swamps, in- 
land lakes and the Great Lakes, Doc- 
tor Gates said. 



New Altenilnnoe Ilconl In Kstabllslieil 

for Annual Meeting of Kimsns 

llnym llnniinct llrlil Momliij- 

iii «:> mniisluni 

A record total of 1,200 Kansas 
farm boys attended the annual state 
high school vocational agriculture 
judging and farm mechanics contests 
on the Kansas State College campus 
Monday and Tuesday. This is the 
21st year for the contests and the 
13th for the convention of the Kan- 
sas chapter of Future Farmers of 
America. 

This year, which saw a new high in 
attendance, also set a new high in the 
number of judging teams. One hun- 
dred thirty-three teams, 20 more than 
a year ago, competed in the agricul- 
tural contests. Eighty-three teams 
entered in the farm mechanics con- 
tests. There were 64 entries in the 
better chapter contest and 46 entries 
in the public speaking contest. 

BANQUET ON TUESDAY NIGHT 
The contests were climaxed by a 
banquet given by the Manhattan 
Chamber of Commerce in Nichols 
Gymnasium last night. Announce- 
ments of the winners of some con- 
tests were made at that time. 

Monday night the State Future 
Farmers met and elected new officers. 
They are: President, George Stelter, 
Abilene; vice-president, Leonard 
Sharp, Great Bend; reporter, Keith 
Loyd, St. Francis; secretary, Merwin 
Gilmore, Osborne; treasurer, Laverne 
| Oltmier, Olathe; adviser, supervisor. 
L. B. Pollom, Topeka; executive ad- 
viser. Prof. A. P. Davidson of the 
Department of Education. 

SELECT 100 STATE FARMERS 
At (tie meeting of the house of 
delegates Monday 100 boys were 
elected and raised to the degree of 
State Farmer. Roy Hunt, youthful 
first vice-president of the national as- 
sociation of F. F. A., whose home is 
in Vine Grove, Ky., spoke before the 
house of delegates. 




GEN. JAMES G. HARBORD 
TO ATTEND COMMENCEMENT 

DISTINGUISHED GRADUATE WILL 
TALK TO SENIORS. ALUMNI 



JAMES G. HARBORD 



STUDENTS MAKE FIELD TRIPS 
FOR PRACTICAL INSPECTIONS 



KANSAN WHOSE FIVE SONS ATTENDED COLLEGE 

IS SELECTED AS REGIONAL AMERICAN MOTHER 



A woman whose husband and sons 
have long been closely associated 
with Kansas State College has been 
elected Regional American Mother of 
Kansas by the American Mother's 
committee of the Golden Rule foun- 
dation. She is Mrs. Martha L. Miller 
of Salina, wife of A. Q. Miller. Kan- 
sas newspaper publisher and profes- 
sional adviser of the Department of 
Industrial Journalism and Printing. 

Mrs. Miller is the mother of five 
sons who attended Kansas State Col- 
lege and are now prominent news- 
paper men. ('ail is president and 
manager of the Pacific coast edition 
of the Wall Street Journal, which 
is published at Los Angeles. A. 
q. Miller Jr. is general manager of 
the Ontario, Calif., Daily Report. 
Luman, editor of the 1038 Royal 
Purple, is now editor of the Belleville 
Telescope, one of thestate's best week- 
lies. Merle, a student here in 1035 
and 1936, is business manager of the 
Telescope Lloyd, graduated from the 
Division of Engineering and Archi- 
tecture, followed the engineering pro- 
fession 12 years before resigning as 
Inspector for the Bureau of Public 
Roads to purchase the district agency 
of an insurance company at Salina. 



Enola, the only daughter, is the 
wife of W. C. Berry, an attorney in 
Pendleton, Ore. 

Announcement of the selection of 
Mrs. Miller as Regional American 
Mother of Kansas was made in New 
York. She was chosen at the same 
meeting of the committee which 
elected Mrs. Delia Shelby Diehl of 
Danville, Ky., the American Mother 
tor 1041. Mrs. Miller's name was 
considered until the final balloting. 

The American Mother and the Re- 
gional Mothers an; chosen as "rep- 
resentative! of the best there is in 
motherhood, and during the war pe- 
riod the spokesman of American 
mothers in the interest of homeless 
mothers and fatherless children in 
war-torn areas." 

Born in Clifton, Kan., Mrs. Miller's 
mother died when she was 16 and the 
daughter assumed the household 
duties while completing her high 
school education, graduating as vale- 
dictorian of her class. She married 
A. Q. Miller, a country newspaper 
publisher. As soon as their children 
were tall enough to reach the type- 
setting machine, they worked on the 
family newspaper, the Belleville 
Telescope. 



DEFENSE TRAINING COURSES 
TO BE TAUGHT THIS SUMMER 



National Approval i« ncccivcii for Four 

Subject* Which College 
•Will Offer 

Four defense training courses will 
be offered during the summer session 
as a part of the Engineering Defense 
Training program at Kansas State 
College. National approval of the 
courses was received from Washing- 
ton Friday. 

The four courses that will be of- 
fered will be materials inspection and 
testing, engineering drawing, explo- 
sives and tool engineering. 

A maximum of 330 students may 
be enrolled in these courses during 
the summer. Prof. W. W. Carlson, 



Five Gronpa Totaling 141 Leave Cam- 
pus for Kiiiiniim City iintl Other 
Points of IutercHt 

Five groups and a total of 141 stu- 
dents went on field trips last week. 
Three groups were in Kansas City. 

Forty-nine home economics stu- 
dents went on the annual Division of 
Home Economics foods tour in Kan- 
sas City. There they visited restau- 
rants, cafeterias, tea rooms and food- 
producing industries. 

Also in Kansas City were 26 busi- 
ness administration students. They 
made a two-day tour of inspection of 
industrial, mercantile and financial 
establishments. 

Another Kansas City tou*> separate 
from these was the home economics 
art trip. Fourteen visited the Nelson 
Art gallery, the Art institute, interior 
decoration establishments and new 
homes. 

Going west instead of east on a 
field trip were 18 agricultural eco- 
nomics students. This group made a 
three-day tour of southcentral Kan- 
sas to study farm organization. 

Kitchens and bakeries in Ft. Riley 
were visited by 34 dietetics students 
last Thursday. Lunch was served 
them there. 



Son of Kiiiiniim Stiile College In I'lnn- 
niiiK 1" Attend ">tli Aiinlvcrsiiry of 

ii In Claaa i Participate 

in Activities 

Fifty-five years after his gradua- 
tion Maj.-Gen. James G. Harbord, a 
distinguished son of Kansas State Col- 
lege, will return to the campus to be 
the speaker at the annual Alumni- 
Senior banquet in Nichols Gymna- 
sium, May 24. 

Arrangements were completed 
Monday by Kenney L. Ford, secretary 
of the College Alumni association, to 
have General Harbord of the class 
of 1886 as the speaker for the ban- 
quet at which alumni of the College 
will honor members of the 1941 
graduating class. 

LEADING MILITARY FIGURE 

James G. Harbord was a leading 
figure in the United States military 
activities and post-World war ser- 
vices. He served successfully as Gen. 
John J. Pershing's first chief of staff, 
as commander of the marine brigade 
at Belleau Wood, as commander of 
the Second division at Soissons, as 
chief of the services of supply for 
the American Expeditionary forces, 
again as chief of staff and after the 
Armistice as head of an American 
mission to Armenia. On his return 
to the United States and in recogni- 
tion of his important services, Gen- 
eral Harbord was commissioned a 
major-general and again assigned to 
command the Second division. 

In November, 1922, Major-General 
Harbord retired from active service 
to become president of the Radio 
Corporation of America. He was ap- 
pointed chairman of the board of 
directors of RCA on January 3, 1930. 
His address is 30 Rockefeller plaza, 
New York City. 

BORN IN ILLINOIS 

Major-General Harbord has long 
been a loyal and active alumnus of 
Kansas State College. Only three 
years ago he established a $5,000 
loan fund for needy students. This 
loan fund is known as the Eflie C. 
Harbord fund and is a memorial to 
his mother. The establishment of 
this loan fund was another chapter 
in the interesting career of the Col- 
lege's distinguished alumnus. 

(Continued Oil last i>HKe) 



PAUL B. SAWIN, WHO GOT HIS MASTERS HERE, 

STUDIES INDIVIDUAL INTERNAL DIFFERENCES 

No two individuals look alike. Zo- peculiarity, he has obtained more 
ologists recognize that even a per- than 1,500 offspring, with 13 ribs in 
son's insides are different from those almost all of them. One family has 
of his relatives and associates. How produced 200 young. All have 13 
do these internal differences arise? ribs. Each of six different rabbit 
How can they be controlled? families has its own particular pat- 

To answer these questions, Prof, tern of rib variations, as well as of 
Paul B. Sawin, M. S. '25, and his asso- certain blood vessels, 
ciates of the Department of Biology "Professor Sawin and his col- 



College representative for the engl- ftt B ,. own unive rsity are studying the leagues are now using embryo rabbits 

neering training program, said that ,_ t- , „„„ iafi „, la j„ ro hhUa i„ „ ao Ho« nt ovnevinients in which 

applications for these courses are be 



ing received now. 

Twenty students completed the ex- 
plosives course last week. They will 
be placed in defense industries, where 
there are more positions to be filled 
than men to fill them. When these 
students go to work depends on how 
soon explosives and shell-loading 
plants will be built. Dr. W. L. Faith, 
bead of the Department of Chemical 
Engineering, who is in charge of the 
explosives course, said that many of 
these plants were in the stage of con- 
struction. 

Kansas State College is one of 117 
institutions taking part in the na- 
tional defense training program. Ac- 
cording to results of a questionnaire 
sent out by Dean R. A. Seaton, na- 
tional director of the program, to the 
institutions, 102 expressed enthusi- 
astic approval of the defense courses. 
One hundred three favored continua- 
tion of the courses for next year. 

Recognition Assembly Thursday 

The annual recognition assembly 
will be held at 9 a. m. Thursday 
morning. 



internal variations in rabbits. in a series of experiments in which 

Waldeniar Kaenipl't'ert, science edi- they hope to determine when the ex- 
tor of the New York Times, in a Sun- tra rib and other irregularities are 
day article in the issue of April 6, first formed, and when the growth 
wrote as follows of Professor Sawin's processes that control them are no 
work at Brown university: longer effective. To fix these limits, 

"Internal differences in body struc- which would be a distinct contribu- 
tures are more important than might tion to scientific knowledge concern- 
be supposed. Unusual structures j ng growth. Professor Sawin has 
often bring about discomfort or pain, made a beginning by regulating the 
or they can be starting points for dis- food supply that reaches the embryo 
eases of various kinds. Some of us rabbits through the mother's blood 
are born with an extra pair of ribs stream. Since most variations are 
so high up that we get stiff necks laid down long before birth, the 
easily. Sometimes a pelvis is attached mother must serve as an intermediary, 
to the spine by two vertebrae instead "So far Professor Sawin has suc- 
of one. Certain odd blood-vessel pat- cessfully restricted the blood supply 

of some embryo rabbits without dis- 
turbing normal birth. He will try 
cutting off the blood supply of em- 
bryo rabbits at different stages for 
short periods without disturbing 
normal birth. The results will help 
ne rate or grown, 10. u.« uuu, discriminate betwee n hereditary 

and its various parts _ To find out ellvil . onmental influences in 

more about such complexities of in- 

heritance Professor Sawin has been .growth. He also will try to learn 
inbreeding a strain of rabbits which whether the development of extra 
have 13 ribs instead of the usual 12. ribs hinges upon general nutrition, 



terns are associated with heart 
trouble. 

"These variations are unmistak- 
ably associated with the invisible but 
highly potent hereditary units in the 
body cells known as genes, which 
control the rate of growth of the body 



"Beginning eight years ago with 
parents that happened to have this 



or more specifically upon a difference 
in the rate of bone metabolism." 



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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 1941 



A CAMPUS IMPROVEMENT 

The area west of the north part 
of Anderson hall has received much 
improvement recently through the 
setting of shrubbery. In earlier times 
the College mail was delivered to the 
building from the front road. In 
1911, the post-office facilities were 
transferred from the east side of the 
corridor to the west, and incoming 
mail was brought to the rear door on 
the west. From the road to the south- 
west, the mail truck made a loop 
around trees and shrubs west of the 
building, and in 1917 the loop was 
improved by a heavy coat of cinders. 
In later years sand was applied. This 
is a service road for the Division of 
Extension, the vice-president's office 
and Recreation Center, as well as for 
the post-office. Traffic was not con- 
fined and an unnecessarily large area 
was run over and became unsightly. 

Last summer the present improve- 
ment began by limiting the road by 
means of a cement curbing. At the 
same time the surface was heavily 
sanded. The area adjacent has re- 
ceived intermittent treatment since, 
resulting in the removal of remnants 
of an earlier macadamized road to 
the shops, hauling in good earth and 
grading for planting. Thick planting 
of well-grown shrubs has now been 
made, and there is ample promise 
that what has been an eyesore in the 
center of the campus will become a 
spot of beauty. — J. T. Willard. 



BOOKS 

More About Textiles 

"Textile Fibers anil Their Use." 
(Tliinl Edition) Ky Katherine Paddock 
Hess J. T5. Ltppincott Company. Now 
York. 1941. $2.40. 

Ten years ago when the first edi- 
tion of this book appeared, the vol- 
ume was one of the smallest of the 
textbooks that had been prepared up 
to thai time by members of the home 
economics faculty of Kansas State 
College Since that time the author 
has been bard at work to increase 
the knowledge of textiles and their 
use through research at the College 
laboratories and elsewhere and 
through extensive travel in this coun- 
try and abroad. As a result the sec- 
ond edition, published five years ago, 
excelled its predecessor and the pres- 
ent volume of more than 500 pages 
is larger, more attractive and more 
useful to students and to consumers 
than either the first or the second 
edition. 

Owing to technological progress, 
changes affecting textiles and their 
use occur with great rapidity. Chang- 
ing relations of raw silk and rayon 
are a case in point. In 19 29, the an- 
nual consumption of raw silk in the 
weaving industry of the United States 
was 59 million pounds and that of 
rayon was 48 million pounds. Ten 
years later, in 1939, the correspond- 
ing figures were nine million pounds 
of raw silk and 286 million pounds of 
rayon. This change has great signifi- 
cance for both manufacturers and 
consumers. 

Like ils predecessors, the present 
volume was written primarily for 
consumers, actual and prospective. It 
is a textbook but it is also a fascinat- 
ing treatise on the history, the cul- 
tural significance and the technology 
of textiles. It begins with a discus- 
sion of the construction, finish and 
design of textiles and continues with 
Informative chapters on the classifi- 
cation of textile fibers, on the major 
textile materials — wool, silk, cotton, 



linen and the synthetic fibers — and 
on the consumption, selection and 
care of fabrics. There is a wealth of 
material on the historical, chemical, 
physical, social, economic, industrial 
and aesthetic features of the various 
subjects. 

One notable feature of the book is 
the extent with which all the essential 
processes by which a textile material 
is made available to consumers are 
discussed. The chapters on cotton, 
for example, contain information 
about the cotton plant's requirements 
of soil and climate, about the plant- 
ing, harvesting, ginning, baling, clas- 
sification and grading of cotton and 
about the manufacture and use of 
cotton goods. 

Almost 300 excellent illustrations 
constitute another notable feature of 
the book. The subjects illustrated 
cover a wide range. They include 
cross sections of textile fibers; sheep- 
shearing and cotton-growing opera- 
tions; sheep, goats, llamas, alpacas 
and other textile-producing animals; 
famous paintings and tapestries and 
many other subjects. 

The author contends convincingly 
that there is need for a "wider under- 
standing of the factors influencing 
textile consumption" and that such 
understanding "can be created only 
by intelligent study of the phases of 
the textiles industry." That industry 
is more extensive and more signifi- 
cant, economically and culturally, 
than most of us comprehend. The 
book is an attractive and important 
contribution to the development of 
the increased understanding that the 
author recommends. — P. D. Farrell. 



SCIENCE TODAY 



THE MIRROR 

Annual ftiitll Club Mn»riiir.iii<> 

Another year has passed, and again 
the student members of the Kansas 
State College Quill club, with some 
editorial help from the College fac- 
ulty, have edited their annual issue 
of The Mirror, a magazine of origi- 
nal poetry and sketches written by 
college students. 

While far above preceding issues 
of The Mirror in value and literary 
talent, this year's magazine is still 
spotty, showing in many cases a lack 
of mature reflection, and the selec- 
tion of material inconsistent with the 
ability of the writer to express it. 

Outstanding are the two poems of 
Hurst Majors Jr., "City Street" and 
"Answer to Leonidas." These show 
definitely an imaginative quality and 
the ability to present Information far 
above the average college student. 
"Four Stanzas" by John Parker also 
show a high quality of workmanship. 
On the whole, the poetic content 
of the magazine falls short, however, 
of the poetic principle. If one ac- 
cepts the definition of good poetry 
as "thoughts remembered in tran- 
quillity," then I am afraid the lack 
of sincerity in the subject matter of 
most of the poetry has come about 
through a lack of application of that 
principle. 

The prose content of the publica- 
tion far excels the poetic. "John 
William," a character sketch by 
Marianna Klstler, especially held my 
interest, as did "A Part of Me Smiles, 
Too." a sketch of her mother by Mer- 
ry Carroll. Robert Crow also shows 
! his talent with two small essays, 
| "Immortality — To Walt Whitman," 
and "I Must Not Think." 

In commenting upon the work as 
a whole, my greatest criticism would 
'. be that the authors have forgotten 
i that the material which is closest to 
I them and which is most familiar to 
them is the material with which they 
i do their best work. In every effort 
1 shown here, however, there is much 
merit. One has a feeling, after read- 
ing the work, that here, in this small 
1 volume, are to be found some of the 
people whom we will be reading in 
the years to come and reading with 
true enjoyment. — F. A. Peery. 

Mr. Peery is an instructor in the De- 
partment of English. 



American farmers own and operate 
1,000,000 trucks, and so anything 
that concerns highway barriers be- 
tween states is of vital importance to 
them. According to the United States 
Department of Agriculture, 53 per- 
cent of the livestock, 27 percent of 
butter, 39 percent of cake, 65 per- 
cent of the live poultry, and 40 per- 
cent of fruits and vegetables are 
moved from farm to market by truck. 
-From Highway Highlights. 

Doctrine is nothing but the skin 
of truth set up and stuffed. — Henry 
Ward Beecher. 



By LEON V. WHITE 

Associate Professor, Department of 
Civil Engineering 

When viewed from a point of van- 
tage, a great flood is a majestic and 
fascinating sight, but nevertheless, a 
relentless destroyer of lives and 
property. 

Tidal waves caused by earthquakes 
and hurricanes have caused disas- 
trous floods along the sea coasts. 

The Johnstown, Pa., flood of 1887, 
in which 2,200 lives were lost, was 
due to the failure of a dam. 

The most common cause of floods, 
however, is excessive precipitation. 
Somewhere in the world there is al- 
ways a river in floodstage. Floods in 
river valleys are caused by a combi- 
nation of natural conditions which 
engineers generally divide into three 
types: (1) intense precipitation of 
the cloudburst type, falling over 
small, hilly watersheds; (2) pro- 
longed rainfall of a heavy nature 
falling for several days over a large 
watershed; (3) warm rains of spring 
falling on accumulated snow. Cloud- 
bursts caused the Cabin Creek, W. 
Va., flood of 1916 and the Pueblo, 
Colo., flood of 1921. Hundreds of 
lives were lost, thousands made 
homeless and property damage ran 
into millions of dollars. 

In 1927 occurred the most disas- 
trous flood in the Mississippi river's 
history. Flood protection of the Mis- 
sissippi valley became a national 
issue, and Congress appropriated 
millions of dollars for the flood pro- 
tection works. A board consisting of 
army and civilian engineers was cre- 
ated, and a plan of protection was 
formulated. This plan, known as the 
"Jadwin Plan," provided for more 
and higher levees; cutoffs across 
large ox-bow bends; for by-passes 
and floodways (that is, using the 
natural flood plane or channel of the 
river through the poorer land of the 
valley, backwater areas and sections 
into which the water would escape in 
extremely high floods), and detention 
reservoirs on the tributaries. The 
protection works on the lower river 
were nearing completion in 1937 
when the great flood on the Ohio 
river occurred. At Cincinnati and 
Knoxville, the previously recorded 
high-water marks were exceeded by 
10 feet. The protection works on the 
Mississippi were given a severe test, 
but they held. The fight at Cairo, 111., 
was dramatic. It was front-page 
news. For several days in succession, 



the newspapers told of how the waves 
lapped the very tops of the hastily 
built up mud sills on top of the con- 
crete levee that surrounded Cairo. 
Only inches held "Old Man River" 
away, but it was enough; they final- 
ly whipped him. 

The Republican river flood in Kan- 
sas in 1935 was the greatest in the 
memory of the white man. This, in 
spite of the fact that 1935 was a 
drought year. May, however, was a 
wet month, more than four inches 
of rainfall on the average falling over 
the entire state. It is interesting to 
note, from a study of the rainfall 
data, that had the storm center that 
caused the Republican river flood of 
1935 been shifted to the south some 
30 or 40 miles, more precipitation 
would have fallen on the Republican 
river watershed and, consequently, 
the flood would have been greater. 

In general, there are three methods 
of flood protection: (1) by channel 
improvement, (2) by levees and (3) 
by detention reservoirs or retarding 
basins. The first two methods give 
flood control by hastening the flow 
of water from the watershed; the 
third operates in an opposite manner 
by retaining the flood water in stor- 
age reservoirs, releasing the water 
gradually and limiting the water to 
the quantity which the channel will 
safely carry. Of the latter type is 
Kanopolis dam and reservoir on the 
Smoky Hill river in Kansas, now 
under construction. Its location is 
about 30 miles southwest of Salina. 

The flood protection engineer 
must compromise with the elements. 
He may build works for, say, the 
greatest flood that records show has 
occurred in an average period of 25 
or 50 years. Rarely may he design 
flood-control structures capable of 
taking care of the maximum possible 
flood, because such a flood is not like- 
ly to occur more often than once in 
several hundred or a thousand years. 
Besides, the cost would be prohibi- 
tive. Violent storms have occurred, 
producing rain and runoff in such 
tremendous volumes that it is beyond 
man's ingenuity to build structures 
that will stand against them. 

The next flood may not occur for 
many years. Again, it may arrive 
tomorrow. But it will come, as sure- 
ly as time lasts. There is no foretell- 
ing its occurrence. Floods are as full 
of vagaries as the weather, which 
causes them. 



FINDING NEW CROP USES 
Research must open the door for 
the utilization of new forces, new 
crops and new uses for agriculture. 
The experiment station is the farm- 
er's laboratory for progress. We can 
grow paper, starch, sugar, and pro- 
vide materials for paints, plastics 
and other industrial needs. To make 
this program succeed, we must add 
the new principle of incentive pay- 
ments for growing crops. — From an 
address by Louis J. Taber before the 
National Grange annual session. 
♦ 

IN OLDER DAYS 

From the Files o} The Industrialist 
TEN YEARS AGO 

Miss Louise Everhardy, instructor 
in the Department of Art, was in 
Louisville, Ky., attending the annual 
convention of the Western Arts as- 
sociation. 

Dr. Roger C. Smith of the Depart- 
ment of Entomology was elected 
president of the Kansas Academy of 
Science at its 62nd annual meeting 
in Lawrence. 

Prof. C. E. Rogers, head of the De- 
partment of Industrial Journalism 
and Printing, was initiated into the 
Oklahoma university chapter of Phi 
Beta Kappa, national scholastic so- 
ciety. Professor Rogers was elected 
alumni member for the class of 1914. 



L. Morgan, '01, who completed two 
terms in that office. Mr. Boyd also 
was elected president of the Phillips- 
burg Chamber of Commerce. 



with Prof. Robert Hay as conductor. 

Dr. Wendell Williston, under the 
auspices of the Webster society, gave 
a lecture in chapel on the subject, 
"Some Fossil Wonders of America." 

An article, "Tame Grasses," by E. 
M. Shelton, managing editor of The 
Industrialist, appeared in the quar- 
terly report of the secretary of the 
Board of Agriculture. 



KANSAS POETRY 

Robert Conover, Editor 



THINK BEAUTY 

By May Frink Convent 

We must think of beauty — In a world 
Where wings of battle are unfurled, 
Where war's aggression spreads its 

blight, 
And crash of bombers shatters night. 

We must think of beauty — let the mind 
Diffuse the glory it can find, 
Catch strains of music in the air, 
See grace of movement everywhere. 

We must think of beauty — give the 

heart 
Hope and courage from the start, 
Let clouds surrounding matter less 
Than silver edge of loveliness. 



By May Frink Converse 

She married and lived on a lonely ranch 
far away from a town or city. 

Her relatives said, what a tragic lot, 
and regarded her with pity. 

Rut she loved the walks down to the 
well 

with both of her buckets swinging, 
And the sight of a lovely Cottonwood 

could set her heart to singing. 



May Prink Converse (Mrs. Asa P. 
Converse) of Wellsville attended Ot- 
tawa university. She is the wife of 
the editor of the Wellsville Globe, 
and for a number of years has con- 
tributed a weekly poem and a column 
which she calls "Converse — ation." 
Mrs. Converse has been successful 
selling poems, articles and sketches 
to various publications, and winning 
a number of prizes. 



SUNFLOWERS 

By B. W. Davis 

FUN AT HOME 
One of the best ways of having fun 
at home is dumping your guests in 
the middle of the floor by tricking 
them into trying out your antique 
chairs. 



It is no trouble at all to take a 
chair from great-aunt Abigail's wood- 
shed and patch it up with six cents' 
worth of glue, stain and furniture 
polish so that even a 250-pound adult 
will risk his or her pelvic integrity 
in it. 



One element of the fun is surprise. 
Even you yourself cannot tell when 
an antique is going to collapse, which 
one of your friends is going to sprawl 
or whether an ambulance will have 
to be called. 



THIRTY YEARS AGO 
Miss Flora Knight, assistant in En- 
glish, judged a flve-county district 
debate and declamatory contest at 
Marysville. 

Edwin L. Holion, professor of rural 
education, was appointed director of 
the summer session for teachers and 
prospective teachers. 

Dr. Arnold Emch, M. S. '94, asso- 
ciate professor of mathematics In the 
University of Illinois, read a paper 
at the annual meeting of the Ameri- 
can Mathematical association in Chi- 
cago. 



For instance, one of our most de- 
pendable crates went into a tail-spin 
the other afternoon without any 

I warning whatsoever. A guest low- 
ered himself into it with all the cau- 

' tion and aplomb Emily Post could 
advise. Suddenly there was a crack 
and a splintering, the guest listed 
precipitately to starboard and before 
anybody could say Omigoodness he 
was holding a solo mass meeting all 
over the floor. 



FORTY YEARS AGO 
George W. Smith, '93, graduated 
from the Chicago Homeopathic Medi- 
cal college, Chicago. 

J. W. Van De venter, '86, was sec- 
retary of the Colorado Book com- 
pany, Sterling, Colo. 

Professor Stoner read a paper on 
"Scotch Scientists and Philosophers" 
before the Manhattan Domestic Sci- 
ence club at the regular meeting of 
the organization. 



TWENTY YEARS AGO 

Irene Miller, '20, a teacher of home 
economics at Fairmount college, 
Wichita, was in charge of the techni- 
cal hour devoted to Big Sister work 
at the YWCA conference in Wichita. 

Ralph Snyder, '90, president of the 
Kansas State Farm bureau, returned 
from Washington, D. C, where he 
appeared before a congressional com- 
mlttee in regard to farm legislation. I 

Frank W. Boyd, '03, was elected] 
mayor of Phillipshurg, succeeding E. 



FIFTY YEARS AGO 
Regents Finley and Wheeler met 
in Topeka with President Fairchild. 
Mr. Mason attended the meeting of 
the World's Fair committee, at To- 
peka, as delegate from the Manhattan 
Horticultural society. 

Regent Finley represented the 
Board of Regents, Regent Wheeler 
the Board of Agriculture and Regent 
Caraway the committee of Barton 
county in the Columbian Exposition 
convention. 



Fortunately he was not fatally nor 
even critically injured. So all the 
other guests and the family had a 
jolly laugh at his expanse, for he 
looked awfully spread out there with 
the rugs and the coffee tables and all. 
He was a good sport too and laughed 
with the rest and so far has not filed 
suit. 



Of course you cannot continue that 
sort of entertainment indefinitely. It 
finally sort of palls on your incoming 
friends and they begin preferring the 
rugs and the built-in window-seats. 



t 



SIXTY YEARS AGO 
It was announced that the Davis 
county institute would be held in July 



It is then time for Mother to begin 
wondering why Father cannot fix 
things so they will stay fixed. This 
leads to a lot more fun for Father in 
the basement, hunting screws and 
right-angle steel braces and I-beams 
and such. Then come varnish-remov- 
ers and refinishing and the advice 
appertaining thereto. Indeed, it is 
hard to tell just what the collapse 
of a single antique may lead to. 



But the fun everybody else has is 
worth all the trouble Father is put 
to, no matter what he may think and 
want to say. There's so little else left 
to laugh about in this distraught 
world. From now on my motto is: 

Antiques for amusement only, 
To the ash-can with Art. 



► 



AMONG THE 
ALUMNI 



A 



William H. SikeB, B. S. '79, is a 
merchant in Leonardville. 

Bartholomew Buchli, B. S. '84, M. 
S. '87, a retired farmer and stockman, 
lives at Alma. 

Arthur Mize, f. s. '86, is president 
of the Blish, Mize and Stillman Hard- 
ware company, Atchison. His home 
is in Atchison. 



Christine M. Corlett, *91, writes 
that she will attend her class reunion 
in May. 

"After the reunion I will go on to 
California to live," she said. "I taught 
school 25 years. I hold a high school 
state professional certificate. I was 
employed in the United States gov- 
ernment service 22% years. Retired 
from this December 1, 1940. In be- 
tween times I took up a homestead in 
Oklahoma, which I still own. 

"I am proud of the fact that I was 
born in the finest country in the 
world, and, while a native of New 
York, I grew up and received my edu- 
cation in one of the best of the 4 8 
states. I am proud of my College and 
of my Nation, but most proud of the 
beautiful flag whose 'broad stripes 
and bright stars' are a symbol of the 
protection we, as United States citi- 
zens, will always receive." 



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Charles Jay Burson, B. S. '01, is 
planning to be here "definitely" for 
his class reunion. Mr. Burson, 215 
South Fifth, Manhattan, has six chil- 
dren. Five of them are graduates of 
Kansas State College, and the sixth 
will graduate. He thinks that Bryant 
Poole, '01, should be questioned 
about the cornerstone the class of 
1900 was putting on the campus. 

Robert H. Wilson, D. V. M. '09, 
and Mary (Haney) Wilson, f. s. '05, 
live at 1214 North Main street, Roch- 
ester, Mich. Doctor Wilson is senior 
veterinarian there with Parke, Davis 
and company. 

Alfred L. Clapp, Ag. '14, M. S. '34, 
is professor of agronomy, Division of 
Agriculture, at Kansas State College. 
The Clapps live at 1109 Kearney, 
Manhattan. Faye, a daughter, is a 
sophomore in the Department of In- 
dustrial Journalism and Printing. 

Edna M. Wilkin, H. E. '20, is head 
of the Department of Home Econom- 
ics and is teaching clothing and tex- 
tiles in the Stephen F. Austin Teach- 
ers' college, Nacogdoches, Texas. 

Gerda (Olson) Matson, H. E. '21, 
recently moved from Iowa Falls, 
Iowa, to Kanawha, Iowa. Her hus- 
band is T. F. Matson, a '16 graduate 
of Iowa State Teachers' college. 

Dorothy (Churchward) Beal, HE. 
•23, 3916 Edgemont place, Wichita, 
and Claude E. Beal have three sons. 
They are Robert Clyde, 9; John 
Churchward, 6%, and David 
Brown, 4. 

Werner J. Blanchard, G. S. '24, is 
general manager of the aeroproducts 
division, General Motors corporation. 
His business address is Municipal air- 
port. Dayton, Ohio. His residence is 
4 22 East drive, Dayton. 

Grace Steininger, H. B. '25, direc- 
tor of the school of home economics 
at Ohio university, Athens, wrote: 
"I have been spending my leisure 
hours buying furniture for a small 
apartment up on North hill. We are 
all enjoying Margaret Owen, '40, who 
has a fellowship here." 

Mary (Haise) Wright, Ag. '26, has 
a poem published in the Ordway New 
Era, a paper printed in Colorado, 
former home of the Wrights. The 
poem, "The Memorial Day Parade," 
voices many feelings that are preva- 
lent today. The Wrights live at En- 
canto, Calif., where Floyd M. Wright, 
M. S. '25, is a dairy chemist. 

Elizabeth (Mills) Elliott, '27, and 
her family are moving to Route 2, 
White City. Her husband, Wilfred 
Elliott, and three little girls are mov- 
ing onto a farm there. 

Mildred (Skinner) O'Keefe, H. E. 
'28, wrote April 2: "Will you please 
change my address from Montgomery, 
Ala., to Carlisle Barracks, Pa., where 
Lieutenant O'Keefe is to have 30 
days' training in the United States 
Medical Field Service school. At the 
expiration of that time we will be 
located at Ft. Oglethorpe. Ca., where 
Lieutenant O'Keefe is to be assigned 
to the Fifteenth Medical regiment, 
United States army." 

Isabelle (Gillum) Dubar, M. S. '29, 
and Frank Dubar recently purchased 
and established a restaurant which 



they call "Dubar's" at 58 West Fifty- 
Sixth street, New York City. She was 
formerly dietitian in a New York 
hospital. 

Iva (Larson) Flood, M. S. '29, 
writes: "John C. Flood and I were 
married in the Church of Our Father 
in Detroit on December 14. Mr. 
Flood is a builder in Wyandotte and 
Lincoln park. We'd be happy to 
show you our model homes when you 
come this way." 

Grace (Reed) Kendall, P. E. '30, 
and Dr. Forrest H. Kendall, 702 West 
Fifth street, Holton, have a son, For- 
rest Kendall Jr., who is 3 1-2. Doctor 
Kendall has an osteopathic practice 
in Holton. 

A letter from the Harvard Univer- 
sity press gives information about a 
recently published book, "Family and 
Community in Ireland," written by 
Solon T. Kimball, I. J. '30, and Con- 
rad M. Arensberg. The authors spent 
two years in Ireland and especially 
made a study of the people and life of 
County Clare. Doctor and Mrs. Kim- 
ball and their daughter, Sally, who 
now live at Window Rock, Ariz., 
spent the Easter holidays in Manhat- 
tan with Doctor Kimball's parents, 
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Kimball. 

Mary Elizabeth McCroskey, H. E. 
*31, is home demonstration agent at 
Rockport, Mo. 

Bruce Pratt, M. E. '31, is track 
supervisor for the Rock Island rail- 
way. He and Inga (Ross) Pratt, H. 
E. '25, live at Booneville, Ark. 

L. A. Jacobson, Ag. '32, is district 
soil conservationist for Geary county. 
His address is 4 24 West Fifth street, 
Junction City. 

The address of George Telford, C. 
'33, is Educational office, CCC camp, 
Death Valley, Calif. He is teaching 
at the camp, which is located at sea 
level, across a valley from Telescope 
peak, the highest mountain in the 
United States. 

Nils I. Saven, E. E. '34, is meter 
specialist in the Chicago office of the 
General Electric company. He and 
Mrs. Saven live at 1383 Greenleaf 
avenue, Chicago. 

George A. Rogler, Ag. '3 5, has 
moved to 408 Fifth street, N. W., 
Mandan, N. D. He will be back at 
the University farm, St. Paul, Minn., 
for more work in plant genetics next 
winter. 

George L. Jobling, Ch. E. '35, 228 
Congress street, Prescott, Ariz., is 
with the Arizona Mining and Supply 
company. 

Eleanor May Wilkinson, H. E. '36, 
M. S. '3 8, is home economist for the 
Family Welfare association in Balti- 
more, Md. Her address is 413 St. 
Paul place. 

C. Fred Samp, M. E. '3 7, is now 
working at the Neosho station of the 
Kansas Gas and Electric company, 
which is an electric bond and share 
subsidiary. He visited the campus 
this spring. 

Fred M. Crawford, Ag. E. '38, is a 
second lieutenant with the Seventy- 
Fifth Coast artillery, Ft. Richardson, 
Anchorage, Alaska. He wrote: "As 
a matter of record, since leaving Kan- 
sas State, I have received a master's 
degree in agricultural engineering 
(farm structures major) in 1939 
from Iowa State college at Ames. 
After that I was employed by the 
International Harvester company at 
Ottawa. 111., and the Soil Conserva- 
tion service at Mandan, N. D., until 
1 entered the army on July 5, 1940. 
There are two other K. S. C. grads 
here with the same address as mine — 
First Lieut. O. M. Wells, E. E. '3 4, 
and Second Lieut. W. E. Burrell, M. 
E. '40." 

Charles E. Mitchell, G. S. '39, has 
written of his marriage to Evelyn 
Ruth Wilson, H. E. '38, last fall. He 
is now with the Illinois Agricultural 
Experiment station, Urbana, 111. 

(Catherine (Weldon) Washburne, 
11. E. '40, and John H. Washburne, 
G. S. '4 0, are now at Waterbury, 
Conn. Mr. Washburne is affiliated 
with his father in the firm of Wash- 
burne and Washburne Real Estate 



LOOKING AROUND 

KENNEY L FORD 



Plan Biggest Reunion 

Zane Fairchild, Omaha, is still 
beating the drums for the largest 
class reunion ever held on the cam- 
pus. He says the '16's will win that 
honor this commencement, May 24- 
26. He writes: 

"Tell the folks that our class din- 
ner is going to take place at 6:30 p. 
m., Friday, May 23, at the Wareham. 

"Also tell them that response to 
our meeting notation is fine. We are 
having new returns every day — the 
latest being from Ralph Erskine of 
Washington, D. C, Corrine (Myers) 
Gatewood from Ohio, 'Torchy' Maury 
from Kentucky, Bob Lancaster from 
Texas and Paul Robinson from Cali- 
fornia. 

"We expect the largest attendance 
at this reunion of any ever held at 
Manhattan, and the returns 
date are exceeding our 
hopes." 



September 1. She is a member of 
Clovia sorority and Mr. Landsberg 
belongs to Alpha Gamma Rho fra- 
ternity. They live in Mankato, where 
Mr. Landsberg is employed as as- 
sistant supervisor of the Farm Securi- 
ty administration in Jewell county. 



at this 
fondest 



MARRIAGES 



HIRMON— MOSS 
The Rev. William U. Guerrant read 
the marriage vows for Gayle Hirmon, 
Belleville, and Leland M. Moss, Ar. E. 
'40, September 6. They are at home 
in Emporia, Mr. Moss* headquarters 
in his work for the Campbell Taggert 
Associated bakeries, Inc. 



GLANZER— KRENZIN 

An early spring wedding was that 
of Esther Glanzer and Ralph Edward 
Krenzin, Ag. '39, on March 30. Mrs. 
Krenzin attended the Randolph high 
school and is a graduate of Stewart's 
Academy of Beauty, Topeka. Mr. 
Krenzin is employed with the Kansas 
Extension service as assistant county 
agent at Wellington, where they make 
their home. 



HUNDERTMARK— PIKE 
Darlene Hundertmark became the 
bride of Leonard M. Pike, Ag. '30, 
September 29. Mrs. Pike is a gradu- 
ate of Christ's hospital school of 
nursing, and for the past three years 
has been surgical nurse in the Junc- 
tion City hospital. Mr. Pike is a 
member of Lambda Chi Alpha frater- 
nity, and Phi Delta Kappa, profes- 
sional educational fraternity. He 
teaches vocational agriculture at 
Miltonvale, where the couple live. 



RECENT HAPPENINGS 
ON THE HILL 



Prof. R. J. Pool, head of the De- 
partment of Botany at the University 
of Nebraska, was a guest speaker of 
Sigma Xi, honorary science society, 
last week when the society held its 
annual initiation exercises for new 
members. 



If the result of a debate last week 
spells anything, dutch dating will re- 
place straight dating on Kansas State 
College's campus. Representatives of 
the Athenian Literary society, accord- 
ing to the judges, won the debate, 
"Resolved: That dutch dating should 
replace straight dating on the K- 
State campus." 



Mcdonald— weckerling 
The marriage of Luella Anna Mc- 
Donald, f. s., to Leonard E. Wecker- 
ling, C. E. '38, took place September 
7. After a wedding trip to Colorado, 
the couple returned to Holton, where 
Mr. Weckerling is working with the 
State Highway commission. 



FLOOD— CROWLEY 
The wedding of Claudine Flood 
and Allen Crowley, I. C. '38, took 
place August 31 in Bowling Green, 
Mo., where the couple will make their 
home. For the past two years, Mr. 
Crowley has been employed by 
Continental Oil company there. 



KEIM— HONSTEAD 
The marriage of Virginia Keim, 
M. S. '39, and William Honstead, Ch. 
E. '39, was September 25. Mrs. Hon- 
stead was a graduate assistant in the 
nursery school while working for her 
master's degree here. After receiving 
her degree, she was instructor in the 
Department of Child Welfare and 
Euthenics last year. They are living 
at 556 Auburn street, Buffalo, N. Y. 
Mr. Honstead is employed by the 
American Aniline and Dye company, 
Buffalo. 



Mary Griswold, Manhattan, suc- 
ceeds Jennie Marie Madsen, Dwight, 
as president of the Women's Senior 
Panhellenic. Miss Griswold, Chi 
Omega, was elected at the council's 
meeting last week. Margaret Mc- 
Clymonds, Lincoln, Neb., Alpha Delta 
Pi, was elected vice-president. Mar- 
jorie Benson, Sabetha, Kappa Kappa 
Gamma, was chosen secretary-trea- 
surer. 



BIRTHS 



the 



EBBUTT— UNDERWOOD 

Edith Ebbutt was married to 
Ernest J. Underwood, C. E. '32, 
September 2. Mr. Underwood is a 
civil engineer in the construction de- 
partment of the Kansas State High- 
way department. His work is in Man- 
kato, where the couple are at home. 



JEL1NEK— MEREDITH 
Mae Dee Jelinek, f. s., and John 
A. Meredith, C. E. '3 4, were married 
September 1. Mrs. Meredith attended 
Kansas State College and Brown 
Mackie's School of Business in Salina. 
Mr. Meredith is affiliated with the 
Kansas State Highway department in 
Great Bend. 



IIORNEK— ELLIOTT 

Maxine Horner, f. s., became the 
bride of Howard S. Elliott, Ag. '39, 
on September 15. After the cere- 
mony, Mr. and Mrs. Elliott left for a 
trip to Des Moines, Iowa. Mr. Elliott 
is a farm security supervisor of Ness 
and Lane counties with headquarters 
in Ness City. 



John G. Hemphill, D. V. M. '37, 
and Dorothy (Rowland) Hemphill, f. 
s., have named their daughter, born 
April 3, Caralee. They live at Route 
1, Norman, Okla., where Doctor 
Hemphill has a private practice. 



Almost four decades ago the Ham- 
ilton and Ionian Literary societies 
had their first egg roast. They had 
their 37th last Sunday morning. 
Slated for next Sunday is another 
outing for two literary societies, this 
time the Browning and Athenian or- 
ganizations. The Athenians will en- 
tertain the Brownings at an Owl 
Bake at 4 a. m. 



Wayne C. Whitney, Ag. '37, and 
Lucille (Titus) Whitney, H. E. '31, 
of Bonner Springs are the parents of 
a son, Richard Wayne, born Febru- 
ary 9. Mr. Whitney is horticulture 
specialist for Wyandotte county. 



Karen is the name chosen by 
Franklin Thackrey, I. J. '33, M. S. 
'3 4, and Jessie (Dean) Thackrey, I. 
J. '34, for their daughter born April 
11. Mr. Thackrey is assistant exten- 
sion editor at the University of Ne- 
braska, Lincoln. 



Warren C. Jackson, M. E. '39, 
writes: "My wife, formerly Berniece 
Moll, and I have a daughter, Barbara 
Bee, born March 6. I am still em- 
ployed as junior engineer with the 
Federal Power commission. We live 
at 486 South Pearl, Denver, Colo." 



HEINE— LOW 
Herbert M. Low, E. E. '24, Prof. 
Deg. '31, has written of his marriage 
August 26 to Rose A. Heine. He has 
severed his relations with the Phil- 
lips Petroleum company and is now 
associated with the Dow Chemical 
company as assistant electrical super- 
intendent. His address is Box 206, 
Freeport, Texas. 



The tiny calling card of Nancy Jane 
Harris has been sent attached to that 
of her parents, Harold Harris. E. E. 
'37, and Zelda (Kleven) Harris, H. 
E. '35, announcing her arrival March 
3. The Harris's live at 7619 Dale av- 
enue, St. Louis. Mr. Harris is with 
the Graybar Electric company, Inc. 



A boom in ice cream sales was 
brought on at the College dairy coun- 
ter this week when farm boys attend- 
ing the Future Farmers of America 
conference dropped in throughout the 
day to refill. Jim Cavanaugh, Dodge 
City, reported that the three-man 
crew sold 2,4 00 ice cream cones, dish- 
ing them out at a rate of 260 cones 
an hour or a little more than four 
cones a minute. On an average day, 
only 500 cones are sold. 



Sponsoring movies is a popular 
activity with organizations on the 
hill. Mu Phi Epsilon, honorary music 
fraternity for women, is sponsoring 
"Pinocchio" showing four days, be- 
ginning Sunday. Theta Sigma Phi, 
honorary and professional fraternity 
for women in journalism, is sponsor- 
ing "Keeping Company," with Frank 
Morgan and Ann Rutherford. This 
show will run for three days imme- 
diately after "Pinocchio" 
theater. 

♦■ 

DEATHS 



at the same 



MORGAN 

A brother of Clarence W. Morgan, 
B. S. '01. only recently sent word of 
his death December 28, 1938. Mr. 
Morgan was a farmer at Gretna. 



To Lowell Myler, Ag. '37, and Dor- 
othy (McKeen) Myler, H. E. '39, a 
daughter, Shirlie, born March 28. 
Mr. Myler got his master's degree in 
193 8 in agronomy from the Univer- 
sity of California. He is now associ- 
ated with the Agronomy department 
there. The Mylers live at 504 F 
street, Davis, Calif. 



company. Waterbury, Conn. 

George Kleier, Ag. '40, writes: "I 
changed positions the first of April. 
I am now at Memphis, Tenn., for the 
Southern Stockman, a livestock paper 
just started by a Kansas State grad- 
uate, Frank Farley Jr., '39. It is 
published to promote better livestock 
in the South. I am to handle the 
advertising — we'll handle commercial 
and livestock ads. This is a continu- 
ation of work I've been doing, where 
I received very valuable experience. 
My address is the Southern Stockman, 
622 Falls building, Memphis, Tenn." 



WUNDERLICH — HAZELL 

Erma Gene Wunderlich, H. E. '40, 
and Gordon G. Hazell, Ar. '40, were 
married September 13. Mrs. Hazell j 
is a member of Delta Delta Delta | 
sorority. Mr. Hazell is a member of ' 
Sigma Nu fraternity. He is architect 
and salesman of the A. J. King Realty 
company. They are living at 4021 
Walnut, Kansas City, Mo. 



HUTTER— GARVIN 
The marriage of Estella Hutter, f. 
s. '40, to Arthur R. Garvin, Ag. '40, 
took place in St. Joseph's Catholic 
church, Washington, D. C, on August 
24. Mrs. Garvin, a member of Phi 
Omega Pi sorority, and Mr. Garvin 
live at 308 Fifth street, Southeast, 
Washington, D. C. Mr. Garvin is em- 
ployed in the Census bureau there. 



Carter H. Anthony, D. V. M. '40, 
and Mary Frances (Davis) Anthony, 
H. E. '39, have a new daughter, 
Judith Tolerton, born March 15. The 
Anthonys live at 617 Oakland street, 
Fayetteville, Ark. Mr. Anthony is 
poultry pathologist with the Depart- 
ment of Bacteriology and Veterinary 
Science at the University of Arkansas. 



REEVE 

Mark Alexander Reeve, f. s. '78- 
8 2, died April 4 at his home in Wich- 
ita. He had been ill only two days. 

He had been a resident of Kansas 
since territorial days, spending his 
boyhood among pioneer settlers in 
Lyon county and his young manhood 
in southwestern Kansas when that 
was cattle country. After retiring 
from a life of pioneer farming, he 
went to Wichita in 19 25 and devoted 
his last years to building up and ar- 
ranging the exhibits in the Friends 
university museum. 

Alma (Halbower) Giles, '14, Wich- 
ita, sent the clipping announcing his 
death and wrote, "He was a most re- 
markable man. In my mind, the best 
educated person in Wichita in the 
real sense of the word. Friends uni- 
versity and Wichita have suffered a 
great loss with his death." 



SHRIVER— LANDSBERG 
Irene Shriver, f. s. '40, and Lewis 
E. Landsberg, Ag. '40, were married 



ALUMNI-SENIOR BANQUET RESERVATIONS 

I will attend alumni day activities May 24. Reserve 

tickets to the alumni-senior banquet, starting 6 p. m. Satur- 
day. Tickets are $1.50 each— good for banquet and dance. 
Reservations will be held until 2 p. m. Saturday. 



Signed 



Address 

Clip and Mail to the Alumni Office 







WILDCATS RECAPTURE 
COLORADO RELAYS TITLE 

KANSAS STATE TRACK MEN SCOnB 
23 POINTS TO WIN 



List of Army Officers, Trained at College 



Mile Tenin Sets New Boulder Meet Rec- 
ord of Three Minutes, 20.1 Seconds, 
HreiikliiK Previous Mark 
Mnde In 1034 
Winning five firsts and placing five 
times in 18 events, the Kansas State 
College track men collected 23 points 
and recaptured the Colorado Relays 
championship at the meet in Boulder 
Saturday. They won the champion- 
ship for the first time in 1939 but 
lost it to Colorado in 1940. 

The Wildcat mile relay team of 
Jim Upham, Junction City; Jim 
Johns, Topeka; Bill Burnham, St. 
Francis, and Sammy Johnson, Os- 
wego, raced through the distance in 
3:20.1 to break the six-year-old rec- 
ord of 3:20.5. set by Greeley State 
college in 1934. The Wildcat aggre- 
gation won four relay events at the 
meet, every event of that kind at 
Boulder. 

WIN 440-YAIlD RELAY 
In the 4 40-yard relay, Henry Hae- 
berle, Clearwater; Don Kastner, 
Manhattan; Merrill Rockhold, Her- 
ington, and Louis Akers, Atchison, 
turned in the time of 4 3 seconds to 
win the event. 

In the 880-yard relay, Upham, 
Johnson, Akers and Johns were vic- 
torious for the Wildcats in 1:29.5. 
In the two-mile relay, Don Borth- 
wick, Beeler; Thaine High, Abilene; 
Don Adee, Wells, and Loyal Payne, 
Manhattan, led the way to the tape 
in the time of 8:27.5. 

Ed Darden, Manhattan, picked up 
the only individual victory for the 
Wildcats when he covered the 110- 
yard high hurdles in 15 seconds. 
George Mendenhall, junior from 
Belleville, ran in fourth place in the 
event. 

THIRD IN SHOTIM'T 

Otber Kansas State placings in the 
meet were: Ken Makalous, Cuba, 
third in shotput; mile relay team of 
High, Borthwick, Adee and Miller, 
second; broad jump, John Fieser, 
Norwich, third, Merrill Rockhold, 
Herington, fourth. 

♦ — ' — 

STATION RESEARCH SHOWS 
SMUT AT VARIED CONDITIONS 



The following College graduates I Ag. '33 Ft HuachucaAr lz Sd 
and former students are serving in | Lieut. Calvin M. Jenkins G. S. 40 
the nfantry of the United States Ft. Ord, Calif.; Second Lieut. Carl 
tne mianuy oi ^ Miller> c .39, Ft. Sam Houston, 

ar F[rst Lieut Orval J. Abel, G. S. \ Texas; Maj. Howard G. Faulkner, 

k4 F f TdaSf ft TtfTfc fcgXEi^lXtt GEN . JAM ES G. HARBORD 

TO ATTEND COMMENCEMENT 



Sorghum Article Published 

An article on harvesting grain sor- 
ghums by F. C Fenton, professor in 
the Department of Agricultural En- 
gineering, appeared in the April issue 
of Agricultural Engineering, official 
trade magazine. The article stressed 
the fact that sorghum is an excellent 
crop for semiarid regions and dis- 
cussed the harvesting of sorghum. 



FOOTBALL CANDIDATES 
FINISH SPRING TRAINING 

VETERANS I,OSE TO SQUAD COM- 
POSKD OF FROSH, RESERVES 



(Continued from page one) 
He was born at Bloomington, 111., 



£'wVm.n7 Flr«t"LleuT. William '"^ ^"""J 8 ^" 6 "^ 
E Bontley, f. s., Ag. '38, Ft. Sam ward C. Moore, C. 39, Ft. Warren, 
Houston, Texas; First Lieut. Charles Wyo. Arthur T Mussett 

_ „ j «.i a~ <ii wt tjupiiine- Second Lieut. Aitnur 1. musseii, 

F. Bredahl, Ag. 37, I" t. bneinng, aa "" u ... . a p „ ond marvu «*, *»»». — — 

Minn.; Second Lieut. James C. Brock, f. I., Ag. 40, Ft. Ord, .Lai 11., becona ^^ ^ ^ to theJr new 

Ag. '40, Ft. Huachuca, Ariz. Lieut. Charter D. Ntel.on, B. A. 40, Missouri . Here they lived 

Capt. A. M. Brumbaugh, R. C. '27, Ft. Ord, Calif.; First Lteut. Paul B. ^ ^ Du) , ng hjs mh to 

quartermaster general's office, Wash- Pearson C 31, Ft. bam H ° usl0 "' mh years he lived with his aunt in 
ington, D. C; Second Lieut. Thomas Texas; ; First ^e^™ 1 ™*-™*™: Bloomington, where he attended the 
O Bush f s G S. '40, Department I. J. '34, Kansas btate College Sec 
of Hawaii Second Lieut'. Theodore S. ond Lieut. George B. Powell, B. A. 
Clark B A '40, Ft. Huachuca, Ariz.; '40, Ft. Sam Houston Texas 
Second uSlt James F. Cooper, I. J. Maj. Harold B J^y Ag. 23, 
•40, Camp Roberts, Calif.; Second headquarters, Seventh Corps area, 
Lieut Charles J. Davidson, f. s., G. Omaha, Neb.; Second Lieut. Carl R. 
S '40 Ft Ord Calif.; Second Lieut. Sandstrom. C. '38, Camp Murray, 
Hyatt' L Davidson, f. s., G. S. '40,, Wash.; Second Lieut. Richard J. 

! Seitz, f. s., Ag. '39, Ft. Douglas, Utah. 

First Lieut. Allan E. Settle, I. J. 

'3 7, Public Relations office, War de 



Department of Hawaii; Second Lieut 
Roger S. Dildine, f. s., I. C. '40, Ft. 
Ord, Calif.; Second Lieut. Henry H. 
Farrar, G. S. '40, Ft. Snelling, Minn.; 
Second Lieut. Richard G. Freeman, 
f. s., Ag. '40, Ft. Benning, Ga. 

Second Lieut. Sidney L. Harry- f- 
A. '40, Ft. Sam Houston, Tex- 



Bloomington, where he attended the 
a ' city schools. 

In 18 79, General Harbord moved 
with his parents to Lyon county, Kan. 
He entered Kansas State Agricultural 
College in 1882. 

Immediately after his graduation 
in 1886 he became assistant principal 
of schools in Leon, Butler county, 
Kan., where he remained a year. 
Harbord then accepted a position 
with Kansas State College. He con 



At, ruunc iveiouuuo v..~~, .. — -- wiiii uwiw ~- — - =-- 

nartment Washington, D. C; Second tinued his work here until January 

..« TTii I - « « « ___» 1 „: ,.,,..,! f^» An liar IT 



Lieut. Otto F. Spencer, Ag. '4 0, Ft. 
Bragg, N. C; First Lieut. Robert V. 
Vaupel, C. '33, Camp Walters, Tex- 
as; Second Lieut. Melford M. Wheat- 



1889, when he resigned to enlist in 
the regular army as a private. He 
was appointed a corporal in April and 
advanced steadily. 

Harbord was made second lieuten 



s., B. . 

as; First Lieut. George T. Hart, I. J. I"' , ft „. Sne ning, Minn., 

N<*"F?r" t Li.it. i«m» W. Hunter, | A,. '85, Ft. W.rpen, Wyo. 



FRATERNITIES ANNOUNCE 

32 MEN AS NEW PLEDGES 



Infection O rN Over Wide ItniiKe Of 

Soil Temperatures and Moistures, 
Experiments Indicate 

Kansas Agricultural Experiment 
station experiments show that smut 
infection occurs over a wide range 
of soil temperatures and soil mois- 
tures. 

Heavy smut infection occurs at 
any temperature below 75 degrees 
Fahrenheit, which allows the seed 
of Kafir to germinate; in fact, low 
temperatures consistently are asso- 
ciated with high smut infection. It 
seems that in as far as soil moisture 
is concerned, smut infection may oc- 
cur whenever the moisture Is such 
that seed of sorghum germinates 

readily. 

As the spores of fungus causing 
this disease in sorghums are carried 
over winter on the sorghum seed, 
seed disinfection or treating of seed 
before planting will kill the spores 
and remove the cause of this disease. 
Experiments have proven that copper 
carbonate when properly applied to 
sorghum seed before planting gives 
effective control of this disease. 

Copper carbonate is applied at the 
rate of two to four ounces to each 
bushel of seed, depending upon the 
copper content. The 50 percent cop- 
per content carbonate is applied at 
two ounces to the bushel and the 18 
percent copper content at four ounces 
to the bushel. Any seed treater which 
will give the seed and dust a thor- 
ough mixing can lie used to apply this 
chemical. Many times an old cream 
can or gallon bucket makes a satis- 
factory container to mix the seed and 
dust The essential thing to keep in 
mind is that each seed must be coated 
with copper carbonate if effective 
control is to be secured. This seed 
may be treated as planted, or it may 
be treated in advance of planting 
and stored. 

Porter Named Captain 

Jerald Porter, a sophomore from 
Dellvale, has been named captain of 
Coach B. R. Patterson's Kansas State 
College wrestling team for the 1941- 
4 2 season. Porter competed in the 
145-pound class. He is a brother of 
Leland Porter, outstanding performer 
the past season who scored 59 points 
to win the College's high point 
trophy. 



Dr. Harold Howe, Fneulty Adviser, Re- 
leases Ust of 18 OrKiuilKintloiiM 

Thirty-two men are recent pledges 
of fraternities, according to Dr. 
Harold Howe, faculty adviser of fra- 
ternities. The 13 fraternities and the 
men pledged: 

Acacia— Alfred Munroe, Douglass. 
Alpha Gamma Rho— James H. Vav- 
roch Oberlin. Alpha Kappa Lambda 
—Carl D. Holt, Great Bend; Warren 
B. Nelson, Manhattan; Robert B. 
Peugh, Hoisington. Alpha Tau 
Omega — Francis Gwin, Leoti; Leon 
Halbrook, Neodesha. 

Delta Tau Delta — Bill Buser, Wich- 
ita; Bill Rector, Leavenworth; Duane 
Sawhill, Glasco; John M. St. John, 
Wichita; Terrence Turner, Colby. 
Farm House— Frank Boyd, Moran; 
Ed Reed, Rice. Kappa Sigma— Rob- 
ert D. Campbell, Junction City. Phi 
Kappa— Leo W. Peterman, Beattie; 
Edwin J. Wassmer, Garnett. Pi 
Kappa Alpha— Dale Carter, Louis- 
burg; Gene Fuller, Salina. 

Sigma Alpha Epsilon— Darcy 
Doryland, Manhattan. Sigma Phi 
Epsilon— John R. Fuller, Salina; 
Arthur Eugene Hudson, Nashville; 
John R. Nash, Lakin; Johnny Mc- 
Cammon, Americus; G. L. Menden- 
hall Jr., Belleville; Jack C. Pitney, 
Neodesha. Sigma Nu— Frank Paul 
Campbell, Manhattan; Patrick Car- 
ter, Manhattan; James S. Cunning- 
ham, El Dorado; Joe Richard Grish- 
man, El Dorado. Theta Xi— Don M. 
Debler, Marysville; John W. Prager, 
Scranton, N. J. 



ALUMNI ASSOCIATION HAS 

1,044 MEMBERS FOR LIFE 

List «f Graduates nml Former 



posts. He was assigned to duty as a 
student at Ft. Leavenworth from 
1893 until 189 5. During service in 
the Spanish-American war he was 
promoted to a first lieutenant. In 
1899 he was ordered to Cuba with 
student* ' the Arm y of Occupation. At the close 



RED ELDER, '«7, IS NAMED 

COLORADO STATE ASSISTANT 



Former AII-hik six Fnllbaek Will Take 
.lob nt Ft. Collins on September 1 

Maurice (Red) Elder, former all- 
Big Six conference fullback at Kan- 1 
sas State will become assistant foot- 
ball coach at Colorado State college, 
Ft. Collins, September 1. 

Before graduating in 1937, Elder 
lettered three years in football and 
,. arned a baseball "K" as a sopho- 
more. Since graduation, he has been 
playing backfleld coach with the pro- 
fessional Los Angeles Bulldogs. He 
now is studying for a master's degree 
at the University of Southern Cali- 
fornia. 

Mrs. Elder is the former Rosethel 
Grimes, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. W. 
B. Grimes, Manhattan. Doctor Grimes 
is head of the Department of Eco 



is Growing at Rate of netter 

Tlinn One n "Week 

The number of paid-up life mem- 
bers in the College Alumni associa- 
tion is growing at the rate of better 
than one a week. There are 1,044 
paid-up life association members. 

The life membership is popular 
with alumni because life members 
receive The INDUSTRIALIST for life, 
according to Kenney Ford, secretary. 
The $50 paid for the membership all 
goes into the student loan fund. Paid- 
up life members also receive a free 
copy of Dr. J. T. Willard's "History 
of Kansas State College." Joint mem- 
bership for husband and wife costs 

$75. 

The following alumni have com- 
pleted payments on their life mem- 
bership since January 8, 1941: Dr. 
Charles W. Bower, '18, Topeka; Dee 
Bowyer, '27, Joliet, 111.; C. C. Mc- 
pherson, f. s. '22, and Vera (Samuel) 
McPherson, '19, Dallas, Texas; Har- 
ry G. Walker, M. S. '26, Norfolk, Va.; 
V. Eugene Payer, '39, Yates Center; 
E. Weir Hall, '24, Oakley; Florence 
McKinney, '3 4, Manhattan; Maxine 
Hofmann, '36, Manhattan; S. M. 
Mitchell, '18, Hutchinson; Margaret 
Newcomb, '25, Manhattan; Royse P. 
Murphy, '36, St. Paul, Minn.; Ken- 
neth W. Miller, '36, Manhattan; Paul 
T. Nomura, '36, Honolulu, Hawaii, 
and Kenneth A. Fisher, '38, Kingman. 
♦ 
To Discuss Leadership 
Members of the College teaching 
staff will meet in West Waters hall 
at 4 p. m. Thursday for an informal 
discussion of "Opportunities for Col- 
lege Faculties to Assume Leadership 
in American Life." The discussion 
will be led by Dr. Franz Schneider of 
the University of California. 



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of his Cuban service, Lieutenant Har- 
bord was ordered to Ft. Myer in the 
spring of 1901. A few weeks later 
he was sent to the Bureau of Insular 
Affairs in Washington. There he re- 
mained until January, 1902. His 
regiment was ordered to the Philip- 
pines and, at his request, he accom- 
panied it. During his 12 years in 
the Islands, he helped organize the 
Philippine constabulary of which he 
was assistant chief, with the tem- 
porary rank of colonel during most 
of that time. 

After returning to the United 
States in 1914, he was assigned to 
the First cavalry at the Presidio of 
Monterey, Calif., and again assumed 
his regular rank of captain. During 
the summer of 1914, Captain Har- 
bord served on the Mexican border. 
Later he was sent with a squadron 
of his regiment for participation in 
the Panama-Pacific International ex- 
position of 1915. In the fall of 1916 
he went to the War college at Wash- 
ington, D. C, where he remained un- 
til the United States entered the 
World war in 1917. 

General Harbord has been honored 
by France, Great Britain, Belgium, 
Italy, Montenegro and the Republic 
of Panama as well as by the United 
States. In 1920 he was given the 
honorary degree of doctor of laws by 
his alma mater. Other colleges and 
universities which have honored him 
with degrees are Trinity university, 
Colgate, Yale, Marietta and Washing- 
ton and Jefferson. Stories of his ex- 
periences have appeared in many 
metropolitan newspapers and nation- 
al magazines. 

He married Miss Emma Overshine 
in 1899. After her death in 193 7, 
the general was married to Mrs. Anne 
Lee Brown, December 31, 1938. 



Conch Hobbs Adams Has Abundance of 

Men for Bnokflelu Positions, but 

Guard Position* Need 

Reinforcement! 

Coach Hobbs Adams' football pro- . 
teges rounded out a six weeks' spring (^ 
practice period Saturday afternoon V 
with a spirited intrasquad football 
game between the Whites, composed 
of reserves and freshmen, and the 
Golds, made up of letter men and 
squad men. The Whites won, 22-20. 

In the four games preceding the 
final contest Saturday, the Golds had 
blanked the freshmen in all but one 
game. The Whites scored in the ini- 
tial tilt of spring practice five weeks 
ago when Earl Williams, freshman 
from Dodge City, booted a field goal 
in the first quarter. In this game, 
the frosh led the regulars until late 
in the last quarter, when Ray Rokey, 
Sabetha, plunged across the White 
line to win the game for the Golds, 
6-3. 

CONCERNED WITH GUARDS 

The regulars held the freshmen 
scoreless for the next three games 
to win 14-0, 9-0, 14-0. In the final 
game, Coach Adams put a few of the 
more promising freshmen in the Gold 
lineup, and assigned some of the ex- 
perienced squad men to positions on 
the White squad. The result was two 
teams of nearly equal ability. 

Coach Adams, with an abundance 
of sophomore squad men and fresh- 
man numeral winners to fill the back- 
field positions left by Chris Lang- 
vardt. Alta Vista, and Art Kirk, Scott 
City, was most concerned with filling 
the guard positions left vacant by 
Seniors Bill Nichols, Marysville; 
Charles Fairman, Manhattan, and Al 
Niemoller, Wakefield. Ed Huff, 
Marysville, was the only experienced 
guard out for spring practice. Nor- 
bert Raemer, Herkimer, a letter man 
last fall, is also a catcher on the Wild- 
cat baseball squad. Outstanding com- 
petitors for the position are Leon 
"Bud" Wart a, Ellsworth, and Clif 
Makalous, Cuba, both squad mem- 
bers last fall, and Joe Glavinich, Kan- 
sas City; Dick Lanphere, Osawatomie, 
and Fred Sprague, Lincoln, freshman 
tyros. 

SUNDGREN PROVES SELF 
Wayne Sundgren, freshman end 
from Hays, has proven himself as a 
pass receiver this spring and may be 
expected to do his share in filling one 
of the end positions left vacant by 
Don Munzer, Herington, and Wallace 
Swanson, Sharon Springs, by gradua- 
tion. 

Outstanding backfleld candidates 
among the non-letter men and fresh- 
men are Francis Gwin, diminutive 
quarterback from Leoti; Mike Zelez- 
nak, Kansas City; Ronald Conrad, 
Clay Center; Earl Williams, Dodge 
City; John Bortka, Kansas City, and 
Lee Jones, Pretty Prairie. Ray Ro- 
key, letter man last fall, is a member 
of the Wildcat baseball team and was 
present for only a few sessions of 
spring practice. Lysle Wilkins, one 
of last season's letter men, has shown 
improved ability as a ball carrier 
this spring. 



EVERYDAY ECONOMICS 

By W. E. GRIMES 



"Changes in American diet have brought better health." 

Changing food habits exert tre- I the changes have been for the better. 
Lendous influence on the producers | From the standpoint of the pro- 
of food products In 1909, the av- ducer of farm products, who still is 
erage American consumed appro*- ! trying to produce for the 1909 dinner 
Lately 1900 pounds of food. Thirty table, the effects have been d.sas- 
vears later or in 1939, the total food trous. Wheat consumption per pei- 



DEAN It. It. DYKSTRA WARNS 

FARMERS OF HOG CHOLERA 



consumption was approximately the 
same. But the quantities of the va- 
rious types of food making up the 
nomics and Sociology at Kansas State tQtal had changed materially. Less 



College. 

♦ 

Collegian Rated First Class 

The Kansas State Collegian won 
first-class honor in the 1941 ratings 
of college newspapers by the Associ- 
ated Collegiate press and the Univer- 
sity of Minnesota. The two times The 
Collegian was submitted last year it 
won ail-American rating. James 
Kendall, Dwight, was editor of The 
Collegian last semester. 



wheat, corn and potatoes were con- 
sumed. Citrus fruits, fresh vege- 
tables, manufactured dairy products 
and eggs increased in importance 
and tended to take the place of the 
starchy foods that were eliminated. 
These changes in the American 
diet have brought better health and 
probably have contributed to lower 
death rates. As a whole, the Ameri- 
can people are better fed than they 
were in 1909. From this standpoint 



son has declined more than one 
fourth, and potato consumption is a 
full bushel less per person than it 
was in 1909. Attempts to continue 
producing on the assumption that 
people in the near future will again 
consume these products at the rate 
they were consumed in 1909 will lead 
only to disaster. 

The agricultural industry must be 
adjusted as American food habits 
change. These changes in food con- 
sumption mean better health for con- 
sumers, but for producers — particu- 
larly those who do not keep up with 
the changes — they mean headaches. 



Spring Hok Crop In KmiNiiN Probably 
Will Be I/iinser Than Average 

Although no reports of hog cholera 
in Kansas have been received, Dr. R. 
R. Dykstra, dean of the Division of 
Veterinary Medicine, warns that the 
"menace of hog cholera is always 
with us." 

Doctor Dykstra says the spring pig 
crop in Kansas probably will be larg- 
er than average. He points out that 
hog raisers have become careless dur- 
ing recent years about the immuniza- 
tion of their pigs against cholera. 

"With the price of hogs pegged at 
$9 it seems that the safe thing for 
hog raisers to do is to vaccinate their 
pigs at weaning time. It is cheaper 
when the pigs are small and it gives 
almost 100 percent protection," Doc- 
tor Dykstra declared. 
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To Honor Student Journalists 
Thirty-two students will be hon- 
ored at a Board of Publications din- 
ner May 9 at the Manhattan Country 
club. The dinner will honor students 
who have been most active during 
the present school year in conducting 
The Kansas State Collegian and The 
Royal Purple. 



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The Kansas Industrialist 



Volume 67 



Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, Manhattan, Wednesday, May 14, 1941 



Number 30 



ALUMNI WILL CONSIDER 
AID TO DEFENSE, UNION 



DIRECTORS AM) ADVISORY 
CII, WILL MKET MAY 23 



COlJi- 

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Gnylord Mimsoii. '33. Association Presi- 
dent. Cnlls Sessions to Consider 
ProKrnm of Activities 
for Next Your 

Members of the Board of Directors 
and the Advisory Council of the Col- 
lege Alumni association will meet 
Friday and Saturday, May 23 and 24, 
to consider a four-plank program of 
activities for the coming year. Among 
the subjects to be taken up will be 
the association's activities in the de- 
fense program and toward the Stu- 
dent Union. 

Directors and council members 
have been notified by Gaylord Mun- 
son, '33, Junction City, president of 
the College Alumni association, that 
they will meet. 

FOUR-PLANK PROGRAM 

The four-point program which has 
been suggested for the coming year 
includes the following: 

1. Can the College or Alumni asso- 
ciation be of any worthwhile spe- 
cial service to alumni who are in 
the armed forces of our country? 

2. What part should alumni play in 
the new Student Union building 



Kane Goes to Jail — for News 

Robert Kane, I. J. '39, recently 
spent two days with guards, prison- 
ers and the warden of the Ohio peni- 
tentiary at Columbus, gathering 
news and pictures for a sports story 
that appeared in a recent Issue of 
Life magazine, according to a mimeo- 
graphed circular from Time Incor- 
porated, publishers of Time, Life and 
Fortune magazines. Kane was presi- 
dent of his senior class and a mem- 
ber of Phi Kappa social fraternity. 



PRESIDENT APPOINTS 11 
TO UNION CORPORATION 



GROUP INCLUDES FIVE FACULTY 
AND TWO ALUMNI MEMBERS 



29TH ANNUAL FEEDERS' DAY 
WILL BE HELD SATURDAY 



Association 
Morn- 



will hold 



program i 



Should alumni solicit 
any special use in the 



funds for 
building? 

3. Should the Alumni association take 
an active interest in obtaining ap- 
propriations for salaries at the 
state schools in proportion to en- 
rolment? 

NINE ARK DIRECTORS 

4. What action should the Alumni 
association take in aiding Kansas 
State College to obtain its share of 
appropriations from the mill tax 
levy building fund? 

Members of the Board of Directors 
in addition to President Munson are 
H. W. Lubnow, '17, Kansas City, Mo.; 
W. E. Grimes, '13, Manhattan; A. 
P. Davidson, '14, Manhattan; Henry 
W. Rogler, '98, Matfield Green; It. A. 
Seat on, '04, Manhattan; R. V. Chris- 
tian, '11, Wichita; L. C. Williams, 
•12, Manhattan; Charles Shaver, '15, 
Salina. 

Members of the Advisory Council 
are C. E. Friend, '88, Lawrence; 
Mame (Alexander) Boyd, '02, Phil- 
lipsburg; Clarence G. Nevins, '07, 
Dodge City; W. Carleton Hall, '20, 
Coffeyville; J. W. Ballard, '26, To- 
peka. 

ANNOUNCE BANQUET PLANS 

Meanwhile plans were announced 
for graduating seniors to be honored 
Saturday night, May 24, at a banquet 
which Maj.-Gen. James G. Harbord 
'86, chief of staff of the United States 
army during the World war, will ad- 
dress. General Harbord is now chair- 
man of board of Radio Corporation 
of America. 

Invited guests are Gov. Payne H. 
Ratner and Mrs. Ratner and Lt.- 
Gov. Carl Friend and Mrs. Friend. 
Lieutenant-Governor Friend is an 
alumnus of Kansas State College. 
Other guests will include prominent 
members of the Cavalry school staff 
at Ft. Riley. 

Ken Worsley's dance band of To- 
peka will play for the alumni-senior 
dance Saturday evening, May 24, in 
Nichols Gymnasium, after the alumni- 
senior banquet. The band played for 
Governor Ratner's inaugural ball last 

January. 

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RICHARD HAGGMAN ACCEPTS 

KANSAS CITY PUBLICITY JOB 



Km 1 1 C. Klelhnrn. Kiiiihiin 
Head. Will Preside at 
In*!; Session 

Kansas cattle feeders 
their 29th annual Feeders' day on 
the campus Saturday, with Dr. C. W. 
McCampbell, head of the Department 
of Animal Husbandry, in charge. 

The morning meeting will be con- 
ducted by Emil C. Kielhorn, presi- 
dent of the Kansas Livestock asso- 
ciation. The program will include a 
talk by G. B. Thorne, vice-president 
of Wilson and company, Chicago, 
who will discuss the cattleman and 
the defense program. Reports will 
be given on two of the current year's 
tests in cattle feeding. 

Doctor McCampbell will report on 
the fattening of yearling heifers for 
summer and fall markets. Dr. A. D. 
Weber, cattle specialist in the Depart- 
ment of Animal Husbandry, will re- 
port on the influence of feed on the 
color of beef. 

L. E. Call, dean of the Division of 
Agriculture, will preside over the 
afternoon session. Doctors McCamp- 
bell and Weber will give reports on 
wintering good quality calves, graz- 
ing and selling as feeder yearlings; 
and the relative value of Wheatland 
milo, Colby milo and corn as cattle- 
fattening feeds. 

The afternoon session will be con- 
cluded with the question box, in 
which the questions submitted by the 
cattle feeders will be answered by 
various livestock authorities attend- 
ing the meeting. 

♦ 

Short Course for Metermen 

The 14th short course for electric 
metermen will be here May 22 and 
23, under the direction of the De- 
partment of Electrical Engineering 
and the Midwest Electric Metermen's 
association. The short course will be 
divided into two groups, one intended 
for the more elementary phases of 
the work and the other for persons 
having considerable knowledge of 
the subject. Both groups will com- 
bine for all lectures by outside speak- 
ers. The program will include lec- 
tures followed by discussions. 



Committee Which Will Have Charge of 

Construction and Equipping of 

BulliliiiK and Dormitory Will 

Meet Next Monday 

Pres. F. D. Farrell announced the ! 
names of four students, two alumni | 
and five faculty members who com- 
pose the membership of the corpora- 
tion that will have charge of the con- 1 
struction and equipping of the Stu- 
dent Union building and of an addi- 
tional residence hall for women. 

The student members, appointed 
by President Farrell after nomina- 
tion by the student class officers, are 
Marianna Kistler, '41, Manhattan; J 
Raymond Rokey, '42, Sabetha; K. B. 
Lucas, '43, Manhattan, and Donald 
Edgar, graduate, Sterling. 

TWO ALUMNI MEMBERS 

The two alumni members not con- 
nected with the College, named by 
the Board of Directors of the Alumni 
association, are Charles W. Shaver, 
'15, Salina, and Miss Velma Koontz, 
'37, Manhattan. 

The five faculty members named 
by President Farrell include Dean R. 
A. Seaton of the Division of Engi- 
neering and Architecture; Miss Helen ! 
Moore, dean of women; Mrs. Bessie 
Brooks West, head of the Depart- 
ment of Institutional Management; 
Dr. W. E. Grimes, head of the De- 
partment of Economics and Sociol- 
ogy, and Prof. Paul Weigel, head of 
the Department of Architecture. Dean 
Seaton and Doctor Grimes are gradu- 
ates of Kansas State College. 

The corporation is being set up in 
accordance with an act of the recent 
session of the Kansas Legislature 
providing that the construction and 
equipping of these buildings be in 
charge of a non-profit corporation or- 
ganized, officered and directed by 
faculty members, alumni and stu- 
dents. Plans are being drawn for the 
first unit of a proposed $300,000 sec- 
tion of a Student Union and for a 
residence hall for women. 

WILL BE DIRECTORS 

In making the announcement of 
members of the corporation, Presi- 
dent Farrell said it is expected that 
the persons appointed to set up the 
corporation will constitute the first 
board of directors. The newly ap- 
pointed members of the corporation 
will meet in the President's office at 
4 p. m. next Monday to adopt a con- 
stitution and by-laws and to make 
application for a state charter for the 
proposed corporation. The corpora- 
tion probably will be known as the 
Kansas State College Building asso- 
ciation. President Farrell said. 



Richard Keith Plays Recital 
Richard Keith, senior in the De- 
partment of Music of the College, 
and a son of Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Keith, 
1741 Fairview, presented an organ 
recital Monday night in the College 
Auditorium. His program included a 
Bach group of "Choral-Fugue: We 
All Believe in One God, Creator," 
"Andante" and "Toccata." He also 
played "Introduction and Theme," by 
Sumsion. A third group included "A 
Fantasy," by Darke; "Echo," by Yon, 
and "Fanfare," by Sowerby. 
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13 JUNIOR MEN SELECTED 
FOR BLUE KEY MEMBERSHIP 



FARRELL BREAKS GROUND 
FOR MILITARY BUILDING 



PRESIDENT TURNS 

SPA in-; OF 



OVER 
SOI) 



FIRST 



Point System Is I'sed This Year for 

First Time In History of Men's 

Nntlonnl Honorary Group 

Thirteen junior men were selected 
last week as new members of Blue 
Key, senior men's national honorary 
fraternity. 

For the first time a point system 
was used in selecting the new mem- 
bers. Scholarship, activities, athlet- 
ics, work and everything the candi- 
dates have done on the campus were 
considered. 

The new Blue Key members are: 

Raymond Rokey, Sabetha, Alpha 
Gamma Rho; Larry Spear, Mission, 
independent; Bob Lank, Kansas City, 
Alpha Gamma Rho; William Guy, 
Liberty, Phi Delta Theta; George 
Wreath, Manhattan, independent; 
Arlin Ward, Manhattan, independent; 
Phillip Myers, Formoso, independent; 
Robert Dunlap, Liberal, Sigma Alpha 
Epsilon; Jack Horacek, Topeka, Del- 
ta Tau Delta; Ethan Potter, Peabody, 
Beta Theta Pi; Norbert Raemer, 
Herkimer, Alpha Tau Omega; Pierce 
Wheatley, Gypsum, Kappa Sigma, 
and Arthur Kirk, Scott City, Sigma 
Phi Epsilon. 



WOMEN'S ATHLETIC BANQUET 
WILL BE THURSDAY EVENING 



Intramural Plaque to He Presented by 
Miss Katherine Geyer 

The annual Women's Athletic as- 
sociation banqut will be in Thomp- 
son hall Thursday at 5:30 p. m. High- 
light of the program will be the pres- 
entation of the intramural plaque by 
Miss Katherine Geyer. sponsor for 
women's intramural activities. 

The plaque is awarded each year 
to the organized group having the 
highest number of points gained in 
intramural activities. The group 
winning the plaque for this school 
year will not be announced until 
after the dinner. 

Marcene Brose, president of the 
Women's Athletic association, will be 
toastmistress for the occasion and 
will preside. The banquet will be the 
last function of the Women's Athletic 
association this school year. 



New t'ampiis Strnetnre to He West of 
Waters Hall anil North of Veteri- 
nary Clinic; WPA Will Help 
Finance !*l- , .~..ooo Cost 

College officials, Works Progress 
administration representatives and 
students broke ground for the new 
$125,000 military science building 
on the Kansas State College campus 
Tuesday afternoon in a brief cere- 
mony in which Pres. F. D. Farrell 
turned over the first spade of sod. 

The site is west of the west wing 
of Waters hall and north of the vet- 
erinary clinic. After the ceremony, 
which was recorded in pictures by a 
half dozen photographers, work got 
under way on the excavation for the 
building which will form an impor- 
tant addition to the campus. 

ARMY OFFICERS PRESENT 

College officials present for the 
ground breaking included, in addi- 
tion to President Farrell, L. E. Con- 
rad, acting dean of the Division of 
Engineering and Architecture; G. R. 
Pauling, superintendent of mainte- 
nance; Lt.-Col. Howard S. MacKirdy, 
Maj. Harold Stover and Capt. D. C. 
Taylor, all of the College Department 
of Military Science and Tactics. 

Representing the WPA, which has 
provided a grant of approximately 
$92,000, were Jay Feleay, superin- 
tendent of construction; Lawrence 
Whearty, district manager; John E. 
Brink, deputy state administrator, 
and Malcolm L. Smith, St. Paul, 
Minn., regional statistician. 

Ray Stookey, state architect, who 
prepared the plans for the new mili- 
tary science building, also partici- 
pated in the ceremony marking the 
start of the structure. 

CADET OFFICERS ATTEND 

Adding color to the occasion were 
10 Reserve Officers' Training corps 
cadet officers in uniform, and the 
three honorary cadet officers. The 
three co-eds, Shirley Karns of Coffey- 
ville, honorary cadet colonel; Doro- 
thy Green of Wichita, and Jane Gal- 
braith, Cottonwood Falls, honorary 
cadet majors, added a striking bit of 
color in their purple and white capes 
and caps. 

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28 COUNTIES WILL SEND 

DRAMA AND MUSIC'GROUPS 



CAMPUS ROADS 



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Former Collegian Editor Takes Position 
with Chamber of Commerce 

Richard S. Haggman, former edi- 
tor of The Kansas State Collegian, 
student newspaper, has resigned as 
director of public relations for the 
Frye Aircraft company in Kansas 
City to accept a job as publicity sec- 
retary of the Kansas City, Mo., Cham- 
ber of Commerce. Announcement of 
the appointment was made by Karl 
Koerper, committee chairman. 

Haggman, 26 years old, was a stu- 
dent in the Department of Industrial 
Journalism and Printing. He lacked 
a few hours of completing work for 
his degree when he left in 1936. 



By J. T. WILLARD 
College Historian 

The main campus was acquired 
July 11, 1871, by the purchase of 
three small farms, the Foster eighty 
on the south, the Preston forty on the 
northwest and the Gale forty on the 
northeast. The Foster tract had been 
shortened on the east side by the sale 
of a strip 150 feet wide to provide 
for Manhattan avenue and the com- 
pletion of the lots adjacent. Manhat- 
tan avenue thus terminated at the 
south line of the Gale place. This is 
about 85 feet south of the south line 
of Thurston street at its west termi- 
nus. 

April 12, 1872, a road was located 
to complete a highway around the 
College farm, now the main campus. 
This began at the north end of Man- 
hattan avenue, on the line between 
sections 7 and 18, and continued 
around the farm until, at the south- 
east corner, it again touched Manhat- 
tan avenue. North Manhattan avenue 
is 80 feet wide. The county road from 
it to the north was made only 60 feet 
wide, and its relation to the sides of 
Manhattan avenue is not stated in 
the record. It cut off a strip from the 



east side of the Gale forty, most of 
which is now occupied by a forest 
plantation. This road is now paved 
to the city limits, and is located as a 
direct continuation of the pavement 
of Manhattan avenue. 

On the north side of the campus 
the College line was made the center 
of the 60-foot road which thus took 
30 feet from the College, and the 
same plan was used on the west side. 
However, on the south side the en- 
tire 60-foot strip was taken from the 
College. No reason for this is given 
in the record. This road is now An- 
derson avenue, and by blundering of 
some kind owners of private property 
on the south side have encroached on 
College land and occupy it. 

Near the southeast corner of the 
Gale forty an entrance to the College 
farm was placed and a road extended 
through to the west side. The east 
end of this road became known at an 
early date as Lovers' lane. A walk 
paralleled it along the north side, 
and a row of maple trees occupied 
space between the two. North of the 
extreme east part of this road and 
walk was a grove of pine trees, the 
residues of rows in the Gale nursery 



which came to the College with the 
farm. An adjoining plantation of 
pines was made later along the west 
side. 

Lovers' lane was for many years 
the public entrance to the campus, 
and it may serve as the starting point 
for stating the location of other roads. 
A short distance west of the Lovers' 
lane entrance a road branched off 
and continued in a northwesterly 
direction through the nurseries and 
gardens to the second stone barn 
which occupied a site northeast of 
that upon which East Waters hall 
now stands. This road was incon- 
veniently located and in 1890 it was 
changed, and an entrance for it made 
near the watercourse which crosses 
the northeast corner of the campus, 
the road following that feature. This 
slightly improved road still serves a 
useful purpose. At one time the pub- 
lic used it as a cut-off to avoid going 
around the corner, and measures 
were taken to make it less convenient 
for that purpose. 

The road entering at Lovers' lane, 
near the alley between Kearney and 
Thurston streets, continued west com- 
(Contlnued on last page) 



Organisation* Selected at Spring Festi- 
vals to Appear at Annual 4-H 
Rouniliip on Campus June 2-7 

When the final band note faded, 
ending 4-H club spring festivals for 
1941. results showed that 28 Kansas 
counties had been invited to send a 
drama or music group to the 4-H 
Club roundup at Kansas State Col- 
lege this year. 

Groups taking part in the annual 
roundup, to be held June 2 to 7 on 
the campus at Manhattan, were con- 
sidered outstanding in a state-wide 
series of music model meeting and 
drama contests this spring. 

Instrumental ensembles will be 
sent from Montgomery, Jefferson, 
Sheridan, Rawlins, Pratt and King- 
man counties. Bands or orchestras 
will come from Neosho, Shawnee, 
Dickinson, Sedgwick and Pawnee 
counties. 

Jackson, Butler, Dickinson, Gree- 
ley, Reno and Barton counties will be 
represented by vocal ensembles. 
Choruses will take part from Craw- 
ford, Elk, Mitchell, Thomas, Sedg- 
wick and Ford counties. 

Members of 4-H clubs in Labette, 
Cowley, Marion, Kearny, Stafford and 
Reno counties have practiced short 
plays to be presented during round- 
up. Examples of model meetings are 
to be given by 4-H members from 
Bourbon, Russell and Ford counties. 

"We are looking forward again to 
some fine musical entertainment," 
predicted M. H. Coe, state 4-H club 
leader. "And we'll enjoy, also, the 
chance to see our 4-H club members' 
dramatic ability in the plays. Model 
meetings will give us an opportunity 
to learn correct business meeting pro- 
cedure as well." 



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The KANSAS INDUSTRIALIST 

Established April 24, 1875 

K. I. Thacrrey Editor 

Hillier Krieghbaum, Ralph Lashbrook, Jane 

Rockwell, Paul L. Dittlmore Associate Editors 

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Published weekly during the college year by the Kansas 
State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, 
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Except for contributions from officers of the College 
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The price of The Kansas Industrially is %i > year, 
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Make checks and drafts payable to the K. S, C. 

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alumni association included. 




WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1941 

INSPIRATION AM) REMIIVBEB 

The return of Maj.-Gen. James G. 
Harbord, '86, to the College campus 
as speaker at the alumni-senior ban- 
quet should serve as an inspiration 
and as a reminder to those members 
of the senior class who will soon be 
in the armed services of the coun- 
try. Major-General Harbord's distin- 
guished career will furnish the in- 
spiration, and the way in which he 
embarked upon it is a reminder that 
the country's most distinguished mili- 
tary leaders may and do rise from the 
ranks. 

When James G. Harbord was 
graduated from Kansas State College 
in 1886 he sought appointment to 
West Point. He and another young 
resident of Lyon county, William Al- 
len White, were among those who 
failed to get an appointment that 
year. In Mr. White's case the army's 
loss was journalism's gain. Mr. Har- 
bord, however, persisted in his desire 
for a military career. After a year 
as assistant principal of the Butler 
county schools and a year and a half 
on the Kansas State staff, he enlisted 
as a private in the regular army in 
January, 1889. Four months later 
he was a corporal. 

In July, 18 91, James G. Harbord 
became a second lieutenant of caval- 
ry. Although his commission came a 
year later than had he entered West 
Point at the time of his application 
and been graduated with the class of 
1890, he actually received it after 
only 2 1-2 years of army service as 
compared to four by the federal mili- 
tary academy route. The story of his 
distinguished World war service and 
of his rise to the rank of major-gen- 
eral is well known. What a "handi- 
cap" his failure to gel an appoint- 
ment proved to be! 
♦ 

BOOKS 

SiiiiiII Town .siMiriiiiliNt 

"Salt <>f Hi'' Earth." By Victor 
Holmes. The Macmlllan Company. New 
York. 1941. $2. .Ml. 

Good newspaper men should know 
a great deal about the town in which 
they work. That is especially true 
of those journalists who live in small 
communities. 

Victor Holmes, which is the pen- 
name behind which the author hides, 
presents a series of gossipy chapters 
on the life of a small Middle Western 
community as its publisher saw it. 
It is the biography of a small town 
as much as the recollections of the 
community's editor. 

Grand City, with its population of 
2.000, probably is a Kansas town. 
The references to Kansas City as the 
metropolis fountain-head and the 
mores of the community all place the 
community in the Sunflower state. 
An introduction by William Allen 
White lends some substantiating evi- 
dence, although the generous Em- 
poria editor undoubtedly would do a 
good turn for any fellow Midwest- 
erner. 

Victor Holmes tells, as if he were 
sitting around a crackling fireplace 
after a winter hike through the snow- 
bespattered countryside, the informal 
stories of those figures around which 
a small town's life revolves — the 
bankers, the doctors, the ministers, 
the printer, the social "dictator" and 
the leaders for those folk on the other 
side of the railroad tracks. All these 
Mr. Holmes describes. He also does 
the more difficult job of capturing 
their personalities so that they are 



living individuals in the amusing in- 
cidents he recites. 

The story of "Spindle" Thomas 
and his revenge on the town's lead- 
ing wheat tycoon is almost too good 
to have happened. "Spindle" ran off 
a one-copy edition of the weekly pa- 
per and sent it to the tycoon's home. 
It told in unvarnished terms just 
what sort of a man was to be his 
daughter's groom. Mr. Holmes tells 
the story with proper dramatic effect. 
It is one of the best incidents in the 
book. 

If Kansans like to see themselves 
as others see them, they should like 
this book. It isn't profound but, as 
Mr. White says in his introduction, 
"it is the kind of story that the av- 
erage American adult who has 
reached the eighth grade or who has 
just finished his doctor's thesis, can 
sit down and enjoy heartily." 

— Hillier Krieghbaum. 

♦ 

ABOUT THE HEMISPHERES 

A hemisphere is a relatively new 
invention, as human history goes. It 
was Egypt, indirectly, that made the 
world a sphere. In the library of 
Alexandria, a thoughtful astronomer 
of the third century, B. C. Eratos- 
thenes, concluded that the earth is a 
ball and even computed its circum- 
ference. He made what is believed 
to be the earliest division of the earth 
into "hemispheres," but by a north- 
south classification. His pioneer 
"equator" was a line extended 
through the Mediterranean and across 
Asia, called the parallel of Rhodes 
because that island marked its cen- 
ter. It was about 2,500 miles north 
of the true equator. Europe, Asia 
and Africa were the only continents 
Eratosthenes made room for on his 
sphere. 

It was more than 1,700 years later 
that Columbus, Cabot, Vespucci and 
their followers revealed two new 
continents, and Balboa unveiled a 
new ocean. While struggling to crowd 
the vast new regions on a chart of 
the world in 1512, an obscure map- 
maker of Cracow, Stobnicza, dared to 
split the globe into two hemispheres 
for the first time. He let half of Asia 
lap over into the new world circle. 
The celebrated cartographer Merca- 
tor in 1538 used a scheme for show- 
ing the world in two heart-shaped 
hemispheres, northern and southern, 
divided along the equator. 

Since then, geographers have en- 
countered increasing difficulty in 
slicing the sphere into east-west 
halves. If the dividing lines are to 
run through the North and South 
Poles, and mark out so-called "east- 
ern" and "western" hemispheres, 
there can be a great many of them, 
varying with the meridian of longi- 
tude which is arbitrarily chosen as 
the starting point. 

In addition to the element of choice 
involved in defining eastern and 
western hemispheres, there is the 
further difficulty that the great land 
masses of the earth are so unequal 
in size as to defy exact segregation 
in ISO-degree divisions. Since no 
division of 180-degree hemispheres 
can both include the appropriate land 
masses and exclude the inappropriate 
ones, geographers have had to com- 
promise along practical — but not 
straight — lines. 

Most mapmakers have accepted the 
meridian 20 degrees west of Green- 
wich, England, as the boundary line 
in the Atlantic between "eastern" 
and "western" hemispheres. Geo- 
graphically, the meridian includes 
the Cape Verde islands and the Azores 
in Hie western hemisphere, but ac- 
tually these island groups are more 
closely associated with the eastern 
hemisphere. The other borderline 
islands are Greenland and Iceland. 
l>w people dispute that Greenland 
belongs logically in what has come to 
be considered the world's western 
half, but Iceland, the bulk of which 
is east of this line, has been classified 
by different geographers in both 
hemispheres. 

On the other rim of the western 
hemisphere, thus delineated, the 
boundary line would geographically 
be the meridian 160 degrees east of 
Greenwich. Such a line would di- 
vorce New Zealand from Australia, 
the easternmost extension of Siberia 
from the main bulk of the U. S. S. R., 
and many Japanese-mandated islands 
from Japan. Only mapmakers, there- 
fore, follow such a rigid definition of 
the western hemisphere's western 
boundary, and then only to keep 
their circle round. Others generally 
accept as a compromise the inter- 
national date line. This flexible time 
frontier has been zigzagged so as to 
leave New Zealand in the eastern 



SCIENCE TODAY 



By MRS. KATHERINE HESS 

Associate Professor, Department of 
Clothing and Textiles 

The importance of nylon and other 
new fibers in the manufacture of 
cloth is almost overshadowed by the 
importance of rayon fibers that have 
been modified in some way. The pres- 
ence of rayon in a fabric was at one 
time rather easily detected, but with 
the changed physical properties and 
new chemical reactions given rayon 
fibers the tests that were once ade- 1 
quate now fail to reveal its presence. < 

Staple rayon, the short lengths cut j 
from the filament fibers and used in j 
the manufacture of spun yarn, serves j 
as the basis of most modified rayon 
fibers. The comparison of the in-j 
crease in the production of staple ; 
fiber with filament rayon will give 
some indication of its importance. 
Staple fiber was first developed in 
Germany little more than 20 years 
ago. In 1934, the world production 
of staple fiber was 52,000,000 pounds 
as compared with 770,000,000 pounds 
of filament fiber. In 1940 staple fiber 
production of 1,350,000,000 pounds 
exceeded the production of filament 
fiber of 1,150,000,000 pounds. 

The producers of rayon are utiliz- 
ing the results of research done on 
natural fibers in the production of 
staple fibers for specific uses. For 
example, it has been shown that the 
minimum spinnable length of any 
fiber is one-half inch and that the 
diameter must be not more than 
1/700 of the length. Fibers of these 
proportions can be spun into coarse 
yarns only. For a fine yarn the mini- 1 
mum fineness ratio must be at least 
1/2000. This information is used in | 
the production of short synthetic 
fibers. The machinery developed to i 
cut synthetic fibers to the desired 
length is now being used to cut the 
natural fibers either to secure fancy 
effects, to imitate other fibers, to spin 
the yarn on another type of machin- 
ery or in an effort to produce yarns 
for a specific purpose. Fibers that 
vary greatly in length are cut to 
lengths that will permit them to be 
blended; thus, the long linen fibers 
may be cut and blended with wool or 
cut to blend with staple rayon. Wool 
fibers too long to be spun on cotton 
machinery may be cut to the neces- 
sary length for this purpose. 

Fibers cut to specific lengths, wool 
treated to prevent shrinkage and 
mercerized cotton may all be classed 
as modified fibers, but the term is 
more often used in connection with 
rayons that are changed either in 
their physical or chemical properties 
or both. In order to successfully 
blend rayon with wool or substitute 



rayon for wool it is desirable that the 
rayon so used shall have both the 
physical properties of wool and the 
dyeing properties of this fiber. Among 
the staple rayons produced for this 
purpose are the modified fibers which 
by some specific method have been 
given a rough surface or a permanent 
crimp. 

Rayon staple fibers with a rough 
surface may be produced by the vis- 
cose method by regulating the ripen- 
ing of the solution and the acidity of 
the coagulating bath; or by first spin- 
ning the solution and later regenerat- 
ing the cellulose. Thus, what is nor- 
mally done in one process is done in 
two. By this method the spun yarns 
can be twisted or given a rough sur- 
face during the second process. 

A new viscose fiber, cylindrical in 
form without the characteristic cor- 
rugated surface, has been developed 
for use as the pile of rugs. This fiber 
resembles wool even in cross-section. 
It was developed as the result of re- 
search which proved that smooth- 
surface fibers retain less dirt than do 
those with a corrugated surface. 

A cellulose acetate rayon staple 
fiber known as Teca imparts a wool- 
like character and a crush-resistant 
quality to the fabric in which it is 
used. Teca is produced in a variety 
of sizes and colors. 

The term animalized fiber refers 
to a class of modified viscose fibers in 
which wool-dyeing properties are ob- 
tained by adding from 3 to 5 percent 
casein to the spinning solution. Basi- 
fied viscose is another type of modi- 
fied fiber possessing properties some- 
what similar to the animalized fibers. 
This group has been modified chemi- 
cally by the addition of synthetic res- 
ins so that they, too, possess wool- 
dyeing properties. These fibers pos- 
sess a greater affinity for direct cotton 
and other dyestuffs than do cotton or 
rayon. This permits the production 
of stripes or designs by piece-dyeing 
fabrics of the correct combination of 
fibers. A new type of cellulose ace- 
tate rayon fiber recently has been re- 
ported that is much superior in 
strength and elasticity to any rayon 
fiber before produced. The properties 
of this fiber are such that its use in 
making a parachute fabric is being 
studied. 

The use of modified or new types 
of fibers in fabrics and articles where 
once only the normal natural fibers 
were used is not to be considered as 
an adulterant or a deception. Rather 
one should be awake to the advances 
science is making in the production 
and modification of fibers, and wel- 
come their use whenever a better or 
cheaper product is made possible. 



tor in drawing in the State Agricul- 
tural College of New Mexico, Las 
Cruces, was made professor of the 
drawing department. 



SIXTY YEARS AGO 
At the regular meeting of the Sci- 
entific club Professor Walters pre- 
sented a paper on "Glaciers." 

Miss Wright of Brookville, who 
was on her way to join a missionary 
station in Armenia, Turkey, stopped 
in Manhattan to visit College friends. 
S. S. Benedict of Wilson county, 
regent of the State university and 
senator from his district, was invited 
to deliver the annual address at the 
June commencement. 



KANSAS POETRY 

Robert Conover, Editor 



TWO HILLS 

By Edna Beckir 

One hill, pine-smothered, 
Cries for light and stars, 
"The trees . . . how beautiful!" we say. 

Another, windswept, 

Lays its cheek against the sky's; 

We only glance . . . "How bare." 



SUPERIORITY 

I know a good American couple 
Who taught their wee firstling 
To say with vigor, 
"Hot diggety!" 

And I know a little Hindu — 

He taught his tiny brown-skinned son 

First to say, 

"Beautiful." 



In addition to writing verse, Edna 
Becker, Topeka, is well known as the 
author of several books and stories 
for children and of successful one-act 
plays. She has won several prizes, 
one of the most recent being a first 
prize in the Juvenile Story contest of 
the Kansas Authors' club. 



SUNFLOWERS 

Bv H- W. Davis 

A VERY MODEST PROPOSAL, 

The great problem before us the 

people of the United States is, 

"Where do we go from where are 
we — and when?" 



And that is by way of being a fight- 
ing question, too. 



Bewildered by a barrage of official 
| communiques, headlines, and double- 
talking mouthpieces shouting into 
microphones, and hearing everything 
but the facts, we stagger along, hop- 
ing gradually to work out of our 
whirling insanity. But we work in- 
ward, not outward. 



I don't think one more little bu- 
reau at Washington could do any 
harm, especially not if it were the 
kind of bureau I am thinking of — a 
bureau of fact disclosure — B. F. D. 



hemisphere, all of the Aleutian 
islands in the western and all of 
Siberia in the eastern. — From the 
National Geographic Magazine. 



where he had spent several months 
as the financial expert on a commis- 
sion making a survey of the Car- 
negie Institute of Technology. 



Should war ever come to America, 
it will be a war of minds and ideas 
as well as a war of bombs and shells. 

We have seen one great nation 
fall because it had confidence in a 
string of fortifications — and yet, 
when the pinch came, no confidence 
in itself. — Stephen Vincent Benet, in 
"Zero Hour." 

♦ 

IN OLDER DAYS 

From the Files of The Industrialist 

TEN YEARS AGO 

J. R. "Red" Coleman, '30, was with 
the Eastman Kodak company at 
Rochester, N. Y. 

Prof. J. P. Calderwood, head of 
the Department of Mechanical Engi- 
neering, attended the meetings of the 
American Society of Refrigerating 
Engineers in Kansas City. 

George Fiedler, '26, was trans- 
ferred from the photophone depart- 
ment of the Radio Corporation of 
America to the Victor division of the 
same company in New York. 



THIRTY YEARS AGO 
Dr. Francis H. Slack, professor of 
bacteriology, talked about tubercu- 
losis before the State Federation of 
Women's Clubs. 

J. A. Conover, '98, was appointed 
farm superintendent of the dairy 
farm of the United States Naval acad- 
emy at Annapolis, Md. 

At a meeting of the Science club, 
Dr. H. N. Whitford, '90, forester and 
chief of the Division of Investigation 
of the Bureau of Forestry at Manila. 
P. I., discussed "Some Aspects of 
Tropical Forests." 



For instance, if some of us Ameri- 
cans west of the district of Columbia 
had some idea of the reality of the 
"Battle of the Atlantic," we might be 
able to stand for or against some- 
thing with a little more enthusiasm 
or stubbornness, as the case might be. 



TWENTY YEARS AGO 

Margaret M. Justin, '09, was work- 
ing as physiological chemist in Sioux 
City, Iowa. 

H. R. Reed, '07, was transferred 
from Bard, Calif., to McNeill, Miss. 
He was with the United States De- 
partment of Agriculture doing ex- 
perimental work with forage crops. 

J. C. Christensen, '94, was assis- 
tant secretary of the University of 
Michigan, at Ann Arbor. Mr. Chris- 
tensen returned from Pittsburgh, Pa., 



FORTY YEARS AGO 
George Christensen, '94, was assis- 
tant to Prof. O. P. Hood in the Michi- 
gan College of Mines, Houghton. 

Pies. E. R. Nichols, Prof. H. M. 
Cottrell and Regents McDowell and 
Coburn returned from their visit to 
the agricultural colleges of Indiana, 
Illinois. Wisconsin, Minnesota and 
Iowa. 

E. O. Sisson, '8 6, director of the 
Bradley Polytechnic institute, Peoria, 
111., sailed for Naples. He planned to 
spend four months visiting the chief 
cities of continental Europe and En- 
gland. 



FIFTY YEARS AGO 
Professor Walters lectured in the 
Balina high school course on "Indus- 
trial Education." 

W. H. Olin, '89. completed a year 
of teaching at Waverly and was asked 
to return for another year. 

Miss Phoebe Haines, '83, instruc- 



It will make a difference to us 
whether 40 or 4 per centum of our 
7 billion is headed for the locker of 
one Mr. Davy Jones. We should also 
like to know whether the two war- 
ships locked up in Brest, or some- 
place, and daily bombed by the R. 
A. F., constitute the entire surface- 
raider equipment of the Axis powers, 
or only a fraction of it. We should 
like to know too whether Germany 
and Italy are using 30 submarines, 
or 3000. We should finally like to 
know whether England has any part 
of her navy fighting in the battle of 
the Atlantic or whether it is all in 
the eastern Mediterranean getting 
full of oil from Iraq. 



We do not want any facts made 
public that will give aid or comfort 
to Hitler, but we think it might be 
reasonably safe to let us in on a few 
things asked for in the preceding 
quiz paragraph. With a truth or two 
under our belts, you see, we might 
be able to tell whether we favor start- 
ing the convoy system tomorrow or 
next day. 



As it is now, the "Battle of the 
Atlantic" has come to be merely a 
phrase poured into headlines and 
microphones to frighten folks. The 
B. F. D. could sort of practice up on 
that battle, and justify itself — or not. 
If not, we could abolish facts and 
slink back to going crazy gawking 
dizzily at trial balloons bursting in air 
and listening to loud mouthpieces 
blaring crazily from louder loud- 
speakers. 



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AMONG THE 
ALUMNI 



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Edward Octavius Sisson, B. S. '86, 
writes that he cannot attend the re- 
union of his class this spring. He 
lives at Bremerton, Wash., retired 
from his long term as professor of 
philosophy at Reed college, Port- 
land, Ore. He says that he has lost 
contact with others of his class and 
would like very much to know what 
they are doing. 

Tina (Cohurn) Tomson, B. S. '91, 
may return for Commencement. She 
lives at Wakarusa and writes that 
she was a school teacher four years, 
a secretary 3 1-2 years, wife and 
mother 40 years, director of the 
Parent-Teacher group, YWCA and 
church organizations. She has four 
children. 

Mary (Ridenour) Plowman, B. S. 
•96, and her husband, J. A. Plowman, 
f. s. '95, "have had a busy, happy 
40 years of married life. Seeing five 
fine children grow to manhood and 
womanhood were the important 
events, I guess." The Plowmans live 
at Skykomish, Wash. 

Rainey C. Faris, M. E. '01, Prof. 
Deg. in Engr. '17, is engineer and 
purchasing agent for the Equitable 
Powder Manufacturing company and 
two associate companies. He and 
Mrs. Faris have seven children, all of 
whom are grown and married. There 
are 11 grandchildren. 

Winifred Dalton, B. S. '06, St. 
George, is expected to attend com- 
mencement exercises. 

Ray L. Graves, Ag. '12, is working 
with the Soil Conservation service, 
Mandan, N. D. 

Charles Parke Lillard, Ag. '14, has 
retired from active business and now 
lives at 712 Paris avenue, Hannibal, 
Mo. 

Byron J. Taylor, Ag. '16, of Logan 
county has been employed as Greeley 
county agent to replace Lee J. Brew- 
er, Ag. '35, who has accepted a simi- 
lar position in Ottawa county. Mr. 
Taylor has been county agent in 
Logan county for several years. 

George Edwin Manzer, Ag. '17, is 
senior interviewer for the Colorado 
Employment service. He is manager 
of the Longmont office, Longmont, 
Colo. 

Dr. William L. Ikard, D. V. M. '21, 
is a government meat inspector in St. 
Paul, Minn. He and Mrs. Ikard live 
at 331 Eleventh avenue South, South 
St. Paul. 

Maj. Ray E. Marshall, Ag. '22, and 
Frances (Casto) Marshall, G. S. '22, 
have been transferred from Ft. Clay- 
ton, Canal Zone, to Camp Roberts, 
San Miguel, Calif. 

Carl A. Braiully. D. V. M. '23, M. 
S. '30, and Mrs. Brandly live at 54 7 
Meadowlane, East Lansing, Mich. He 
is head of poultry research in the 
regional laboratory of the United 
Sliitcs Department of Agriculture 
there. 

Dan M. Braiim, Ag. '24, is with the 
training section of the United States 
Department of Agriculture, Washing- 
ton. D. C. At the present time he is 
engaged in field work, and, although 
his official headquarters are located 
in Washington. 1). ('., he is traveling 
and has no permanent address. Mrs. 
Braum is temporarily at 1610 Fill- 
more street, Amarillo, Texas. 

(Maude L. Wilson, M. E. '25, Prof. 
Deg. in Engr. '20, M. S. '33, writes 
thai he is professor of mechanical 
engineering at Prairie View State 
college, Prairie View, Texas. 

Eric T. Tebow. R. C '26, is being 
presented by the Harper Lions club 
as candidate for governor of District 
17-K of Lions International. 1941. 
A folder sent out by them gives de- 
tails as to his education, his experi- 
ence as a superintendent of schools 
for 15 years and his travels in the 
Orient, Europe and Mexico. Mr. and 
Mis. Tebow have made many pic- 
tures and collections on their travels 
and are much in demand for that 
kind of entertainment on programs. 
He has spoken to more than 200 audi- 
ences in the past four years. 

James V. Price. R. C. '27, new 
dean of the Washburn Law school, 
arrived in Topeka last week, ready 
to begin organization of the school 
to fit into the new municipal univer- 
sity program. Mr. Price has just 
completed his work as a professor 
of law at San Francisco university. 

William Sartorius, M. E. '28, and 
Lucile (Potter) Sartorius, I. J. '27, 
are now at 150 Canoe Brook park- 



way, Summit, N. J. Mr. Sartorius 
resigned after 13 years with Procter 
and Gamble to be assistant chief en- 
gineer of Colgate Palmolive-Peet. He 
is in charge of new design and con- 
struction for the entire company, 
both domestic and foreign. 

E. E. Larson, C. E. '29, Prof. Deg. 
'34, is county engineer in Douglas 
county. He and Mrs. Larson live at 
109 East Eighth street, Lawrence. 

Ethel Maude Harland, H. E. '31, 
is home service and home lighting 
adviser of the Kansas Power com- 
pany, Concordia. Her address is 720 
Cedar street. 

L. C. Fiser, P. E. '31, Atchison 
high school sports coach, will man- 
age the Manhattan Ban Johnson base- 
ball club for 1941. He and Mrs. 
Fiser (Vivian Bamer) have a son, 
David Joe, 2. 

Francis (Morlan) Short, '31, 
writes: "I am sending you my ad- 
dress so that I will be invited to our 
class reunion and Commencement ac- 
tivities this year. My husband is in 
training at Camp Robinson, and I am 
working in the office of the Arkansas 
Methodist. I should like to know the 
names of other Kansas State alumni 
who live in Little Rock." 

Winifred Johnson, H. E. '32, is 
going to school at the University of 
Tennessee, Knoxville. She is work- 
ing on her master's degree there. 

Dale Barkalow, E. E. '33, is plant 
foreman of the Kadane creamery. 
Dallas, Texas. The Barkalows live 
at 4506 Leland avenue, Dallas. 



LOOKING AROUND 

KENNEY L. FORD 



Writes to Dr. J. T. Willard 

J. Alex Munro, M. S. '25, is head 
of the Department of Entomology at 
North Dakota State college, Fargo. 
Dr. J. T. Willard, College historian, 
recently received a letter from him, 
thanking him for the history of Kan- 
sas State College. 

"It is the finest book of its kind 
I have had the pleasure of reading, 
and I must say it means a great deal 
to anyone who has been connected 
with Kansas State College to have 
it for reference," Professor Munro 
wrote. "Then The INDUSTRIALIST — 
I am getting so in the habit of read- 
ing it each week that if it stopped 
at any time, I would miss it a lot. 
Glad to see the various sections of 
your campus paper being maintained 
so well. 

"Although the book came to my 
hands back about Christmas time, I 
have only had it in my possession 
just long enough to read it through. 
Since reading it, it has been passed 
on to several other Kansas folk who 
have read it and told me how much 
they enjoyed it." 



western university at Evanston, 111. 
She is a member of Chi Omega, social 
sorority, and Mu Phi Epsilon, hon- 
orary music sorority. Mr. Owens at- 
tended Southwestern college at Win- 
field. He is now teaching at North 
high school in Wichita. They will be 
at home at 1241 North Broadway. 

BIRTHS 



Henry C. Graefe, D. V. M. '40, and 
Janice (LaMont) Graefe of 1219 
Pierre, Manhattan, are parents of a 
girl, Pasa Janice, born April 19. 



Leland B. Grimes, a junior in gen- 
eral science, and Katherine (Piercy) 
Grimes, f. s. '40, Route 1, Manhattan, 
are parents of a son, born April 1. 



Gerald Lake, who graduates in 
chemical engineering this year, and 
Marylee (Berry) Lake, 1114 Vattier, 
have named their son born April 1, 
Jerry Lee. 



Y. S. Kim, Ag. '33. M. S. '34, 
writes: "Ever since the Sino-Japanese 
war was broken out, I had so much 
bad luck, therefore I did not write 
to anyone. Anyhow by now the 
things are going on well and not a 
thing to worry about for the time be- 
ing. I will take anything whatever 
happens to me. 

"Usually it takes only little over 
10 days to come to Chungking, where 
the college is, from Nanking by the 
steamer, but we have spent more 
than three months to come here. We 
sailed on the wonderful Yangtze 
gorges by the junk just the same as 
Columbus discovered the new conti- 
nent. Last year July 4 our house 
was bombed by the enemy's aero- 
planes and the house was mashed in- 
to pieces, but we narrowly escaped 
and saved our lives. If I tried to 
write all my past experiences to you 
by one letter, I have to write at least 
10 pages or more. When I have a 
chance to cross the mighty Pacific 
ocean, I can tell you. Now I am 
making some plans to visit the United 
States, but I can't tell right now. 

"I have been a papa for five years 
now. We have a girl. I am enjoying 
being with my family and teaching 
here. I am glad that I have a good 
position now. I have been here for 
two years. In fact National Central 
university is one of the best ones in 
China. Most of the professors are 
returned from either United States 
or England." 



A '01 Reunion Poem 

Delpha Hoop Montgomery, B. S. 
'91, 1190 College avenue, Topeka, 
writes that she will attend her class 
reunion at Commencement. Since she 
wants all her classmates to come, 
too, she wrote this poem: 

Dear Alma Mater calling you; 

The class of '91. 
She calls you In for a review, 

To learn what you have done. 

Some fifty years ago this year, 

She opened wide her door 
To start the "class without a peer" 

Adventuring yet more. 

Yes, some were bold and some were 
meek 

And some were timid souls; 
l!ut not a single one was weak. 

And all set out for goals. 

You made them, too, in spite of all 

The handicaps you met. 
And now, you that have heard the call 

Come back without regret. 

Hut some there are whose spirits brave 
The "Great Adventure" made. 

A glimpse the "Opened Door" just gave 
Of joys that never fade. 

You'll miss them, yes, but do not grieve; 

Thev would not have it so: 
lie glad that you can still believe, 

And some day — You shall "Know . 

Your Alma .Mater calls to you, 

Dear class of '91. 
Upon her campus now renew 

Old friendships, one by one. 



A son, John Michael, was born 
Monday, April 21, to Milo C. Oberhel- 
man, G. S. '34, and Marie (Buchanan) 
Oberhelman, f. s., of Randolph. Mr. 
Oberhelman works in the Citizens' 
State bank there. 



RECENT HAPPENINGS 
ON THE HILL 



Larry Spear, Mission, president of 
the Student Council, hiked 100 miles 
to Emporia in 31 hours over the 
week-end. He bet Jim Walker of 
Emporia $5 that it could be done. 
Then he proved it could. 



James Upham, Junction City, set 
a new varsity record in the 440-yard 
dash against the University of Colo- 
rado Saturday. His time was 48.7 
seconds as compared with the old 
mark of 48.8 set by Jim Jesson in 
1938. 



Warren F. Keller, E. E. '35, and 
Mary Elizabeth (Fleenor) Keller, f. 
s., have announced the birth of a son 
on April 27. They have named him 
Warren Richard. The Kellers also 
have a daughter, Carol Ann, 3. They 
live at 168 Stevenson, Buffalo, N. Y. 



Gary Kay Moore began his life 
with 1941 — his birthday was Janu- 
ary 1. W. H. Moore, '39, and Alma 
(Bergstrom) Moore, his parents, live 
at Mayetta, where Mr. Moore teaches 
vocational agriculture. 



Prof. L. F. Payne, head of the De- 
partment of Poultry Husbandry, was 
elected president of Phi Kappa Phi, 
national honorary scholarship or- 
ganization, at a meeting Monday. 
Initiation ceremonies were held for 
4 4 seniors and graduate students and 
four faculty members. 



Milling industry students are seek- 
ing the member of the Foods II class 
who accepted their challenge to bake 
a cake. When the girls visited the 
Department of Milling Industry last 
week, the millers asked the girls if 
they could actually bake a cake. The 
product was so good that the milling 
industry students want to find the 
identity of the girl that baked the 
cake. 



L. Marguerite Edwards, H. E. '34, 
is dietitian at the Missouri State 
sanatorium, Mt. Vernon. 

William Martin Turner, M. E. '3 5, 
is sales engineer on the air-condi- 
tioning distributor with General 
Electric in Wichita. He lives at 157 
North Rutan. 

Fred E. Brady, E. E. '36, is a first 
lieutenant, Coast Artillery corps, Ft. 
Monmouth, N. J. He formerly was 
employed by the Atchison, Topeka 
and Santa Fe Railway company in 
Topeka. 

William John Lewis, Ch. E. '3 7, is 
with the Elgin Water Softener com- 
pany, St. Louis. His address is Park 
Manor hotel, 5560 Pershing avenue. 

Russell H. Gripp, Ag. '38, is rural 
rehabilitation supervisor with the 
Farm Security administration at Hia- 
watha. 

William P. Bacon, Ag. '39, writes 
that he is finishing a year as agricul- 
ture instructor in the high school at 
Davis, 111., about, 110 miles north- 
west of Chicago. 

Ernest C. Sieder, M. E. '40, has 
been working in the drafting and en- 
gineering department of the Lima 
Locomotive Works, Inc., shovel and 
crane division, since last June. He 
lives at 633 West Spring street, 
Lima, Ohio. 

Velma McGaugh, H. E. '40, stopped 
in the College Alumni association 
office while she was visiting in Man- 
hattan last week. She reports that 
she likes her teaching job in home 
economics at Mayetta and is return- 
ing there next year. 



Edward Shim Writes from China 

Dean L. E. Call recently received 
the following letter from Edward 
Shim, Ag. '16, who is with the Im- 
perial Chemical Industries (China), 
Ltd., Hongkong: 

"Just now I am on my way to 
Hongkong. This ship left Honolulu 
in the early hours of February 27 and 
will arrive in Hongkong on March 12. 
It is a straight run between the two 
ports, which is unusual. Generally 
the ship touches Japanese ports and 
Shanghai before reaching Hongkong. 

"You may be interested to know 
that after leaving you, I attended the 
Rotary club meetings at Berkeley, 
Calif., Honolulu and Wailuku, my 
home city. I spoke a few words at 
the Berkeley club and was the guest 
speaker at the Wailuku club. 

"You may be interested to know 
also that I met Herschel Scott, M. S. 
'19, at Guadelupe, Calif.; R. Ripper- 
ton, A. J. Mangelsdorf, Ag. '16, and 
Helen (Blank) Tuttle, '20, of the 
Main Pines company, Makawoo, 
Main, T. H. I did not get to see Mr. 
Tuttle, M. S. '19, as he was not at 
home when I called. 

"I wish to thank you and K. L. Ford 
for the kindness and consideration 
you gave me during my short stay in 
Manhattan. I must say that I enjoyed 
my visit to Kansas State very much. 
The only regret is that I did not have 
enough time to meet all the profes- 
sors, instructors and friends whom I 
like to see. In fact, I have to omit 
seeing other friends at other places. 

"When I reach Hongkong I will be 
busy again to continue my work with 
insecticide. I will have to find con- 
trol measures for insects which I did 
not find last year." 



Earl Borgelt, Ag. '35, and Mrs. 
Borgelt have sent the following auto- 
biography of their daughter: "I was 
born on April 4, and I don't do much 
but doze! I weighed just eight 
pounds, four ounces. That's without 
my clothes! My parents named me 
Patricia Dorene without asking my 
advice! And I think they're going to 
keep me, for they think I'm pretty 
nice!" Mr. Borgelt teaches voca- 
tional agriculture at Beverly. 

♦ 
MARCY AND CORNWELL WIX 

BLOCK AND BRIDLE CONTEST 



Studies of students' reactions to 
their College instructors have been 
released by Mortar Board, national 
honorary organization for senior wo- 
men. The studies were made in five 
representative departments. Students 
were asked to rate their teachers 
for such things as stimulation of in- 
tellectual curiosity, pleasing voice 
and cooperation between students and 
faculty. 



Mllford »nd St. John Student* Awarded 

Livestock Judartntt I'ri/.es 

Frank Marcy, Milford, and Jack 
Cornwell, St. John, won the senior 
and junior divisions, respectively, of 
the annual Block and Bridle livestock 
judging contest. Results were an- 
nounced at a meeting sponsored by 
the club Tuesday night. 

Marcy was awarded a medal do- 
nated by the National Block and 
Bridle club. Cornwell's prize was a 
trophy donated by the Kansas City 
Stock exchange and the Kansas City 
Livestock exchange. Marcy's score in 
the senior division was 54 6 points out 
of a possible 600, while Cornwell 
took first place in the junior division 
with a score of 561 points out of 600. 

Second in the senior division was 
George Wreath, Manhattan, who was 
awarded a silver medal. Dick Well- 
man, Sterling, third in the senior 
division, received a bronze medal. 
William Winner, Topeka, won sec- 
ond place in the junior division with 
54 5 points to "nose out" Glenn 
Thomas, Medicine Lodge, by a one- 
point margin. Winner and Thomas 
were presented silver and bronze 
medals, respectively. 
♦ 
Hunt Presents Paper 

Prof. O. D. Hunt of the Depart- 
ment of Electrical Engineering left 
last Thursday to attend the first 
Midwestern regional meeting of the 
Illuminating Engineering society at 
Davenport. Iowa. Mr. Hunt present- 
ed a paper on "The Illuminating 
Engineering Society and the College 
Student." 



Stephen H. Bush, professor of ro- 
mance languages at the State Uni- 
versity of Iowa, spoke Tuesday at the 
assembly recognizing members of Phi 
Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi, Gamma Sigma 
Delta and Omicron Nu, all honorary 
scholarship organizations on the cam- 
pus. His subject was "The Life-Blood 
of a Master Spirit." He also talked in 
the physical science building Monday 
evening on patterns in thinking. 

— ■+■ — 
SOCIAL FRATERNITIES LIST 

NAMES OF 33 NEW PLEDGES 



MARRIAGES 



(3RAHAM— OWENS 

Sadie Alma Graham, M. Ed. '38, 
was married to Clark V. Owens of 
Wichita March 8. The bride attended 
William Woods college at Fulton, 
Mo., and, after graduating from Kan- 
sas State College, studied at North- 



l)r. Harold Howe, Faculty Adviser, 
Mnkt'N Announcement 

Thirty-three men have been 
pledged to social fraternities recent- 
ly, according to Dr. Harold Howe, 
fraternity adviser. Eleven fraterni- 
ties and their new members are: 

Acacia — Bill Lewis, Conway 
Springs. Alpha Gamma Rho — John 
Bishop, Minneapolis; Lawrence 
Chain, Haven; Erskine Eickmann, 
Chester, Neb.; Richard Leon Gaston, 
Powhattan; George Gatz, Newton; 
Gerald Goetsch, Sabetha; Wayne L. 
Good, McCune; Robert L. Wallace, 
Colby; Earl Williams, Portland, Ore.; 
Robert F. Wilson, Quenemo. Alpha 
Kappa Lambda — Adell Brecheisen, 
Welda; Carl A. Mehl, Robinson; 
Richard Small, 154 5 Park place, 
Wichita. 

Alpha Tau Omega — Eugene Ander- 
son, Greenleaf; William Engelland, 
Sterling; Maurice Rogers. Osborne; 
Jim Scott, Manhattan. Kappa Sigma 
— Ray Mussatto, Burlingame. Phi 
Delta Theta — Glen Cline, Fredonia; 
John Hains. Leavenworth; R. M. 
Weible, Coffeyville. Phi Kappa — 
John Healy, Junction City; Morris 
Van Daele, Olathe. Pi Kappa Alpha 
— Herbert Hudson Martin, Altamont. 

Sigma Alpha Epsilon — Gene Mills, 
Wichita. Sigma Phi Epsilon — Charles 
Caler, Geneseo; Max Krey, Zenith; 
Ralph E. Krey, Zenith; J. Ed McCon- 
nell, Salina; Merle Stubbs, Sterling. 
Tau Kappa Epsilon — Dean Beard, 
Neodesha; Robert Slentz, Chase. 



ALUMNI-SENIOR BANQUET RESERVATIONS 

I will attend alumni day activities May 24. Reserve 

tickets to the alumni-senior banquet, starting 6 p. m. Satur- 
day. Tickets are $1.50 each — good for banquet and dance. 
Reservations will be held until 2 p. m. Saturday. 



Signed 



Address 

Clip and Mail to the Alumni Office 



100 SENIORS WILL GET 

COMMISSIONS IN ARMY 



View of Campus Roads 50 Years Ago 



LT.-OOL. JOHN C. HACDONALD OF 
FT. RILEY WILL TALK 



Mjii. H. E. Stover Will AdmlnlNter Oath 

of Ofllee to Graduate*. While Pre*. 

F. D. Iiirr.il Will Tnlk 

at Ceremonlen 

Lt.-Col. John C. Macdonald, sec- 
retary of the Cavalry school at Ft. 
Riley, will address the senior stu- 
dents in the advanced course of the 
Reserve Officers' Training corps at 
graduation exercises in Recreation 
Center at 9 a. m. May 24. 

Lt.-Col. J. K. Campbell, professor 
of military science and tactics, will 
present commissions to 100 senior 
cadet officers in both the infantry and 
coast artillery units. The cadets will 
be commissioned second lieutenants 
In the Officers' Reserve corps. 
STOVER TO GIVE OATH 

Maj. H. E. Stover, coast artillery 
reserves, will administer the oath of 
office to the graduates, and Pres. F. 
D. Farrell will give a short talk. 
Lieutenant-Colonel Campbell will pre- 
side at the exercises. 

Infantry students who will receive 
their commissions are: 

Louis Akers, Atchison; Robert 
Blair, Ottawa; John Brock, Glasco; 
Lester Brown, Circleville; Paul 
Brown, Sylvan Grove; Augustus 
Douthitt, Winfield; Leslie Droge, 
Seneca; Wellington J. Dunn, Tescott; 
Charles Fairman, Manhattan; Orval 
Harold, Oberlin; John Haymaker, 
Manhattan; Neal Jenkins, Man- 
hattan; Walter Keith, Manhattan; 
Theron King, Manhattan; William 
Langworthy, Manhattan ; Worth 
Linn, Manhattan; Frank Lonberger, 
Manhattan; Dean McCandless, St. 
John; Boyd McCune, Stafford; Nolan 
McKenzie, Solomon; Milton Manuel, 
Havensville; Ralph Marshall, Man- 
hattan; Donald Merten, Morganville; 
Kenneth Middleton, Manhattan. 

4."> IN INFANTRY 

Frank Miller, Milford; Glen Muel- 
ler, Anthony; John Muir, Norton; 
William Nichols, Waterville; Robert 
Page, Topeka; George Peircey, Wa- 
terbury, Conn.; Norman Praeger, 
Claflin; Lowell Ray, Wilsey; Robert 
Rogers, Manhattan; Fred Rumsey, 
Kinsley; Keith Schmedemann, Junc- 
tion City; Claude Shenkel, Lyons; 
Joseph Skaggs, Leavenworth; Charles 
Stafford, Republic; Robert Swanson, 
Waterbury, Conn.; Wallace Swanson, 
Sharon Springs; Lewis Turner, El 
Dorado; Rennie Tye, Hanover; David 
Van Aken, Lyons; Robert Wells, 
Manhattan, and Cecil Wenkheimer, 
Hutchinson. 

The 55 coast artillery graduates 
include: 

Charles Adcock, Washington, D. 
C; Wilfred Anderson, Clay Center; 
John Babcock, Manhattan; Frank 
Bates, Topeka; Carl Besse, Clay Cen- 
ter; Carl Beyer, Glen Elder; Charles 
Buck, Anthony; Ray Bukaty, Kansas 
City; Richard Cech, Kansas City; 
Robert Colburn, Spearville; David 
Crews, Manhattan; Durward Daniel- 
son, Clyde; Duane Davis, Beloit; 
Virgil Dilsaver, Athol; Vincent Ellis, 
Urbana, 111.; Melvin Estey, Langdon; 
Clair Ewing, Blue Rapids; Fred Eye- 
stone, Wichita; Merle Foland, Al- 
mena; William Fullerton, Indepen- 
dence, Mo.; Bill Geery, Burrton. 
55 IN COAST ARTILLERY 

Mahlon Giffln, Sedgwick; Wyeth 
Green, Mound City; Paul Hannah, 
Osborne; Eugene Haun, Larned; 
Lacy Hightower, Centralia; Bill Hor- 
ton, Wichita; Harry House, Chey- 
enne, Wyo.; Robert Huffman, Kansas 
City, Mo.; Tom Joyce, Ulysses; Bill 
Keogh, New York City; Shelby Lane, 
Bucklin; Wilbur McNeese, Atchison; 
Dennis Murphy, Little River; Bernard 
Nash, Lakin; Gordon O'Neill, Ran- 
som; Max Opperman, Yates Center. 

Keith Pendergraft, Emporia; Wal- 
lace Rankin, Manhattan; Charles 
Rindom, Liberal; Donald Lee Rum- 
sey, Kinsley; Ivan Salts, Mayetta; 
Charles Schafer, Vermillion; Bernard 
Schmitt, Powhattan; Jack Sheets, 
Cozad, Neb.; Walter Singleton, Trib- 
une; Laurence Slief, Pratt; Richard 
Smith, Salina; Allen Smoll, Wichita; 
John Stoskopf, Hoisington; Guy War- 
ner, Bucklin; Garold Way, Wichita; 
Rex Wells, Marysville; Carlyle Woel- 
fer, Manhattan, and Tom Woods, 

Burrton. 

♦ 

Selvidge Chosen Chairman 

At a recent meeting of the Insti- 
tute of Radio Engineers, a national 
organization, Dr. Harner Selvidge of 
the Department of Electrical Engi- 
neering was chosen chairman of the 
Kansas City section. 




View showing the triangular junction of the roads from the Lovers' lane 
entrance, Anderson hall and the shops about 1892, and the walks from 
Chemistry building to the shops and the old Horticultural hall. Seen from 
the roof of Anderson hall. 



CAMPUS ROADS 

(Continued from page one) 
pletely across the farm. At a con- 
venient place a branch curved toward 
the south and passed in front of An- 
derson hall. Farther west a branch 
curved off to the north, passed the 
front of the shops and continued 
north past the "old barn," then 
turned to the northeast, and led to 
the second stone barn, where it joined 
the other road from the east. 

Another curved road connected the 
Anderson hall branch with the main 
road and the branch leading to the 
shops. The main road and the two 
curved branches serving Anderson 
hall enclosed a triangular area, in 



break limestone was 



way to grass in 1931. 

When Denison hall blocked the 
Lovers' lane road, access to the shops 
from that direction was cut off, and 
with the erection of Waters hall the 
road from the shops to the barn was 
abandoned. An east-and-west road 
north of the shops and the old horti- 
culture building, now Illustrations 
hall, survived for some years as did 
other interior drives the location of 
which is hard to designate. 

The placing of new buildings has 
usually meant the vacating of old 
roads or parts of them and the loca- 
tion of new ones, and gradually the 
present system has been produced. 
It lacks much in convenience, but im- 
provements in that respect are hard 
to suggest. The foregoing narration 
emphasizes the saving in money and 
convenience that would have been 
made if a comprehensive, adequate 
campus plan had been adopted early 
and followed consistently. 

The first cement paving on the 
campus was laid as an experimental 
project, and covered the road from 
the Vattier street entrance and 
around the loop in front of Anderson 
hall. This was built in the spring of 
1914. Cement as a material for road 
construction was still more or less on 



R0CKHURST HAWKS BEAT 
K. S. C. IN NIGHT GAME 



WILDCATS LOSE, 7-0. DESPITE 
FIVE-RUN RALLY 



the center of which stood an elm tree 

This triangle was about at the center j continued to Vattier street the next 



crusher to 
authorized. 

The summer of 1896 the north- 
and-south road from Anderson hall, 
along the west side of Fairchild hall 
to the south side of the campus, was trial, and that required for this road 
paved with crushed limestone. In i was furnished free by the Association 
paving this road, Professor Hood of American Portland Cement Manu- 
mounted the crusher on a truck which j facturers. The material in the old 
was moved as necessary, and the road served as some foundation for 
broken stone was deposited directly J the new one, but was brought to a 
on the road-bed. Electric power from proper grade. The new material was 
the recently placed generator in the an aggregate of crushed hard lime- 
shop was supplied to the crusher, stone, sand and cement. Prof. L. E. 
More than 300 cubic yards of rock Conrad, head of the Department of 
was used on 600 feet of road. Civil Engineering, superintended the 

In 1898 the road east from Ander- 1 construction. This road has been per- 
son hall was macadamized to the foot | fectly satisfactory and shows very 
of the hill, and this construction was 



of the area upon which Denison hall 
was located in 1901, and placing that 
building at that point determined 
changes in the roads. The curve from 



year. 

When the Auditorium was located 
in 1904, a circling detour to the east 
left the north-and-south road near 



Anderson hall to the main road north I tne SO uth end, passed along the west 
was made much flatter, and cutting ! s j,i e of the Auditorium and back to 
through a fine group of pines assumed tn j s r0 ad near the southwest corner 



its present course. The mutilation 
of this grove of pines aroused the 
wrath of Professor Popenoe to an in- 
expressible pitch. Placing Denison 
hall on that site was in flagrant viola- 
tion of the campus plan made by 
Maximilian Kern and adopted by the 
State Board of Regents in 1885. 

In 1882 the State Board of Regents 
decided to establish the principal en- 
trance to the campus opposite Vat- 
tier street where it still remains. 
Near the foot of the hill a branch to 



of Fairchild hall. When Nichols Gym- 
nasium was located in 1910 it was 
placed directly across this north-and- 
south road and the branch to the 
Auditorium was blocked, and con- 
sequently abandoned. Vehicular ac- 
cess to that building was thus de- 
stroyed, and great public incon- 
venience in its use was created and 
still continues. 

In the meantime Kedzie hall and 
Calvin hall had been built. In 1907 
another north-and-south road had 



the northwest connected the new road : ))een q d f] . om the , d power plant 
with the old one. and thus a loop , a( the north tQ the highway south 



was created in front of Anderson hall. 



of the campus, passing to the rear 



Provision was made for suitable gate- J of Redzle haU Another arche d 
posts and gates, and for grading and fj e oyer the Howard ditch was 
graveling the road from the gate to 
Anderson hall, the loop and the other 
principal drives, the work being com- 
pleted by September, 1883. This pro- 
vided access to all the buildings over 
improved roads. However, only a few 
Manhattan streets were graded and 
none were hard-surfaced at that time. 
The gravel used on these roads 
was obtained from the old College 
farm, where, mingled with more or 
less clay, flint nodules had been left 
as a residual deposit from limestone. 
It was a good representative of the 



constructed for this road, the chief 
use of which was in hauling coal and 
other freight. The north end of this 
road was abandoned when changes 
were made in the power plant, but 
the remainder still constitutes an in- 
convenient but important means of 
access to Nichols Gymnasium, Calvin 
hall and Kedzie hall. A branch to 
the east north of Calvin hall for some 
years made a connection with the 
remnant of the old north-and-south 
road. These sections between Kedzie, 
Fairchild and Calvin halls with park- 



material that has supplied the name 

for the Flint hills of Kansas. When ' «ng space in front of Kedzie were le- 

the farm teams were not otherwise moved later. The last remnant gave 

employed, hauling gravel for the Col- 

lege roads was for some years an 
ever-present opportunity for useful- 
ness. Prof. E. M. Shelton, professor 
of agriculture, was in 1876 placed in 
charge of all roads on the farm. Later 
the care of the roads was given to 
the professor of horticulture. 

In the fall of 1884 the south wing 
of Anderson hall was completed, and 
the next spring the graveled road 
from Vattier street was extended 
along the south side of Anderson hall 
and to the rear of the building. This 
facilitated dumping coal into a coal 
cellar adjoining the basement under 
the chapel in Anderson hall. This 
drive continued north to the front of 
the shops, where it connected with 
the Lovers' lane road. 

In the spring of 1885 a north-and- 
south road was opened and graded 
from the south end of Anderson hall 
to the highway south of the campus, 
which required the construction of a 
stone-arched bridge across the How- 
ard ditch. At a later date Sixteenth 
street was located opposite this en- 
trance to the campus. 

In 1891 the Lovers' lane road was 
graveled and those previously sur- 
faced received a new coat by way of 
repairs. However, extension of the 
use of gravel was discontinued and 
in October, 1895, the purchase of a 



little deterioration at this date, after 
27 years of heavy use. 

The Legislature of 1929 trans- 
ferred $12,000 from the savings made 
by Van Zile hall, and held in the 
"dormitory operating fund," to a 
fund for "special improvements." 
The following summer the road from 
Manhattan avenue passing in front 
of Van Zile hall and on south to the 
paving southeast of Denison hall was 
laid out and curbed. This included 
the arched stone bridge at the water- 
course. At the same time a cement 
walk was laid beside most of this 
road, with branches to Waters hall 
and the Library. The road west of 
Calvin hall and Kedzie hall, connect- 
ing Anderson avenue and the pave- 
ment south of Engineering hall, was 
curbed and guttered. 

Other drives on the campus have 
been paved with cement as financial 
means have been provided. The road 
south of Engineering hall was paved 
in 1924. The road west of Calvin hall 
was paved in 1931. Materials were 
furnished by the College, and pay- 
ment for labor was made from a fund 
provided by relief contributions made 
by College employees and others in 
Manhattan. Each contributor was 
asked to give one day's wages, salary 
or income to this relief for the un- 
employed. 

Curbs and gutters for the road east 
of the stadium were placed in 1932, 
and the cost for labor was met in 
part by funds donated for the relief 
of unemployment. This road was 
paved in March and April, 1934, and 
was a relief project also. In April 
and May of that year, the road east 
of Education hall was paved. 



Kemiey Graham, FrnmliiKham, Mam., 

FlrHt IlnNenwii, Hltn Home Hun in 

Fourth Inning to Start 

Spree of Scoring 

The Kansas State College baseball 
team staged a fourth-inning rally of 
Ave runs Tuesday evening, but was 
unable to hold back the Rockhurst 
College Hawks. The Wildcats lost 
the game, 7-6, in their second con- 
test under lights this season. 

The Hawks scored twice in the 
flrst inning and three times in the 
fourth to hold a five-point lead over 
the Wildcats as the home team came 
to bat in the last of the fourth frame. 
Kenney Graham, Framingham, Mass., 
first baseman, started the batting 
spree when he smacked a home run 
over the right-field fence for the first 
score. 

ROKEY GETS DOUBLE 

Ray Rokey, Sabetha, next man up 
for the K-Staters, then connected 
with a double, followed by singles 
from Neal Hugos, Manhattan, and 
Chris Langvardt, Alta Vista. At the 
end of the inning, the Wildcats had 
tied the score. 

Lee Doyen, raw-boned sophomore 
from Rice, who pitched the first night 
game against the University of Okla- 
homa Sooners last week, struck out 
eight Hawks during the game. The 
visitors, led by Frank Muckenthral- 
ler, pitcher, garnered a total of 11 
hits. Doyen was given four assists 
during the game, three of them com- 
ing when he caught Kansas City 
baserunners attempting to steal. 

In the sixth inning, the Hawks 
again took the lead with two more 
scores. The Wildcats attempted an- 
other rally in the following frame, 
but were turned back with a single 
score. The last two innings were 
scoreless. 

CHRIS LANGVARDT RETURNS 

Langvardt, a three-sport star at 
Kansas State, was back in the Wild- 
cat lineup Tuesday evening after 
missing three games with a spiked 
hand suffered in the first game with 
the University of Oklahoma. 

The Wildcats will meet Maryville, 
Mo., Teachers' college on the Mary- 
ville diamond next Friday and Satur- 
day in non-conference games. They 
will return to conference competition 
next week when they play Iowa State 
college at Ames. 



EVERYDAY ECONOMICS 

By W. E. GRIMES 



"More people were seeking a living from agriculture in 1940 than 

in 1930." 



More people were seeking a living 
from agriculture in 1940 than in 
1930. The increase in the number of 
such people in the United States dur- 
ing these 10 years was more than 
2,000,000. This increase is accounted 
for by the higher birth rate among 
farm people, the failure of the usual 
number of young people to migrate 
from farms to cities and, in some 
areas, an actual back-to-the-farm 
movement. 

This increase in the number of 
people seeking a living from farming 
occurred at a time when the markets 
for farm products were shrinking 
rather than expanding. Many foreign 
markets that were open for American 
farm products in 1930 were closed 
in 1940. The ability of the people 
of America to buy farm products was 
no greater in 1940 than in 1930. 
These things contribute to the farm 
problem. The total agricultural in- 
come in 1940 was divided among the I culties arise 



larger number seeking a livelihood 
from the production of agricultural 
products. The inevitable result was 
a lower income to the average indi- 
vidual engaged in agricultural pur- 
suits. 

As long as farm families continue 
to be the chief dependence for popu- 
lation maintenance and replacements, 
this piling up of population in rural 
areas in times of depression will con- 
tinue. Satisfactory conditions are de- 
pendent upon a normal migration of 
farm youth to urban employment. 
Farm families of America have more 
children than are needed to maintain 
the farm population. Urban families, 
as a rule, do not have sufficient chil- 
dren to maintain their numbers. Ur- 
ban population is maintained by the 
migration of farm young people to 
the towns and cities. Whenever this 
normal movement is checked, diffi- 



WILDCAT BASKETBALL SQUAD 
WORKS ON NEW ATTACK STYLE 



A 



Coach Jack Gardner Protege* Experi- 
menting with Revolving; Offensive 
In Spring Drill! 

Kansas State College's basketball 
team is preparing to come up with a 
new style of attack next season, the 
product of Coach Jack Gardner's ex- 
perimentation in spring drills. 

"A new type of revolving offense 
designed to put more burden upon a 
man-for-man defense" is the way 
Gardner describes the method of ob- 
taining baskets. And the young men- 
tor has been pleased with the system 
as used by his cagers the past two 
weeks. 

Work with the new offense is the 
result of the development and growth 
of the man-for-man defense, especial- 
ly in the Middle West, Coach Gardner 
explains. This defense has become 
tougher to score against and is being 
used by more and more teams. With 
the exception of Missouri, every team 
Kansas State played last season used 
the man-for-man. The Wildcats have 
concentrated upon a new offense this 
spring, but Coach Gardner is not 
neglecting preparations for other 
styles of defense. 

Coach Gardner's system will be 
tested under Are this week in an in- 
trasquad game which will climax the 
spring drill sessions. 

Several freshmen show promise of 
giving veterans a battle for regular 
positions. They include John St. 
John, Wichita, Ken Messner, Arkan- 
sas City, and Max Roberts, Chanute, 
guards; Bill Engelland, Sterling, and 
Mario Dirks, Moundridge, centers; 
Fred Kohl, Kansas City, Mo., Leo 
Headrick, Kansas City, and Bruce 
Holman, Powhattan, forwards. 



Hornsby Leads Batters 

Warren Hornsby, shortstop from 
Topeka, still retains batting honors 
for the Kansas State College baseball 
team. The hustling junior has an av- 
erage of .344 for eight games. 










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The Kansas Industrialist 



Volume 67 



Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, Manhattan, Wednesday, May 21, 1941 



Number 31 



BLUE NETWORK TO CARRY 
HARBORD'S DINNER TALK 



Will Broadcast 



GENERAL WILL, SPEAK SATURDAY 
FROM 8l45 TO 9 P. M. 



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Gaylord Mu n, »33, Junction City, 

Head of Alumni Association, Will 

Be Toaatmaater at Annual 

Banquet 

A 15-minute address by Maj.-Gen. 
James G. Harbord, '86, at the alumni- 
senior banquet for members of the 
1941 graduating class will be broad- 
cast through facilities of the blue 
network of the National Broadcasting 
company. General Harbord, chair- 
man of the board of Radio Corpora- 
tion of America, has chosen the sub- 
ject, "Useful to Civilization." 

The broadcast, direct from the 
main floor of Nichols Gymnasium on 
the College campus, will begin at 
8:45 p. m. (Manhattan time) Satur- 
day night, May 24. General Harbord 
will be introduced by Pres. F. D. 
Farrell. 

MUNSON WILL PRESIDE 
Blue network stations which may 
be heard in this area include: WREN, 
Lawrence; KMA, Shenandoah; 
KOWK, Omaha; WLS-WENR, Chi- 
cago; WSN, Nashville, Tenn.; KVOD, 
Denver; KTHS, Hot Springs; KANS, 
Wichita; KOAM, Pittsburg; KOA, 
Denver, and WOI, Ames, Iowa. 

Gaylord Munson, '33, Junction 
City, president of the College Alumni 
association, will be toastmaster at the 
alumni-senior banquet. 

Ray Bukaty, senior class president, 
will give a response. A piano solo by 
Mary Jane Boyd, and a vocal solo by 
Mary Harding Dillin, two senior 
music students, also are on the pro- 
gram. Miss Dillin will be accompa- 
nied by Mrs. Edwin Sayre. Edwin 
Sayre, associate professor of music, 
will be the song leader. Gov. Payne 
H. Ratner will bring greetings to the 
group. 

DANCE WILL FOLLOW 
The dance will follow the program 
in the Gymnasium. 

Chairmen of the various commit- 
tees for the alumni-senior banquet 
are: Kenney L. Ford, '24, general and 
program committee; Prof. S. W. 
Decker, '24, decorations committee; 
Dr. Martha Pittman, '06, table and 
menu committee; Prof. F. A. Smutz, 
'14, physical arrangements commit- 
tee; Prof. M. A. Durland, '18, check- 
ers committee; Floyd Pattison, '12, 
posters committee; Prof. A. P. David- 
son, '14, ticket sales committee; H. 
W. Johnston, '99, registration com- 
mittee; Kathleen Knittle, '23, alum- 
ni-entertainment committee; Dr. B. 
H. Fleenor, '19, alumni-procession, 
class-reunion and ushers committee, 
and Dean R. R. Dykstra, faculty 
table group committee. 
METROPOLITAN SINGER TO APPEAR 
Arthur Kent, Metropolitan Opera 
bass and baritone, will sing at the 
traditional recital given in compli- 
ment to the graduating class. The 
concert will start at 4 p. m. in the Col- 
lege Auditorium. Mr. Kent won the 
1940 Metropolitan Auditions of the 
Air and obtained a contract with the 
opera association and a $1,000 prize. 
Dr. George D. Stoddard will deliver 
the baccalaureate address to members 
of the 1941 graduating class Sunday 
night, starting at 7:15 p. m. His 
subject will be "The Limits of Educa- 
tion." 

IOWA DEAN WILL SPEAK 
Doctor Stoddard is dean of the 
graduate college at the University of 
Iowa. A glance at his record shows 
that he has degrees from Pennsyl- 
vania State college, the University of 
Paris and the University of Iowa. 
His major field is psychology and he 
is head of the Department of Psychol- 
ogy at the university. He also is 
professor of child psychology and 
director of the Iowa Child Welfare 
Research station at the University 
of Iowa. 

Members of the Board of Directors 
and the Advisory Council of the Col- 
lege Alumni association will meet this 
week-end to discuss the association's 
policy for the coming year. 




CHARLES SHAVER, 15, 

TO HEAD UNION GROUP 

ORGANIZATION MEETING IS HELD 
MONDAY AFTERNOON 



Baccalaureate Speaker 



MAJ.-GEN. JAMES G. HARBORD 



EXTENSION SERVICE LEAFLET 
HELPS NUTRITION CAMPAIGN 



"Food for Fitness," Now Available, 
Aids Public Health Campaign 

In KlIIINSIH 

To aid Kansas people in keeping 
themselves nutritionally sound, a new 
leaflet, "Food for Fitness," has been 
prepared by the College Extension 
service at the request of the state 
committee on human nutrition in re- 
lation to national defense. 

Suggestions for a program on nu- 
trition, to be carried out by women's 
organizations throughout the state, 
are contained in the brochure. Dis- 
cussional questions, facts about the 
nutritional status of Kansas and sug- 
gestions for improving the health of 
the public by improving eating habits, 
are outlined. 

There is a food score card — a prac- 
tical and easy means of checking the 
adequacy of the daily food. A bibli- 
ography lists recognized sources of 
material for further study of foods 
and nutrition. 

Material in the leaflet has been 
compiled by Miss Mary G. Fletcher, 
foods and nutrition extension special- 
ist. Plans already are being made 
for a second pamphlet which will be 
completed October 1. 

"Food for Fitness" will be sent, 
free upon request, to all program 
chairmen or presidents of women's 
clubs. Copies are being distributed 
to the 4 8 states. Organized farm bu- 
reau women's units of Kansas will 
receive copies. 

♦ — 

FIELD DAYS IN AGRONOMY 

STARTING THIS MORNING 



Dean Helen Moore Selected Vlce-Presl- 

dent. While Dr. W. E. Grimes Is 

Chosen Secretary-Treasurer 

for Corporation 

Charles Shaver, '15, Salina, was 
elected chairman of the Student 
Union corporation at an organization 
meeting Monday afternoon. Miss 
Helen Moore, dean of women, was 
elected vice-president. Dr. W. E. 
Grimes, head of the Department of 
Economics and Sociology, was chosen 
secretary-treasurer. 

Pres. F. D. Farrell acted as tempo- 
rary chairman and presided until 
permanent officers were elected. 
DISCUSS CHARTER PLAN 

The group discussed making appli- 
cation for a charter as provided by 
the law and the drafting of a set of 
by-laws. 

All members of the corporation 
were present with the exception of 
Ray Rokey, Sabetha, who was on a 
baseball trip, and Dean R. A. Seaton, 
who is in Washington, D. C, on a 
year's leave of absence. 

Student members attending the 
meeting included Marianna Kistler, 
'41, Manhattan; K. B. Lucas, Manhat- 
tan, sophomore, and Donald Edgar, 
graduate student. All were chosen, 
along with Rokey, by President Far- 
rell from nominations made by the 
various class officers. Mr. Shaver and 
Miss Velma Koontz, '37, of Manhat- 
tan are the two chosen by the Board 
of Directors of the College Alumni 
association. 

FIVE FACULTY MEMBERS 

The five faculty members chosen 
by President Farrell are Prof. Paul 
Weigel, head of th? Department of 
Architecture; Mrs. Bessie Brooks 
West, head of the Department of In- 
stitutional Management; Dean Sea- 
ton, Dean Moore and Doctor Grimes. 
The corporation was organized to 
comply with the provisions set up in 
the Student Union bill passed March 
27. 




CANDIDATES NUMBER 673 
FOR 1941 COMMENCEMENT 



miss jessie Mcdowell machir 
says 32 seek master's 



DEAN GEORGE D. STODDARD 



MORE THAN 1,500 MEMBERS 
WILL ATTEND 4-H ROUNDUP 



Miss Afian to Teach in Utah 

Miss Tessie Agan will be a visiting 
professor during the summer session 
at Utah State Agricultural college, 
Logan. She will teach courses on 
housing in the Department of Home 
Economics. Miss Agan is assistant 
professor in the Department of 
Household Economics here. 



Morning Visit to Dairy Barn and After- 
noon Tour of Farm Included 
on Program 

The 17th annual Agronomy Field 
days at Manhattan begin today. 

The program includes a visit to 
the dairy barn from 10 a. m. until 
noon and a tour of the agronomy 
farm in the afternoon. 

The purpose of the Agronomy 
Field days is to give Kansans an op- 
portunity to see what is being done 
on the experimental farm at Manhat- 
tan, Prof. R. I. Throckmorton said. It 
also gives them a chance to discuss 
the work with the men in charge of 
the projects. 

The field days this year will feature 
the work with wheat, oats, barley and 
flax in the small grains; alfalfa and 
sweet clover in the legumes, and 
brome grass and native species in the 
grasses. Considerable time will be 
devoted to going over the work in 
soil fertility, crop rotations and soil 
management, the professor said. 

During the tour of the agronomy 
farm most of the time will be devoted 
to studying the plots and not to the 
presentation of formal talks. 

Professor Throckmorton said to- 
day would be designated for people 
living in the southern part of the 
state, and Thursday for those living in 
the northern part. 



1941 COMMENCEMENT 
CALENDAR 

Class Reunions 



•76 
'81 
•86 
•91 
'96 
'01 
•06 



•11 
'16 
'21 
•26 
•31 
•36 



SATURDAY, MAY 24 
Alumni Day 

10-12 a.m. Alumni registration, 

Recreation Center. 
12 noon. Class luncheons. 
2 p. m. Alumni business meet- 
ing, Recreation Center. 
6 p. m. Alumni-Senior banquet, 
Nichols Gymnasium. 

SUNDAY, MAY 25 
4 p. m. Commencement recital, 

Auditorium. 
7:10 p.m. Academic procession. 
7:30 p.m. Baccalaureate ser- 
vices, Memorial stadium. 
Sermon by Dr. George D. 
Stoddard, dean of Gradu- 
ate College, State Univer- 
sity of Iowa, Iowa City. 

MONDAY, MAY 26 
3-4:30 p.m. Alumni-Senior re- 
ception, President's resi- 
dence. 
7:10 p.m. Academic procession. 
7:30 p.m. Graduation exercises, 
Memorial Stadium. 



M. H. Coe Announces That 12 Classes 

Replace Usual Eight on Program 

for This Year 

Planning to attend the 19th annual 
roundup here June 2 to 7 are more 
than 1,500 4-H club members and 
leaders. 

M. H. Coe, Kansas 4-H club leader, 
announces one important change in 
the program for 4-H club roundup 
this year. He said club members will 
go to 12 classes instead of the usual 
eight. With this arrangement, 4-H 
club leaders hope to have no crowded 
classrooms and a small or smaller 
number of members in a class. There 
will be no early morning assembly, 
but instead, three classes instead of 
two are scheduled for each morning. 

Social activities planned for the 
week include a reception for the 
members who are high school seniors 
and high school graduates, given by 
the Collegiate 4-H club on Thursday 
afternoon, June 5. On June 2 Clovia, 
social sorority, has planned a tea for 
girl high school graduates who are 
present. 

Who's Who, state honorary 4-H 
club organization, will announce 
names of new members. Initiation 
into this group will be held during 
the week for those in attendance at 
the roundup. This group also will an- 
nounce the winner of the Who's Who 
scholarship, a $150 scholarship to 
Kansas State College. 



SUMMER SCHOOL ENROLMENT 
IS EXPECTED TO BE NORMAL 

Defense Preparation, War and Genernl 

Uncertainty Mnke Predictions 

Most Difficult 

Although a normal enrolment for 
summer school is expected on May 28, 
registration day, despite defense 
preparation, war conditions and the 
general uncertainty of world affairs, 
College officials are reluctant to pre- 
dict any definite estimate of what the 
enrolment will be. 

Prof. E. L. Holton, dean of summer 
school, said that according to corre- 
spondence more teachers were expect- 
ed to enroll for this summer session 
than before. Dean Holton said the 
graduate clinic in guidance scheduled 
for June 2 to June 21 should encour- 
age summer school attendance and 
may be a factor in keeping enrolment 
figures at about the same total as in 
previous summers. 

During the last three summers the 
enrolment has remained above 900, 
being 911 in 1938, 920 in 1939 and 
935 last year. 

The various divisions reported the 
usual amount of inquiries and letters 
concerning the summer session. Sev- 
eral department heads expressed the 
belief that enrolment will be approxi- 
mately the same as during the last 
several summers. 

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ROTC Rated "Excellent" 

The College Reserve Officers' 
Training corps units this year re- 
ceived an "excellent" rating at the 
annual inspection on April 28. 



Total Exceeds by .'«• the Number of 

Those Receiving Diplomas Last 

May; General Science Leads 

with 159 Students 

Six hundred seventy-three students 
are candidates for degrees at the 78th 
annual commencement exercises Mon- 
day. The list of candidates, an- 
nounced by Miss Jessie McDowell 
Machir, registrar, includes 641 can- 
didates for bachelor of science de- 
grees, 32 candidates for master of 
science degrees and one candidate for 
a doctor of philosophy degree. 

Miss Machir emphasized that the 
names listed are those of candidates 
and that the candidate in each case 
must successfully complete final ex- 
aminations and meet all other re- 
quirements in order to qualify for 
degrees. 

GENERAL SCIENCE HAS 159 
The list of candidates includes 121 
in the Division of Agriculture, 61 in 
the Division of Veterinary Medicine, 
151 in the Division of Engineering 
and Architecture, 149 in the Division 
of Home Economics, 159 in the Divi- 
sion of General Science, 32 in the 
Division of Graduate Study and one 
candidate, Charles Raymond Stumbo, 
Manhattan, for the doctor of philoso- 
phy degree. 

Roy M. Green of Ft. Collins, Colo., 
president of Colorado State college, 
will receive an honorary doctor of 
science degree at the commencement 
exercises. Mr. Green was born in 
Carrollton, Mo., received his B. S. 
degree in agriculture from the Uni- 
versity of Missouri and completed 
graduate work at Kansas State Col- 
lege in 1923 for his master of science 
degree. Mr. Green was on the faculty 
of the Department of Agricultural 
Economics at Kansas State College 
from 1920 to 1935. 

The total of 674 candidates exceeds 
by 39 the total of 635 in May, 1940. 

The divisional totals of candidates 
for B. S. degrees include 14 candi- 
dates for the degree in milling indus- 
try in the Division of Agriculture. 
The Engineering and Architecture 
total includes seven in agricultural 
engineering, five in architecture, 10 
in architectural engineering, 2 4 in 
chemical engineering, 24 in civil en- 
gineering, 38 in electrical engineer- 
ing, three in industrial arts and 40 in 
mechanical engineering. 

The total of 149 in Home Econom- 
ics includes four candidates for a B. 
S. degree in home economics and 
nursing. 
51 IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 
The General Science totals include 
61 candidates for a B. S. degree in 
general science, 51 in business admin- 
istration, 10 in industrial chemistry, 
19 in industrial journalism and print- 
ing, nine in music education and nine 
in physical education. 

The list of candidates for degrees: 

Ilnchelor of Science In Agriculture! 

Merrill Glee Abrahams, Wayne; DeWitt 
Bennard Ahlerlch, Winfleld; Richard 
Elton Atkins, Manhattan; Merton Bier- 
man Badenhop, Kensington; Edwin Le- 
roy Betz, Enterprise; James Frederick 
Booth, Fairvlew; Edward Francis Bren- 
ner, Bazine; Francis Richard Brown, 
Fall River; Lester Earl Brown, Circle- 
ville; Paul Lawson Brown, Sylvan 
Grove; Orville Brown Burtis, Hymer; 
Glenn Morton Busset, Manhattan; Seve- 
ro Jose Cervera, Junction City; George 
Wilson Cochran, Topeka; Wayne Robert 
Colle, Sterling; Lee Wilson Collins- 
worth, Rosalia; Stanley Elbert Combs, 
Wilson N. C. ; Don Eldon Crumbaker, 
Onaga; Emerson Lyle Cyphers, Fair- 
view; Paul Stromquist Danielson, 
Lindsborg; Clayton Cunningham David, 
North Topeka; Darold Ardale Dodge, 
Dighton; John Wallace Dummermutn, 
Barnes; John Page Karle, Washington; 
Harry Eugene Frfir, Alden. 

John Philip Featheringill, Indepen- 
dence; Taylor Leland Fitzgerald, Silver 
Lake; John Lowell Foley, Manhattan; 
Harold Robert Fox, Rozel; HoBart 
William Frederick, Burrton; LeRoy 
Frank Fry, Little River; Bertram Wal- 
lace Gardner Jr., Carbondale; Frank 
Jackson George, Lebo; Wilbert Greer, 
Council Grove; Leland Leon Groff, Par- 
sons; Melvin Ferdinand Gruber, Hope; 
Frank Wilson Howard Jr., Oakley; 
Howard McCune Hughes, Formoso; 
Rees Woodford Hughes, Fort Scott; 
Dale Craig Hupe, Perry; Harold Rolland 
Jaeger, Vesper; Kenneth Ralph Jame- 
son, Ottawa; Herbert Donald Johnson, 
Macksvllle; Lloyd Charles Jones, Frank- 
fort- Walter Marvin Keith, Manhattan; 
Mary Evelyn Kennedy, Lawrence; 
Chris William Langvardt, Alta Vis 



(Continued on last page) 



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Establish ed April 24, 1875 

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•nd memben of the faculty, the articlca in The Kan- 
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the other pests has saved Kansas 
farmers millions of dollars. 

When this defense program is com- 
pleted, perhaps the technicians and 
chemists will lay aside their thoughts 
of war and start turning out dope 
and machines for ridding the world 
of the bugs, flies, germs and other 
enemies of the farmer. But for the 
present, the best backfire against 
chinch bugs is a wide strip of alfalfa, 
sweet clover or flax, which serves as 
a barrier against the ravenous in- 
sects. Come July and August the 
cornfields will be headed for good 
yields, and it will be too bad if the 
bugs lay the stalks low. — Editorial 
comment in the Topeka Daily Capital. 



SCIENCE TODAY 



By ARTHUR L. GOODRICH 

Assistant Professor, Department of 
Zoology 

When a new student entered a 
chemistry laboratory 100 years ago, 
his attention early was called to the 
distinction between a mixture and a 




WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1941 



A STUDENT I'l-KA 
An editorial plea for maintenance 
of individual standards in a chaotic 
world appeared in the final issue of 
The Kansas State Collegian for the 
current College year. The Collegian 
is edited by Walter Martin of Pratt, 
member of the 1941 class. The edi- 
torial was written by Mary Margaret 
Arnold, a member of the 1943 class 
and Collegian editor-elect. It is re- 
printed here because its content is of 
interest and value to alumni and 
friends of Kansas State College, and 
to the general reader. Under the 
caption "End of School Year Finds 
Chaotic World," The Collegian said: 
The termination of the school 
year finds the world in as chaotic 
a state as members of our genera- 
tion have ever known. Graduating 
seniors are going out to find their 
places in this chaos, not knowing 
whether it may be on a battle field, 
in a munitions factory or in an of- 
fice in a reasonably normal world. 
Many undergraduates are leav- 
ing Kansas State sadly, knowing 
that the next year of their lives 
will, in all likelihood, be donated 
to Uncle Sam. Even instructors are 
being called from the classroom to 
assume their parts in the national 
defense program. 

An entire generation is becom- 
ing the victim of circumstances, 
just as other war generations have 
become. An abnormal world situ- 
ation necessitates an abnormal life 
plan for today's youth. 

It is entirely too true that when, 
in the course of human events, 
individuals are directed and con- 
trolled by circumstances, their 
thoughts and opinions and ideals 
become stereotyped. They accept 
the circumstances and the philoso- 
phies underlying them as inevi- 
table, to be taken for granted. 

Let us make a plea for individu- 
al thought and action, despite the 
program which is herding vast 
numbers of youth into mental as 
well as physical uniforms. A con- 
scious effort at resisting the temp- 
tation to become a carbon copy of 
a thousand others may help to save 
intellectual freedom and progress 
in such a time as this. 
♦ 

BLITZKRIEG ON CHHNCH BUGS 

If it isn't one thing to harass the 
farmer, it's another. No sooner had 
the weather man banished the wor- 
ries of a dry spring than someone 
goes out and finds that chinch bugs 
are likely to become epidemic during 
the growing season. And if the 
farmers, particularly in eastern Kan- 
sas, don't take preventative measures, 
they'll be seeing their corn and sor- 
ghums gobbled up by the voracious 
pests. 

The Kansas State College Depart- 
ment of Entomology, also alert for 
insect enemies, has sounded the 
alarm. Bunches of grass along fence 
rows and elsewhere are full of bugs, 
just awaiting the proper time to in- 
vade the fields. If the investigators 
hadn't warned the farmers the 
scourge would have slipped in on 
them some summer night and eaten 
their way up and down the rows. 

The farmers owe Kansas State Col- 
lege much gratitude for the many 
experiments, for advice on pastures 
and soils and for many other things 
besides the close watch kept on in- 
sects. Advance notice of grasshop- 
pers, chinch bugs, army worms and 



HRESH POTATOES 

The Irish potato is not only not 
Irish but is not the plant to which the 
name "potato" was first applied. Fur- 
thermore, although it is an American 
vegetable due to its South American 
origin, it reached North America 
only by a circuitous route, being car- 
ried here by Scotch-Irish immigrants 
in 1719, after it had been grown 
commonly in Ireland for about 50 
years. 

The word "potato" is derived from 
batata, indigenous American name 
for the sweet potato, a member of 
the morning glory family. The Irish 
potato is a member of the nightshade 
family. This latter includes other 
common edible plants — the tomato 
and eggplant — and is known also 
for tobacco, and for several deadly 
poisonous species of plants such as 
belladonna and bittersweet. These 
latter were used in the practices of 
sorcery and witchcraft a few cen- 
turies ago. Because of the so-called 
Irish potato's relationship to them, 
there long existed in Europe a strong 
prejudice and fear which acted 
against its use as a food. The word 
batata is still applied to sweet pota- 
toes in the Latin-American countries. 

At the present time it is generally 
accepted that the earliest known 
source of the Irish potato was Chiloe, 
an island off the coast of Chile. The 
Spaniards carried it to Europe, about 
1580. Numerous relatives of our cul- 
tivated potato are cultivated also in 
the Andes, and many others grow 
wild. 

The potato was perhaps the great- 
est gift of the New World to the Old. 
It has been estimated that the value 
of one year's potato crop of the whole 
world is greater than that of all the 
gold and silver taken to Spain from 
Mexico and Peru. — From Field Mu- 
seum News. 

— ♦ — 

CENSUS SIDELIGHTS 

The census has unearthed many 
interesting facts and sidelights in 
addition to recording vital informa- 
tion desired by the federal govern- 
ment. 

For instance, there were 5,000,000 
more home units in 1940 than in 
1930. This increase seems natural 
enough since the population also in- 
creased. The interesting thing, how- 
ever, is that the number of homes in- 
creased faster than the population. 
The total number of people increased 
only 7.2 percent in the decade, but 
the number of separate households 
increased 16.6 percent during the 
same period. 

Fewer families "doubling up," 
more people marrying, as the worst 
of the hard times passes by, seems to 
be the answer. 

Those manufacturing and those 
marketing the things households use 
will note that it is possible for the 
market to increase faster than the 
population. — Editorial comment in 
the Hastings, Neb., Daily Tribune. 
♦ 
FREEDOM OF THE PRESS 

As to freedom of the press, I be- 
lieve we have it in full measure. 

But we must always remember that 
in order to be completely free to at- 
tack evil, the press must also be free 
to embrace it, for what I consider 
evil, someone else may believe to be 
beneficent. 

In the long run, it is the newspaper 
reader who determines the contents 
of the printed pages. As his standard 
rises, so will that of the press. — H. V. 
Kaltenborn, in the St. Louis Post- 
Dispatch. 

SOUTHERN AGRICULTURE 
There are less acres under cultiva- 
tion in the South today than there 
were in 18 60. That land is far less 
productive today. And yet there are 
twice as many families trying to 
squeeze out a living on those acres 
today as there were in 1860. There 
■ is the problem, in a nutshell. — W. W. 



compound. The student noted the 
attributes and properties of two sub- 
Stances., and the properties and pecu- J 
liarities of a material resulting from 
the proper mixing and reaction of the 
two separate materials. He was led 
to realize that the structure of the 
resultant compound had something to 
do with the distinctive qualities and 
properties it exhibited — that the new 
and distinctive properties come into 
being rather suddenly under certain 
conditions, but not otherwise. 

George Henry Lewes in 18 75 sug- 
gested a name for this long-known 
phenomenon, that of "emergence." j 
It is a concept which implies that 
from a knowledge of the attributes 
of certain materials one cannot fore- , 
tell exactly the attributes of a com-| 
bination (a compound, not a mixture) 
of those materials. This most fruit- 
ful concept is widely used in the 
physical and biological sciences as a 
means of appreciating otherwise 
rather unexplainable results of natu- 
ral and experimental processes. 

To the concept of emergence may 
be linked the philosophy of holism, 
or wholeness. Briefly, holism or 
wholeness suggests that all natural 
objects, whether inanimate or ani- 
mate, must be regarded as discrete 
entities, as wholes, rather than as ag- 
gregations of constituent elements or 
parts. It suggests that "things be- 
come the mechanisms of their parts," 
or are more than the sums of their 
parts. 

What bearing can emergence and 
holism have upon the subject of 
viruses, those insidious entities whose 
effects upon animals and plants may 
be so destructive? Again chemistry 
comes into the picture. 

Wendell Meredith Stanley, aged 
38 years, already several times a doc- 
tor of philosophy and doctor of sci- 
ence, biochemist with the Rockefeller 
Institute of Medical Research, is 
responsible for some remarkable 
work and statements relative to 
viruses. 

Historically, the word virus seems 
to have received its medical connota- 
tion in 1798 through the writings of 
Edward Jenner, famed for his dis- 
covery of vaccination as a means of 
combating smallpox. In 1892 Ivanov- 
ski demonstrated that the material 
causing the mosaic disease of tobac- 
co leaves could pass through the pores 
of the finest known filters, from 
which we derive our term "filterable 
viruses" for such materials. Doctor 
Stanley satisfactorily demonstrated 
the protein nature of the tobacco mo- 



professor of physiology and zoology at 
this institution. 



saic virus in the early thirties, and 
succeeded in isolating it in consider- 
able quantities in complex crystalline 
form in 1935. Since that time, Doctor 
Stanley and his colleagues have been 
studying the structure of its invisible 
molecular makeup. 

It is probable that a virus owes its 
destructiveness to certain configura- 
tions or peculiarities of its molecular 
structure. These configurations can 
be destroyed and restored through 
chemical procedure. By proper manip- 
ulation, the virus molecule may be 
caused to lose its destructiveness yet 
retain its power of creating antibodies 
or immunizing materials within host 
tissues. By proper manipulation, the 
altered molecules may be restored to 
their destructive condition. Inactivat- 
ed viruses of other diseases than to- 
bacco mosaic have been successfully 
used as a means of building up im- 
mune conditions within the host 
without subjecting the host to a dis- 
eased condition. The difficulty con- 
fronting extensive use of this ap- 
proach to the control of virus 
diseases lies in successfully inacti- 
vating the virus without destroying 
its powers of creating antibodies. 
There is definite hope that further 
research may develop a satisfactory 
line of attack which will reduce such 
viruses as those of infantile paraly- 
sis and influenza to harmless agents 
useful in immunizing human popula- 
tions instead of causing the wholesale 
misery and heartache which rules at 
present. 

How a crystalline substance out of 
a reagent bottle can, when placed in 
the sap of a susceptible tobacco plant, 
reproduce itself within the living tis- 
sues of the host is as yet unsatis- 
factorily explained. A suggestion is 
that the compound enters into the 
normal chemical reactions going on 
in living tissue in such a manner as 
to alter the norm into the production 
of replicas of the virus molecule. If 
this proves true, we may at last have 
an explanation of how the particles 
supposedly existing in living cells and 
responsible for the transmission of 
their heritable qualities are dupli- 
cated generation after generation. 
If this proves true, we may have ad- 
ditional support of the theory that 
living substance is more than the sum 
1 of its component parts, that holism 
' and emergence are fact. 

As Doctor Stanley suggests, we may 

begin to assume that there is no 

j borderline between non-living and 

| living substances, "that the principle 

of the vital phenomenon does not 

come into existence suddenly but is 

: inherent in all matter," obtaining 

1 reality or expression by emergence 

resulting from proper combination or 

compounding of certain highly 

complex constituent elements. 



FIFTY YEARS AGO 
A. I. Blain, '79, was engaged in 
fruit-growing at Azusa, Calif. 

E. F. Nichols, '88, received the 
award of a fellowship in physics, one 
of eight, at Cornell university, Ithaca, 
N. Y. 

W. E. Whaley, '86, resigned as 
principal of Manhattan schools in 
order that he might pursue special 
studies at Cornell university for sev- 
eral years. 



SIXTY YEARS AGO 
Wirt W. Walton, escorted by 
George S. Green, Manhattan, was a 
visitor at the College. 

At the regular meeting of Society 
the question for debate was dis- 
cussed by Messrs. Copley and Short 
and the Misses Coburn and Campbell. 



KANSAS POETRY 

Robert Conover, Editor 



Alexander, farm security adminis- 
trator, to the Southern Conference 
on Interstate Problems. 
♦ 
IN OLDER DAYS 

From the Files of The Industrialist 
TEN YEARS AGO 

Dr. Margaret Justin, dean of the 
Division of Home Economics, ad- 
dressed the graduating class of Wes- 
ley hospital, Wichita. 

John F. Helm, assistant professor 
of architecture, spoke at a meeting 
of the Marysville Literary Searchlight 
and exhibited some of his etchings. 

George L. Graham was appointed 
to a special assistantship at Johns 
Hopkins university, Baltimore, Md., 
in the Department of Parasitology. 
Mr. Graham received his master of 
science degree in 1930 from the Col- 
lege and was a graduate assistant in 
the Parasitology department for two 
years, filling the vacancy left by Prof. 
James E. Ackert, who was studying 
at Cambridge university. 



ence in Home Economics and the 
northcentral regional meetings for 
vocational education. 



THIRTY YEARS AGO 
H. N. Whitford, '90, was chief of 
the Bureau of Forestry in the Philip- 
pine Islands. 

Eastern alumni of the College held 
a reunion in New York City. R. R. 
Rees, '85, representative from the 
fifth congressional district of Kansas, 
was the principal speaker. 

V. E. Bryant, '10, received his 
master of science degree from the 
University of California. Mr. Bryant 
was an instructor at the University 
of California the preceding year. 



JEALOUSY 

By '/.ana Henderson 

A jealous love is a little house, 
Fire-bright, fire-warm within; 
The roof of lightest, dryest thatch, 
The walls so thin, so thin. 

Too pitifully frail this house 
Such ominous heat to hold . . . 
The roof flames, the walls char 
To ashes cold and cold. 



Zana (Mrs. C. L.) Henderson, Wich- 
ita, was born in Minnesota, reared in 
the deep South and has lived in Kan- 
sas for nearly a quarter of a century. 
She has written numerous poems 
which have appeared in many publi- 
cations. Her first attempt at fiction 
writing was published in the 1940 
issue of The Kansas Magazine. 



SUNFLOWERS 

By B. W. Davis 

LEAVE IT TO U.S.! 
If and when we get into a shooting 
war, I for one hope we don't overdo 
"military secrecy" or "aid and com- 
fort to the enemy." 



But I am fearful. 



* 



Already there is a widely dissemi- 
nated suspicion seeded in the Ameri- 
can mind that only a very few indi- 
viduals at Washington, D. C. (and 
I mean a very, very few) should be 
expected to know what the exact 
situation is, and what has been, is 
being and will be done about it. With 
that as a spring-board it is too easy 
for us the people to conclude that 
our opinions are hardly worth the 
breath it takes to utter them. 



The final result may be that every- 
body will preface his most inane and 
innocuous opinions with an apolo- 
getic "of course I don't know, but it 
seems to me that ..." 



TWENTY YEARS AGO 
L. B. Mickel, '10, Southwest dis- 
trict manager of the United Press, 
was transferred to San Francisco. 

Harry B. Gilstrap, '91. Washington, 
D. C, was secretary to Manuel Her- 
rick, congressman from the eighth 
district of Oklahoma. 

Dr. L. Jean Bogert, head of the 
Department of Foods and Nutrition, 
returned from a trip to Chicago and 
Kansas City. Doctor Bogert while in 
Chicago attended meetings of the 
National Committee on Applied Sci- 



FORTY YEARS AGO 
C. J. Doane, '96, was bacteriologist 
in the Maryland Agricultural college. 
Professor and Mrs. Metcalf planned 
to leave Manhattan after the close of 
College in June for Burlington, Vt., 
where they were to be in charge of 
the Department of Oratory at the 
Lake Champlain Chautauqua assem- 
bly. After the assembly in August, 
they planned to visit friends in Boston 
and other Eastern cities before re- 
turning to Manhattan. 

Dr. S. Sisson, student in 1883, since 
graduated from the Toronto Veteri- 
nary college and the University of 
Chicago, accepted the chair of anat- 
omy and operative surgery in the 
Veterinary College of Ohio university. 
Doctor Sisson was for a number of 
years instructor in anatomy at Toron- 
to and for the preceding two years 



The out-pour of "I-don't-know,- 
buts" already has me awfully sick and 
tired. In a month or so Idunnobuts 
(which is not far off-rime with 
"robots") may achieve the maximum 
majority of ninety-nine and ninety- 
nine hundredths per centum. Then 
we shall all slink silently into an in- 
feriority stupor that may, before you 
can say Jack Anybody, snuff out the 
democratic independence for which 
we are giving our all — with interest. 



Well, whatever you think, or would 
like to think, my unsolicited prescrip- 
tion in this emergency calls for rea- 
sonably safe frankness and honesty 
(even down into ugly, unpleasant 
facts) from the administration, mixed 
with frequent (and honest) "why's" 
and "what for's?" from the adminis- 
tered. Thus and thus only, chirps my 
feeble mind, can a democracy worth 
dying or living for be kept breathing 
during a long war. The concentra- 
tion of information and intelligence 
is precisely what democracy is not — - 
or I have been kidded. 



Truly long-visioned administration 
of anything — a home, a canning fac- 
tory, a school or college, a city, a 
nation should see that dependable 
morale within is effected only when 
the administered feel they are trusted 
and their freely fed intelligences re- 
spected. Leave-it-all-to-me leader- 
ship (Hitler's formula) is on the 
other end of the see-saw. 



You see, I hope the District of 
Columbia will be smooth enough to 
make the United States feel that 
somehow or other, and in the long 
run, the nation is boss and its inter- 
ests paramount. 



f 



AMONG THE 
ALUMNI 



> 



< 



Edward 0. Sisson, '86, wrote, after 
looking over a list of his classmates, 
"Doesn't this list demonstrate the 
extraordinary longevity of K. S. C. 
grads? Every one of the 12 survivors 
is over 72 except myself — and I'll 
be 72 on the 24th of this month." Mr. 
Sisson's address is Star Route 1, Box 
105, Bremerton, Wash. 

Louise (Reed) Paddleford, '91, 
is now a "grandmother in daughter's 
home, where I tell the rest of the fam- 
ily how we used to do in the 'good old 
times.' " Her daughter is Alice (Pad- 
dleford) Wood, I. J. '25, and their 
home is at 114 Burns terrace, Penn 
Yan, N. Y. Since graduation in 1891, 
Mrs. Paddleford has taught school, 
studied kindergarten in San Diego, 
Calif., and taught there three years. 
Her husband, Eli M. Paddleford, was 
a Methodist preacher and she lived in 
various parsonages for 33 years. 
When her husband died in 1932, she 
lived with an older sister in Holton 
until she died in '39. Then she sold 
the home and came here to live with 
her daughter. 

Mary K. (Painter) Rogers, '96, and 
her husband, S. N. Rogers, Meade, 
have seven children and 15 grand- 
children. She writes: "My life has 
not been all fun nor sitting holding 
my hands for long at a time — till my 
health broke down, putting a stop 
to much activity. Besides raising my 
family I took care of the post office 
nearly two years, managed a country 
store, was superintendent of Sunday 
school several years, taught at one 
time and another classes from pri- 
mary to old folks' class in church 
and club work." 

Cyrus N. Allison, B. S. '01, and 
Leonora D. (Eggen) Allison, f. s. '00, 
live at 2417 Harlan, Falls City, Neb. 
Mr. Allison started the practice of 
dentistry in May, 1903, after passing 
the Oklahoma examining board. He 
graduated from the Western Dental 
college, Kansas City, Mo., in 1905 and 
located at Falls City, where he has 
been since except for one year during 
the World war during which he 
served in the capacity of YMCA over- 
seas secretary. 

Hubert L. Popenoe, '09, visited 
Kansas State College campus May 
14, accompanied by his wife and his 
brothers, Edwin A. and Dr. Parkison 
Popenoe of California Institute of 
Technology. All are sons of Edwin 
A. Popenoe, former professor of en- 
tomology here. Hubert is superin- 
tendent of grounds for Claremont 
college and Pomona college, Clare- 
mont, Calif. 

Juanita (Kempton) Fisher, D. S. 
•13, is at 4025 Bellefontaine, Kansas 
City, Mo. She visited the campus in 
May with her husband, who spoke at 
the scholarship assembly as a repre- 
sentative of the Standard Oil com- 
pany in presenting Wayne Good, 
Moses trophy winner, with a watch 
from the company. 

Lucile (Maughlin) Garrison, H. E. 
'1G, and her husband live at 122 East 
Eleventh street, Hutchinson. Mr. 
Garrison teaches mechanical drawing 
there. 

Ellen (Nystrom) Webb, H. E. '17, 
is at 1402 Laramie, Manhattan. Her 
son, Allen, is a sophomore in chemical 
engineering here. 

W. F. Law, I. J. '22, is advertising 
manager of the Council Grove Repub- 
lican. He and Hortense (Watkins) 
Law, f. s., have two children, 
Suzanne, 14, and Robert, 10. 

Ruby Alice Thomas, H. E. '23, 
works at Indianapolis, Ind., and lives 
at 2049 North Meridian street. 

Martin F. Fritz, G. S. '24, M. S. '25, 
has been appointed by Pres. F. D. 
Farrell to represent Kansas State 
College at the inauguration of Presi- 
dent Hancher of University of Iowa. 
Doctor Fritz is an associate professor 
In the Psychology department at 
Iowa State college. 

Harry Lutz, II. C. '25, Sharon 
Springs, has been appointed by Gov. 
Payne Ratner to the State Forestry, 
Fish and Game commission. He is 
mayor of Sharon Springs and pub- 
lisher of the Western Times. Mrs. 
Lutz is the former Jean Dexter, f. s. 
•32. 

Cula Buker, H. E. '26, sailed on 
April 15 to conduct cooking schools 
in Honolulu for the Honolulu Star- 
Bulletin and the Hawaiian Electric 
company. The trip is a "thank-you" 
from her employers for several years 



of successful work in demonstrating 
electric equipment to women and in 
training salesmen. Miss Buker repre- 
sents the manufacturers of Hot Point 
electric equipment in the Pacific 
Northwest and is located at Seattle. 
Herbert B. Evans, C. E. '27, wrote 
to express his appreciation of Dr. J. 
T. Willard's history and to tell of 
his new job in Amarillo, Texas, as 
drafting engineer with the Atchison, 
Topeka and Santa Fe in the general 
office there. His address is 4249 
West Thirteenth, Amarillo. 

Wirt D. Walton, Ag. '28, and 
Awilda (Brown) Walton, '27, are at 
4236 West Aldine, St. Louis, Mo. Mr. 
Walton is an instructor of music in 
Sumner high school and Stowe 
Teachers' college in St. Louis. 

E. Garth Champagne, Ag. '29, and 
Theresa (Grantham) Champagne 
have a daughter, Susan Theresa, 1 1-2 
years old. Mr. Champagne is working 
on the shelterbelt as assistant to the 
state director on the Prairie States 
Forestry project with the United 
States Forest service. The Cham- 
pagnes live at 215 South Walnut, 
Grand Island, Neb. 

Ruth (Lattimore) Fansler, H. E. 
"30, is home visitor for the Shawnee 
county welfare board. Her address is 
421 Topeka boulevard, Topeka. 

Leslie King, C. E. '31, and Olive 
(Bland) King, H. E. '30, are at 403 
Hereford, Independence, Mo. Mrs. 
King writes that her husband is now 
a captain doing active duty as utili- 
ties officer at the Lake City ordnance 
plant being constructed east of Inde- 
pendence. 

Doris Prentice, H. E. '31, is a clini- 
cal record clerk with the Department 
of Student Health. She lives at 1318 
Pierre street, Manhattan. 

Frank R. Freeman, Ag. '32, teaches 
vocational agriculture in Phillipsburg 
high school. He and Elizabeth 
(Sloop) Freeman, H. E. '36, live at 
514 Eighth street, Phillipsburg. 

Merle W. Allen, G. S. '33, M. S. 
"34, is head of the Department of 
Biological Science, Coffeyville junior 
college. He and Clara Jean (Martin) 
Allen, f. s., have a son, James 
Thomas, 3. 

A. C. Hadley, Ar. '33, is with the 
artist and design department of the 
Egry Register company, Dayton, 
Ohio. His address is Route 4, Xenia, 
Ohio. 

George H. Ellinger, E. E. '34, has 
changed his mailing address to Box 
1088, Monahans, Texas. He has been 
working for the Stanolind Oil and 
Gas company, for more than three 
years now, in the seismograph de- 
partment as a junior observer. 

Ruth (Collins) Hope, H. E. '34, 
is heading a 4-H nutrition club this 
summer and will help with the gov- 
ernment nutrition program next fall. 
She and Boyd H. Hope, '35, have two 
sons and live at Moundville, Mo. 

Lloyd J. Sconce, Ag. '35, is district 
rural rehabilitation supervisor for the 
Farm Security administration, T-2, 
Federal building, Topeka. He has a 
son, Robert Eugene, 11. 

Paul T. Nomura, D. V. M. '36, is 
a general practitioner and is owner 
and operator of an animal hospital 
at 767 Ala Moana, Honolulu, Hawaii. 
He is married to Gertrude S. Mina- 
toya. 

Virginia Ann (Sidlinger) Gustaf- 
son, I. J. '37, and Neil C. Gustafson, 
f. s. '36, live at 423 East Sixth, Apart- 
ment B, Hutchinson. Mr. Gustafson 
is secretary-treasurer of the Reno 
Industrial Loan association. 

Harold Roy Martin, M. E. '38, is an 
instructor in engineering drawing at 
Iowa State college. He and Ruth 
(Ridley) Martin live at 200 East 
Thirteenth, Ames. 

Joe Earl Thompson, C. E. '39, Wil- 
son, is party chief in building a new 
pipeline for the Natural Gas Pipeline 
company of America. 

Dorothy Lou Dickson, G. S. '39, 
is home visitor of the Augusta office 
of the Butler County Welfare depart- 
ment. Her address is 2 29 North 
Washington, El Dorado. 

Elizabeth Lyman, H. E. '40, has 
been employed since graduation last 
February as the home service econo- 
mist for the Central States Power and 
Light corporation, electric corpora- 
tion covering all of northeast Iowa 
and part of Minnesota. 

George Sklar, member of the 1941 
graduating class, has been placed in 
a defense industry. He will begin 
work June 1 with the Westvaco 
Chlorine Products company. South 
Charleston, W. Va. 



LOOKING AROUND 

KENNEY L FORD 



An '01 Class Gathering 

Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Scott, 222 
South Seventeenth street, Manhattan, 
will hold open house for members 
of the class of 1901 and their friends 
Sunday, May 25, from 2 to 5 p. m. 



Alumni Should Register 

All alumni participating in com- 
mencement activities should register 
in the College Alumni association of- 
fice or in Recreation Center, Ander- 
son hall. When they register they 
will receive reunion badges and pro- 
grams of various class meetings, Ken- 
ney L. Ford, alumni secretary, re- 
ports. 



Sigma fraternity, is now with the 
International Harvester company, in 
charge of national sales for the motor 
truck division. They are at home at 
2335 Calder, Beaumont, Texas. 



PENNER— MARTIN 

Helen Claire Penner and Donald 
James Martin, Ag. '29, were married 
April 5. Mrs. Martin, a graduate of 
Stephens college, Columbia, Mo., has 
for two years been secretary with the 
Agricultural Adjustment administra- 
tion in Manhattan. Mr. Martin is 
director of AAA personnel. They are 
at home at 900 Bertrand street, 
Manhattan. 



RECENT HAPPENINGS 
ON THE HILL 



BIRTHS 



Trainees Find Employment 

Engineering drawing defense train- 
ing proves a popular and profitable 
course at the Kansas State College, 
according to W. W. Carlson, defense 
training representative at the College. 

Of the first class of 22 students that 
completed the training, 12 found 
work in one of the airplane companies 
at Wichita almost immediately. Re- 
ports show that others of this group 
are now working in Wichita, Kansas 
City and Manhattan, while some have 
been called for military training. 

Thirteen of the second class who 
completed the training May 10 re- 
ported they had found employment 
at Wichita within a week after finish- 
ing the course. Two report they are 
working at Ft. Riley, one in Kansas 
City, one at Clay Center and of those 
not reporting it is assumed that some 
have not yet started work. 

It is expected that the defense 
training as conducted by the College 
in cooperation with the government 
will continue during the next year. 

Appropriations have been made to 
start additional training June 2 at 
the College. The wisdom and fore- 
sight of the government in financing 
the training of men for industry is 
becoming more evident, said Profes- 
sor Carlson. 

According to the reports issued by 
the government agencies and the em- 
ployment men of industries, there 
will be a steady increase in employ- 
ment of trained men. Many large 
plants located in Kansas City, Wich- 
ita, St. Louis, Tulsa and other points 
in the Central and Western states are 
not completed. Estimates of the new 
men required to man these plants run 
as high as 100,000. 



June Ann Warner was born May 5 
to Carl Warner, Ag. '38, and Dorothy 
(Diggs) Warner. Mr. Warner is 
rural rehabilitation supervisor at 
Alma. 



Pres. F. D. Farrell addressed mem- 
bers of the Block and Bridle club at 
the annual banquet in the Congrega- 
tional church banquet hall Saturday 
night. 



The Royal Purple, College year- 
book, was distributed to students Fri- 
day and Saturday. Approximately 
2,900 students already have received 
the yearbook, according to Don 
Makins, Abilene, editor. 



One of the novel birth announce- 
ments received this month was that 
of Lorrin Ernest Lowe. Alvin E. 
Lowe, Ag. '33, M. S. '35, and Esther 
(Kolsky) Lowe sent a picture of their 
other two children playing doctor and 
nurse to the baby in a doll bed. On 
the back of the picture is dittoed a 
hospital record of a maternity ward, 
giving the facts about Lorrin Ernest. 
He was born April 25. The Lowes live 
at Garden City, where Mr. Lowe is an 
assistant agronomist in the Garden 
City Experiment station. 



Colby milo, a combine-type grain 
sorghum and one of the most reliable 
crops grown in central and western 
Kansas, is superior to corn in cattle- 
fattening rations, Dr. A. D. Weber, 
cattle specialist at the Kansas Agri- 
cultural Experiment station, told 
Kansas cattlemen at the 29th annual 
Cattle Feeders' day held at the Col- 
lege Saturday. Approximately 900 
cattlemen were present for the meet- 
ing. 



Another novel announcement giv- 
ing birth information in a new way 
was the progress report, project B-l, 
pamphlet sent by Rachel (Lam- 
precht) Dittemore, I. J. '32, and Paul 
L. Dittemore, I. J. '32. They are the 
administrators of the Dittemore 
Foundation. Listed were the board 
of regents, the advisory council, the 
laboratory technicians and the clini- 
cal data — Margaret Elizabeth was 
born April 25; hair — dark; weight — 
7 lbs., 2 oz.; complexion — red. Mr. 
Dittemore is editorial assistant with 
the Kansas Agricultural Experiment 
station and instructor in the Depart- 
ment of Industrial Journalism and 
Printing. The Dittemores live on 
Route 4, Manhattan. 



The Sen. Arthur Capper recogni- 
tion award for outstanding achieve- 
ment in industrial journalism goes 
to Walter W. Martin, Pratt, who will 
be graduated Monday. Martin's 
name as winner of the Capper award 
for 1941 will be engraved on a silver 
plaque provided by Senator Capper to 
the Department of Industrial Jour- 
nalism and Printing for the purpose 
of stimulating interest in industrial 
journalism. 



EIGHTEEN MAJORS IX DIETETICS 
ARE PLACED FOR NEXT YEAR 



MARRIAGES 



RUBLE— PORTMAN 
Phyllis Lynn Ruble and Roland 
Wagner Portman, M. S. '40, were 
married April 5 at Denver. They are 
at home at Lamar, Colo. 



ADAMS— STAKOSTA 
The marriage of Eunice Adams 
and Allan E. Starosta, Ag. '40, took 
place December 2 2. Mr. Starosta 
taught vocational agriculture at Hal- 
stead the past year. 



. E. 
"39 



'40, 
are 



COXOnON-BKHT 

Rachael Jane Congdon, H 
and Raymond E. Bert, M. I. 
now living at Neodesha. They were 
married March 15. Mr. Bert is with 
a small grain company in Neodesha. 



FOSTER— P.ETTON 

Betty Lou Foster became the bride 
of Matt Betton, M. Ed. '38, Manhattan 
band leader, April 27. Mrs. Betton 
has been employed in the Manhattan 
offices of the Agricultural Adjustment 
administration. They live at 613 
North Twelfth, Manhattan. 



JOHNSON — SIMON 

Daisy Marie Johnson, H. E. '34, 
was married to Donald A. Simon of 
Oskaloosa on March 29. Mrs. Simon 
is home management supervisor for 
the Farm Security administration in 
Jefferson county and expects to con- 
tinue in that position. Mr. Simon is 
the senior partner of the Simon Ser- 
vice in a new location at Oskaloosa. 



Institution* AcroHM the Entire Country 
Give Position* to GrndmiteM 

Eighteen home economics and die- 
tetics majors will spend next year in 
hospitals and schools all over the na- 
tion. They recently received appoint- 
ments for a year's training in hospi- 
tals and schools approved by the 
American Dietetic association. 

Dorothy Montgomery, Sabetha, and 
Helen Ensign, Garrison, will work 
in the food service unit of the Bio- 
logical Research laboratory on Long 
Island this summer. Jessie Collins, 
Dwight, has a position with the Na- 
tional Livestock and Meat board, 
Chicago. 

Dorothy Axcell, Chanute, will be 
in the Michael Reese hospital, Chi 



Don Makins, Abilene, senior in 
journalism, has been given a citation 
as an outstanding male journalism 
graduate for 1941 by Sigma Delta 
Chi, professional journalism frater- 
nity. The award was determined on 
the basis of character, leadership, 
ability and competence to perform 
journalistic tasks. The committee 
making the selection was composed of 
Gordon West, Manhattan, a junior; 
Richard Seaton, I. J. '34, professional 
member, and C. J. Medlin, faculty 

adviser. 

♦ 

SIX STUDENTS ARE CHOSEN 

FOR DANFORTH FELLOWSHIPS 



Itobert Wiijuier nntl Dorothy Beezley 
Vlimell »H DIvlHionnl Winner* 

Six Kansas State College students 
have been awarded fellowships by 
the Danforth foundation in St. Louis. 
They will attend Camp Miniwanca, 
American Youth Foundation leader- 
ship training institution in Michigan 
this summer. 

Divisional winners of the fellow- 
ships for this year are Robert Wag- 
ner, Garden City, for the Division of 
Agriculture, and Dorothy Beezley, 
Girard, winner of the Home Econom- 
ics fellowship. 

Freshman winners include John 
Aiken, Moran, Division of Agricul- 
ture; Mary Cawood, Wetmore, Divi- 
sion of Home Economics; Chester 
Peters, Valley Falls, Division of Gen- 
eral Science, and Raymond Cook, 



cage Virginia Barnard, Belleville, Courtland, Division of Veterinary 



HOFM A NX- HOFFMAN 

The wedding of Maxine Hofmann, 
H. E. '36, to William C. Hoffman of 
Beaumont, Texas, took place April 
26. The bride, a member of Zeta Tau 
Alpha social sorority, has worked for 
the past five years with the College 
Extension service — three years in 
Ellsworth and two years in Salina. 
Mr. Hoffman, a graduate of Baker 
university and a member of Kappa 



will go to Harper hospital, Detroit. 
At the University of Oklahoma hospi- 
tals in Oklahoma City will be Betty 
Boehm, Manhattan. Betty June Cur- 
tis, McPherson, will serve her ap- 
pointment in the Lincoln General 
hospital, Lincoln, Neb. 

Doris Carlson, Osage City, will be 
in the Latter Day Saints hospital, 
Salt Lake City, next year. Ruth 
Douglas, Coffeyville, will go to the 
Miami Valley hospital, Dayton, Ohio. 
To work in the Alameda County hos- 
pital, Oakland, Calif., is Caralee Lam- 
ing, Tonganoxie. 

Jane McKee, Chanute, will be in 
the Johns Hopkins hospital, Balti- 
more, Md. Virginia Monahan, Leav- 
enworth, will go to the Presbyterian 
hospital, New York City. Ruth Mor- 
row, Larned, will work in the Massa- 
chusetts General hospital, Boston. 
Helen Pilcher, Gridley, will do her 
work in the University of Michigan 
hospital, Ann Arbor. 

To work in the Scripps Metabolic 
clinic, La Jolla, Calif., is Cheryl Pop- 
pen, Burr Oak. Cleda Rambo, Paola, 
will work in the University of Wash- 
ington, Seattle. Ruth Ramsay, Be- 
loit, will be at the Oregon State hos- 
pital, Portland, and Kathleen Shep- 
pard, Manhattan, will be at the St. 
Mary's hospital, Detroit. 
♦ — 
Beta Kappa to Close 

Beta Kappa, social fraternity, will 
not reopen next fall, members decided 
after their enrolled membership had 
fallen. 



Medicine. 



JUNIOR JOURNALISM STUDENT 
HELPS INITIATE HIS FATHER 



Hurry Hourk Sr. nntl Roy Kreeland 
Taken into SlKmii lleltn Chi 

A son helped initiate his father 
when the College chapter of Sigma 
Delta Chi, men's professional jour- 
nalism fraternity, initiated Harry 
Bouck Sr. and four other men Sunday 
night. Mr. Bouck, a former news- 
paper man and advertising executive, 
and for the past 10 years secretary of 
the Manhattan Chamber of Com- 
merce, was initiated as a professional 
member in a service, with Harry Jr. 
assisting in the ceremonies. 

Roy Freeland, Ag. '38, an associate 
editor of Kansas Farmer, Topeka, 
was initiated as a professional mem- 
ber of the fraternity. 

The three new undergraduate 
members initiated were Milt Dean 
Hill, Kansas City, Kan., Manhattan 
correspondent of the Kansas City 
Star; Lowell Brandner, Leoti, and 
Terryll Dougherty, Manhattan. 
♦ 
Wins $200 Kssay Prize 

Max McCluggage, Manhattan, mill- 
ing technologist in the Department 
of Milling Industry, won first prize of 
$200 in an essay competition, spon- 
sored by the American Miller, milling 
magazine. "Experimental Milling — 
the Miller's First Line of Defense" 
was the title of his winning essay. 



CANDIDATES NUMBER 673 
FOR 1941 COMMENCEMENT 



miss jessie: Mcdowell machir 
says 32 seek master's 



Total Exceeds by 39 the Number of 

ThoMe Receiving Diplomas Last 

May; General Science Leads 

with 150 Studenta 

(Continued from page one) 

Doyle Wayne LaRosh, Natoma; David 
Hale Long, Abilene; Roscoe Dean Long, 
Drexel, Mo.; Orville Walter Love, Neo- 
sho Rapids; Boyd Homer McCune, Staf- 
ford; George Nolan McKenzie, Solomon; 
Arthur Charles Mangelsdorf, Atchison. 
Milton Lloyd Manuel, Havensyille; 
Robert Frank Mears, Kansas City; 
Friedrich Edward Meenen, Clifton; 
Russell Wayne Miller, Lebanon; Dale 
Lewis Moore, Ashland; Ray William 
Morrison, Lamed; Wendell Austin 
Moyer, Manhattan; Robert Mudge 
Niquette, Garden City; Kent Leonard 
Patton, Chase; James Russell Peddi- 
cord, Manhattan; Lewis Eugene Pogge- 
meyer, Topeka; John Germann Poole, 
Manhattan; Herman Albert Praeger Jr., 
Claftin; Byron White Quinby, Manhat- 
tan; Arden Reiman, Byers; Gerald Dale 
Ressel, Colony; Ralph Warren Rhodes, 
McLouth; Walter Stuart Robinson, 
Nashville; Joseph Jackson Rosacker, 
Emporia; Moutrie Wilbur Salter, Wake- 
field; Paul Everett Sanford, Milford, 
Arthur LeRoy Saylor, Langdon; Ken- 
neth Thomas Sherrill, Brownell; Ernest 
Harold Simpson, Conway Springs, 
Henry Lyman Singer, Parker; Frank 
Allan Slead, Neosho Rapids; Henry 
Joseph Smies, Courtland; Paul Elbert 
Smith, Lebanon; Rollin Max Starosta, 
Pomona. 

Raymond Stewart, Manhattan; Joseph 
Jacob Straub, Wathena; Charles Lyman 
Streeter, Milford; George Lester Clifford 
Sundgren. Coldwater; Leon Zaven Sur- 
melian, Hollywood, Calif.; Perrin Kent 
Symns Atchison; Fred Scudder Talbot, 
Manhattan; Benjamin Wickham Tem- 
D ero, Clay Center; Orval Elmer Thrush, 
Wakefield; David Salem Totah, Ramal- 
lah, Jerusalem, Palestine; LorenLoef- 
fler Van Petten, Washington; Lindley 
Eugene Watson, Peck; John Raymond 
Weddle, Fort Scott; Robert Blaine 
Wells, Manhattan; Dean Duane Whit- 
more Portis; Byron Kimble Wilson, 
Manhattan ; Garl Alton Wilson Queue - 
mo; Mark Francis Wilson, Ashland, 
John Stanley Winter, Dresden; Charles 
Edward Works, Humbo dt; Mack Yen- 
zer, Saffordville; Donald Allan Yost, 
La Crosse; Albert Warren Yoxall, 
Woodston; Edward Brewer Zahn, 
Miltonvale. 

Bachelor of Science In Milling In- 
dustryi William Joeseph Ball. Oswego; 
Ronald Leroy Biggs Potwin; RuweU 
William Blessing, Emporia; .William 
Blount Briggs, La^drum'. S '0; Wayne 
Xavier Deaver, Sabetha; Rush Hone 
Elmore, Topeka; George Howard Fit- 
tell BeloitT John Norris Haymaker, 
Manhattan; Willard Henry Melnecke, 
Herkimer; Wil ard Dean Nelson, Had- 
dam; Ralph Roy Roberts, Phillipsburg; 
Theodore Edward Stivers Jr., Rome 
Ga Carlyle Philip Woelfer, Manhattan, 
Eugene Ellsworth Woolley, Osborne. 

Doctor of Veterinary Medicine: Fer- 
nando Edmundo Armstrong, Ponce, 
Puerto Rico; George Rankin Arm- 
strong, Gastonia, N. C; Leroy Nichols 
Atkinson, Hutchinson; Lawrence Roy 
Bain Pittsburg; James Grant Betts, 
Randall; William Dale Bowerman, Ok- 
lahoma City; Arthur William Brower, 
Emporlaf Kenneth Lee Bruce, Orchard 
Neb ; Bernard Busby, Wakefield, Neb., 
Gilbert Wilson Carl, Hutchinson; Ed- 
ward Eldridge Chambers, Parsons; 
Robert Hugh Oark, Manhattan; Clark 
C Collins, West Point, Neb., Shirley 
LeRoy Davis, Fort Scott : Warren James 
Dedrick. Kansas City; Glenn Ellsworth 
Duncan, St. Francis; George Washing- 
ton I "berhart, Jewell; John Ernest 
Er"cks„n, r ciairton, Pa.; Willard Halsey 
Eyestone, Pittsburg; Frank Abram 
Flipse, Oakley; John Gifford Gish El 
Dorado; Glenn Clough_Halver, T Crane, 
Mont.; Gordon Clark 



Howell, Kansas 




I. ; ' Jacob ' Landers Karnes, Benton, 
Ky; Edward Jacob Keller St. Francis 
Virgil Uoscoe Kelley, Arkansas City. 
Charles Alvin Kennedy Jr.; Kansas 
City; Richard Benton Koger, Belvldere 
Glover Wilson Laird, Kansas City, Mo.; 
Clifford Alonzo Lemen, Manhattan. 

Frank Everett Lichlyter, El Dorado; 
Viridl Keith McMahan, Manhattan, 
Raymond Charles McPeek, Ramsey, N 
£; David Oscar Manley, Wakarusa; 
Jacob Lewis Medaris, Parsons; Herbert 
Meri weather, Chetopa; Earl Lawrence 
Mundell, Kansas City ; Charles Clarance 
Newhart, Delaware Water Gap, ra.. 
Cecl Lewis Paulsen, Onaga; Loyal 
Cobb Payne, Manhattan; LeRoy Albert 
Pierce Manhattan ; Rodney Person 
Port, Cheyenne, Wyo.; Elwin Raymond 
Prather, Eureka; Myron Dale Reed, 
Smith Center; Charles Dixon Renfrew, 
West Plains, Mo. ; Samuel Arthur Schen- 
del, Richmond; Charles Combie Sm th, 
Kansas City, Mo.; Charles Lewis Smith, 
Har n veyville y ; Raymond William Stanzel 
La Harpe; Marvin Dean Stitt, Clear- 
water; Richard William Swart, Manhat- 
Clarence Henry Thompson Jr., 



tan; 



Dodge 



Gerald 



Ozawkie; Earl Clair Toynton 
City; W. Gerald Trostle, Hope; Wil 
Bam Henry Vanderbllt, Eureka; Delbert 
Oscar Wendt, Bonner Springs, Don 
Oliver Whitney, Phillipsburg. 

Bachelor of Science In Agricultural 
Knglneerlngt Forrest Overton Beard- 
mo?' Manhattan; Gustave Edmund 
w-.Viri.nnks Toneka; Clarence Albert 
Fr"e,e Hoy t; Paul Ernest Harbison, 
Johnson; Deno Everett Hu tt Talmage; 
Ralph Iden Upper st 1 erlinfe ^F 
Thomas Van Vleet, Danbury, Neb 

Bachelor of Science In Architecture: 
Lawrence Ralph Bowdish, Wichita; 
wm Km , Earl Doty, Manhattan; John 
rotterUl Foster Manhattan; John Alden 
Shaver, Salina; John Dennis Sulton, 
Manhattan. 

Hnfhelor of Science In Architectural 
Engineering. Edward Linn Abernathy 
SVinrnn Snrings; Lawrence Ralph 
Bowdish. Wichita Dwight Carl Brown, 
n«hnrn«- Wesley Lorenzo Burgan, 
Kington; Char-Yes Ellsworth Kaiser, 
Kansas City; Shelby Harrison Lane, 
Buckfln: Thornton Jones Patton, Ham- 
ilton- Elmer William Schwartz, Hols- 
ngto'n; Galen Max Sollenberger Hutch- 
infon? Robert Sanders Thornburrow, 
Wetmore. 

Bachelor of Science In Chemical En- 
gineering: Edgar Crowley Jr., Kansas 
f ityT j"an Chandler DeVault, Kansas 
CUv- Irving Diamond, Bronx, N. Y., 
John' Jamef Dooley, Parsons; Warren 
Gerald I Grubb, Phillipsburg; Thomas 
Benton Haines, Manhattan; Harold 
Ravmond Harris, Geuda Springs; Earl 
Clinton Johnson Jr., Coffeyville; Gerald 
August Lake, Manhattan; Emery John 



Levin, Lindsborg; George Van Noy 
Packer, Manhattan; Willis Dey Pay ton, 
Arkansas City; Elmer John Rollins, 
Manhattan; Paul Jay Ruckel Jr., Arkan- 
sas City; Joseph Peter Sachen, Kansas 
City; Ralph Emanuel Samuelson, Man- 
hattan; Emerson Hugh Shade, Rantoul; 
George Sklar, Manhattan; Carmin Bar- 
ton Sprague, Douglass; Mailand Rainey 
Strunk, Kansas City; Ralph Theodore 
Thomas, Independence; Leslie „Earl 
Thompson, Fort Scott; Charles Elmer 
Webb Jr., Hill City; Thomas Richard 
Woods, Burden. 

Bachelor of Science In Civil Engineer- 
ing: James Otis Adams, Eureka; Wil- 
fred Ira Anderson, Clay Center; Carl 
Theodore Besse, Clay Center; Emory 
Bond Jr., Burlingame; Garland Baxter 
Childers, Augusta; Norman Travis 
Cook, Monument; Richard Francis Dil- 
ley, Topeka; Aven Lamar Lshelman, 
Abilene; Clair Eugene Ewing, Blue 
Rapids; William Arthur Gardner, Cha- 
nute; Billy Burris Geery, Burrton; Guy 
Edgar Gibson Jr., Kensington; Elvin 
Vance Giddings, Manhattan; Carl Henry 
Helm, Chanute; Kenneth Dean Henry, 
Robinson; Leroy L. King, Hesston; 
Harley Eugene Lucas, Coffeyville; 
Wyatt Parkman Marbourg, Emporia; 
Paul Jarboe Montgomery, Topeka; 
Walter M. Naylor, Burr Oak; Leland 
Cyril Porter, Dellvale; Melvin Eugene 
Scanlan, Agra; John Vito Sette, Corona, 
Long Island, N. Y. ; Lloyd Campbell 
Teas, Manhattan. 

Bachelor of Science In Electrical En- 
gineering: Harold Eugene Alford, Ar- 
kansas City; Richard Carl Allen, Car- 
thage, Mo.; John Henry Babcock, Man- 
hattan; William Goddard Bensing, 
Manhattan; Charles Wilson Blackburn, 
Topeka; James Thomas Bradley, Sedan; 
Alonzo Leon Cloninger, Chanute; Her- 
bert Merril Dimond, Manhattan; Fay 
Albert Edwards, Arlington; Shirley 
Frederick Eyestone, Wichita; John 
Henry Frohn, Manhattan; Alexander 
Rinaldo Geldhof, Pittsburg; Roger 
Keith Ghormley, Hutchinson; Paul 
Clement Hauber, Kansas City; William 
Douglas Helm, Simpson; Edwin Burns 
Holland, Liberal; Gerald Adelbert Hoyt, 
Thayer; Charles Franklin Johnson, 
Kansas City, Mo.; Paul Laurence Kew- 
ley, Stockton; George Wendell Killan, 
Chapman; LeRoy Vernon Kleppe, Ever- 
est; Oliver Ned Laurie, Mulvane; Ernest 
Wayne Lelve, Brookville; Marlin Wray 
Martin, Hutchinson; Archie LeRoy 
Morgan, Emporia; Joe Kenneth Murphy, 
Chapman; Joseph Donald Musil, Man- 
hattan; John Elmer Newacheck, El 
Dorado; Harry Alfred Peterson, Kansas 
City, Mo.; Robert Allen Peterson, Jas- 
per, Mo.; Allen Ellwood Smoll, Wichita; 
Daniel Wichmann Wagoner, Lenora; 
Robert Buchanan Washburn, Manhat- 
tan; John Franklin Weary, Junction 
City; Alfred Marvin White, Topeka; 
Donald Keith Wilkin, Nortonville; Ken- 
neth Morton Yoos, Atwood; Howard 
Miller Zeidler, Sabetha. 

Bachelor of Science In Industrial 
Arts: Robert Benson Coder, Manhattan; 
Max Clarence Leuze, Sabetha; Dale 
Edwin Zabel, Westmoreland. 

Bachelor of Science In Mechanical 
Engineering: Charles Warren Adcock, 
Washington, D. C; Edwin M. Aronson, 
Fort Scott; Clyde Jennings Bateman, 
Herington; De Elroy Beeler, Kansas 
City; Carl Frederick Beyer, Glen Elder; 
Elmore Joseph Blackburn, Manhattan; 
Richard Harold Breckenridge, Wood- 
ston; John Augustus Brewer, Con- 
cordia; Lewis Ernest Brown, Chanute; 
Raymond Martin Bukaty, Kansas City; 
Frank Adelbert Churchill, Junction 
City; Samuel Griffith Dukelow, Hutchin- 
son; Vincent Henry Ellis, Urbana, 111.; 
George Allen Fadler, Carthage, Mo.; 
Edward Horton Fletcher, Council 
Grove; Alva Rodell Gardner, Pomona; 
C. Lyndon Griffith, Elkhart; Lewis 
Ernest Heiney, Bloom; Edward Vaughn 
Hobbs, Manhattan; Wilbert Lloyd 
Loewen, Goessel; William Arthur Met- 
calf, Kansas City, Mo.; Karl Joseph 
Mosbacher Jr., Wichita; Albert Louis 
Niemoller, Wakefield. 

Louis Etzolcl Noel, Webster Groves, 
Mo.; Glenn Emerson Pribbeno, Sharon 
Springs; Robert Howard Pyle, Welling- 
ton; John Parke Ransom, Homewood; 
Jack Harman Rupe, Kansas City; Al- 
bert Erwin Schwerin, Kansas City, Mo.; 
Edward Frank Sefcik, Cuba; Bert Eu- 
gene Sells, Wichita; Walter Turner 
Singleton, Tribune; Clarence Paul 
Smith, Marysville; James Dow Thack- 
rey Portland, Ore.; Harden Halleck 
Tubbs, Elkhart; Ralph John Wahren- 
brock, Enterprise; Roby Byron White 
Jr., Neodesha; Edgar Howard Wilker- 
son, Wichita; William Horn Wilson, 
Augusta; Keith Leon Witt, Indepen- 
dence. 

Buchelor of Science In Home Eco- 
nomic*: Julia Jane Alderman, Ottawa; 
Genevie Elizabeth Allen, Manhattan; 
Edith Hewitt Anderson, Leavenworth; 
Ellita Bernice Atwell, Utica; Dorothy 
Elizabeth Axcell, Chanute; Virginia 
Lee Barnard, Belleville; Winifred Jean 
Bayer, Manhattan; Rena Lauretta Bell, 
McDonald; Welcome Annelle Bender, 
Plains; Minnie Josephine Bergsma, 
Goodland; Maxine Beryl Bishop, Abi- 
lene; Pauline Isabel Blackwell, Rozel; 
Betty Boehm, Manhattan; Ruth Eliza- 
beth Bonnell, Kansas City, Mo.; Pauline 
Marie Borth, Plains; Jacquelyn Lenore 
Brower, Attica; Edith Louise Buchholtz, 
Olathe; Bessie Marie Campbell, Con- 
cordia; Mary Alice Campbell, Concordia; 
Ruth Pearl Campbell, Lakin; Doris Vir- 
ginia Carlson, Osage City; Jessie Mar- 
garet Collins, Dwight; Lucile Mae 
Cosandier, Onaga; Marie Jane Cox, 
Iola; Sarah Ann Crotinger, Bison; 
Betty Jane Curtis, McPherson. 

Mildred Bozarth Davis, Liberal: 
Marieta Jane Delano. Hutchinson; 
Alma Lorraine Dickerhoof, Chanute; 
Helen Gordon Dodds, Lawrence; Lillian 
Ruth Dumler, Gorham; Jane Cuthbert 
Dunham, Topeka; Marion Claire Elmer, 
Manhattan; Helen Louise Ensign, Gar- 
Lola Grace Evans, Hutchinson; 
Hutchinson; 



Mae Lohmeyer, Newton; Marian Fran- 
ces McBride, Hume, Mo.; Marjorie Jane 
McKee, Chanute; Martha Roseline Mc- 
Kenna, Kingman; Helen Rowena Mar- 
shall, Wheaton, 111.; Ruth Eleanor 
Martin, Kansas City, Mo.; Grace Eliza- 
beth Mather, Grinnell; Gertrude Lucille 
Mensch, Independence; Kathryn Louise 
Millard, Zenda; Joan Miller, Milford; 
Virginia Belle Monahan, Leavenworth; 
Mary Louise Mossman, Manhattan; 
Evelyn Mae Moyer, Dodge City; Vera 
Lois Murphy, Detroit; Joanna June 
Nethaway, Salina; Janet Yvonne Nut- 
ter, Shelton, Neb.; Mabel Ruth O'Brien, 
Muscotah; Dorothy Ruth O'Loughlln, 
Lakin. 

Alleen Ozment, Manhattan; Velva 
Aldene Peffly, Waldron; Helen Leona 
Pilcher, Gridley; Cheryl Gertrude Pop- 
pen, Burr Oak; Alberta Lounell Pullins, 
Council Grove; Cleda Doris Rambo, 
Paola; Ruth Pauline Ramsay, Beloit; 
Laura Virginia Randall, Ashland; Mary 
Josephine Rhine, Manhattan; Vivian 
Pauline Rice, Greensburg; Harriett 
Frances Richardson, Oswego; Mary 
Pauline Richarz, Coffeyville; Leila 
Alouise Roberts, Parsons; Margaret 
Kathleen Roberts, McPherson; Virginia 
Frances Robinson, Harper; Ruth 
Roberta Ruhlen, Woodbine; Ruth Eliza- 
beth Salley, Silver Lake; Alice Mary 
Santner, Gaylord; Ruth Elouise Sant- 
ner, Gaylord; Virginia Helene Schmidt, 
Raymond; Jean Jewett Scott, Manhat- 
tan; Helen Marie Sellens, Hoisington; 
Margaret Alma Sewing, Kansas City; 
Manette Sexson, Goodland; Ophelia 
Deborah Sharp, Great Bend; Helen Ai- 
leen Shepard, Erie; Lorrayne Gladys 
Shepardson, Junction City; Kathleen 
Olive Sheppard, Manhattan. 

Agnes Marie Smith, Toronto; Hattie 
Alice Smith, Highland; Mary Pauline 
Spain, Beloit; Hazel Aldine Spessard, 
Junction City; Dorothy Jane Steinkirch- 
ner, Newton; Kathleen Beryl Stewart, 
Stockton; Mary Louetta Stewart, Saf- 
fordville; Theda Elizabeth Stine, Glas- 
co; Earnestine Alice Sutter, Leon; Ar- 
lene Grace Taylor, Enterprise; Charlotte 
Thompson, Iola; Constance Patricia 
Thurston, Elmdale; Mina Fay Tillman, 
Topeka; Helen Tipton, Paola; Elizabeth 
Lurene Titus, Cottonwood Falls; Jane 
LaVerne Utterback, Yates Center; 
Roberta Viola Vawter, Oakley; Kath- 
erine Jean Wadley, Silver Spring, Md.; 
Janet Ross Wallace, Hays; Vanora Ar- 
lene Weber, Caldwell; Ila Hall Wells, 
Manhattan; Dorothee Marie Wiles, 
Parsons; Blanche Maida Winkler, Riley; 
Betty Catherine Wolf, McPherson; 
Martha Jane Wreath, Manhattan; Eliza- 
beth Barclay Wright, Salina; Evelyn 
Ernestine Yost, Downs. 

Bnchelor of Science In Home Econom- 
ics and Nursing: Hallie Marguerite Bell, 
Norcatur; Dorothy Isabelle Beyer, Dal- 
las, Tex.; Rose Eileen Harman, Indi- 
anapolis, Ind.; Helen McGhie Watson, 
Shawnee. 

Bachelor of Science Degree: Raymond 
Voiles Adams Jr., Manhattan; Eugene 
Elria Anderson, Greenleaf ; Laura Flor- 
ence Bartholow, Coffeyville; Kathryn 
Elizabeth Blevins, Manhattan; John 
Mathew Boalen, Concordia; Jack Wal- 
lace Branson, Belleville; Ruth Miller 
Brunner, Wamego; Wilma Hortense 



Maude Horton, Wayside; Ann Elizabeth 
Jackson, El Dorado; Verland Thomas 
Jahnke, Woodbine; Samuel Thomas 
Johnson, Hallowell; John Pershing 
Kane, Rock Creek; Robert Landis 
Kauffman, Salina; Ruth Ella Kindred, 
Bonner Springs; Theron Lambert King, 
Manhattan; Harold McKee Lemert, 
Arkansas City; Leonard Lille, Ells- 
worth; Frank Robert Lonberger, Man- 
hattan; Dudley Randolph Londeen, Abi- 
lene; John Richard Moore, Atchison; 
Eloise Morris, Wichita; John Thomas 
Muir, Norton; Bernard Carlton Nash, 
Lakin; David Edgar Newman, Junction 
City; Max Charles Opperman, Yates 
Center; James Wilbur Paustian, Man- 
hattan; George Henry Peircey, Water- 
bury, Conn.; Isabelle Marjorie Phelan, 
Kansas City, Mo.; Vernon Leslie Plan- 
ner, Coffeyville; Paul Archie Puttroff, 
Newton; Harold Elwood Saum, Oberlin; 
Keith Merrill Schmedemann, Junction 
City; Ralph Murray Skinner, Topeka; 
Marjorie Nell Spillman, Coyville; Robert 
Vernon Swanson, Waterbury, Conn.; 
Thomas Edmund Trenkle, Topeka; 
Donald Keith Wilkin, Nortonville; 
Ralph Edgar York, Dunlap. 

Bachelor of Science In Industrial 
Chemistry: Edwin Howard Beach, 
Marysville; Joseph Junior Bryske, Man- 
kato; James Martin Cripps, Manhattan; 
James Madison Fallis, Luray; Louis 
Daniel Kottmann, Ellsworth; Carl 
Ernest Latschar, Manhattan; Charles 
Fredrick O'Brien, Iola; Carl Lea Pet- 
tyjohn, Talmo; Charles Paul Schafer, 
Vermillion; John Wesley Steftens, 
Kansas City. 

Bachelor of Science In Industrial Jour- 
nalism: Enid Alene Altwegg, Junction 
City; Robert Hale Blair, Ottawa; Clara 
Katharine Chubb, Topeka; Margret 
Jane Goble, Riley; Mary Jean Grentner, 
Junction City; William Herbert Hick- 
man, Kirwin; James Merlin Kendall, 
Dwight; Marianna Kistler, Manhattan; 
Katherine Jane Lovitt, Great Bend; 
Jennie Marie Madsen, Dwight; Donald 
Regis Makins, Abilene; Walter Wood- 
row Martin, Pratt; Ellen Peak, Manhat- 
tan; Lynne LeMoine Prout, Wichita; 
Grant Angus Salisbury, El Dorado; 
Mary Frances Sauder, Madison; Marcus 
Marion Schowalter Jr., Halstead; Eliza- 
beth Ann Steinheimer, Hutchinson; 
Victor Theodore Volsky, Pittsfield, 
Mass. 

Bnchelor of Science In Music Educa- 
tion: Mary Jane Boyd, Hutchinson; 
Ralph Clayton Chartier, Concordia; 
Mary Harding Dillin, Hutchinson; 
Charles Kendal Horner, Abilene; Betty 
Lou LaPlante, Minneapolis; Marjorie 
Lucile Moree, Belleville; Donald Calvin 
Pricer, Hill City; ValGene K. Sherrard, 
Great Bend; Nancy Patricia Wilkins, 
Steelville, Mo. 

Bachelor of Science in Physical Edu- 
cation: Elmer Loyd Hackney, Oberlin; 
Lucille Belle Haley, Kansas City, Mo.; 
John James Jackson, Eureka; Mary 
Marvel Kantz, Wichita; Doris Marie 
Kittell, Topeka; Charles Melvin Mc- 
Crann, Manhattan; William Phillip 
Nichols, Waterville; Marion Albert 
Ramage, Manhattan; Norma Irene 
Waits, Wichita. 

Master of Science Degree: Lawrence 
Raymond Berg, Elmo, Wash.; Charles 



WILDCAT BASEBALL NINE 
SPLITS SERIES AT AMES 



KANSAS STATE WILL PLAY K. V. 
THIS WEEK-END 



Visitors Defeat Cyclones 8 to « on 

Monday and Then Go Down 

11 to 1 in Tuesday's 

Contest 

The Kansas State College baseball 
squad split two games with Iowa State 
college at Ames this week. On Mon- 
day, the Wildcats won 8 to 6, while 
the Iowa team avenged itself 11 to 1 
on Tuesday. 

Warren Hornsby, Topeka, curly- 
headed shortstop, collected four hits 
in four times at bat in Monday's game. 
He hit a homer in the eighth inning 
with two men on bases to add three 
points to the Wildcats' score. Ken- 
neth Graham, Framingham, Mass., 
first baseman, also made a home run. 
It was in the seventh with no players 
on base. 

SCORE FOUR RUNS IN FIRST 

The score by innings for Monday's 

game was: 

Kansas State 400 000 130—8 

Iowa State 010 100 220—6 

The Cyclones scored nine runs on 
six hits in the first two innings of 
Tuesday's game to give them an un- 
surmountable lead. 

MEET K. U. THIS WEEK-END 

The score by innings for Tuesday's 

game was: 

Kansas State 010 000 000—1 

Iowa State 540 010 lOx— 11 

The Wildcats will meet the Univer- 
sity of Kansas nine here Friday and 
Saturday for the final games of the 
current baseball season. 



Cade, Manhattan; Robert George Chap- j onn Birkelan'd, Manhattan; Hsien 



man, Manhattan; Doris Leota Clark 
Longton; Donald Raymond Conard, 
Coolidge; Richard Warren Cope, Hol- 
ton; Robert Thomas Cotton, Manhattan; 
Elvin Wayne Cramer, Glasco; Robert 
Earhart Crow, Harper; Fay Anne Dale, 
Coldwater; Blanchetta Fair, Dearing; 
Elizabeth Anne Ferrier, Seneca; Law- 
rence Dale Freel, Goff ; Neva Marguerite 
Garrett, Clay Center; Ilazelbel Hutchins 
George, Sterling; Dale Edsel Gibson, 
Winchester; Richard Henry Hagadorn, 
Gaylord; James Robert Hoath, Anthony. 

Allison Lynn Hornbaker, Hutchinson; 
Helen Maurine Jackson, Salina; Charles 
Arnold Jacobi, Salem, Ore.; Neal Mike 
Jenkins, Manhattan; Eleanor Constance 
Kershner, Paola; Eleanor Jane Lam- 
bert, Hiawatha; Gwendolyn Lucille Lee, 
Lyons; Yvonne Joy Lemen, Manhattan; 
James Worth Linn, Manhattan; Robert 
James McColloch, Manhattan; Hazel 
Marguerite Marlow, Manhattan; Dolores 
Ann Meyer, Frankfort; Frank Miller Jr., 
Milford; Alden Borthwick Miner, Ness 
City; Anna Mae Nemechek, Abilene; 
Auriel Lee Olson, Erie; John March- 
bank Parker, Manhattan; Jessie Adeline 
Pelhani, Albany, Ga.; Earl Llwyn Red- 
field, Bucklin; Harlan Edward Rees, 
Manhattan; Opal Elnora Rhoads, Good- 
land; Frank Edgar Rickel, Manhattan; 
Gerald Moore Riley, Concordia; Robert 
Max Roelfs, Bushton; George Davis 
Schumacher, Lyons; Rule O. Seymour, 
Ottawa; Claude Wesley Shenkel, Lyons. 

Richard Wilkeson Smith, Salina; 
Charles Willis Stafford, Republic; Ev- 
elyn Lucille Stener, Courtland; George 
James Stipe, Manhattan; Marvin Elmer 
Trembly, Chanute; Lois Belle Turner, 
Manhattan; R. V. Tye, Hanover; Robert 
Dean Williams, Manhattan; Marjorie 
B. Windhorst, Glasco; Robert Warren 
Yeoman, Kingman. 

Bnchelor of Science In Business Ad- 
ministration : Jack Junior Banks, Win- 
field; Annabelle Bays, Onaga; Maurice 
Wayne Beichley, Longford; Maurice 
Wittry Bergerhouse, Greeley; John 
Harrison Bowers Jr., Kansas City; 
David Henry Breuninger, Manhattan; 
John Richard Brock, Glasco; Tarlton 
Aura Caldwell, Manhattan; Carleton 
Cooper, St. John; Charles Joseph Cor- 
rell, Manhattan; Betty Lou Davis, Sev- 
erance; Robert Hollister Dodge, Kansas 
City; Alva Lease Duck wall Jr., Abilene; 
Lela Elise Eshelman, Wichita; Franklin 
James Flynn, Wamego; Ralph Edward 
Guyton, Salina; Robert Monroe Hack- 
ney, Parsons; Don Franklin Hathaway, 
Coffeyville. 

Richard Neil Heaton, Norton; Donald 
Dwight Hesselbarth, Abilene; Bernice 



Tsiu Chang, Szechwan, China; Minerva 
Marie Cron, Alamo, Tex.; Floyd Ewing 
Davidson, Parsons; George Thomas 
Dean, Manhattan; Walter Theodore 
Federer, Manhattan; Lyman Phillip 
Frick, Kansas City, Mo.; Charles Martin 
Good, Plevna; Elizabeth Allen Heinz, 
Manhattan; Marjorie McCall Hemphill, 
Manhattan; Raymona Mayme Hilton, 
Omaha; Edgar Abner Johnson, Fort Col- 
lins, Colo.; Glenn Charles Klingman, 
Chappell, Neb.; James Michael Koepper, 
Ames, Iowa; Marvin Koger, State Col- 
lege, N. M.; Earl McKee Kroth, Denison; 
Franz Leidler, Manhattan; Frederick 
Lee McDonald, Horton; Orrin Jay Mar- 
cy, Hay Springs, Neb.; Harold Hawley 
Munger, Manhattan; Theo Beatrice Nix, 
Kansas City, Mo.; Ralph Edward Peter- 
son, Manhattan; Edwin Eugene Saun- 
ders, Columbia, Mo.; Paul A. Schoon- 
hoven, Manhattan; Richard Blaine 
Schwitzgebel, Manhattan; Rowena 
Hammons Sherrill, Neodesha; George 
Lee Smith, Prairie View, Tex.; Morton 
Smutz, Manhattan; Karolyn Margaret 
Wagner, Seattle, Wash.; Arlene Lois 
Waterson, Dighton; Bill Milton Wil- 
liams, Topeka. 

Doctor of Philosophy: Charles Ray- 
mond Stumbo, Manhattan. 



Wins Surprise Track Victory 

Kansas State College's track squad 
won a surprise 75-56 victory over the 
favored University of Oklahoma 
squad Saturday. Although the Soon- 
ers took nine first places in the meet, 
the Wildcats gathered enough second- 
and third-place points to defeat Okla- 
homa for the first time in a dual meet 
since 1915. 



Two Get Chemical Jobs 

Bill Bunger and Bill Williams, 
graduate students in chemistry, have 
obtained positions with chemical 
companies. Mr. Bunger will work in 
the experiment station of the Her- 
cules Powder company at Wilming- 
ton, Del. Mr. Williams will be em- 
ployed by the Dow Chemical company 
at Midland, Mich. 



PRIMARY, ADVANCED AVIATION 
TO BE OFFERED THIS SUMMER 

Prof. C. E. Pearce Says Number of Ap- 
plicants Will Be Considered In 
Fixing College Quota 

Both primary and advanced courses 
in Civil Aeronautics administration 
training will be offered during the 
summer term. Prof. C. E. Pearce, 
head of the flight training at Kansas 
State College, said the number of 
applicants for the courses will be 
considered in determining the Col- 
lege's quota. 

Applicants for the primary train- 
ing must be citizens of the United 
States, not under 19 nor over 26 
years of age and must not have or 
have had a pilot's certificate. Under- 
graduates must be fully matriculated 
and must have completed one full 
year of College work. All applicants 
must pass a physical examination and 
be accepted by the local advisory 
board. 

To be eligible for the advanced 
course, the primary course must be 
passed and the applicant must have 
his private pilot's certificate. 

Eight primary students taking the 
CAA flying course this semester have 
made their two cross-country flights, 
one with an instructor and one alone. 
Those who made the 125-mile flight 
successfully include Delmar Jones, 
Mulvane; John McClurkin, Clay Cen- 
ter; John Poole, Manhattan; Robert 
Roberts, Wellington; C. W. Schulze, 
Blue Springs, Mo.; William Smick, 
Manhattan; Charles Stafford, Repub- 
lic, and Jay Stevens, Lincoln. 



rison ; „ 

Wilma Florine Evans, 
Rachel Louise Featheringill, Indepen- 
dence; Autumn Felton Fields, McPher- 
son; Helen Elaine Fleming, Ottawa; 
Evalyn Mae Frick, Larned; Erma 
Katherine Gamby, Everest; Grayce 
Edyth Goertz, Moundridge; Florence 
Clarice Gosney, Mulvane; Virginia Lee 
Goss, Dwight. 

Dorothy Mae Green, Fort Collins, 
Colo.; Julia Louise Green, Iola; Eugenia 
Louise Grob, Randolph; Alice Crosby 
Gunn, Kansas City, Mo.; Mildred Joyce 
Gurtler, Summerfield; Florence Verda 
Gwin, Junction City; Ethel Dorothy 
Haller, Alma; Eleanor June Harsh, Ar- 
gonia; Doris Elizabeth Harvey, Wichi- 
ta; Jane Louise Hastings, Lakin; Viola 
May Hill, Hope; Dorothy Elizabeth 
Howat, Wakeeney; Mary Ellen Hull, 
El Dorado; Eleanor Lee Johnson, hall- 
na; Allis Terrell Jones, Eudora; Mary 
Margaret Jordan, Wichita; Jean Mar- 
garet Kallenberger, Edna; Mary Eliza- 
beth Kelley, Atwood; Mary Keturah 
Kennedy, Neodesha; Anna Mae Kern, 
Hiawatha; Ruth Virnita Keys, Win- 
chester; Helen Eunice Kirk, Welling- 
ton; Dorothy Maye Knaus, Neodesha; 
Hildegard Charlotte Knopp, Kansas 
City; Roberta Jean Lamb, Ottawa; 
Caralee Laming, Tonganoxle. 

Josephine Estelle Lann, Axtell; Helen 



EVERYDAY ECONOMICS 

By W.B. GRIMES 



Silver is not a fundamental part of the American monetary system. 

silver certificates. The silver dollars 
and silver certificates could be re- 



Silver is not a fundamental part of 
the American monetary system. It 
is the accepted policy of the United 
States to buy silver until the value of 
the silver stocks is one-third the value 
of the gold stocks of the government. 
Under this policy much silver has 
been purchased in recent years and 
at prices that were materially higher 
than silver would bring in the open 
competitive market. The silver has 
not been needed for monetary purpos- 
es. Silver is used as money in the 
coining of dimes, quarters, half dol- 
lars and the relatively few silver dol- 
lars that circulate, and as security for 



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placed with other forms of money 
without difficulty. 

The principal result of the silver 
policy of the government has been to 
give silver producers a high price for 
their product. It has brought rela- 
tive prosperity to them. This pros- 
perity has been at the expense of 
other people, either in the form of 
higher taxes or in increased debt of 
the federal government. The govern- 
ment now has huge stocks of the 
white metal for which it has little use, 
and the purchases are continuing. 



Miller Will Head A. A. U. P. 

New officers elected at the meeting 
of the American Association of Uni- 
versity Professors at the College Fri- 
day include Dr. E. C. Miller, professor 
of botany and plant pathology, presi- 
dent; Miss Helen Saum, professor in 
the Department of Physical Educa- 
tion for Women, vice-president; Hil- 
lier Krieghbaum, assistant professor 
in the Department of Industrial Jour- 
nalism and Printing, secretary-trea- 
surer. Prof. C. M. Correll, assistant 
dean of the Division of General Sci- 
ence, was elected a member of the 
state central committee from the 

local chapter. 

♦ 

Farm Women Will Meet 

One hundred thirty-five Kansas 
farm women will spend three days 
on the College campus May 27 to 30. 
This will be the second summer as- 
sembly of the Kansas Home Demon- 
stration Advisory council. The three- 
day program will be of an education- 
al, inspirational and recreational 
nature. There will be well-known 
guest speakers. Several of the women 
attending will speak over the College 
radio station, KSAC. Those attending 
the conference will live in Van Zile 
hall. 



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Volume 67 



Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, Manhattan, Wednesday, June 4, 1941 



Number 32 



SUMMER REGISTRATION 

SHOWS SLIGHT DECLINE 



I IN M. FIG1 ItKS EXPECTED TO BE 
UNDER 1040 



Graduate Clinic In Guidance, Offered 

Thin Session for First Time, Is 

Aimed nt Those Looking 

Townrd Counseling 

Registration figures for the sum- 
mer session were slightly lower than 
those for the comparable period of 
1940, according to figures compiled 
by the registrar's office. 

At closing time Tuesday, 828 stu- 
dents had enrolled for the summer 
session this year as compared with 
882 for the comparable Tuesday last 
year. The decrease was 54 students. 

721 REGISTERED WEDNESDAY 

Final registration figures for the 
1940 summer session were 935, in- 
cluding those who attended the four- 
weeks session. Miss Jessie McDowell 
Machir, registrar, said that this year's 
final figures probably would be slight- 
ly less than those of last year. 

At the end of the regular registra- 
tion last Wednesday, 721 students 
had signed up for courses. Last year 
the comparable figure was 770. 

The Graduate Clinic in Guidance 
for those looking toward counseling 
responsibilities, which began Monday, 
is being offered for the first time this 
year. It is expected that some addi- 
tional students will attend the three- 
weeks session and others enrolled in 
other courses will gain additional 
background for this field of work. 
FEDERAL CONSULTANT HERE 

R. E. Brewster, consultant in 
guidance for the Federal Security 
agency of the Office of Education, 
Washington, and W. T. Markham, 
supervisor of occupational informa- 
tion and guidance, State Board for 
Vocational Education, Topeka, have 
been brought to the campus to assist 
in the new clinic's activities. Morn- 
ing clinic conferences are under Mr. 
Brewster and Mr. Markham. After- 
noons are reserved for committee 
work and consultations with clinic 
leaders and advisers. 
♦ 

NEW INSPECTION COURSE 

EXPECTED TO BE OFFERED 



Will Teach in Oregon 

Miss LeVelle Wood, associate pro- 
fessor in the Department of Institu- 
tional Management at the College, 
will teach quantity cookery and 
school lunchroom management in the 
Institutional Management depart- 
ment at Oregon State college, Cor- 
vallis, during the summer school ses- 
sion there. 



HAL W. LUHN0W, '17 GRAD, 
SELECTED ALUMNI HEAD 

KANSAS CITY MAN TAKES OFFICE 
FROM GAYLORD MUNSON 



Oldest Graduate 



THREE STUDENTS WIN $300 
IN NATIONAL COMPETITION 



Mary Morris, Hurst Majors, Frnnk 

Itlckel Awarded Prlr.e for Essay 

on Foreign Policy 

A $300 essay prize has been 
awarded to Mary Morris, Chapman, 
Hurst Majors and Frank Rickel, both 
of Manhattan, by the Institute for 
National Policy of the College of 
William and Mary, Williamsburg, 
Va. The three are all students at 
Kansas State College. 

Dean C. M. Correll was faculty 
sponsor of the essay contest for this 
region. 

The contest on American foreign 
policy was nation wide and competi- 
tion was divided into nine regions. 
Kansas was included with eight other 
states in the eighth region. Other 
states in this region were North Da- 
kota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Colo- 
rado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho and 
Utah. 

Each institution co-operating in 
the competition was asked to select 
three students and a faculty sponsor 
to draft an essay on "The Next Dec- 
ade of American Foreign Policy." 
The essay was to be not more than 
5,000 words in length, analyzing the 
economic, political, geographic and 
other factors influencing foreign pol- 
icy. The essay was to set forth in 
conclusion the basic principles of the 
suggested policy, including individual 
interpretation. 

Miss Morris and Majors are juniors 
in industrial journalism. Rickel was 
graduated this spring in general sci- 
ence and is now working on his mas- 
ter's degree at the College. 



HOWARD ZEIDLER, S ARETHA, 
WINS $500 SIGMA TAU AWARD 



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Prof. W. W. Carlson Announces CoIIckc 
May Give Work to Itelleve De- 
fense Personnel Shortage 

In an effort to help meet the short- 
age of trained inspectors of materials 
used in construction work, Kansas 
State College probably will open a 
new defense training course within 
the next few days. Announcement of 
the new course was made today by 
W. W. Carlson, College representa- 
tive in the national program of engi- 
neering training for defense and head 
of the Department of Shop Practice. 

Professor Carlson pointed out that 
there is a shortage of trained men 
for materials inspection on highway 
and airport projects. The shortage 
has been accelerated by the resigna- 
tion of experienced men to accept 
better paying positions in defense 

work. 

Professor Carlson said the need for 
airports and highways will increase 
as supplies and soldiers are trans- 
ported in carrying the national de- 
fense program to completion. He 
said the need is moderate now but 
will be serious in many sections in 
the near future. 

The proposed 12-week defense 
course will prepare students who have 
had one year of college work, includ- 
ing trigonometry, for positions as lab- 
oratory and field inspectors on con- 
struction of highways and airports. 



KiiKiiieerliiK Graduate Will Continue 
Study at M. I. T. in July 

Howard Zeidler, Sabetha, and a 
former resident of Girard, received 
a $500 fellowship award as a gradua- 
tion present when he received his 
B. S. degree in electrical engineering. 

The annual fellowship award is 
given by Sigma Tau, national honor- 
ary engineering society, to an out- 
standing member of the organization. 
The $500 is to be used for graduate 
study in engineering. 

Zeidler plans to enroll in the Mas- 
sachusetts Institute of Technology in 
July for graduate work. He was 
graduated from Kansas State College 
with high honors. He had maintained 
a scholarship average of 2.9 out of a 
maximum 3.0. In February of this 
year he was chosen an outstanding 
student of the entire Division of En- 
gineering and Architecture. 



Assoelntlon's Executives Defer Action 

on Student Vnlonj Building Aid; 

Class of 110 Sets 

Record 

Hal W. Luhnow, '17, Kansas City, 
was selected president of the Kansas 
State College Alumni association at 
its annual meeting May 24. He suc- 
ceeds Gaylord Munson, '33, Junction 
City. 

Mr. Luhnow was a prominent figure 
in the successful reform election at 
Kansas City last year. 
GRIMES RE-ELECTED TREASURER 
Other officers elected at the meet- 
ing included Dr. R. V. Christian, '11, 
Wichita, vice-president; Dr. W. E. 
Grimes, '13, head of the Department 
of Economics and Sociology, treasur- 
er, and Prof. A. P. Davidson, '14, of 
the Department of Education. 

Three members of the board of 
directors were re-elected. They were 
Dean Roy A. Seaton, '04, Division of 
Engineering and Architecture, on 
leave in Washington on national de- 
fense training activities; Gaylord 
Munson, retiring association presi- 
dent, and Doctor Grimes. 

Appointed to the Alumni Associa- 
tion Advisory Council were Carlton 
Hall, '20, Coffeyvllle; J. W. Ballard, 
'26, Topeka, and Mrs. Frank W. 
Boyd, '02, Phillipsburg. Kenney L. 
Ford, '24, Manhattan, was reappoint- 
ed executive secretary. 

DEFER UNION ACTION 
The directors and Advisory Coun- 
cil of the association decided that 
there was little they could do in the 
way of special service for alumni or 
former students who were in the 
armed services of the country. 

Determination of the part alumni 

should play in the plans for the new 

I Student Union building was deferred 

j until a later meeting of the Alumni 

; association officers. 

The class of 1916 broke all pre- 
vious attendance records for that 
class reunion, according to Mr. Ford. 
Zane Fairchild, Omaha, was the re- 
sponsible leader. 

Class of 1891 attendance was un- 
usually good. Christine Corlett, '91, 
of Bell, Calif., gave $100 to the 
Alumni association to be used in the 
student loan fund. The gift is a me- 
morial to her brother, Arthur Corlett. 




TWO GOVERNORS ATTEND 
COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM 

PAYNE H. RATNER AND RALPH L. 
CARR SPEAK TO GRADUATES 



MRS. NELLIE KEDZIE-JONES, '76 



STEEL RING IS STARTING 

PICTORIAL HALL OF FAME 



Howe to Study County 

Prof. Harold Howe of the Depart- 
ment of Economics and Sociology 
will be in Missouri June 1 to 14 as- 
sisting in a program of economic ad- 
justment for an acute problem area 
in that state. The area being studied 
is in Washington county, a short dis- 
tance south of St. Louis. In this area 
hand mining of barite is the chief 
occupation of the people, and during 
the past months adjustments in the 
industry have caused serious unem- 
ployment and wage problems. 



Four Who Have Contributed to Engi- 
neering Will Have Their Portraits 
In Lobby Collection 

Steel Ring, honorary engineering 
organization, is starting a Hall of 
Fame picture collection which will 
hang in the main lobby of Engineer- 
ing hall. The organization has set 
up a committee system which will 
work closely with the College engi- 
neering faculty in selecting each year 
a man worthy of having his picture 
added to the Hall of Fame collection. 
The pictures are of men who, in the 
opinion of the investigating commit- 
tee, have been most valuable atod in- 
strumental in building up the Divi- 
sion of Engineering and Architecture. 
The committee has been working 
more than a year in selecting the 
first four men to be honored. They 
are A. A. Potter, professor and dean 
of the Division of Engineering at 
Kansas State College from 1905 to 
1920, now dean of engineering at 
Purdue university; the late O. P. 
Hood, associated with Kansas State 
College from 1886 to 1898 as profes- 
sor of engineering; the late John D. 
Walters, 1877 to 1917 at Kansas 
State College, head of the Depart- 
ment of Architecture and publisher 
of a history of Kansas State College; 
the late Edmund Burke McCormick, 
1901 to 1913, professor of mechanic 
arts. 

Each year, hereafter, Steel Ring 
plans to add the photograph of one 
person to the Hall of Fame collection. 
The committee in charge is to work 
through department heads, staff 
members and the dean of the Divi- 
sion of Engineering and Architecture 
in obtaining a list of nominees for the 
honor. Final selection will be by the 
entire Steel Ring membership. 

♦ 
4-H CLUB DELEGATES HERE 
FOR ANNUAL STATE ROUNDUP 



DR. DAVID FAIRCHILDS PLANT RESEARCH 

IS PLAYING ROLE IN DEFENSE ACTIVITIES 



Writes About Sorghums 

"Storage of Grain Sorghums," an 
article written by Prof. F. C. Fenton 
of the Department of Agricultural 
Engineering, appeared in the May 
issue of Agricultural Engineering, 
magazine published by the Ameri- 
can Society of Agricultural Engi- 
neers. The article told of the grow- 
ing importance of grain sorghums 
as a feed crop in semi-arid areas. It 
also described the problem of design 
for air circulation through every part 
of the storage space for the grain. 



Research work done 25 years ago 
by Dr. David Fairchild, graduate in 
the class of 1888 and son of former 
Pres. George T. Fairchild, is ex- 
pected to play an important role in 
insuring tung oil for America's de- 
fense. 

For centuries, the Chinese have 
waterproofed their floating junks 
with tung oil from the oriental tung 
tree. The oil resists the corrosive 
action of salt water and is used by 
the United States navy on woodwork 
and for "spar varnish." 

All of the tung oil used in this 
country is imported from China and 
these shipments have been seriously 
curtailed by the war, according to in- 
formation from Washington sources. 
Already Brazil has expanded its 
plantings and Southern farmers are 
being asked to plant tung trees which 
were first introduced into California 
in 1905 by Doctor Fairchild, then a 
plant research worker with the 



United States Department of Agri- 
culture. 

Because the flow of tung oil from 
China has been reasonably steady 
until the current China "incident" 
began and because frosts in the early 
spring have been a threat to the tung 
trees, few efforts were made to in- 
troduce the trees in the United 
States. Now, however, agricultural 
experts are trying to persuade South- 
ern farmers to plant the trees in 
small groves near the gulf coast of 
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and 
Louisiana. The trees bear fruit after 
the third year and real production 
begins with the sixth or seventh year. 

Doctor Fairchild has retired from 
service with the United States De- 
partment of Agriculture and is now 
living in Florida. Doctor Fairchild 
received an honorary degree from his 
Alma Mater several years ago. He is 
the author of "The World Is My Gar- 
den," his autobiography. 



Attendance Is Limited to l,41Kt Members 
Selected by Home County Leader* 

Delegates from all Kansas 4-H 
clubs were on the campus this week 
for the 19th annual Kansas 4-H Club 
roundup which began Monday. At- 
tendance at the roundup, which con- 
tinues through Saturday morning, is 
limited to 1,496 official delegates who 
were selected by leaders in their 
home counties as official delegates. 

Boys attending the roundup are 
housed on the main floor of Nichols 
Gymnasium and the girls live in Van 
Zile hall, residence hall for women, 
on the campus. 

Sectional meetings began Tuesday 
morning with special programs for 
adult leaders, junior leaders, classes 
for boys and classes for girls. Lan- 
guage, literature, safety, food, nature 
study, dairying, poultry husbandry, 
home decoration, clothing and music 
are among the fields to be covered 
by speakers during the five-day pro- 
gram. 



Mrs. Nellie Sawyer Ked».le-Jones, Old- 
est i.IvIiik Kansas State Gradu- 
ate, Returns to Cnmpus 
for Reunion 

(Harbord's Talk on Page Two) 
Two governors — Payne H. Ratner 
of Kansas and Ralph L. Carr of Colo- 
rado — participated in the ceremonies 
May 26 when degrees were conferred 
on 659 students. The number of 
graduates this year was 24 more than 
in 1940. 

One honorary degree was conferred 
this year — a doctor of science degree 
to Roy M. Green, president of Colo- 
rado State college, Ft. Collins, Colo. 
Mr. Green was formerly an economics 
teacher at Kansas State College. 
Charles R. Stumbo, who received his 
bachelor's degree here in 1936, was 
awarded a doctor of philosophy de- 
gree, his major field being bacteriol- 
ogy. 

Both governors congratulated the 
graduating class. Governor Carr 
stressed the duties of citizenship in 
the present turbulent world. W. N. 
Kelly, Hutchinson, a member of the 
State Board of Regents, gave a brief 
address. 

Among the alumni introduced be- 
fore the degrees were conferred was 
Mrs. Nellie Sawyer Kedzie-Jones, the 
oldest living graduate of Kansas 
State College. Mrs. Kedzie-Jones, 
who formerly taught home economics 
at the College, now lives at Madison, 
Wis., where she formerly was a mem- 
ber of the University of Wisconsin 
faculty. 

Maj.-Gen. James G. Harbord, who 
was introduced by Pres. F. D. Farrell 
at the Alumni-Senior dinner as Kan- 
sas State College's most distinguished 
alumnus, gave a talk on "Suitable 
for Civilization." His talk was broad- 
cast over the blue network of the 
National Broadcasting company. Gen- 
eral Harbord discussed this country's 
attitude toward the present war, re- 
cent advances of science, Kansas 
and the College. 

GREAT EDUCATIONAL JOB 

In a baccalaureate address May 
25, Dr. George D. Stoddard, dean of 
the Graduate college, State Univer- 
sity of Iowa, Iowa City, said that the 
possibilities for human development 
through education were greater than 
our ancestors supposed. 

"The possibilities for human de- 
velopment through educative means 
are far greater than our ancestors 
supposed," Doctor Stoddard said. 
"Nowhere, from Plato to Rousseau, 
was there any convincing argument 
to show that the great mass of peo- 
ple could be taught to read and write. 
Until the Civil war period there were 
no high schools and not many private 
secondary schools in the whole 
United States. Colleges and univer- 
sities did not come into their giant 
stride for two more generations. We 
leapt, as it were, from the 'school 
of life' to schools which sheltered us 
beyond the ages of childhood. 
KENT GIVES RECITAL 

"We must achieve not only a high 
degree of individual efficiency, but 
a mastery of social technique. We 
must, as John Dewey says, learn to 
think alone, but to work with others. 
Let us assume that great co-opera- 
tive enterprises will be in part a func- 
tion of private mental capacity. By 
so doing we may get down from a 
world view to a view of life that cen- 
ters in our own ego." 

Doctor Stoddard said there is no 
proof at all that mental ability stays 
at the highest level reached during 
college days. Although our colleges 
are only fairly adequate stimuli to 
mental activity they do provide one 
highly important factor in motiva- 
tion: leading the student to higher 
tasks when he has mastered those at 
a certain level. 

Arthur Kent, bass-baritone of the 
Metropolitan Opera company, sang 
at the annual commencement concert 
given in compliment to the graduat- 
ing class. More than 1,000 attended. 



The KANSAS INDUSTRIALIST 

Established April 24, 1875 

R. I. Thackrey Editor 

HlLMLR KftlKGHBAUM, R.MI'II l.MMBROOK, JaNE 

Rockwell, Paul L. Dittemore Associate Editors 

KbNNEY Ford Alumni Editor 

Published weekly during the college year by the Kansas 
State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, 
Manhattan, Kansas. 

Except for contributions from officers of the College 
and members of the faculty, the articles in The Kan- 
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partment of Industrial journalism and Printing, which 
docs the mechanical work. 

The price of The Kansas Industrialist is $) a year, 
payable in adrance. 

Entered at the postolfice, Manhattan, Kansas, as second- 
class matter October 27, 1911. Act of July 16. 1194. 

Make checks and drafts payable to the K. S. C. 
Alumni association, Manhattan. Subscriptions for ill 
alumni and former students, $3 a year; life subscrip- 
tions, $50 cash or in instalments. Membership in 
alumni association included. 



Maj.-Gen. James Harbord's Address on "Suitable for Civilization" 




WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1941 



"AD ASTRA . . . ." 

The more pessimistic among us 
sometimes express the belief that the 
world cannot be saved from a new 
era of barbarism; that all the gains 
of civilization may be lost in the 
years immediately ahead. 

Such a viewpoint does not reckon 
with the tremendous vitality of civi- 
lization. Those who attended Com- 
mencement at the College must have 
been impressed by that fact. More 
than 500 young people received de- 
grees in a setting of surpassing 
beauty which less than a century ago 
was in almost undisputed control of 
a stone-age people. The College it- 
self was founded in the middle of 
America's most destructive war of 
all time. 

Dark days may lie ahead but Col- 
lege people should be particularly 
able to face them with confidence. 
They know from history that civiliza- 
tion has survived and even advanced 
through periods of adversity; they 
know from personal acquaintance 
that the present generation of young 
people is well equipped, in training 
and in character, to meet the future, 
whatever it may be. 



IN OLDER DAYS 

From the Files of The Industrialist 
TEN YEARS AGO 

Dr. Louis Leopold Mann, rabbi of 
Chicago Sinai congregation and pro- 
fessor of oriental languages at the 
University of Chicago, spoke at the 
baccalaureate services for the class of 
1931. 

More than 550 alumni and mem- 
bers of the 1931 senior class attend- 
ed the alumni banquet. Mrs. Mame 
(Alexander) Boyd, *02, president of 
the College Alumni association, was 
toastmistress, and Prof. William 
Lindquist, head of the Department of 
Music, led the songs. 



TWENTY YEARS AGO 
Mrs. George Strother, '16, was 
principal of the Geyserville grammar 
school, Geyserville, Calif. 

Willis W. McLean, secretary of the 
YMCA at this College for 11 years, 
was farming near Carpinteria, Calif., 
and raising lemons and strawberries. 



THIRTY YEARS AGO 

Sarah Hougham, '03, was assistant 
librarian in the University of North 
Dakota. 

O. E. Noble, '97, and Bessie (Lock) 
Noble, '98, came for a visit in Man- 
hattan from their home in Hobart, 
Okla., where Mr. Noble was city en- 
gineer. 



FORTY YEARS AGO 

Ella Weeks, second year in 1897, 
was graduated from the School of 
Fine Arts of the University of Kansas. 

R. W. Clothier, '97, was elected to 
the chair of chemistry and agricul- 
ture in the Third District normal 
school of Missouri, Cape Girardeau. 

FIFTY YEARS AGO 

H. N. Whitford, '90, was engaged 
as teacher in the Manhattan schools 
for the next year. 

W. A. Anderson, '91, went to To- 
peka to enter service as a railway 
telegraph operator. 

SIXTY YEARS AGO 
President Fairchild planned to 
leave Manhattan August 1 for the 
East and to visit a number of agricul- 
tural colleges, including Michigan, 
Ohio, Indiana and Iowa. 



I am speaking here as one who 
may be expected to allude to the pres- 
ent and guess at the future in terms 
of a rather long view of the past. As 
a senior in the college of life, I to- 
night address myself primarily to the 
men seniors of Kansas State, the suc- 
cessor to the old "K. S. A. C." of 
blessed memory. Those present whose 
seniority lies somewhere between 
may accept my observations or my 
apologies, whichever they consider 
most appropriate. 

A good many of this senior class 
are, I suppose, planning to follow, 
by the most up-to-the-minute meth- 
ods, the oldest of the arts and sci- 
ences — agriculture. I happen to 
represent the youngest of the arts 
and sciences — young in years and in 
outlook — radio. 

With me I bring vivid memories of 
a farm boyhood in the "good old 
days" of pioneer Kansas. And, be- 
tween my old-time farm and new- 
time radio years, lies experience in 
another ancient, but still deplorably 
necessary, art that has thrust itself 
upon our reluctant attention today — 
the art of war. 

The world of today being what it 
is, I can hardly adopt the time-hon- 
ored theme of addresses to seniors, 
and say to you: "Young people, look 
at the glorious heights to which 
civilization has risen! All this beau- 
tiful world is yours!" The spotlight 
of the immediate present focuses on 
too much that is not beautiful to 
permit the expression of any such 
comforting sentiments. 

Let us face at the outset the fact 
that the democracy of the British 
Empire is under powerful assault by 
totalitarian aggressors. We dare to 
believe that Britain, with America's 
aid, will win this struggle, but I am 
not bold enough to believe that she 
will last through the summer with- 
out convoys, or through the year 
without actual American interven- 
tion. 

Unless this is no longer the severe- 
ly practical school of my youth I 
have faith that your eyes are open 
to the perils that are surely ahead, 
and that you are preparing to meet 
them like men. In your attitude to- 
wards conscription in peace or war, 
and your awareness of the totali- 
tarian menace to our institutions lies 
hope or despair for our country. Ser- 
vice to the flag in times like these 
is a responsibility inherent in the 
emergency that confronts occidental 
civilization. Such conditions as now 
confront us are not new in this 
world. No son of this institution 
should haggle, evade or try to make 
conditions if the call comes to him. 
They do not spring from the failure 
of incompetent diplomats or derive 
from scheming international politi- 
cians. 

You are the heirs of our civiliza- 
tion, its culture, its political institu- 
tions, education, art and literature, 
for which, almost once in each gen- 
eration, men of your race have 
marched forth and died. Recall the 
immortal one-line history by Thucyd- 
ides of the flower of Athenian youth 
who perished in the quarries of Syra- 
cuse, and emulate those youngsters 
of whom he wrote: "Having done 
what men could: they suffered as 
men must." 

Let us face also the fact that 
within our own country economic, 
social, and political problems have 
arisen that were undreamed of when 
my class of 1886 sallied forth to solve 
the problems of mankind. I have 
faith that your generation will see 
our present domestic obstacles sur- 
mounted, but in the meantime none 
of us should shirk the realization 
that they exist. 

Having admitted the glaring im- 
perfections of the present, however, 
we do not need to accept the view- 
point that the world is all wrong, 
just because it is not all right. We 
can still agree with a contemporary 
Kansan, William Allen White, when 
he says that he does not fear tomor- 
row, because he knew yesterday and 
is alive today. 

The normal human outlook is a 
hopeful outlook — not one of despair. 
The normal philosophy of youth Is 
one of courage, not of fear. 

You have trained your minds in 
books, and your hands in agriculture 
and applied sciences, because you 
know the importance of keeping pace 
with the progress of our era and the 
promise of the future. You are not 
the spoiled darlings of our financial 



boom period. You spent your ma- 
turing years in the harsh realities of 
an economic depression, became fa- 
miliar with the shocking echoes of 
the bomb period in Europe; and kept 
faith in yourselves. Instead of lec- 
turing you, I cite you as "Exhibit 
A" to some of your elders who have 
lost their enthusiasm for the road 
ahead. 

In the gloomy ten years that be- 
gan in 1929 the notion was current 
that individual enterprise was no 
longer creative, that progress was at 
a standstill, and that fresh oppor- 
tunities for young men and young 
I women to make a place in the world 
j no longer existed. 

Yet those ten years saw the intro- 
duction of transoceanic airplane ser- 
vice. Television, by the expenditure 
of years of scientific research and 
millions of dollars, was brought out 
of the laboratory and into the ex- 
| perimental stage which will lead 
! eventually to a broad public service. 
j Daily broadcasts of world news from 
i overseas became a regular feature of 
| American home life, bringing an en- 
larged conception of what "a fully 
informed democracy" can be. Sul- 
fanilamide and similar drugs were 
discovered, a medical advance which 
already has saved many lives. 

Among other forward steps in the 
decade of depression were: Stream- 
lined and air-conditioned trains, 
greatly improved automobiles, syn- 
thetic rubber, new plastics, a striking 
growth in farm electrification, more 
than 100,000 miles of new truck 
roads and country roads and more 
than 40,000 new bridges in the 
United States, nylon to take the place 
of silk, colored home movies, fluores- 
cent lighting, fiber glass for insula- 
tion and textiles, glass building 
blocks, polarized glass, plywoods as 
strong as Iron, synthetic vitamins 
and hormones. 

To appreciate the full significance 
of this partial list of recent achieve- 
ments we must remember that an 
advance in one field usually opens a 
i gateway to benefits in others. The 
i increasing knowledge of synthetic 
materials touches the farm by sug- 
gesting the possibility of silk from 
surplus milk and bathtubs from corn- 
stalks. Improvements in airplane 
motor design are reflected in auto- 
mobiles, and the automotive indus- 
try, in turn, supplies ideas for avia- 
tion. 

An especially dramatic example of 
widening vistas is provided by radio 
research. The twenty-one and a half 
years since the Radio Corporation of 
America was founded have witnessed 
the development of a service of radio- 
telegraph communication which con- 
nects our nation directly with 43 
countries, and ships on every sea. 
Radio broadcasting was established, 
and has been built into an indispen- 
sable public service reaching 50 mil- 
lion radios in American homes and 
automobiles. As some scoffer lightly 
remarked, "It has enormously in- 
creased the number of speeches to 
which we do not have to listen." 
Radio-telegraphy and broadcasting 
are supplemented by a highly com- 
petitive radio manufacturing indus- 
try. Each service of radio has forged 
ahead independently, yet each has 
been helped to its achievements by 
an interchange of knowledge gained 
by everyday experience and scientific 
research in the others. 

The application of electronic de- 
vices to a continually increasing va- 
i riety of scientific and industrial uses 
is one of many ways in which radio 
research has found and explored new 
avenues. A recent illustration is the 
I development of the RCA electron 
i microscope, a by-product of television 
■ research. The magnifying power of 
this instrument extends more than 
fifty times beyond the farthest range 
of the optical microscope. It will be 
of incalculable value in the study of 
the bacteria of human disease, and al- 
so of the raw materials of industry, 
as well as the insecticides, fungicides, 
fertilizers, and plant hormones so 
important to agriculture. It makes 
a microbe look as big as a mud turtle. 
Its capabilities reach out to the im- 
provement of materials and processes 
in manufacture — and into national 
defense, to which RCA is devoting 
its activities and interests in re- 
search, engineering, communication, 
and manufacturing. 
, The expanses ahead beckon to all 
|of us, as the geographical expanses 
beckoned to Coronado on the plains 



of the present Central Kansas just 
400 years ago. He found grass huts 
of primitive Indians here, instead of 
the golden spires of the fabled seven 
cities of Cibola which he had ex- 
pected. But he had the vision to look 
to the future and write in his report 
that the region was "Suitable for 
Civilization." His faith has been 
abundantly fulfilled. 

When the little steamer Hartford 
poked its nose up the Kaw in 1854, 
stuck on a sandbar three days, and 
then chugged on, only to run ashore 
near the mouth of the Big Blue, the 
men and women who in disgust got 
off to found Manhattan had with 
them what were then considered the 
necessities for home-making. The 
number of their necessities would 
seem pitifully small to us today. 
Even when I was a boy on a home- 
stead claim in Lyon county the num- 
ber of articles regarded as essential 
to an acceptable standard of living 
was extremely scanty according to 
present-day standards. Today the 
average American family uses sev- 
eral hundred separate articles, rang- 
ing from refrigerators and vacuum 
cleaners to books, magazines, motor 
cars, telephones, and radio receivers, 
broadening the mental outlook as 
well as ministering to comfort and 
enjoyment. 

So long as inventive genius, in- 
dividual initiative, and the liberal 
education, of which KSAC is a sym- 
bol, are pushing back horizons no 
one can truthfully say we are near- 
ing the end of the trail. The imme- 
diate scene may not come up to our 
dreams of a perfection comparable 
to the golden mansions of Cibola—, 
which never existed except in fable. 
At times we may run aground tem- 
porarily, as the founders of Man- 
hattan did. But the territory of in- 
tellectual and material well-being in 
front of us is still eminently "Suit- 
able for Civilization." New products 
and services will continue to spell 
new opportunities for ambitious 
young men and women. 

It is in the realm of social and 
political progress that I see our 
greatest possibilities for growth and 
improvement. And here I speak par- 
ticularly to the seniors of KSAC — 
because before another half-century 
has passed the women and men of 
college senior age today will inherit 
the earth. 

Youth must be in the vanguard if 
a movement to more vital represen- 
tative government is to attain full 
force. Each Presidential election 
finds approximately ten million young 
men and women who have reached 
voting age in the preceding four 
years. They are the makers of the 
presidents, and the governors, and 
the mayors of the future. In the main 
the governmental and social aims of 
our young people are high. But many 
of them do not translate their vision 
into political power at the polls. They 
seldom take the trouble to study se- 
riously the real implications of spe- 
cific political issues. Sometimes they 
do not vote at all. 

I believe the selective military ser- 
vice upon which we have entered will 
help to solve this problem of alert 
citizenship. Young men who go into 
the army for training are being 
stimulated to a feeling of direct per- 
sonal responsibility for the welfare 
of their country, which stands as one 
of the few remaining outposts of that 
liberty, democracy and free speech 
for which Americans have fought in 
the past. The older generation, too, 
should be inspired to stronger citi- 
zenship when they see foreign dic- 
tatorships challenging our American 
way of life. We must value our way 
of life not in dollars, but in terms of 
sacrifice and suffering. 

In this period of difficult decisions, 
you might recall a remark of that 
famous American pioneer, Daniel 
Boone. He was asked if he ever got 
lost as he pushed through the track- 
less forests and across the prairies of 
early America. 

"No, I was never lost," said Daniel, 
"but I was confused for three or four 
days once." 

Ours is a far more complex world 
than that of Daniel Boone. It is not 
to be wondered that we, too, become 
confused at times. It would be re- 
markable if we did not. But unless 
the citizens of America fall far short 
in their appreciation of the achieve- 
ments of her past and present, we 
need not fear for her future. If we 
keep our faith, our vision, and our 



sense of direction and values, we 
shall not lose our way. We will ad- 
vance steadily along the trail blazed 
by our pioneering forefathers, and 
there will never be a "lost genera- 
tion" in America. Truly as Coronado 
said this is a land "Suitable for Civi- 
lization." 



SUNFLOWERS 

By B. W. Davis 

A BLESSING, PERHAPS 

As tough as the job and the times 
look, the younger generation — now 
graduating from schools and colleges 
— will take things over and keep the 
human race and some form of civi- 
lization going for considerable time 
to come. 



My only reason for thinking so 
looks and sounds weak, but it is suffi- 
cient to stand against a thousand 
reasons for suspecting that all the 
progress gained up to today is due 
to be wiped out by 1942. In one hun- 
dred per centum of all "situation" 
since the beginning of time the 
younger generation has invariably 
worked out something. All these 
"somethings" put together we call 
human progress. 



I suppose every commencement 
speaker in America has pointed out 
to youth being degreed that chances 
are pretty slim. Every orator has 
touched upon the little the world has 
to offer to those who would tote it 
upon their shoulders for a spell. 
What with bomb and flare bursting 
from every angle above and torpedoes 
slithering around from all directions 
below, the job of balancing the wob- 
bly debt-barnacled spheroid on two 
small shoulders looks more than 
Herculean to even the most powerful 
orator. 



But the powerful orator — and you 
and I — must remember that there is 
a "carry-on" craziness hidden in the 
recesses of young human animals 
that always makes such talk — no 
matter how eloquently it may be 
talked — merely talk, and consequent- 
ly so much hooey to be respectfully 
listened to and then forgotten. 



As absurd as it may seem to you — 
and it seems just as absurd to me — I 
stubbornly maintain that graduates 
who go from dourful commencement 
addresses into the gayety of farewell 
parties and cheerful goodbyes to 
school and all that exhibit exactly 
what it is going to take to make the 
pessimistic orator look like a dope 
10 or 20 short years from today. 



In the ignorance and resilience of 
youth lies — as always — the hope of 
tomorrow. (Certainly the brains and 
the efforts of maturity have nothing- 
to point to with pride today.) Maybe 
the world can take hope in the fact 
that the younger generation does not 
seem to realize what the uproar is all 
about, that youth goes gaily on into 
the maelstrom without a bundle of 
deep-seated fears and convictions we 
elders bemoan their not having. 



If a little wisdom is a dangerous 
thing, a lot of ignorance ought — by 
all that's mathematical and paradoxi- 
cal — now and then prove to be a 
blessing. 



"A LOGICAL CONTRADICTION" 

It is a strange fact that the two 
basic ideas of democracy, freedom 
and equality, form a certain contrast, 
a logical contradiction. For logically 
and absolutely considered, freedom 
and equality are mutually exclusive, 
just as the individual and society are 
mutually exclusive. Freedom is the 
need of the individual, but equality 
is a social need, and social equality, 
obviously, limits the freedom of the 
individual. 

But logic has not a final nor the 
highest validity for life, and in ethic 
requirements of man, freedom and 
equality are not a real contradiction. 
The contrast between them is re- 
solved in that which transcends and 
relates both of them, namely in Chris- 
tianity. — Thomas Mann, in Decision. 



EDUCATION'S TASK 

This is the task of a liberal educa- 
tion: to give a sense of the value of 
things other than domination, to help 
to create wise citizens of a free com- 
munity, and through the combination 
of citizenship with liberty in individu- 
al creativeness to enable man to give 
to human life that splendour which 
some few have shown that it can 
achieve. — Bertrand Russell, in Power. 



\ 



AMONG THE 
ALUMNI 



Fanny (Waugh) Davis, B. S. '91, 
M. S. '99, writes a report of her years 
since graduation in 1891. 

"I taught country school, which 
was considered a 'stepping stone to 
something higher'," she said. "I was 
private secretary and stenographer 
to my husband during his quarter- 
century career as agricultural editor 
for the J. B. Lippincott company, 
helping him write six books and edit 
over 40 others. I made many illus- 
trations for these books, and others, 
wrote a bulletin for the U. S. D. A. 
and poetry which nobody ever read. 

"Have been a devoted (and dot- 
ing) mother of two fine children, the 
youngest a graduate of K. S. C. '32. 
The oldest is with the Lockheed Air- 
craft corporation — and I am a model 
mother-in-law to the grandest girl 
who never got to K. S. C. 

"I have been a dull, exemplary citi- 
zen for nearly three score years and 
ten. Never been in jail. Always paid 
my taxes. Own my home which is 
not mortgaged— and who gives a hoot 
about this stuff anyway?" 

The Pulp and Paper Magazine of 
Canada, September, 1936, writes of 
Royal S. Kellogg: 

"Mr. Kellogg was born in 1874 in 
Cato, N. Y., and finished his school- 
ing in Kansas, graduating from the 
State College in 1896 with the degree 
of B. S. He was awarded the M. S. 
degree in 1899. After teaching 
.school, doing surveying work, etc., 
he was with the U. S. Forest Service 
from 1901 until 1910. In that year 
he became Secretary of the Northern 
Hemlock and Hardwood Manufactur- 
ers' association, resigning in 1915 to 
take the secretaryship of the National 
Lumber Manufacturers' association, 
which he held until 1918. Since 
1918, Mr. Kellogg has been secretary- 
treasurer of the News Print Service 
bureau, and in 1933-34 was also sec- 
retary-treasurer of the Association of 
Newsprint Manufacturers of the Unit- 
ed States. In this capacity he had 
much to do with the government's 
program of industrial codes." 

Mr. Kellogg and his wife live at 
Wilton, Conn. 



Zone. He formerly had been living in 
Frankfort. Mrs. Lovejoy and the 
children will leave in a few weeks. 

Frank J. Santo, Ag. '37, is officer 
in charge of the agricultural market- 
ing service in the Division of Dairy 
and Poultry Products, United States 
Department of Agriculture. His ad- 
dress is 1313 Big Bend, Richmond 
Heights, Mo. 

Clark B. Stephenson, Ag. '37, 
teaches vocational agriculture in the 
high school at La Harpe. 

Walter E. Folkerts, M. E. '38, a 
tool designer, and Agatha (Keyl) 
Folkerts live at 807 Nims avenue, 
Wichita. 

K. M. "Ted" Warren, P. E. '39, has 
started in business in Manhattan as 
agent for the Equitable Life Insur- 
ance Company of Iowa. Mr. Warren 
plans to establish an office here as 
soon as a suitable location can be 
found. He won varsity letters on the 
Kansas State football team and 
played basketball. After graduation 
from College, he served as assistant 
coach here under Wes Fry for two 
years. After he left Manhattan, Mr. 
Warren coached for a year at Delphos 
high school and last season was head 
coach at the College of Emporia. 

Jayne (Glenn) Robinson, M. S. '39, 
teaches foods at Houston college and 
is a substitute teacher in the city 
schools in Houston. Her address is 
2610 Elgin avenue, Houston, Texas. 



for the young Miss. Mr. Kohrs is 
county agent at Gillette. 



MARRIAGES 



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Ruth (Mudge) Dimock, B. S. '01, 
was not able to attend her class re- 
union. She lives in Lexington, Ky. 
She and her husband, William Dim- 
ock, Swigert lane, Lexington, have 
had five children. 

John A. Thompson, B. S. '03, is 
inspector at Spokane, Wash., in 
charge of the United States Bureau of 
Animal Industry. He and Veta 
(Nance) Thompson live at 118 West 
Twenty-Seventh avenue, Spokane. 

George T. Ratliffe, E. E. '11, is 
nursery manager for the Soil Conser- 
vation service at Sibley, La. He and 
Clara (Blair) Ratliffe, '15, live at 715 
Buchanan, Minden, La. 

George W. Brown, Ag. '13, may be 
addressed at Box 1208, Ely, Nev. 

Earl R. Harrouff, B. S. '16, was 
called into service in the United 
States army as major in the Chemical 
Warfare service, assigned to Edge- 
wood arsenal, Edgewood, Md., near 
Baltimore, beginning May 15. He 
served in this outfit in the World war. 
Because of this call, he must miss the 
1916 class reunion. 

Phoebe (Rebstock) Carleton, H. 
E. '20, and H. M. Carleton, f. s. '19, 
are at home at 1101 West Center 
street, Visalia, Calif. 

Ruth (Rathbone) Sallee, M. 
and Robert M. Sallee live at 
North Manhattan, Manhattan. 
Sallee last month announced 
opening of a refrigeration service, 
both domestic and commercial. The 
new service will give installation and 
repair to refrigerators. The service 
will be located at 312 North Ninth 
street. 

George S. Wheeler, G. S. '26, is 
the mails and records of- 
Inance department of the 
War department. His address is 1426 
Twenty-First street, N. W., Washing- 
ton, D. C. 

Roscoe T. Nichols Jr., C. '31, is a 
captain in the United States army and 
may be addressed at 3007 Sheridan 
road, Salt Lake City, Utah. 

William C. Lacy, E. E. '35, is with 
the service department of the Sperry 
Gyroscope company, Inc., Manhattan 
Bridge plaza, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Mark Lovejoy, C. E. '36, has a 
federal job in the Panama Canal 



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BURSON— WALSER 
Ona Lee Burson, P. E. '36, and 
Joseph H. Walser, f. s. '40, were mar- 
ried April 5 at the home of the bride's 
parents here. The couple left im- 
mediately after the wedding for Kan- 
sas City where they will live at 712 
West Thirty-Seventh street. Mr. 
Walser is with the Tobin Construc- 
tion company, Kansas City. 



VAWTER — MEEK 
The wedding of Roberta Viola 
Vawter, H. E. '41, and the Rev. Louis 
F. Meek, G. S. '38, was May 17, at the 
home of the bride north of Oakley. 
The Reverend Mr. Meek was gradu- 
ated this year from the Presbyterian 
Theological seminary, Omaha. They 
will live at Sharpsburg, Iowa, where 
he is pastor of the Presbyterian 
church. 



KENNEDY— JARVIS 
Mary Kathryn Kennedy became the 
bride of Morgan Jarvis, D. V. M. '40, 
on May 10. The bride completed her 
course in landscape gardening last 
semester and will receive her degree 
this spring. She is a member of Al- 
pha Delta Pi sorority. Mr. Jarvis, a 
member of Alpha Gamma Rho fra- 
ternity, practices veterinary medicine 
at Twin Falls, Idaho, where they are 
at home. 



Keith G. Friel, C. '32, and Ella 
Rae (Davis) Friel, f. s. '34, have a 
daughter born May 6. They have 
named her Karen Sue. The Friels live 
at Wellington, where Mr. Friel is as- 
sistant manager of the J. C. Penney 
store. 



DEATHS 



CIRCLE 

Edna Ellen Circle, H. E. '28, died 
May 9 in Christ's hospital, Topeka. 
She had been an instructor for the 
past seven years at Seaman Rural 
high school, North Topeka. She is 
survived by a sister, Elizabeth (Cir- 
cle) Garver, '20, and a brother, Ray 
Circle, Ag. '23. 



ADVANCED ROTC 
CANDIDATES 



PKTEllMAN- SUGHRUE 

Kathryn Peterman, H. E. '36, 
home demonstration agent for Ford 
county, and Herbert K. Sughrue, dis- 
trict personnel director for the Na- 
tional Youth administration at Dodge 
City, were married May 3 in Dodge 
City. Mrs. Sughrue, a member of Al- 
pha Delta Pi, was elected St. Patricia 
at the Engineers' ball in 1935. After 
graduation she taught home econom- 
ics in Spearville until three years ago 
when she accepted her present posi- 
tion. After a wedding trip to Mexico, 
Mr. and Mrs. Sughrue will be at home 
in Dodge City. 



FERGUSON— PAGE 

The marriage of Janet Mary Fer- 
guson and David Ramsey Page, M. I. 
'38, took place May 3. Mrs. Page 
was graduated from Northwestern 
university, Evanston, 111., last year 
and has been assistant to Prof. John 
I. Frederick of the English depart- 
ment of Northwestern university the 
past winter. Before going to North- 
western, she attended Kansas State 
College. She is a member of Pi Beta 
Phi sorority. 

Mr. Page, member of Beta Theta 
Pi fraternity, is connected with the 
Page Milling company, which his 
grandfather, the late Thomas Page, 
founded. 

They will be at home at 216 East 
Huron street, Chicago. 



BIRTHS 

A "stork news service release" 
from Gillette, Wyo., tells of the 
bundle delivered May 3 to Ben C. 
Kohrs, Ag. '35, and Mrs. Kohrs. 
Mary Bess was selected as the name 



Ninety men have been selected 
from a list of 255 applications for the 
advanced Reserve Officers' Training 
corps course next fall at the College. 
These students who have completed 
training equivalent to two years of 
basic R. O. T. C. training and who 
are now signing their advanced 
course contracts, will be able to defer 
their military training under the Se- 
lective Service act. 

Announcement of the approved ap- 
plication was made May 24 by Lt.- 
Col. J. K. Campbell, head of the Col- 
lege military staff. Colonel Campbell 
added that if these students complete 
360 hours of college work, a six 
weeks' summer camp and meet other 
requirements, they will receive com- 
missions as second lieutenants in the 
United States Army reserve. 

Students in the coast artillery 
corps include: Earl C. Barb, Hamil- 
ton; Wendell D. Bell, Silver Lake; 
David Blevins, Manhattan; Jess 
Bough ton, Salina; Ben Buehler, 
Bushton; Rex Burden, Chase; George 
Campbell, Wichita; Gordon Cloepfll, 
Hunter; Lyle Cox, Atchison; Arthur 
Fillmore, Augusta; Leon Findley, 
Kiowa; Thomas Fletcher, Norton; 
Duane Green, Leoti; Edward Hell- 
mer, Olpe; John Helm, Simpson; 
James Hiller, Salina; Everett Jaime, 
Wilson. 

Melvin Jarvis, Salina; Louis John- 
son, Liberal; Charles Lacey, Belle- 
ville; Harry Lott Jr., Valley Falls; 
David Lupfer, Lamed; Wayne Mac- 
Kirdy, Manhattan; Jerome McCon- 
nell, Salina; Max Oelschlaeger, En- 
terprise; Ray Offutt, Wichita; Cor- 
don Osbum, Chapman; George 
Peterkord, Greeley; William Peycke 
Jr., Alta Vista; Marvin Reinecke, 
Great Bend; Robert Schreiber, Gar- 
den City; Everett Siegele, Princeton; 
Joseph Somers, Topeka; John Stal- 
lings, Frankfort; Donald Stuewe, 
Alma; Ernest Swanson Jr., Kansas 
City; James Vavroch, Oberlin; Allen 
Webb, Manhattan; Howard White- 
side, Neodesha; Virgil Whitsitt, Phil- 
lipsburg. 

Students in infantry include: May- 
nard Abrahams, Wayne; John 
Adams, Atchison; Robert Barber, 
Manhattan; Frank Barnhart, Ft. 
Riley; Larry Beaumont, El Dorado; 
Kermit Beary, Edson; Denzil Berg- 
man, Manhattan; Morris Buckman, 
Olathe; Edward Buss, Holton; Ron- 
ald Campbell, Cherryvale; Albert S. 
Coates Jr., Kansas City; George Cur- 
tis, Toronto; Paul DeWeese, Cun- 
ningham; Ernest D. Doryland, Man- 
hattan; Daniel Durniak, Columbia, N. 
Y.; Francis D. Engwall, Jamestown; 
Robert Floersch, Manhattan; Edgar 
Glotzbach, Paxico; Wayne Godsey, 
Netawaka; Keith Henrikson, Man- 
hattan; Junior Hicks, Herington; 
George Inskeep, Manhattan; Keith 
Jones, Penalosa; Malvin Johnson, 
Moran; Donald Kimball, Lane; Joe 

E. Kirkpatrick, Bogue; Gerald 
Klema, Wilson; Norman Kruse, 
Barnes; Dean T. Lill, Mt. Hope; Dale 

F. McCune, Stafford; Kenneth 
Mitchell, Axtell; Melville R. Mudge, 
Eskridge. 

Fred Mueller, Topeka; Ethan Pot- 
ter, Peabody; James Prideaux, Man- 
hattan; Rex L. Pruett, Culver; Har- 
old E. Rail, Menlo; William Robert- 
son, Barnard; Merrill D. Rockhold, 
Herington; Richard Rogers, Manhat- 
tan; Darrell Russel, Canton; Charles 
Schwab, Morrowville; Edward Seu- 
fert, Tonganoxie; Eugene Snyder, 
Junction City; Delbert Townsend, 
Danbury, Neb.; Robert Wallace, Col- 
by; James W. Watkins, Manhattan; 
Oid L. Wineland, Alton; Ernest E. 
Woods Jr., Kansas City, Mo.; Jack 
E. Zumbrunn, Enterprise. 



ALUMNI REGISTRATION DURING COMMENCEMENT 



Alumni Registration 

Those who registered with the 
Alumni association office during Com- 
mencement week included the follow- 
ing former students and graduates: 

1870 — Nellie S. Kedzie-Jones, Madison, 
Wis. 

1877 — George H. Fallyer and Ella 
(Child) Carroll, Manhattan. 

1883— J. T. Willard, Manhattan. 

1885 — Albert Deitz, Kansas City, Mo. 

188«— Maj.-Gen. James G. Harbord, 
New York City; Maria (Hopper) Getty, 
Downs. 

1887— Walter J. Burtis and P. A. Mar- 
ian, Manhattan. 

1888— J. R. McAninch, f. s., Kansas 
City, Mo.; Carl E. Friend, Lawrence; 
Winifred (Brown) Burtis, f. s., Manhat- 
tan. 

1889— Susan (Nichols) Eshelman, St. 
Joseph, Mo. 

1800 — Schuyler C. Harner, Manhattan. 

1801 — Madeleine W. Milner and Paul 
C. Milner, Mt. Dora, Fla. ; Frank A. 
Waugh, Amherst, Mass.; Christine M. 
Corlett, Bell, Calif.; J. N. Bridgman, 
Sierra Madre, Calif.; Fanny (Waugh) 
Davis, Nashville, Tenn. ; A. A. Gist, 
Chanute; F. M. Llnscott, Holton; Del- 
pha (Hoop) Montgomery, Topeka; H. 
W. Avery, Wakefield; C. E. Coburn, 
Kansas City; S. N. Chaffee, Solomon. 

1802— Dan H. Otis, Madison, Wis. 

1893 — William E. Smith, Wamego; 
Susie (Hall) Linscott, Holton; C. A. 
Kimball, Manhattan. 

1894 — Mary (Lyman) Otis, Madison, 

Wis. 

1895 — R. J. Barnett, George A. Dean, 
Ada Rice, Manhattan; Kate (Pierce) 
Baker, f. s., Wapello, Iowa; Marietta 
(Smith) Reed, Holton. 

ISM— Carl Snyder, Tecumseh; C. E. 
Plncomb and Marion (Jones) Pincomb, 
Overland Park; Gertrude (Stump) Cud- 
ney, Trousdale. 

1897 — J. E. Trembly, Council Grove. 

1898— Henry W. Rogler, Matfleld 
Green; Schuyler Nichols, Herington; 
Alice Melton, Anna (Dahl) Davis, Man- 
hattan. 

1899— Harry W. Johnston, Manhattan; 
Mary (Waugh) Smith, Los Angeles. 

1900 — Charles M. Correll, Jessie M. 
Wagner and Minerva (Blachly) Dean, 
Manhattan; L. W. Waldraven, Randolph. 

1001 — Carrie (Wagner) Gresham, 
Hingham Canyon, Utah; Harry H. Fay, 
Belton, Mo.; Martha (Nitcher) Sowers, 
Story City; Emma (Miller) Cook, Mil- 
ford; E. L. Morgan, Phillipsburg; J. A. 
McKenzie, Solomon; Estella Tharp Ed- 
wards, Cedar Vale; Fred W. Haselwood 
and Maude (Zimmerman) Haselwood, 
Redding, Calif.; C. N. Allison, Falls City, 
Neb.; J. H. Oesterhaus, Kansas City, 
Mo.; Maud (Sauble) Rogler, Matfleld 
Green; Ina F. Cowles, Etta C. Barber, 
f. s., Charles A. Scott, Charles J. Burson, 
Minnie (Howell) Champe and Trena 
(Dahl) Turner, Manhattan; Helena 
(Pincomb) Symns, Atchison. 

1002 — Mame (Alexander) Boyd, Tope- 
ka; Leonara (Egger) Allison, f. s., Falls 
City, Neb.; Del Mar Akin, Manhattan. 

1003 — J. W. Fields, McPherson. 

1005 — George Dix Wolf, Manhattan; 
Edith (Davies) Aicher, Hays; Frances 
(Fish) Brown, Fall River. 

1IMH1 — Laura (Lyman) Weaver, 

Springfield, Ohio; A. I). Stoddard, Dun- 
can, Okla. ; W. B. Thurston and Stella 
(Campbell) Thurston, Kansas City, Mo.; 
Winifred Dalton, St. George; Charles A. 
Gilki.son, Lamed; Jessie (Reynolds) 
Andrews, C. W. McCampbell and Martha 
S. Pittman, Manhattan. 

10O7 — J. L. Pelham, Albany, Ga.; Bes- 
sie (Nicolet) Cron, Alamo, Texas; Clar- 
ence Nevins, Dodge City; L. M. Jorgen- 
son and Mary Kimball, Manhattan. 

1008 — Maud (Harris) Thompson, Mar- 
lon; A. B, Cron, Alamo, Texas. 

1MB — A. G. Kittell, Topeka; Odell 
(Wilson) Elliott, Coats; Marie (Coons) 
Weigel, Manhattan; Virgil C. Bryant, 
Redding, Calif. 

1010— Isabelle (Arnott) Bryant, Red- 
ding, Calif.; L. C. Aicher, Hays; Gladys 
(Nichols) Dearborn and E. H. Dearborn, 
Manhattan; Winifred (Alexander) 
Smies, Courtland. 

1911 — R. V. Christian, Wichita; Rob- 
ert C. Mo.seley, Wamego; Edith (O'Bri- 
en) Thompson, Iola; Glenn E. Whipple, 
Omaha, Neb.; Ellen Nelson, Randolph; 
W. B. Honska, Salina; Harvey Roots, 
Pearl (Smith) Roots, W. B. Speer, Elsie 
(Rogler) Speer, Maria Morris and H. H. 
Laude, Manhattan. 

1012 — Richard W. Getty, Downs; Wil- 
lis N. Kelly, Hutchinson; John H. An- 
derson, Kansas City, Mo.; Walter G. 
Ward, Nellie Aberle and A. J. Mack, 
Manhattan. 

1913 — Arthur H. Montford, Hutchin- 
son; Fred F. Rees and Ethelyn (Pray) 
Rees, Beloit; Jennie Irene (Flinn) Rid- 
dle, Kansas City, Mo.; E. H. Smies, 
Courtland; W. E. Grimes, Alice (Rob- 
erts) Lonberger and Ramona (Norton) 
Phillips, Manhattan. 

1014 — Margaret (Jones) Jones, Lin- 
coln, Neb.; A. P. Immenschuh, San 
Diego, Calif.; A. P. Davidson, F. A. 
Smutz, Mary (Nixon) Linn, C. H. Scho- 
ler, A. L. Clapp, Ethel (Roseberry) 
Grimes and L. E. Hobbs, Manhattan. 

1015— Ruth (Nygren) Deltz, Topeka; 
Laura (Falkenrich) Baxter, James W. 
Linn, Effle (Carp) Lynch and Ruth Hill 
Hobbs, Manhattan; Elizabeth (Dempe- 
wolf ) Cummlngs, Concordia; Charles W. 
Shaver and Vera (Woody) Shaver, f. s., 
Salina: A. E. McClymonds, Lincoln, Neb.; 
William W. Haggard, Topeka. 

1010 — I. N. Chapman, Chappell, Neb.; 
Pearl (Jacques) Shields, Council Grove; 
Florence (Waynick) VanDeventer, 
Wellington; Ruth (Hoffman) Merner, 
New York City; Nelle Flinn, Admire; 
Zane Fairchild, Omaha, Neb.; Corinne 
(Myers) Gatewood, Caledonia, Ohio; 
Mildred (Bransom) Stuber, Winfleld; 
W. E. Deal, Westfleld, N. J.; Virginia 
(Lay ton) Orman, Tulsa, Okla.; Ed- 
mund F. Wilson and William P. Deitz, 
Topeka; A. M. Butcher, Tulsa, Okla.; 
Col. G. W. Fitzgerald, Ft. Sam Houston, 
Texas; Lucille (Maughlin) Garrison, 
Hutchinson; B. M. Anderson, Kansas 
City, Mo.; Lewis A. Williams, Hunter; 
Francis (Ewalt) Dalton, Sedan; Franc 
(Sweet) Johns, Goodland; Eva Lawson, 
Columbus, Ohio; W. H. Robinson, Lin- 
coln, Neb.; Ruth E. Frush, Kansas City, 
Kan.; O. B. Burtis, Hymer; Orie W. 
Beeler, Des Moines, Iowa; W. C. Calvert, 
Keokuk, Iowa; J. H. Sharpe, Council 
Grove; Omar O. Browning, Linwood; 
Ray H. Whitenack and Verda (Harris) 
Whitenack, Olathe; Edith (Updegraft) 



Stephenson, Wichita; Isla (Bruce) Mc- 
Clymonds, Lincoln, Neb.; A. E. Jones, 
Lincoln, Neb.; Ora M. McMillen, Tope- 
ka; Ralph C. Erskine, Washington, D. 
C; Ruth (Hutchings) Engler, Onaga; 
Cora (Pitman) Signor, Effingham; R. J. 
Hanna, Mankato; Cecil (Miller) Wright, 
Salina; J. R. Mason, Scottsbluff, Neb.; 
Preston Hale, Topeka; Ralph V. O'Neil, 
Wellsville; Walter Ott, Ft. Morgan, 
Colo.; Paul B. Gwin, Junction City; 
John S. Wood and Fannie (Brooks) 
Wood, Clifton; Cecil Elder, Columbia, 
Mo.; P. C. McGilliard, Stillwater, Okla.; 
R. P. Schnacke, La Crosse; R. P. Ram- 
sey, Osage City; Margaret (Schneider) 
Prideaux, Manhattan; Ida May Wilson, 
Kansas City, Mo.; A. A. Glenn, Amarillo, 
Texas; Vera (Kizer) Lowe, Osawato- 
mie; Reah (Lynch) Muir, Ada Billings, 
Lillian (Lathrop) Bennett, Josie Griffith, 
Irl Fleming, Henry B. Bayer and Wilma 
(Burtis) Bayer, Grace (Currie) Howen- 
stine, Phoebe (Lund) Caulfield, Man- 
hattan; Murray Arnold, Newton; Fred 
Cromer, Kingman; Mary Alice (Gish) 
Lipper, Sterling; Harry Gunning, Wash- 
ington, D. C; Irene (Walker) Stovall, 
Peabody; W. L. Willhoite, Drexel, Mo.; 
Cleda (Pace) Adams, Belleville; Bess 
(Pyle) Springer, Tulsa, Okla.; Faith 
(Earnest) Soller, Washington; Grace 
(Lyons) Collister, Gates Mills, Ohio; 
Hilda (Harlan) Gray, Cheyenne, Wyo.; 
J. L. Lush, Ames, Iowa; Wilma (Van 
Horn) Mattson, Stanley Baker, Hazel 
(Groff) Robinson, Bess (Hildreth) Hunt- 
er, Vivian (Herron) Rutter, and Mable 
(Ruggles) Haggard, Topeka. 

1917— Mabel (Botkin) McCall, Seneca; 
Everett S. Stephenson, f. s., Wichita; 
Merle (Beeman) Robinson, Lincoln, 
Neb.; Mabel (Root) Williams, Portland, 
Ore.; Ross B. Keys, Concordia; Stella 
M. Harriss, W. F. Pickett and G. A. Sel- 
lers, Manhattan. 

1918 — M. A. Durland, Manhattan. 

1919 — Mildred C. (Browning) Wilson, 
Topeka; Lola (Sloop) Keys, Concordia; 
Myrtle A. Gunselman, Manhattan. 

1920— W. Carlton Hall, Coffeyville; 

C. J. Medlin and Alta Sarah Hepler, 
Manhattan. 

1921 — Ursula S. Senn, Buffalo, N. Y; 

D. L. Signor, Effingham; R. W. McCall. 
Seneca; William H. Knostman, Wa- 
mego; Mable (Ginter) Schindler, Jewell; 
Hilery E. Mather and Esther (Curtis) 
Mather, f. s., Walsh, Colo.; Karl S. Quis- 
enberry, Lincoln, Neb.; Faye (Powell) 
Nitcher and Charles Nitcher, West La- 
fayette, Ind.; Irene (Graham) Gish, 
Lincoln, Neb.; Charles F. Morris, Wichi- 
ta; Walter C. Marrs, Streator, 111.; 
Bessie (Cole) Case, Wichita: Ira K. 
Landon, Merton L. Otto, Myra Scott, C. 

D. Davis, Elma (Stewart) Ibsen, Mar- 
guerite (Hammerly) Bock, Hezel D. 
Howe and Anna (Neal) Muller, Manhat- 
tan. 

1922 — A. D. Weber, Manhattan; C. C. 
Dethloff, Natchitoches, La.; Ada (Song- 
er) Landon, f. s., Manhattan; G. M. 
Glendening, Kansas City, Mo. 

1923— W. S. Magill, Fanwood, N. J.; 
Henrietta (Jones) Darby, Manhattan. 

1924 — Faith (Martin) Hanna, Manka- 
to; George Lingelbach, George Filinger 

j and Kenney Ford, Manhattan. 

1925 — Florence (Harris) Walker, 
Marshfleld, Mo. 

1920 — Goldie- (Scarborough) Beck, 
Keats; Velma (Lockridge) McKee, Min- 
neapolis, Minn.; Mary J. Herthel, Claf- 
lin; Ward W. Taylor, Springfield, Colo.; 
Ruth (Long) Dary, Manhattan; Kath- 

j erine Welker, Carthage, Mo.; Lester W. 

I Serris, Salina; H. A. Stewart, Topeka; 

I Paul Brantingham, Fort Wayne, Ind.; 
Jennie (Fisk) Jevons, Wakefield; Mar- 
garet (Foster) Davis, Hutchinson; J. V. 

I Eastwood, Dorothy (Girton) Chaney, 
Junction City; Ethel (Watson) Self. 
Grand Junction, Colo.; Mabel R. Smith, 
Kathryn (King) Chappell, Rachel (Her- 
ley) Frey, Esther Cormany, Louise 

I (Wann) Harwood, Mrs. Etna Lyon and 
Miriam L. Dexter, Charles Stratton, S. 
A. McCracken, Bernard J. Conroy, Man- 
hattan; Wayne Rogler, Matfleld Green. 

1927 — V. D. Foltz, Manhattan. 

1928 — H. E. Myers, Manhattan; Dawn 
Daniels, Evanston, 111. 

1929 — Ralph R. Lashbrook, Mary P. 
Van Zile and Christine Wiggins, Man- 
hattan. 

1930 — Adelaide (Scott) West, Manhat- 
tan. 

l.,31 — Doris Prentice, Ada (Wiese) 
Scheel, Eleanor (Drummond) Hanna 
and Aria McBurney, Manhattan; Harold 

E. Trekell, Swampscott, Mass.; E. F. 
Peterson, Schenectady, N. Y.; Marvin G. 
Ott, Kansas City, Kan.; Mabel (Roepke) 
Trekell, Swampscott, Mass.; Herbert A. 
Dimmitt, Kansas City, Kan.; Loyal J. 
Miller, Lebanon; Daisy F. McMullen, 
Salina; Miles George, Wichita; C. Wil- 
bur Naylor, Hiawatha; Matilda A. Sax- 
ton, Topeka. 

1032 — James P. Chapman, Manhattan; 
Louise Davis, Nashville, Tenn.; Hilma 
R. Davis, Cottonwood Falls. 

1033 — Gaylord Munson, Junction City; 
Lois (Windiate) George, Wichita. 

1934 — Virginia Speer, Manhattan; 
Elizabeth (Scott) Shanahan, Denver. 

1930 — Ruth (Gresham) Guilfoil, Chi- 
i cago; Jo Elizabeth (Miller) Henderson, 
j West Lafayette, Ind.; Alvin G. Ploger, 
Kinsley; J. Warren Rowland, Rockford, 
HI.; Dorothy Bacon, Sedalia, Mo.; Mil- 
dred (Chappell) Harold, Hal F. Eier, Al- 
len V. Lester, Dorothy (Washington) 
Twiehaus and Karl Shoemaker, Man- 
hattan; Ona Lee (Burson) Walser, Co- 
lumbia, Mo. 

1937 — Marjorie Kittell, Topeka; 
Gladys Poole and George T. Hart, Man- 
hattan. 

1938 — Wilma Marsh, Mt. Vernon, Mo.; 
Hazel Marie Scott, Sabetha; S. T. Free- 
man, Okmulgee, Okla.; Katherine (Tay- 
lor) Rowland, Rockford, 111.; Thelma 
Harman, Ft. Jackson, S. C; Elizabeth 
Lechner, Longford; Irene M. Wassmer, 
Manhattan. 

1939 — W. G. Speer Jr., Manhattan; 
Jean Glenn, Amarillo, Texas; Ruth Mc- 
Kenzie, Effingham; Mildred (Jackson) 
Freeman, f. s., Okmulgee, Okla. 

1940 — Marie (Forceman) Pallesen, f. 
s., Denver; Vivian E. Anderson, Kansas 
City, Mo.; Helen Peterson, Manhattan. 



First '41 Life Member 

Byron Kimble Wilson, '41, was the 
first senior in the 1941 class to be- 
come a paid-up life member of the 
I College Alumni association. Byron 
j majored in agriculture and expects to 
i farm with his father, Bruce Wilson, 
'08, Keats, after he has completed 
his services in the United States army. 



■MMaMMWH 



1 



GRADUATE EMPLOYMENT 
IS GREATER THIS YEAR 

MOHE THAN 300 OF '41 CLASS 
ALREADY ARE LOCATED 



Mnny Trained In Fields Which Serve 

DefenHe Industries Have DIlBeul- 

lii-N Deciding Which Job 

to Aeeept 

With opportunities for employment 
better this year than at any time in 
the past decade, the recipients of de- 
grees on May 26 are having little 
difficulty in finding suitable employ- 
ment. In fact, the problem for many 
of them, particularly in fields which 
serve defense industries, is not of 
finding a job but of deciding which 
offer to accept. 

Although complete figures are not 
available, a query by the College 
News Bureau brought an immediate 
response from several departments 
of more than 300 recent graduates 
already located in jobs. 

VETS SURE OF JOBS 

Typical of the demand for well- 
trained personnel was this report 
from R. R. Dykstra, dean of the Divi- 
sion of Veterinary Medicine: 

"It is not possible to indicate exact- 
ly how our graduates will be em- 
ployed. All of them, 61 in number, 
are assured of positions and they are 
waiting to determine which of the 
positions will best meet their plans. 
In general our graduates will accept 
positions with the United States Bu- 
reau of Animal Industry, with estab- 
lished veterinary practitioners, as 
teachers, research workers, and gen- 
eral practitioners of veterinary medi- 
cine Some will accept commissions 
in the Veterinary Officers' Reserve 
corps for immediate active duty." 
FAITH LISTS CANDIDATES 

Prof W. L. Faith, head of the De- 
partment of Chemical Engineering, 
reported that 30 of the candidates for 
degrees May 26 and at the end of 
summer school in his department 
have employment. The list includes: 

J. Gilbert Brewer, Arkansas City, en- 
gineering department, E. I. du Pont de 
Nemours, and gfflg*. ,™j»»?S& 



Frese, Hoyt, to assist in operating 
father's farms; Paul E. Harbison, John- 
son, Soil Conservation service; Deno 
Huitt, Talmage, Widmer Engineering 
company, Ft. Riley; Ralph LtPPer, 
Sterling, rural service engineer, Kan- 
sas Power and Light company, Salina; 
Gerald T. Van Vleet, Danbury, Neb., 
Soil Conservation service. 

MANY ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS 
Electrical Engineering: Eugene Al- 
ford, Arkansas City, Union Electric .com- 
nanv St Louis; R. C. Allen, Cartnage, 
Sf" Commonwealth Edison company, 
Chicago; W. G. Bensing, Manhattan, 
i'nit..ri States army C. W. tsiacnouiii, 
Topeka^PhilliPS Petroleum corpora- 
ley"' sSTn' a e nd°&flitie J S LnSSSy. 
S e edan S ; e H. M. Dimond, Manhattan Gen- 
eral Electric company, Schene^ady. w. 
V- 1 H Frohn, Manhattan, Westing- 
house Electric and Manufacturing com- 

&le E y aS Hut=^^ 

ompany, Davenport, Iowa, C 
Thayer, General Electri 



Helen Fleming, Ottawa, teacher of 
home economics and biology, Durham; 
Mary Guy, Longford, Farm Security 
administration; Eleanor Harsh, Argo- 
nia, teacher, Jennings; Dorothy Howat, 
Wakeeney, teacher, Delphos; Mary Kel- 
ley Atwood, teacher, Caldwell; Caralee 
Laming, Tonganoxie, student dietitian, 
Alameda County hospital, Oakland, 
Calif.; Helen Lohmeyer, Newton, teach- 
er at Burrton; Marjorie McKee, Chanute, 
student dietitian, Johns Hopkins hos- 
pital, Baltimore, Md.; Ruth Martin, 
Kansas City, Mo., teacher, Kincaid. 

Virginia Monahan, Leavenworth, stu- 
dent dietitian, Presbyterian hospital, 
New York; Ruth E. Morrow, Larned, 
student dietitian, Massachusetts Gen 



City, 



plate glass fellowship at Mellon Insti- 
tute for Industrial Research, Pitts- 
burgh, Pa.; C. A. Day, Ottawa military 
explosives department, E. Ldu ^"J* « 
Nemours and company, Wilmington, 
Del 

John J. Dooley, Parsons Hercules 
Powder company, Wilmington, Del., 
Warren Orubb, Phillipsburg, gradu- 
aie assistant in chemical engineering, 
Iowa State college, Ames, Iowa, Thom- 
as B Haines, Manhattan, standards de- 
partment, Dow Chemica^company.Mid- 
land, Mich.; Harold 



company Davenport, Iowa; G. A. Hoyt, 

Schenectady, N. Y. 

R. L Meisenheimer, Hiawatha, R. C. 

■ < rdla General Electric company, 
Schenectady" N Y.; J. E. Newwheck, 

CUV Mo Automatic Electric company, 

PtoiBO K A. Peterson, Jasper, Mo., 

fir A Manufacturing company, Cam- 

den N J.; A E. Smoll, Wichita, General 

T^iP.-tVic company, Schenectady, N.Y., 

TR Tribute Soldier, General Electric 
company Schenectady N^l Dan W 

oner, Manhattan General Electric^om^ 

nanv. Schenectady, N. Y.i A. M. v* nl ^«> 
Jpni.Pka Century Electric company, St. 
Loufs'DK Wilkin, Nortonville, Auto- 
matic" Electric company, Chicago; Ken- 
neth Yoob Atwood, Vestinghouse Elec- 
tric and Manufacturing company. East 
Pittsburgh, Pa.; Howard Zeidler, Girard, 
Graduate assistant, Massachusetts In- 
ftitute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. 
PLACE HOME EC TEACHERS 
Home economics teacher placements: 
Rena. Bell, McDonald, vocational home- 
making at Alton; Mary Alice Campbell 
rwordla vocational homemaking at 
Osborne ;Marieta Delano, Hutchinson 
home economics and mathematics ai 
Son JaTe Dunham. Tope a ho™ 
economics and science at Robinson, 
Autumn Fields Mcpherson vocational 
homemaking at Smith Center 



and Plant Pathology, Kansas State 
College; Walter Keith, second lieuten- 
ant. United States Army; Robert Mears, 
landscape architect for a nursery in 
Dallas, Texas. 

AGRONOMY GRADUATES 

Agronomy Graduates: Richard At- 
kins, scholarship, Iowa State college, 
Ames, Iowa; Paul Brown, United States 
Army; Orville Burtis, assistant county 
agent; Emerson Cyphers, assistant 
county agent; Leland Groff, assistant 
county agent; Dale Hupe, United States 
Army Air corps; Harold Jaeger, Navy 
Air corps; Herbert Johnson, farm; Lloyd 
Jones, research assistant, North Caro- 
lina State college; Roscoe Long, farm; 
eral hospital, Boston; Evelyn Moyer, Boyd McCune, United States Army; 
Dodge City, teacher, Ellsworth; Helen : Albert Praeger, United States Army; 
Pilcher, Gridley, student dietitian, Uni- ' Arden Reiman, farm; Henry Smies, re- 
versity of Michigan hospital, Ann Ar- searcn assistant, North Carolina State 
bor; Cheryl Poppen, Burr Oak, student col i e&e; p au i Smith, Marine corps; Rob- 
dietitian at Scripps Metabolic hospital, I ert We iis, United States Army; Byron 
La Jolla, Calif.; Alberta Pullins, Council W ilson, United States Army; Don Crum- 
Grove, home demonstration agent, Kan- , aker (lst . se m.), assistant county 
sas State College; Cleda Rambo, Paola, i l*™[ 
ESS o? Wa^^g^on^Se^tL 8 ?' pfut'h Busing Administration Graduates: 

gm"anu y el h^lLalWrulni^Ore.rViv^ ^^fTwin^^U^^ 
f™ Rice? Grlensburg^teacher "at' Cold- Westlnghouse ■ Electric and Manufac- 
water- Alouise Roberts, Parsons, teach- turing company, Pittsburgh, Pa., lari 
W r n? Oardner ■ Margaret Roseman, New ton Caldwell, Shell Oil company Alton, 
Cambria" 'uacne^OlBbur^RutA Sal- 111.; Paul Clingman Fuller -Brush corn- 
ley, Silver Lake, teacher at Axtell; Mar- pany, Manhattan; Betty Lou Davis, con 
earet Schnacke La Crosse, teacher at I tinental Oil company, Ponca City, Okla., 
Stockton; Jean Scott, Manhattan, teach- | Robert Hackney, Firestone Tire .and 
er at Hot Springs, S. D.; Manette Sex- Rubber company, Akron Ohio; Richard 
son, Ooodland, teacher at Russell; ! Heaton, Coca Cola Bottling company 
Kathleen Sheppard, Manhattan, St. Norton; Norris Holstrom, Burroughs 
Marv's hospital, Detroit: Mary Stewart, Adding Machine company, Tope tea. 
Saffordville, teacher at Randolph; Eliz- Samuel Johnson, Firestone Tire and 
abeth Titus, Cottonwood Falls, teacher Rubber company, Akron, Ohio, KODert 
at Augusta: Dorothy Van Tuyl, Burns, Kauffman, Sand-Orr Construction corn- 
teacher at Saffordville; Vanora Weber, , )anyi Ft. Riley; Theron King, Stear- 
Caldwell, teacher at Cheney; Blanche ! man Aircraft company, Wichita; Lloise 
Winkler, Riley, teacher at Beattie; Ev- Morris, Walter Morris and Son Building 
elyn Yost, Downs, teacher at Oakley. und Realty, Wichita; Isabelle Phenyl, 

ENGINEERS FIND EMPLOYMENT Federal ""-^Vernon^pSaUner,' ITo~- 
Civil Engineering: James Adams, lind oil company, Tulsa, Okla.; Harold 
State Board of Agriculture,^ Topeka; Saum, Lybraod, Jtoss Brothers, ana 



44 VARSITY ATHLETES 

AWARDED "K" LETTERS 



FRESHMAN NUMERALS ARE GIVEN- 
TO 30 MEN 



Harris, Geuda 



inrlnvs Phillips Petroleum corpora- 
tE» f&rtlesv ille Okla.; Earl C. John- 
so'n'c^eWlel'sinclair Refining com- 
pany, East Chicago, Ind. 

KEOGH WITH MONSANTO 
W. T. Keogh, New York City. Mon- 

Construction company^ 

ery 

com 

Man.... 

ment, B. 1. du .Pont d * , 

company, Wilmington, Del. 

Willis 1) Payton, Arkansas City, re- 
fining Vurision.lMiiim^ Petroleum cor- 
poration, Bartlesville. Okla.; Elmer . 



Manhattan, Widmer 
Ft. Riley; Em- 



onstruetion cumiiu.ij, - - -r- jw ' n , ica i 
ry Levin, Lindsborg, General Chemical 




FlemtaS Ottawa, home economics and 
biol"gy at Durham; Dorothy Howat 
WaSey, home economics and biology 
at Delphos; Mary Elizabeth Kelley, At 
vocational homemaking at £ald- 



Newton, 



Nemours and 



student 



, Okla 
Rollins, Manhattan, graduate 
in Chemical oiigiiieeriiut, kansM Stole 
Polleire- John It. Romig, Bethany, ivio., 

Susourl Portland Cement ISSSSH%» 

,„„ iu . ij i Ruckel. Arkansas oii.y, 
Kanotex 1 Refining : company, Arkansas 
City Joseph P. Sachen, Kansas City 

„a?t°an "graduat'e ,-arch gstant in 
chemistry, Kansas State College i^. « 



well;' Helen" Mae Lohmeyer, 
home economics at Burrton. 

Ruth Martin, Kansas City, Mo., voca- 
tional homemaking at Kincaid; Mar- 
guerite Mason, Redfleld, home .econom 
fes at McPherson junior high school, 
Evelyn Moyer,Dodge City home mo- 
nomics at Ellsworth; Vivian Rice, 
Greensburg, home economics at cold- 
water"; Alouise Roberts, Parsons voca- 
tional homemaking at Gardner; Mar- 
garet Roseman, New Cambria, home ec- 
onomics and English at Olsburg, Ruth 
EHzabeth Salley" Silver Lake, home ec- 
onomics and science at Axtell; Margaret 
Schnacke, La Crosse, home economics 
and biology at Stockton. 

Jean Scott, Manhattan, vocational 
homemaking In Hot Springs, S. O., 
M i et e Sexson, Ooodland home eco- 
in Russell junior high school; 
- vocation- 
sabeth 
g at 
Bta; Dorothy Van Tuyl, Basehor, 
vocational homemaking at Saffordville; 

and 
Evelyn Ernestine 



nomics in Russell junior nign b«" 
Ma rv L. Stewart, Saffordville, vocat 
al homemaking at Randolph; Bllsa 
Titus Cottonwood Falls, clothint 



tration, Topeka; Aven Eshelman, CECO i company, Manhattan; Lloyd 



weather, United Insurance company, 
Abilene; Harold Lemert, R. H. Eyman 
company, Arkansas City; Lawrence 
Davidson, Cessna Aircraft company, 
Wichita; Dudley Londeen, Dun and 
Bradstreet, Kansas City, Mo; Richard 
Gray, McCormick-Mathers Publishers, 
Chicago. 

GO INTO ARMY 
In addition, at least 16 graduates 
of the course in business administra- 
tion are expecting to be called into the 
this summer. In 
i Brock, 
Leaven - 
inger, 
Correll, 
Agricultural economics and agricul- \f"v!g~i' Dodge?' Kenneth Graham, Rob- 
tural administration placements: De- ^ Hackney, Warren Hornsby, Frank 
Witt Ahlerich, farming at Winfield; , el l b n <V len Mueller, Bernard Nash, 

Merton Badenhop, graduate assistant, ; H. ' „ Derman , James Paustian, Keith 
Louisiana State university. University, : g^medemann Donald Wilkin. 
La.; Edwin Betz, farming at Enterprise; henmeae m inn, Frances Ruhl 

Jarnes Booth, assistant county agent, Journalism Graduates. Frances Kuni, 
Kansas State College; Edward Brenner, j Kiowa, Kan ; Katharine Chubb, .as. 
farming at Bazine; Lester Brown, Unit- tant extension editor, 

- ilcL 

Manhattan Morning 



Steel Products corporation, Kansas 
Citv, Mo.; Clair E. Ewing, Phillips Pe- 
troleum corporation, Bartlesville, Okla.; 
William Gardner, Kansas State High- 
way commission, Topeka; Bill Geery, 
Widmer Construction company, Ft. 
Riley; Carl Helm, Magnolia Petroleum 
company, Dallas, Texas; Kenneth D. 
Henry, Tennessee Valley authority, 
Knoxville; Paul Montgomery, United 
States Air base, Bermuda Islands; 
Walter M. Naylor, Kansas State High- 
way commission, Topeka; Melvin Scan- 
Ian, State Board of Agriculture, Tope 



Socony'-Vaeuum Oil company Augusta: 
Mailand Strunk, Kansas City, titanium 

ES,Kn«S 
den commercial explosives department, 
EI. du Pont de Nemours and company, 

Prod ucVh company. a South Charleston, 
W Va.; Morton Smutz, Manhattan, 
Monsanto Chemical company, St. Louis. 

TEACHING JOBS FOR 41 
Other departments reporting and 
the number of men placed include 
eight in agricultural engineering, 35 
in electrical engineering, 54 in the 
Division of Home Economics and 41 
teacher placements reported by the 
Department of Education. The 41 
placed by the Department of Educa- 
tion include some duplications of per- 
sons whose names appear in the 
Home Economics list. 

A complete list of all students who 
have jobs probably would exceed 400. 
Of the remaining 200, army service 
for the men and marriage for the 
girls eliminates many from the list of 
employables. 

Agricultural Engineering: Forrest O. 

tion service, Iola; Millard unsaver, 
Athol, Soil Conservation service; Gus- 
tavo Fairbanks, Topeka, instructor, De- 
partment of Military Science and Tac- 
tl". Kansas State College: Clarence A. 



at 
"Erie, 



ics and biology at Cheney 
Winkler, Riley, home economics 
biology at Beattie; E... 
Yost >owns, home economics at Oak- 
ley ; Eleanor Harsh, Argonia, home eco- 
nomics at Jennings. 

Other teaching positions: Marie Lou- 
ise Brewer, Great Bend, grade school 
,T Basinet Lowell W. Clark, Waterville, 
music? band and orchestra at Ransom; 
Dale Gibson, Winchester, mathematics, 
Science and coaching at Morrowville 
Charles Horner. Abilene, band and 
orchestra at Phillipsburg; John Jack- 
son Eureka, coaching and physical ed- 
ucation at Osborne; Miriam Moore 
Hutchinson, English and history 
Gatlinburg, Tenn.; Auriel Olson, 
mathematics in Erie junior high school 
Gerald Rilev, Concordia, science at fet. 
F?ancls; Robert Roelfs, Bushton, math- 
ematics and science at Madison. 

VOCATIONAL AG TEACHERS 
Vocational agriculture teachers: 
Wayne Colle, Sterling, agriculture; and 
manual training at Den.son; Emory 
droves, Burlingame, vocational agri 
culture at Scandia; Doyle LaRosh.Na- 
toma, vocational agriculture at Mul- 
vane Kay Morrison, Larned, vocational 
agriculture at Alma; James Peddicord 
Manhattan, vocational agriculture at 
Hanover; Merwin Stearns, Haddam, vo- 
cational agriculture at Longford. 

Home economics students employed: 
Dorothy Axcell, Chanute, student dieti- 
tian, Michael Reese hospital, Chicago 
Virginia Barnard, Belleville, student 
dietitian, Harper hospital, Detroit, 
Rena Bell, teacher of vocational home- 
making; Alton; Betty Boehm, Manhat- 
tan, student dietitian. University of 
Oklahoma hospitals, Oklahoma City, 
Frances Brooks, Norton, teacher of 
vocational homemaking at Osborne, 
Doris Carlson, Osage City, student d- 
etitian. Latter Day Saints hospital, Salt 
Lake City; Jessie Collins, Dwight, De- 
partment of Home Economics, Nationa 
Livestock and Meat board, Chicago, 
Betty Jane Curtis, McPherson, student 
dietitian, Lincoln General hospital, 
Lincoln, Neb.; Marieta Delano, Hutch- 
inson, teacher of hpme economics and 
mathematics at Denison; Ruth Douglas 
Coffeyville, student dietitian, Miami 
Valley hospital, Dayton, Ohio, Jane 
Dunham, Topeka, teacher of home eco- 
nomics and science, Robinson; Rachel 
Featheringlll, Independence, home dem- 
onstration agent, Kansas State College, 
Autumn Fields, McPherson, teacher of 
vocational homemaking, Smith Center, 



University of 
ed's^'a"tls"anny';Glenn"Busse\; assistant (Nebraska, Lincoln; Herbert Hollinger, 
county alentf' Kansas State College; I managing editor Manhat an Morning 
Wayne Colle, teaching at Denison; Lee Chronicle; Don Maklns, United States 
Collinsworth farming at Rosalia; Paul Naval Reserve Tratoing station at 
Danielson, farming at Lindsborg; Har- Great Lakes 111.; Gran -Salisbury, Fly- 
old Fox, research, in agricultural eco- in g Cadet, United States Army, Mus- 
nomics, Kansas r State College; Reed kogee, Okla.; James Kendal , Manhat 
Fleury, field man, Equitable Life As- ! tan Mercury; Walter Martin, United 
surance society in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; i states Army. 

Emory Groves, teaching at Scandia; | ^. 

Melvin Gruber, United States army; 
Doyle LaRosh, teaching at Mulvane; 
Milton Manuel, United States army; No- 
lan McKenzie, United States army; Dale 
Moore, United States army; Ray Mor- 
rison, teaching ^t Alma; Kent Patton, 
teaching at Mulvane; James Peddicord, 
teaching at Hanover; Joseph Rosacker, 

grain business in Kansas City, Mo.; I Marv Margaret Arnold of Manhat- 
Tasker Sherrill, teaching at Neodesha; | Maiy Mdigdibi au „,, = .„,. an A 
Frank Slead, farming at Neosho Rap- tan, sophomore, will be editor, ana 
traila? m^^&^wtrm'^cn^ ' John Williams, Parsons, senior will 
administration at Mound City; Fred be business manager Of the 1941 
Talbot, United States army; Orval 
Thrush, Nebraska Farmer, Lincoln, 
Neb.; John Weddle, teaching at Gard- 
ner: Mack Yenzer, Producers' Commis- 
sion company, Kansas City, Mo.; Albert 
Yoxall, Naval Air corps; Edward Zahn, 

t Te 1 pa, R tmL 1 I t rill of Ci Architecture: Law- 1 Arnold previously had been named 
rence Bowdish, draftsman in Kansas editor of The Kansas State Collegian 
City, Mo.: William Doty, draftsman, W. „ nMt „ hpeinnine in 

R Hoi way, Tulsa, Okla.; John C. Foster, for the fall semester, Deginmng m 
draftsman, W. R. Holway, Tulsa, Okla.; o pntpm b e r Williams has been busi- 
John Shaver, Charles W. Shaver, archi- , &epiemuei. "'"* •„,,„,. 

tect of Salina; John D. Sulton, H. R. ; ness manager of The Collegian dui- 
Robinson, architect of Washington D. semester The Summer 

C. ; Edward Abernathy, United States ing tne yasi seuieoici . 
engineer's office in Kansas City, Mo. ; I gcbool Collegian will be printed in 
S^V^* B W*2£; Charies* 3ft | the shop of the Department of Indus- 
^.^3^"; F SW^&ffiltrW Journalism and Printing at the 



ARNOLD AND WILLIAMS HEAD 
SUMMER COLLEGIAN STAFF 

_^_— — ' 

Board of Publications Awards Con- 
tracts for Royal Purples 



Summer School Collegian. 

Miss Arnold and Williams, both 
journalism students, were appointed 
by the Board of Publications. Miss 



Athletics Council Approves Recognition 
for Students Pnrtlclpotlng In Bane- 

l Track, Tennis, Golf 

and Swimming 

Varsity letters were awarded to 44 
Kansas State athletes Monday by the 
College Athletics council. Freshman 
numerals were awarded to 30 other 
men. 

Of the 44 "K" awards, 11 were 
varsity letters in baseball, 24 in 
track, five in golf and four in tennis. 
Freshman numerals went to 10 in 
basketball, eight in swimming, three 
in tennis and nine in track. 
VARSITY LETTERS 
The varsity letter awards were: 
Baseball — Ray Dunlay, Parsons; 
Kenneth Graham, Framingham, 
Mass.; Warren Hornsby, Topeka; 
Neil Hugos, Manhattan; Charles 
Kier, Mankato; Chris Langvardt, 
Alta Vista; Jim Prideaux, Manhat- 
tan; Norbert Raemer, Herkimer; Ray 
Rokey, Sabetha; Lee Doyen, Rice; 
Floyd Kirkland, Junction City. 

Track — Don Adee, Wells; Louis 
Akers, Atchison; Don Borthwick, 
Beeler; Wilfred Burnham, St. Fran- 
cis; Art Day, Ottawa; Ed Darden, 
Manhattan; Gilbert Dodge, Dighton; 
Les Droge, Seneca; Kent Duwe, 
Lucas; John Fieser, Norwich; John 
Garrett, Joplin, Mo.; Henry Haeberle, 
Clearwater; Thaine High, Abilene; 
Jim Johns, Manhattan; Sam John- 
son, Oswego; Ken Makalous, Cuba; 
George Mendenhall, Belleville; Rufus 
Miller, Hiawatha; Loyal Payne, Man- 
hattan; Richard Peters, Valley Falls; 
Merrill Rockhold, Herington; Wal- 
lace Swanson, Sharon Springs: Bill 
Thies, Marion; James Upham. Junc- 
tion City. 

Golf — Hall Milliard, James Paus- 
tian and Arlin Ward, all of Manhat- 
tan; Richard Gorman, Hartford, 
Conn., and Willard Monahan, Leav- 
enworth. 

Tennis — Capt. Jack Horacek and 
Henry Bender, both of Topeka; Her- 
bert Bunker, Junction City, and Ver- 
non Plattner, Coffeyville. 

FRESHMAN NUMERALS 
Freshman numeral awards were: 
Basketball — John Bortka and Leo 
Headrick, both of Kansas City; Mar- 
io Dirks, Moundridge; Bill Engel- 
land, Sterling; Bruce Holman, Pow- 
hattan; Frank Bruce and Fred Kohl, 
both of Kansas City, Mo. ; Ken Mess- 
ner, Arkansas City; Max Roberts, 
Chanute, and John St. John, Wichita. 
Swimming — Ridge Scott and Har- 
old Kalousek, both of Kansas City; 
Peter Ruckman, Topeka; Harvey 
Harakawa, Honolulu; James Leker, 
Manhattan; Philip Montgomery. Riv- 
erside, Ont. ; Robert Peugh, Hoising- 
ton, and Albert Stone, Honolulu. 

Tennis — Stewart Reed, Topeka; 
Myron Foveaux, Junction City; 
Charles Philbrick, Lincoln. 

Track — Lawrence Chain, Haven; 
Max Grandfleld, Manhattan; Robert 
Keith, Manhattan; Calvin Miller, El 
Dorado; Ernest Nelson, Scandia: Bill 
Payne, Manhattan; Albert Rues, 
Parker; Darren Schneider, St. Fran- 
cis; Homer Socolofsky, Marion. 



* 



United States engineer's office, Kansas College 
City, Mo.; Elmer Schwartz, American i 



Bridge company, Gary, Ind.; Galen Sol 
lenberger, Llbbey-Owens-Ford Glass 
company, Toledo, Ohio; Robert Thorn 



Cagers Plan Western Trip 

Coach Jack Gardner has completed 
The board also awarded the Royal | arrangements for four December 

games in Montana and Washington, 



Purple, student yearbook, engraving 



iurrow, draftsman with Consolidated con t ra ct to Burger-Baird Engraving 
Vircraft corporation, San Diego, Calif. „k„ ( „„ ran i« mll . 
_ „ ,i ., . enmnanv and the pnotogiapny con- 
Horticulture: Joe Cervera, small fruit company, *"" "™ * „,, .. 
experiment fields, Kansas State Experi- tract for the 1942 book to the btudio 
ment station; George Cochran, gradu- R , . Aegieville. 
ate assistant, Department of Botany ! K °y al in Aggievme. 



EVERYDAY ECONOMICS 

By W.B.GRIMES 



' If trade stops or is checked, standards of living fall." 



Why worry about our trade with 
other countries? Simply because it 
means economic well-being for many 
of our people if trade proceeds in a 
normal manner and distress and pri- 
vation If it does not. In the modern 
world few people and no civilized 
nations produce all of the things 
needed to maintain their standards 
of living. The goods and services 
needed but not produced by the in- 
dividual or the nation are secured 
through exchange or trade. If trade 
stops or Is checked, standards of liv- 
ing fall, because goods produced in 
greater abundance than is needed by 
their producers pile up as surpluses 
and, the goods normally obtained 
from others are not available 



To make the problem simple, why human values are affected 



should a teacher worry about ex- 
changing, or trading his services to 
others; or in other words, why worry 
about having a job? Because if he 
does not sell his services, he cannot 
buy the goods and services which de- 
termine his well-being. His econom- 
ic well-being will be jeopardized. 
But why not do something else? 
What else can he do so well? If past 
middle age, it is too late to enter an- 
other profession. He cannot change 
easily. Neither can the producer of 
goods for export change easily. 

Loss of markets means hardship 
and loss of economic well-being. The 
issues involved are human values — 
not merely goods, services, and dol- 
lars. If the now of goods is stopped, 



which will comprise Kansas State's 
first basketball trip to the Northwest. 
The Wildcats will play the University 
of Montana at Missoula, December 
22; Montana State college at Boze- 
man, December 23, and Washington 
university and Washington State col- 
lege in Seattle December 19 and 20. 
Washington State, runnerup in the 
recent National Collegiate Athletic 
association tourney, will play in the 
Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, and 
Washington university will compete 
in Madison Square Garden. 



McCampbell to Be Fair Judge 

Dr. C. W. McCampbell, head of the 
Department of Animal Husbandry, ^ 
has been asked to judge all breeds g 
of draft horses at the Pomona, Calif., ^ 
fair this fall. Doctor McCampbell 
plans to visit several agricultural 
experiment stations while on the 
West coast. 



Kerchner Gets Summer Job 

Prof. R. M. Kerchner of the Depart- 
ment of Electrical Engineering re- 
ceived a request recently from the 
General Electric company, Schenec- 
tady, N. Y. f to report for summer 
work in the transformer department. 



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HISTORICAL SOCIETY C 
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The Kansas Industrialist 



Volume 67 



Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, Manhattan, Wednesday, July 30, 1941 



Number 33 



FACULTY AND STAFF CHANGES 
INVOLVE SOME 150 PERSONS 



PHKS. P. II. FARRRMi ANNOUNCES 
LIST APPnOVKD BY REGENTS 



I>r. Bernlce Kunerth of the Department 

of Food EeonomleN mill Nutrition 

(Joes to Washington 

on l.i'inc 

Faculty and staff changes involv- 
ing more than 150 persons on the 
campus were announced this summer 
by Pies. F. D. Farrell, after action 
by the State Board of Regents. 

M. L. Robinson, assistant profes- 
sor of agricultural economics in the 
Division of College Extension, is 
transferred to the position of assis- 
tant professor and district supervisor 
in that division. Eugene J. Mackey, 
assistant professor in the Department 
of Architecture, resigned effective 
June 30. 

ACCEPTS B. H. E. JOB 

Dr. Bernice Kunerth of the De- 
partment of Food Economics and Nu- 
trition is granted a leave of absence 
for one year, beginning September 1, 
to accept special appointment in the 
United States Bureau of Home Eco- 
nomics to work on problems of hu- 
man nutrition and food habits in 
relation to national defense. 

Faculty members who will return 
from sabbatical leave of absence and 
absence without pay about July 1 or 
September 1: R. F. Cox, associate 
professor of animal husbandry; E. L. 
Sitz, assistant professor of electrical 
engineering; H. M. Stewart, profes- 
sor of economics and sociology; Miss 
Jennie Williams, associate professor 
of child welfare and euthenics; E. E. 
Leasure, professor of anatomy and 
physiology; M. C. Moggie, associate 
professor of education; R. F. Morse, 
assistant professor of civil engineer- 
ing; R. J. Doll, instructor in agri 
cultural economics; Hale Brown, as- 
sistant professor of education. 

DEAN SEATON IS ON LEAVE 

During all or a part of the year 
1941-4 2 the following faculty mem- 
bers will be on leave of absence, with- 
out pay: G. H. Beck, instructor in 
dairy husbandry; Dean R. A. Seaton, 
engineering and architecture, as head 
of the national program of engineer- 
ing training for defense in Washing- 
ton, D. C; D. C. Taylor, assistant 
professor of applied mechanics; A. 
O. Filmier, associate professor of 
mechanical engineering; F. W. Mat- 
ting, instructor in mechanical engi- 
neering; M. J. Twiehaus, instructor 
in bacteriology; B. W. Beadle, assis- 
tant chemist; Annabel Garvey, assis- 
tant professor of English; M. J. Har- 
baugh, assistant professor of zoology; 
C. H. Kitselman, professor of vet- 
erinary medicine; H. E. Stover, in- 
structor in rural engineering; Miss 
Ellen Batchelor, assistant professor 
in extension; and John G. Bell, as- 
sistant professor of the Extension 
service. 

During all or a part of the year 
1941-4 2 the following faculty mem- 
bers will be on sabbatical leave: F. 
L. Parsons, agricultural economics, 
for advanced study at the University 
of Chicago; R. F. Cox, associate pro- 
fessor of animal husbandry, advanced 
study at Cornell university; Lyle W. 
Downey, associate professor of mu- 
sic, advanced study at the State Uni- 
versity of Iowa; Miss Myrtle Gunsel- 
man, associate professor of house- 
hold economics, travel and advanced 
study; E. E. Leasure, professor of 
anatomy and physiology, advanced 
study and professional experience; 
Miss Lora V. Hilyard, instructor in 
clothing and textiles in extension, ad- 
vanced study at Columbia univer- 
sity. 

HUDIBURG NAMED EXECUTIVE 

Other changes: 

Russell A. Nelson to be employed 
as temporary instructor in dairy hus- 
bandry during leave of absence of 
Instr. Glen H. Beck, effective Sep- 
tember 1; Franklin Eldridge to be 
employed as graduate assistant in 
horticulture, effective September 1; 
John A. Johnson Jr., to be appointed 
assistant in milling industry, effec- 
tive July 1; Prof. C. M. Correll, who 
(Continued on last page) 



Gets Defense Job 

A. C. Hoffman, '26, has been named 
principal economist of the food sec- 
tion of the Office of Price Administra- 
tion and Civilian Supply in Washing- 
ton, D. C. Mr. Hoffman was formerly 
with the Bureau of Agricultural Eco- 
nomics of the United States Depart- 
ment of Agriculture and attended 
Harvard university. 
-♦• 

HOI PAI OF PEKING IS SELECTED 

FOR HOME ECONOMICS FELLOWSHIP 



ENGINEERING DRAWING COURSE 
WILL OPEN HERE ON AUGUST 4 



COLLEGE AIDS GOVERNMENT IN 
DEFENSE TRAINING WORK 




HO-I PAI 



Chinese Coed Will Be Fifth to Come 

Here rnilcr A. H. E. A. 

Finn 

A Chinese girl from Peking will be 
among the Kansas State College co- 
eds studying home economics next 
September. She is Ho-I Pai, whom 
the American Home Economics asso- 
ciation has granted an international 
fellowship for the academic year. 

Miss Pai was born in Amoy, sea- 
coast city between Hongkong and 
Shanghai now held 
by Japanese, but 
her college work 
was in Yenching 
university, Peking, 
where Dr. Martha 
Kramer has been 
teaching since 
1937. 

Doctor Kramer 
was on the Kansas 
State College fac- 
ulty, in the De- 
partment of Foods 
and Nutrition from 
1922 to the fall of 
1937, when she went to China. 

Miss Pai was graduated from 
Yenching in 1934, after which she 
taught a year in an Amoy high school, 
then went to her alma mater as super- 
visor of the women's dormitory food 
service, the home management house 
and food laboratories. She comes to 
the College highly recommended by 
Doctor Kramer. 

She will be the fifth Oriental wo- 
man to study home economics at Kan- 
sas State College. The first was Lily 
Lee, now Mrs. Patrick Wu, who is 
with her husband at the Mayo hospi- 
tals in Rochester, Minn. Doctor Wu 
has a fellowship in surgery there and 
Mrs. Wu is studying dietetics. Sec- 
ond was Jean Chen, now teaching 
home economics and chemistry in 
Hwa Nan college, in temporary quar- 
ters in the interior after forced re- 
moval from Foochow on the coast. 
Third was Shiga Namba, Tokio, now 
at the Tokio YWCA. Fourth fellow 
was Ruth Mo, Canton, on the campus 
1940-41, who will go this fall to the 
Merrill-Palmer school, Detroit, for 
work in the nursery school Held. 



Summer Session Attracts 880 

Final registration figures for the 
summer session showed that 880 per- 
sons were enrolled at the College. 
This was a decline of 55 students 
from last year's total of 935. 



Short Session to Run lor 12 Weeks nml 
Students' Fees Pnl« by Fnele Snm; 
Mnterlnls Inspection mid Test- 
ing Project Is Scheduled 

Kansas State College, striving to 
do its bit toward supplying men bad- 
ly needed in defense industries, will 
open another session of a 12 weeks' 
defense course in engineering draw- 
ing on August 4. This will be the fifth 
engineering drawing course at Kan- 
sas State College under the national 
program of engineering training for 
national defense. 

All fees for this and other defense 
short courses are paid by the federal 
government. 

NEED 8. r i,000 WORKERS 

Engineers estimate that 85,000 
skilled workmen will be needed with- 
in the next year in the aircraft indus- 
try. In order to meet this need the 
federal government has set up special 
courses at colleges to train both men 
and women. 

Approximately 65 percent of the 
students graduated from the engi- 
neering drawing short course at Kan- 
sas State College during the past few 
months are working in the aircraft 
industry in Kansas. Many of the 
others are employed in other fields. 

The engineering drawing course 
which will open August 4 is for stu- 
dents who are high school graduates 
with two years of mathematics, one 
unit of algebra and one of geometry. 

TO OFFER MATERIALS WORK 

Plans are being made to offer a 
second 12 weeks' session of the 
course in materials inspection and 
testing at the College under the en- 
gineering defense training program. 
The enrolment date probably will be 
about September 1. This course is 
offered to students with twc years of 
college engineering credit, or to ma- 
ture individuals with considerable 
experience who are high school 
graduates. 

The object of the course is to pro- 
vide training for inspectors to serve 
\ in the ordnance department, quarter- 
i master, and air corps and in indus- 
I try. 

GIVE CHEMISTRY COURSE 

Another course being offered is 

i chemistry of powder and explosives. 

Enrolment for this course is open to 

| students who have had two years of 

! college chemistry. The course in 

materials inspection for highways 

and airports is open to students who 

I have had one year of college train- 

j ing, including a course in trigo- 

| nometry. 



PROGRAM OF VARIED ATTRACTIONS 

IS PRESENTED AT SUMMER SESSION 



'41 CLASS, WITH 819 MEMBERS, 
IS LARGEST RECORDED BY COLLEGE 



DB. T. V. SMITH OF CHICAGO IS 
COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER 



WEEK-LONG NUTRITION CONFERENCE 

DISCUSSES STATE'S DEFENSE AID 



I low can the health of Kansans be 
improved so as to strengthen the 
state's contribution to national de- 
fense? This is the problem being con- 
sidered by 20 women from all sec- 
tions of the state in a week-long con- 
ference here with members of the 
college Department of Food Econom- 
ics and Nutrition and with extension 
nutritionists. 

"The woman who feeds her hus- 
band and her children what they need 
to be vigorous and healthy, at what 
is for her income a reasonable cost, 
is performing as patriotic a service 
as is the person who is knitting for 
Red Cross," they declared. 

Nine of the women who are to be 
key members in the coming nutrition- 
for-defense program are graduates 
of Kansas State College: Mrs. H. L. 
Ibsen (Elma Stewart, '21), Manhat- 
tan; Mrs. C. M. Slagg (Winifred 
Neusbaum, '14), Manhattan; Sara 
Jane Patton, '15, Hiawatha; Kath- 
erine Tucker, '12, Topeka; Mrs. W. 
M. Schroeder (Doris McVey, '38), 
Colby; Mrs. S. A. Giles (Alma Hal- 
bower, '14), Wichita; Mrs. Z. H. Mc- 
Donnall (Neva Colville, '13), Wich- 
ita; Mrs. C. Merle Redfleld (Carolyn 



Hirt, '32), Dodge City; Mrs. Ruth 
Burns Gilbert, '14, Wichita. 

Eight cities in Kansas will be cen- 
ters for the nutrition education pro- 
gram being planned: Colby, Wichita, 
Dodge City, Pittsburg, Hiawatha, 
Manhattan, Topeka, Kansas City. 
Leaders from towns in the vicinity 
will be brought in to these eight 
cities for training and will then set 
up the program in their own com- 
munities. 

This week's conference was ar- 
ranged by Dr. Margaret M. Justin, 
dean of the Division of Home Eco- 
nomics, who was appointed by Gov. 
Payne H. Ratner last spring to head 
the state's committee on nutrition 
for national defense, and by Miss 
Hazel Thompson of the State Board 
for Vocational Education. 

Women attending the sessions are 
getting the latest information as to 
nutritive values of different foods, 
requirements for a well-balanced diet, 
methods of preparing foods so as to 
conserve their nutritive values and 
the most approved ways of preserving 
foods. They are also discussing ways 
of setting up an effective nutrition 
education program in the different 
communities. 



Ni'Kto Singers, Den Greet Plnyers anil 

Dr. A. E. Wiggnm Visit 

the Cnnipns 

A quartet of Negro singers with 
their pianist, a trio of Shakespearean 
actors, a popular science lecturer, a 
famous Japanese social worker, a 
leader in consumer education and a 
cast of amateur actors were among 
the attractions brought to the cam- 
pus this summer. 

The Deep River Plantation singers 
on July 17 presented a varied pro- 
gram of spirituals, chants and num- 
bers from such productions as "Green 
Pastures" and "Emperor Jones." 
They were received enthusiastically 
by the audience who crowded the Col- 
lege Auditorium. 

The Ben Greet players were here 
June 10 to present excerpts from 
three Shakespearean dramas for a 
small but appreciative crowd. 

Dr. A. E. Wlggam, lecturer and 
newspaper columnist, spoke July 7 
on "Educating Ourselves for the New 
World." He pictured the social- 
minded scientist as the leader In 
building a new democratic world 
after the present holocaust. 

Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa, Japanese 
Christian and social worker, told a 
Recreation Center audience on July 
9 that religion furnishes the only way 
out of the present crisis. The lower 
animals and the insect world, he said, 
show that mutual assistance and co- 
operation are more common than 
conflict. 

Colston E. Warne, president of 
Consumers' union and member of the 
Princeton university faculty, dis- 
cussed the consumer movement July 
14 in Recreation Center. He pointed 
out the need of some such publication 
as Consumers' Union Reports to pre- 
sent research findings as to competi- 
tive goods. 

"Nick of the Plains," melodrama 
of the 1830's, was presented June 27 
in the Stadium by the Department of 
Public Speaking in co-operation with 
the city's Coronado celebration. Prof. 
H. Miles Heberer was director and 
producer. 

-♦• 

COLLEGE ALUMNI LOAN FUND RECEIVES 
GIFT OF $1,000 FROM TWO K.C. MEN 



Will In m Volker mill H. W. I.iilininv, '17, 

Give Money for Speciiil Cult 

to Aid Students 

The Volker-Luhnow unit of the 
College Alumni Loan fund was in- 
creased by $1,000 early this month 
with the addition of a $500 gift from 
William Volker and a $500 gift from 
Hal W. Luhnow, president of the 
William Volker company, Kansas 
City, Mo. 

The Volker-Luhnow unit of the 
loan fund was started a year ago 
with a $500 gift from each of the 
men. The unit now totals $2,000. 

William Volker for many years 
headed the nation-wide firm which 
deals in rugs, draperies, lighting fix- 
tures and other home furnishings and 
decorations. Both Mr. Volker and 
Mr. Luhnow live in Kansas City. Mr. 
Volker has long been known as a 
philanthropist. Mr. Luhnow gradu- 
ated from the College in 1917, is 
president of the Kansas State College 
Alumni association. 

The Kansas State College Alumni 
Loan fund, which now totals more 
than $81,000, gives financial assis- 
tance to more than 30 percent of the 
graduates of the College at some time 
during their College careers. More 
than $62,000 is now out in loans and 
those in charge of the fund expect 
approximately $15,000 more to be 
borrowed when students enroll this 
fall. Delinquencies in payment are 
few and losses are negligible, ac- 
cording to Dr. W. E. Grimes, chair- 
man of the Loan fund. 



Decrees Include One Doctor of Philoso- 
phy, 52 Muster's nnd 107 Bache- 
lor's for Totnl of 100 
This Summer 

With the presentation of degrees 
to 160 individuals Friday night at 
the summer session commencement, 
the class of 1941 became the largest 
ever to be graduated from the Col- 
lege. A total of 819 persons received 
degrees during the year. The pre- 
vious high of 806 degrees was dur- 
ing 1939. 

At the summer session commence- 
ment, which was addressed by Dr. T. 
V. Smith, professor of philosophy at 
the University of Chicago, one doc- 
tor of philosophy, 52 master of sci- 
ence and 107 bachelor of science de- 
grees were conferred. This total of 
160 compared with 154 a year ago. 
GENERAL SCIENCE HAS 41 

The list of bachelor's degrees in- 
cluded 20 in the Division of Agricul- 
ture, 19 in the Division of Engineer- 
ing and Architecture, 27 in the Divi- 
sion of Home Economics and 41 In 
the Division of General Science. 

Discussing "Discipline in Our De- 
mocracy," Doctor Smith said that the 
immediate task for Americans to un- 
dertake is the "messy" task of pro- 
tecting our institutions against the 
menace of totalitarianism. He said 
that in a democracy there were the 
disciplines of the scientist who sought 
to find the truth, the artist who 
wanted to capture beauty and the 
common man who sought to live a 
good life. 

Doctor Smith, who has served in 
both the Illinois legislature and the 
federal Congress, said that politicians 
were the compromisers who pre- 
vented two factions of "good" people 
from tearing apart the fabric of our 
contemporary society. The politi- 
cians, he said, found the common, 
and therefore mediocre, factors in 
groups that believed they had noth- 
ing in common and then worked out 
a passable compromise. 

Drew McLaughlin, Paola publisher, 
gave the regent's address. 

NAMES OF GRADUATES 

Those who received degrees last 
Friday night included: 

Doctor of Philosophy: \V ilia I'd Mal- 
colm Reld, Monmouth, 111. 

Muster of Science: Helen Ann Blair, 
Mulvane; Robert Woodbury Bray, 
Dodgeville, Wis.; Travis Eppa Brooks, 
Manhattan: Burnlll Howard Bnikstra, 
Manhattan; William Boone Hunger, 
Topeka: Albert Boss Challans, Hal- 
stead; Christine Helen Coleman, Pine 
Bluff, Ark.; Eleanor Berdlna Collins, 
San Antonio, Texas; Laura Pettice 
Davis, Lexington, Mo.; Genevieve Eliza- 
beth Dzlegiel, Clinton, N. V.; Mabel 
Lillian Good, Manhattan; Frederick 
John Gradishar, Ely, Minn.; Wilda Mar- 
guerite Hay, Belleville; Elmer Fred- 
erick Herman, Elmo; Floyd Arthur 
Holmes, Prescott; Kenneth Bert Hoov- 
er, Detroit; Geneva Johnson, Frank- 
fort; Dale Vincent Jones. Ilerington; 
Harold LcHov Kugler, Manhattan; 
Frederick Bee McDonald, Horton; Ar- 
! thur James Alattis. Valley Palls; Calvin 
I Jourden Medlln, Manhattan; Merna 
Beatrice Miller, Kansas City; Ruth Lo 
Tak Mo, Hongkong, China; Raymond 
William Morrison, Keosauqua, Iowa; 
Joseph William Newman, .Manhattan; 
Harry Bernhard Olson, Cuba. 

Lillie Mae Daley. Waco, Texas; 
Clarence Andrew Pippin, Manhattan; 
Charles Morris Piatt, Manhattan; Wil- 
liam Joseph I'roinersbergor. Bittlefork, 

Minn.: Martha Gene Sheldon, El Dora- 
do; Sister Bose Genevieve Downs, St. 
Bonis. Mo.; Blaine Edmunds Sites, Sa- 
llna; Robert Fred Sloan. Leavenworth; 
Edna Marie Smith. Kingman; Hester 
Smith, Manhattan; Frieda .May Steckel, 
Virgil; Warren Edward Stone, Bazine; 
Evelyn Emma Stout, Lone Elm; Hilmar 
Clinton Stuart, Garrison. 

Francis Joseph Sullivan, Manhattan; 
John Willard Truax, Lyons; John Allen 
Wagoner, Manhattan; Orla Virgil 
Washier, Penalosa; James Ralph 
Wells, Manhattan; Glenn Arnold West, 
Manhattan; Anita Fiances White, Wich- 
ita; Ernest Sherman Wild, Morehead; 
Cleo Elizabeth Willey, Osage, Iowa; 
Nelson Jones Wright, Wamego; Helen 
lams Wroteli, Beattie. 

Bnchelor of Science in Agriculture! 
Charles Henry Adams. Wilsey; Dale 
Allen, Burlington; Clarence August 
Bechtold, Gaylord; Ralph Edwin Ilone- 
witz, Meriden; Edward Francis Bren- 
ner, Bazine; Robert William Brush, 
Wichita; Joseph Celester Crofton, Kan- 
sas City; Thello Clarence Dodd, Linn; 
Paul Raymond Edwards, Meade; Virgil 
George Fulnier, La Harpe; Emory Al- 
len droves, Burlingame; Russell Carl 
Nelson, Falun; Preston Edward Old- 
erog, Omaha, Neb.; Lloyd Ruehen Or- 
rell. Peek; Joseph Clyde Short, Topeka; 
Merwln Milton Stearns, Haddam; Alvin 
Paul Timmons, Geneseo; Wilbur Waldo 
White, Garfield; William Howard Win- 
ner, Topeka. 

(Continued on last page) 



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WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1941 



THE BATTI-E OF NUTRITION 

The Battle of Nutrition is on. 

Thirty women who have been 
meeting for eight hours daily in Cal- 
vin hall these hot final days of July 
are the commissioned officers charged 
with planning the strategy in the 
campaign against malnutrition. 

The field marshal is Dean Mar- 
garet M. Justin, appointed last De- 
cember by Governor Ratner as chair- 
man of the state committee on nu- 
trition in relation to national de- 
fense. Serving on the committee are 
16 others, men and women who are 
directly connected with health and 
nutrition — a pediatrician, the presi- 
dent of the state's medical associa- 
tion, the president of the state's den- 
tal association, a leader in the state 
Parent Teacher association, one active 
in the Farm Bureau, a college physi- 
cian, a surgeon, heads of the home 
economics work in the different state 
colleges, the head of the State Board 
for Vocational Education. 

Sobering sign of the lack of ade- 
quate preparedness on the nutrition 
front in the U. S. A. was the large 
number of young men who were re- 
fused entry into the army and navy 
because of physical defects traceable 
in part to improper diets. 

These U0 women now meeting on 
the Kansas State College campus are 
unpaid volunteers in a campaign that 
has little dramatic appeal for the 
headline reader. But theirs is a vital 
role in the present "unlimited emer- 
gency." 

If the dentists and the doctors, the 
civic clubs and the thousands of home 
economics trained homemakers of the 
state join forces with those now be- 
ing trained on this campus for ser- 
vice in "the field" — not only the army 
and the navy but civilian life as a 
whole will be enriched. 



would like to preserve his personality 
status quo, but to keep other people 
from thinking he is different he must 
radically change and reorganize his 
attitudes with every such important 
change in his life as beginning 
school, the onset of adolescence, mar- 
riage, parenthood, and middle age. 
If he does not go through these trans- 
formations in his attitudes he will 
either have to do many abnormal 
things to drown out self criticism and 
keep other people from finding out 
how different he is or be "like Poe, 
Shelley, or Wilde, miserable and im- 
mortal." 

For protection against self criti- 
cism and expected group criticism 
there are several abnormal behavior 
patterns, called defense mechanisms, 
which man may use. He may (1) go 
through life dodging reality by using 
his "stomach as a shield," (2) blame 
the cat (or any one else) for his own 
failures, (3) "retire unto himself" 
and live a turtle existence, (4) whis- 
tle loudly to divert the attention of 
other people and to avoid the dis- 
comforts of observing his own weak- 
nesses, (5) make public confessions 
of guilt and express suffering, (6) 
fill the gaps produced by structural 
disorders with confabulations and 
delusions and (7) use such crutches 
as alcohol, drugs and membership in 
secret orders. 

The book describes the incubation 
of the foregoing defense mechanisms 
into such mental diseases as hysteria, 
paranoia, dementia praecox, and 
manic-depressive insanity. It also 
presents some common sense princi- 
ples of psychotherapy. All this, in 
brief, constitutes the main outline of 
the argument in "Psychiatry for the 
Curious." 

To some readers this book may 
seem rather ordinary. In places the 
discourse is too simple and the hu- 
mor almost betrays the writer as a 
medical doctor who is given to plain 
spoken wise-cracking. The whole 
treatise may be criticised by the pro- 
fessional man for oversimplification. 

But there is real merit in "Psychia- 
try for the Curious." In the main 
the book is, in a common sense man- 
ner, psychologically sound. One finds 
many real flashes of insight into hu- 
man nature, keen penetrations into 
human motives and a sense of humor 
that carry the reader along. It should 
be very helpful to intelligent laymen 
who wish to understand and correct 
bad personality trends. It would be 
difficult for even the psychoneurotic 
not to be amused and objective- 
minded in observing the pictures of 
their own personalities as Prescott 
has painted them. — O. W. Aim. 



SCIENCE TODAY 



By WALTER J. PETERSON 
Assistant Professor, Department of 

Chemistry 
To the nutritionist who has fol- 



diets rich in egg white. The disorder 
can be prevented by including in the 
diet such foods as milk, beef or pork 
liver, yeast, egg yolk, casein, cab- 



BOOKS 

A HimiI. for the CurioiiN 

"Psychiatry for the Curious." By 
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lowed the history of the search for bage or spinach. Liver is effective 
the so-called essential food factors, when present in the diet in amounts 
now known as the vitamins, nothing equivalent to one-fourth of the egg 
seems more remarkable than the white. If the egg white is cooked 
truly astounding progress of the past before drying, or heated at 100 de- 
decade. Though reports of much grees C. for a few minutes, the tox- 
valuable ground work appeared from icity is completely lost, 
many laboratories in the years pre- Questions which confronted early 
ceding, the facts, sometimes cloaked workers in this field are the same as 
in generalities, appeared but halting- those which might occur to anyone, 
ly when compared to the "blitzkrieg" Are we dealing with a property of 
fashion with which discoveries fol- native egg white or is it a property 
lowed one another with the start of developed by desiccation? Does the 
the past decade. One by one the vita- injury involve a positive toxicity or 
mins were classified and properly the absence of a protective factor or 
placed, their chemical structures both? Does cooking egg white re- 
were determined, methods of isola- move the harmful factor or create 
tion were improved, their specificity a protective factor? It was soon 
in the cure of certain syndromes was shown that the tendency to produce 
established and finally in most cases the pellagra-like condition was a 
the vitamins themselves were pro- property of native egg white and that 
duced in crystalline form in the lab- this toxic factor was destroyed by 
oratory by synthetic methods. cooking with no resulting develop- 

Most striking, perhaps, have been ment of a protective factor, 
the developments in the clarification Researches of the past five years 
of the vitamin "B-complex." The have culminated in the successful 
final separation and identification of separation from liver of a potent 
its parts were made extremely diffi- fraction which will neutralize the 
cult by the fact that the chick and toxic effect of egg white. This is vita- 
the rat receiving diets devoid of cer- min H. During the past year it has 
tain members of the B complex, de- become evident to workers in this 
veloped pellagra-like syndromes sug- field that the properties of this vita- 
gestive of pellagra in humans, min are similar to those given in the 
Nutritionists held stubbornly to the literature for biotin, a yeast growth 
idea that these deficiency diseases factor, and coenzyme R, a growth 
were the result of a single deficiency, and respiration factor essential for 
It was some time before it was real- many strains of the legume nodule 
ized that they were caused by the organism, Rhizobium. That these 
lack of three distinctly different are one and the same now seems 
chemical entities. fully established. 

We know now that pellagra in Vitamin H seems to be a growth 
humans is cured by nicotinic acid, essential for many bacteria, and will 
rat "pellagra" by pyridoxine (B„) doubtless prove to be of fundamental 
and the pellagra-like syndrome of importance in bacterial nutrition, 
chicks by pantothenic acid. A less- The injury due to egg white has 
known vitamin, recently discovered, been shown to be due to the action 
which has received but little recog- of egg white in making vitamin H 
nition, except in scientific journals, unavailable. This vitamin H-inacti- 
is vitamin H. vating capacity of egg white has 

It has been known for some time actually been demonstrated in vitro. 
that rats fed dried egg white as a Progress has been made in the 
source of protein soon develop a pel- separation of that fraction of egg 
lagra-like disorder characterized by white which inactivates vitamin H. 
an exzematous dermatitis, alopecia, This fraction is known as the "avid- 
edema of the feet and, in severe albumin" fraction. Egg white injury 
cases, skin hemorrhages. The chick, may now be explained by the unavail- 
rabbit and monkey also develop this ability of vitamin H because of its 
characteristic dermatitis when fed fixation to avidalbumin. 

that land if it was the last thing 1 1 and the largest since 1925, the sum- 
ever did. And right in the midst of mer school graduating class totaled 



China on work connected with that 
department. 

Edward H. Webster, '96, resigned 
his position as assistant in dairying 
at the Iowa State college to accept 
one with the Continental Creamery 
company, Topeka. 

Ivy F. Harner, '93, was a teacher 
of domestic science, Louisiana Indus- 
trial institute. 



FIFTY YEARS AGO 
C. A. Campbell, '91, left for Topeka 
where he was to work in the general 
offices of the Santa Fe railway. 

W. T. Swingle, '90, in government 
employment in Washington, D. C, 
was ordered to Georgia to assist Pro- 
fessor Smith in investigating the dis- 
ease, "peach yellows." 

Phoebe Haines, '83, was professor 
of industrial art in the Agricultural 
college of Las Cruces, N. M. 



SIXTY YEARS AGO 
At the meeting of the Alumni so- 
ciety toasts were presented by Re- 
gent Wood, President Fairchild, Sam 
Kimble, '73; Miss Nellie Sawyer, '76; 
H. C. Rushmore, D. S. Leach, '81; 
and J. A. Anderson. 

Professor Ward was attending the 
alumni gathering at his alma mater, 
Hamilton college, Clinton, N. Y. 

Professor Shelton attended the 
the meeting of teachers of agriculture 
and horticulture at Lansing, Mich. 
From there he went to Canada and 
New York to see certain noted herds 
of Angus cattle. 



Anyone who spends a day with 
David Fairchild knows he has been 
somewhere. In the first place, if he 
is an amateur as I am, at the plant 
business, his cells have to stretch a 
good deal as well as his legs. For 
no one knows all the warm areas of 
earth and their flora more intimately. 



SUNFLOWERS 
By H. W. Davis 
OPEN LETTER 
TO FOUR MEN ON EARTH 
Dear Sirs: 

There never before was a time in 
all my millions and millions of years 
when my whole surface was so much 
at the mercy of four individuals — 
meaning you. What you do in the 
next year or ten is going to make 
a lot of difference to the other two 
billion human creatures running 
around over my exterior for the next 
two or three centuries. 

Of course, being the World, I can 
hardly go into the merits of the 
squabble you are having. I sort of 
have to be neutral whether I feel like 
it or not. Maybe I should stand aloof 
to the extreme of keeping my mouth 
shut, but somehow or other I suspect 
that when four people get hold of 
the comfort, and maybe the destiny, 
of two billion — that's five hundred 
million a piece, boys, — it's time for 
me to utter a word of caution. 

Taking my dizzy career millennium 
only 126. There were 78 bachelor's i by millennium I have been pretty well 
degrees and 48 master's degrees I satisfied with the way human beings 
suaded the President himself one day granted at the summer exercises. j have carried on since they took over, 
to try what I had failed to do. Myrtle G. Gohlke, '30, resigned her They have learned a lot of tricks and 

To make a long story short, he j position with the YWCA in Topeka i wangled much power (from me) for 
failed too. And this morning the old and accepted a position with the j themselves. Until lately their tricks 
gentleman and I reminisced about it j YWCA, Highland Park branch, De- and powers, which they call civiliza- 
with rueful laughter. A few miles troit, Mich. ' tions or ideologies, have been kept 

Merton E. Paddleford, '20, of Oak | pretty well scattered, both in time 
Park, 111., was secretary to the chief I and space. But recently scientific ad- 
there was a measly little hangar; a j electrical engineer of the Public Ser- j vance in transportation and commu- 
nication has just about eliminated 
time and space. The whole two bil- 
lion are treading on each other's toes 
in a fashion I never dreamed of, and 
the way they are getting in each 
other's hair is alarming me no end. 



a national crisis — depression, inter 
national bitterness and so on — I per 



away there had grown up enormous 
flying centers; here at Chapman Field 



Every tree he stops under, every 

bush he reaches out a hand to, draws j tiny plane or two " and about half a ' vice company of northern Illinois. 

on a forest, a plain or a garden never dozen discouraged looking mechan- 

heard of by the uninitiate. These i(;s And the Intro duction garden 

are his children. He plucked the seed wag sti „ as cramped as eV er. 

or the cutting, perhaps after a long But how u had come a i ong! t„ my 
land intelligent search; he packed it d jn the Depa rtment of Agricul- 
"Psychiatry for the Curious is not and nursed it through a long voyage tm . e , t had been al)0ut seven year8 
a textbook in psychiatry or psychol- and set it out where it now lives in old; now it wag fourtee n. What had 
ogy. It was written for those who ; more ()1 . leaa glorious vigor. This ] , )een saplIngB were now trees coming 
are curious about the more common Florida country is one big mass of : int0 full maturity . Disparagers had 
functional disorders of personality. Fairchild children; and, like hu- thought they would fail; some day 
The main argument is presented in a mans, only a few are good and use- 
humorous, simple style that educated j> u j ; many are not particularly orna- 
laymen should readily understand. menial even; and there are those 
All behavior is reasonable. Even , which have escaped to the waysides, 
abnormal mental behavior can be the fields and the glades and are a 
understood if man is seen not as a positive nuisance. 



Cheshire cat or a headless horseman We reminisced a little. One of our 
but as a living creature with both a] experiences together, which bad gone 
body and a head doing "Something on for years with many incidents and 
about Something." The "about some- Complexities, was the attempt to get 
thing" may be (1) man's environ- away from the War department a 
mental situation, (2) his physical piece of hind at Chapman Field on 
condition or (3) what he thinks and the road to Homestead. We knew, 
feels about himself and the people and the War department knew, that 
around him. Man can be no better to the air force it was useless. There 
than his physical endowment and the ! were other fields which were expansi- 
enviroiimental situation will permit, ble to modern size and this was not. 
But most of what he does "about j We wanted that hundred or so acres 
something" is done about the dis- j for an addition to our Plant Intro- 
comforts of self criticism and the ] duction garden. I was then a Depart- 
fear of criticism by other people. To i ment of Agriculture official and the 
avoid these discomforts in a world 



even here there would be a frost; the 
rock which had been dynamited and 
filled in to make little basins of soil 
would not provide enough nourish- 
ment. But here they were, possible 
future Inhabitants of forests, groves 
and gardens. Some of them might — 
who knew — be the basis for a new 
economy, or, at least, a useful addi- 
tion to the old one, throughout the 
Caribbean and particularly the West 
India Islands. This, of course, had 
been my excuse, years back, for dar- 
ing to bother the President. Here, 
in this garden, was the only conti- 
nental spot in our nation, where rub- 
ber, bread-fruit and quinine trees, 



TWENTY YEARS AGO 

Dr. William M. Jardine, president i 
of the College, was appointed to mem- j 
bership in the National Research 
council and also was made a mem- 
ber of the executive board for two 
years. 

Ernest Fox Nichols, '88, former 
president of Dartmouth college, was 
inaugurated as seventh president of 
the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 
nology. Doctor Nichols, who won 
world-wide fame in science, was 
graduated from Kansas State College 
when 19 years old. 

Vernon Bundy, '20, was appointed 
assistant secretary and publicity man 
for the Topeka Chamber of Com- 
merce. 



University of New Orleans, returned 
to Manhattan to spend the summer 
for instance, could be fruited and vacation at her home 



THIRTY YEARS AGO 

Elizabeth Cassel, '09, who had 
been teaching domestic science in the j finally" sunk them, I think 

Understand, please, I am not ar 



Consequently I want to ask you 
four fellows to look at the situation 
as I have to look at it, and remember 
that the present hold you have on 
human destiny is a truly terrible 
Ihing. It should scare the daylights 
out of you instead of filling you with 
a boyish pride in your temporary 
importance. (All human importance 
is temporary as I see it.) Go easy — 
and prayerfully, please! 

As I said. I have been pretty well 
satisfied with the way man has con- 
ducted himself — up to now. He sure- 
ly has done much better than those 
monstrous, over-size reptiles I tried 
out once. They somehow couldn't 
adapt themselves to things. Their 
horrible individual ferocity was what 



that is full of contradictions and false 
directions is no easy problem. 

Man's worst objects of criticism 
are bis own attitudes. This is un- 
fortunate because his personality 
consists largely of personal attitudes 
toward such things as "grand- 
mothers, dogs, money, men with gruff 
voices, bed bugs, blonds, spinach, 
war, honesty and the devil." Man 



agent through whom the determined 
Fairchild had to work. I had finally 
become so annoyed with the generals 
that I had gone to my friend the sec- 
retary of war. He had wholly agreed 
and he had tried too to get this bit 
of tropic soil transferred. But he 
couldn't. There didn't seem to be any 
reason why, but he just couldn't. By 
that time my annoyance had become 
a down-right determination to get 



experimented with. As we went about 
together this morning in 1941 we 
could wish that we had been more 
effective in the 'thirties. — From an 



W. O. Peterson, '97, was gradu 
ated with first honors from the Kan- i 
sas City Theological seminary. 

Margaret Justin, '09, was teacher 



article "Fairchild Revisited" by Rex of domestic science and household 



G. Tugwell in The Land. 
♦ 
IN OLDER DAYS 
From the Files of The Industrialist 

TEN YEARS AGO 
Although the total summer school 
registration of 1,057 was the second 
largest in the history of the College 



manager in a Methodist missionary 
school near Clarkson, Miss. 



FORTY YEARS AGO 
Prof. Charles L. Marlatt, '84, for- 
merly of Manhattan, first assistant 
entomologist in the United States 
Department of Agriculture, was in 



guing for a compromise — a silly 
patching-up of affairs until the next 
generation wants to fight over the 
same playthings. (Man made that 
little error 22 years ago.) Fight and 
think this war out until some scheme 
is evolved whereby all races and all 
nations can be decent and neighborly. 
What with instantaneous radio and 
500-mile-an-hour airplanes, you will 
have to be kindly from now on, or I 
may have to call back those ugly rep- 
tiles for another million years. 
Urgently yours, 

THE WORLD 



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MARRIAGES 



HILL — NIEMOLLER 
Viola Hill, H. E. '41, was married 
June 15 to Walter W. Niemoller, Ag. 
*36. They live on a farm near Wake- 
field. 



A 



VISSER— QUANTIC 
The marriage of Gladys Visser and 
Galen Quantic, Ag. '30, M. S. '32, was 
June 11 at the home of the bride's 
parents in Riley. They are living at 
Riley. 



cooper— Mcdonald 
The marriage of Hildred Ann Coop- 
er, H. E. '35, to Frederick L. McDon- 
ald, G. S. '38, was May 29. They are at 
home at 1319 Rowland avenue, Kan- 
sas City, Kan. 



HOBBIE— KAUFMAN 
Marcella Hobble, H. E. '40, and 
Leo A. Kaufman were married May 
21 at the Zion Lutheran church, Tip- 
ton. They are at home at Dorrance, 
where the bride taught last year. 



officer in the Coast Artillery corps at 
San Diego. They are at home at 327 
Grovilla, La Jolla, Calif. 



HAEGE — BARR 
The marriage of Olive Grace 
Haege, H. E. '29, to Edward Barr 
took place in Beirut, Lebanon, Syria, 
May 9, just before they sailed for 
home. Their home is in Boston. 
They have been on the faculty of the 
college in Beirut several years. 



HOLLAND— SMITH 
Anita Holland, H. E. '30, was 
married to Lt.-Com. Jesse H. Smith 
of the Royal navy on May 3. The 
wedding took place at the St. Mat- 
thews Anglican church in Otta- 
wa, Ontario, Canada. They hope to 
remain there, since her husband is 
technical adviser for the ordnance 
department at the naval service head- 
quarters. 






GASTON— GREER 
The marriage of Marjorie Gaston 
to Wilbert Greer, Ag. '41, took place 
May 31. Mr. Greer has purchased a 
farm at Council Grove and the young 
people will make their home there. 



KENDIG— CHARLES 
Marriage vows were read for Jean 
Shirley Kendig and Donald E. 
Charles, Ag. '39, May 14. Mr. Charles, 
a member of Delta Tau Delta fra- 
, ternity, has a farm at Republic, 
where they will live. 



MURDOCK— SNYDER 
Martha Murdock, f. s., and Don A. 
Snyder, Ch. E. '40, were married May 
31 in St. Paul's Episcopal church, 
Manhattan. Immediately after the 
ceremony, they departed for Boston 
by way of Canada. Their home is at 
250 Austin, West Newton, Mass. Mr. 
Snyder is consulting engineer for 
Thompson and Lichtner in Boston. 



LOOKING AROUND 

KENNBY L FORD 



STEINHEIMER — MALL 
Marriage vows for Elizabeth Ann 
Steinheimer, I. J. '41, and Richard 
Merrill Mall, I. J. '40, were read June 
14. Mr. Mall is associated with KSAL 
radio station in Salina. They are 
now at home in Salina. 



MAXWELL- EDWARDS 
Edna Maxwell, H. E. '32, and 
Thornton Edwards, G. S. '41, princi- 
pal of Bluemont school in Manhattan, 
were married June 7. They are now 
at home at the Maryland apartments, 
521 Osage, Manhattan. 



SPEARIE— LARSON 
Married May 8 were Susan Spearie 



LESHOSKY— BOYLES 
Dorothy Leshosky and Glen Boyles, 
Ag. '36, were married May 30 by the 
Rev. J. David Arnold in Manhattan. 
Mrs. Boyles has been employed for 
the past several months in the fed- 
eral accounting and AAA offices. Mr. 
Boyles is employed by the State 
Board of Health as sanitation inspec- 
tor in Manhattan. Their home is at 
1708 Humboldt, Manhattan. 



RUST— STONE 
Roberta Rust, H. E. '39, and Billy 
Neil Stone, C. '39, were married June 
15 at the First Methodist church, 
Manhattan. Since graduation, the 
bride, a member of Kappa Kappa 
Gamma sorority, has taught home 
economics in the Robinson high 
school. Mr. Stone is business man- 
ager of the hospital at Horton, where 
they live. His fraternity is Sigma Nu. 



ANDERSON — MILLER 
Madeline Anderson, M. Ed. '40, 
married John Miller, Ag. '34, on May 
31. Their home is at 1708 Humboldt, 
Manhattan, where Mr. Miller is ex- 
tension plant pathologist at Kansas 



and George H. Larson, Ag. E. '39, State College. The past year Mrs 



M. S. '40. Mr. Larson is an assistant 
in the Agricultural Engineering de- 
partment at the University of Wis- 
consin. Madison, Wis. They live at 
1705 Monroe street. 



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FLOWER— PHILPY 
Mary Jane Flower, f. s., and Dr. 
B. Doyle Philpy, D. V. M. '40, were 
married May 28 in the Trinity Epis- 
copal church, Boston, Mass. Doctor 
Philpy is now employed at the Angell 
Memorial Animal hospital, Boston. 
Their home is at 180 Longwood av- 
enue. 



FINNEGAN— FUMY 

Mary Elizabeth Finnegan and 
Charles F. Frey, C. '38, were mar- 
ried June 18. Immediately after the 
ceremony, they left on a trip to Mon- 
terey, Mexico, and are now at home 
at 825 East Ashby, San Antonio, 
Texas, where Mr. Frey is with the 
War department. 



Miller was English and music in 
structor in the Alta Vista school. She 
is a member of Chi Omega sorority 
and Mr. Miller belongs to the Farm 
House fraternity. 



CORRELL — COSBY 
Kathryn Correll, G. S. '37, became 
the bride of Harley Cosby of Aurora, 
Ind., June 24 at the home of her 
parents, Prof, and Mrs. C. M. Cor- 
rell, Manhattan. The couple live in 
Norton, where Mr. Cosby is field 
executive of the Boy Scouts of Amer- 
ica. He attended the University of 
Indiana and received his degree from 
the University of Cincinnati. The 
bride is a member of Delta Delta 
Delta sorority. Since her graduation, 
she has taught history in the high 
school at Norton. 



I HOGS— GARINGER 

The wedding ceremony of Lois 
Diggs and Jess Garinger, M. E. '40, 
was June 16. The bride has for the 
past several years been employed as 
secretary in engineering extension , 

work. Mr. Garinger is employed by , Northwestern university and is now 
the Dow Chemical company, Midland, i sales manager with the Worthington 
Mich. The couple are at home at Pump and Machinery corporation, 
1800 Ninth, Bay City, Mich. 



Now 1,068 Paid-Up Members 

There are now 1,068 paid-up life 
members in the Kansas State Alumni 
association. The following have be- 
come paid up since April 12, 1941, 
and have been mailed their free copy 
of Doctor Willard's history of Kan- 
sas State College: 

Lester R. Chilson, '33, Oberlin; T. 
M. Evans, '30, Kansas City; Joye Ans- 
dell, '32, Norton; Keith Harrison, '40, 
Arlington, Va.; Edwin Winkler, '21, 
Hollywood, Calif.; Grace Helen Dun- 
lap, '40, Woodston; Robert H. Per- 
rill, '26, Clay Center; Byron K. Wil- 
son, '41, Manhattan; Paul C. Milner, 
'91, and Madeleine C. Milner, '91, Mt. 
Dora, Fla.; Foster A. Hinshaw, '26, 
and Stella (Baker) Hinshaw, '31, St. 
Albans, N. Y.; F. G. Gillett, '40, Ft. 
Riley. 

Vera Ellithorpe, '35, Manhattan; 
Oscar W. Park, '17, Ames, Iowa; 
Harold B. Harper, '32, Newton; 
Charles E. Mitchell, '39, Urbana, 111.; 
Floyd W. Berger, '40, Washington, 
D. C; Florence Lovejoy, '39, Ells- 
worth; Irving C. Root, '12, Chevy 
Chase, Md.; Fred Masek, '28, Long 
Island, N. Y.; Warren C. Jackson, 
'39, Denver, Colo.; Helen E. Dean, 
'28, Columbia, Mo., and Karl G. 
Shoemaker, '36, Manhattan. 
— •♦• — 
Summer Alumni Meetings 
A few summer alumni meetings 
are being scheduled for August and 
September. These meetings will be 
attended by Kenney Ford, '24, alum- 
ni secretary- New colored movies of 
the campus and the recording of 
Kansas State College songs will be 
used. 

Fargo, N. D. — Kansas State alum- 
ni living in North Dakota will be in- 
vited to meet on the North Dakota 
Agricultural college campus either 
August 9 or 10 by J. A. Munro, M. S. 
'25, chairman. 

Bozeman, Mont. — An alumni din- 
ner at the Gallatin Gateway inn at 
6:30 p. m. August 12. 

Tentative arrangements have been 
made for an alumni picnic at Brook- 
ings, S. D., August 2 or 3, and a meet- 
ing near Salt Lake City August 23 
or 24. Colorado alumni are planning 
to meet somewhere in the mountains 
late in August. 

An all-western Kansas barbecue is 
being planned to be held at the State 
lake near Scott City August 31 and 
a Kansas City area picnic for Sep- 
tember 7. 

♦- 
Alumni in Indiana Meet 
Kansas State College and Univer- 
sity of Kansas alumni in Indiana met 
for a picnic at Tippecanoe battlefield, 
north of La Fayette, June 15. 

Kansas State alumni among the 
picnic group were Merle W. Bloom, 
'27, La Porte, Ind.; Leila (Kent) 
Black, '17, Chemawa, Ore., and many 
others who live in La Fayette. 

Most of these in La Fayette are 
connected with Purdue university: 
Lois Oberhelman, '30, M. S. '38; 
Eunice Christenson, '40; E. R. Honey- 
well, '26, and Georgia (Crowl) 
Honeywell, f. s. ; George V. Mueller, 
'24; Inez E. Kent, '17; Charles Nitch- 
er, '21, and Fay (Powell) Nitcher, 
'21; F. C. Lewis, '13; J. F. Bullard, 
M. S. '30; Seibert Fairman, '19, and 
Jewell (Sappenfield) Fairman, '20; 
Vianna (Dizmang) Bramblett, '29; 
G. H. Bush, '22; W. P. Albright, '30; 
A. M. Brunson; A. A. Potter, Dr. 



the campus were surprised at many 
of the changes. 

"Officers elected for the next year 
were Tony Whan, president; John 
Davidson, vice-president; A. D. Hol- 
loway, secretary-treasurer. Califor- 
nians present at the meeting in- 
cluded: 

Olive Flippo, '27, Boyd F. Ag 



RECENT HAPPENINGS 



A three-week session on vocational 
guidance, designed for administrators 
and directors of guidance work and 
newT'20, an(T Gladys (Flippo) Ag- J for graduate students, took up the 
new, '21, Alhambra; J. G. Chitty, '05, j first three weeks in June. 
Altadena; Neal D. Bruce, '24, Bur- 1 

bank; Edythe (Brennan) Burgett, Foitv College students and em- 
f. s. '14, El Segundo; Ellen Hanson, ' Payees registered in Recreation Cen- 
•07, Edward H. Marxen, f. s. '10, ter during the Selective Service act 
Vera (Holloway) Downing, '09, and enumeration on July 1 for those who 
Clyde C. Downing, John F. Davidson, j had become 21 since the first regis- 
'13, Mrs. Davidson and their son, j tration last year. 
Jack, Glendale. _,. . T~ . -., 

"George R. Hewey, '21, Glendora; \ a Fifty- our cadets from Kansas 
Mabel (Groome) Teffeau, f. s. . 05 , State College were among the student 
Hawthorne; Ethel (Clemons) N i co - 1 officers representing the Co^t Artil- 
let, '05, and William H. Nicolet, Hoi- *** u T nits (anti-aircraft) at Ft. Sheri- 
lywood; Doris (Train) Stewart, '06, 1 dan - m - thls «««■ ™? lnfantr y 
Huntington Park; Albert E. Siler, cade t officers trained at Ft. Leaven- 

•34, and Cornelia (King) Siler, '37, ! worth ' 

Inglewood. 



"Phoebe (Smith) Romick, '97, La 
Verne; Margaret (Bane) Cox, '23, 
Lucie (Wyatt) Wilson, '01, Alice 
Allingham, f. s. '91, Minnie Romick, 
'94, Mary Colliver, '05, Mary E. L. 
Hall, '04, Alfred A. Grant, f. s. '17, 
Fred J. Grifflng, f. s. '02, Sarah 
(Thompson) Manny, '03, Frieda 
Ploger, '39, W. Dean Abrahams, f. s. 
'37, H. C. Jennings, '23, B. F. S. 
Royer, '95, Homer Derr, '00, and 
Elizabeth (Asbury) Derr, '00, Grant 
G. Miller, '33, and Mildred (Shaw- 
ver) Miller, f. s., Alfred C. Smith, 
•97, and Mary (Waugh) Smith, *99, 
F. W. Milner, '15, and Mrs. Milner, 
V. E. 'Tony' Whan, '22, and Dorothy 
(Nelson) Whan, f. s. '23, all of Los 
Angeles. 

"Josephine (Finley) Blain, Mon- 
rovia; Jesse A. Craik, f. s. '02, Nee- 
dles; Harvey Hubbard, '07, F. Pearl 
Hoots, '21, Lelia Whearty, '18, Ruth 



Kansas dairymen and processors 
of dairy products are meeting at 
Kansas State College today to con- 
sider ways in which the dairy indus- 
try can best meet its responsibilities 
in connection with the Food-for-De- 
fense program. 



The 20 students enrolled in the 
Civil Aeronautics administration 
pilot training course will complete 
their work by September 15. They 
are now taking flight instruction at 
the Manhattan airport. 



Alan Gail Blecha, Manhattan, 
sophomore in agriculture last year, 
| died early this month after an auto- 
mobile accident near Pittsburg. He 
had been working as an assistant on 
an experimental farm at Parsons. 



Bruce Downs, Wichita, an engi- 

„ — **,, _~, „, -~, - ■ , neering student here last year, is 

(Whearty) Maupin, '23, and Alfred | unde ,.g i ng a "refresher" aviation 

W. >,,,*;,, U" T. l>nllnf 'Q3 an/1 Porrtfi l . - - . . « ,.* . 



course at Bakersfield, Calif., given to 
prospective pilots for the ferry ser- 
vice to Britain. The former student 
expects to go to Canada this fall and 
then take off for England. 



PENNY — LORENZEN 

Charlotte Penny, I. J. '3 6, became 
the bride of John Carl Lorenzen June 
2. Last year after she had taken a 
year of postgraduate work in applied 
art at Kansas State College, she was , 
awarded a scholarship from PhU ; Kn K rg '25. and Eva (Burtner) Pot 

Moore's Institute of Art, Philadel- ' te ''. 
phia, where she majored in interior 
decorating. Mr. Lorenzen attended 



Maupin, H. L. Pellet, '93, and Carrie 

H. Pellet, C. Beauford, Elizabeth and 

Ivan Pellet of Pasadena; Frieda 

(Marty) Pratt, '05, Long Beach; 

Sophia (Maelzer) Shaner, '14, Por- 

terville; Margaret Ploger, '39, San 

Luis Obispo; Harry Baird, '11, and Reva King> Manhattan, who re- 

Ena (Beaulieu) Baird, f. s. '12, Santa lceived her de gree last Friday, has 

Barbara. ]j eeI1 awarded a $500 graduate schol- 

"Edythe (Groome) Bartley, f. s. . a ,. ship from K appa Kappa Gamma 
•15, Ralph B. Smith, '13, and Mrs. j sor0 rity. Marjorie Spurrier, King- 
Smith, Van Nuys; F. B. Mayer, Wal- | man won a 5250 undergraduate 
lace N. Birch, '04, A. D. Holloway, | scholarship and plans to enter the 
'07, and Margaret (Cunningham) 
Holloway, '08, Lathrop W. Fielding, 
'05, and Crete (Spencer) Fielding, 
'05, Raymond C. Thompson, '08, and 
Grace (Hull) Thompson, '09, Whit- 
tier; Helen (Hockersmith) Rockoff, 
'14, Venice. 

"Margaret Crawford, '39, of Hugo- 
ton, Kan., was a guest at the picnic." 



University of Kansas Medical school 
next fall. 



EIGHT STUDENTS SELECTED 

AS PHI KAPPA PHI MEMBERS 



Southern California Picnic 



Nine members of the staff of the 
Division of Home Economics, one 
member of the staff of the Depart- 
ment of Industrial Journalism and 
Printing and five students in the Di- 
vision of Home Economics attended 
the 34th annual meeting of the 
American Home Economics associa- 
tion in Chicago June 22 to 26. 



Dean H. Umberger of the Division 
of College Extension, and L. C. Wil- 
liams, assistant director of extension, 
attended a conference at the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture in Washington to 
discuss the 194 2 program for the Ag- 
ricultural Adjustment administra- 
tion. National defense will be the 
theme of the work next year. 



Five i: ii rolled in Grndiinte Stud)-, While 
Three Chonen from CJenernl Sclenee 

Three students in the Division of 
General Science and five graduate 
students were elected this summer to 
the College chapter of Phi Kappa Phi, 
honorary scholarship society. 

The new members include: 

Division of General Science — Reva 
Alma King, Council Grove; Frances "Ballad for Americans," cantata 
Ruhl, Hiawatha, and Aubrey Thorn- j by Earl Robinson and John Letouche, 
ton Edwards, Manhattan. was presented by the Department of 

Division of Graduate Study — Dale Music in assembly July 3. Other 
Vincent Jones, Herington; C. J. Med- numbers were organ selections by 
lin, Manhattan; Raymond William Richard Jesson, and orchestral pieces 
Morrison, Keosauqua, Iowa; Clarence directed by William Fitch, who has 
Andrew Pippin, Decatur, 111.; Hilmar taken over the work of Prof. Lyle 
Clinton Stuart, Garrison. Downey, now on leave of absence. 



Hoosaku (Howard) Furumoto, for- 

Former Collegian Editor Weds me r president of the Future Farmers 

Richard S. Haggman, student in of America in Hawaii and the terri- 

journalism at the College from 1934 tory's representative at Kansas City 



4 



WOODS — GRUBBS 
The marriage of Mabelle Woods, 
H. E. '38, and Thomas E. Grubbs 
was solemnized June 1. The bride, a 
member of Zeta Tau Alpha sorority, 
has been teaching in Marion and 
Abilene since her graduation. They 
are at home in Newton where Mr. 
Grubbs is an employee of the Santa 
Fe Railroad company. 



The following report of the 

ern California summer picnic was 
Pump ana machinery corporation , A D Holl 

Chicago. Then- home is at 326 East i 



j to 1937 and a former editor of The last fall, enrolled as a freshman at 

South- „ c... n„ii„„!„„ ,,..,<, ,,>.,,-,.;,,,! the Hiimmpr spssinn. He said that he 



Twenty-Ninth 
Iowa. 



street, Davenport, 



ANDERSON — PFUETZE 

The wedding of Dorothy Constance 
Anderson and Dr. Karl Pfuetze, G. 
S. '30, was June 7 at the home of the 
bride's parents in Duluth, Minn. They 
are now at home in Cannon Falls, 
Minn., where Doctor Pfuetze is super- 
intendent and medical director of the 
Mineral Springs sanatorium. Mr. 
kommins— TEMPLER Pfuetze received his doctor's degree 

The marriage of Lucille Robbins from the University of Kansas school 



to Lt. Woodrow W. Templer, G. S. 
•3 6, was June 8. The bride was 
graduated from Southwestern col- 
lege, Winfleld, and has been teaching 
the past two years in the high school 
at Marion. Lieutenant Templer is an 



of medicine in 1934. He spent a year 
at the Gorgas United States hospital 
in Panama and was University of 
Kansas' representative as exchange 
student at Leipzig university. His 
work since has been in Minnesota. 



of publicity for the Kansas City, Mo., accustomed to the heat 
Chamber of Commerce. Mrs. Hagg- 
man is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Otto H. Pehle of Omaha. Mr. Hagg- 
man's parents live at Courtland, Kan. 



Kansas State Collegian, was married the summer session. He said that he 
July 19 to Marian Louise Pehle. The came to Kansas in the summer so 
ceremony was in the First Presby- that he could become acclimated to 
"The alumni and former students j ter j an church of Omaha. The couple the cold weather. With the ther- 
of Southern California held their will i ive at 4goo Jefferson, Kansas mometer over the 100-degree mark, 
summer picnic at Brookside park, I C | ty m M r . Haggman is director he is having a hard time to become 
Pasadena, on Saturday afternoon, 
June 28. Featured on the program 
were talks by Ralph Smith of the 
personnel department of the Vega 
Aircraft company and Alfred A. 
Grant, '17, who served as a squadron 
commander in France in the World 
war. Mr. Smith told of the rigid re- 
quirements for employees in the air- 
craft industry and Mr. Grant read 
original reports of members of his 
squadron who had engaged in com- 
bat. 

"A film showing campus scenes, 
sent by the College Alumni associa- 
tion, was greatly enjoyed. Older 
alumni who had not recently visited 



Miller Elected to Office 



Music in the College Stadium and 
a dance in Recreation Center made 
up the Summer School party program 
July 23. Students and faculty of the 
Department of Music presented the 
music. William D. Fitch directed 



The summer session of the New the orchestra. Prof. William Lind- 

England section, Society of Plant qnist and Edwin Sayre led the differ- 

Physiologists, held at Durham, N. H., ent glee club and choral ensemble 

elected Dr. E. C. Miller of the De- groups. Miss Alice Jefferson played 

partment of Botany to the society's a piano solo and served as chief ac- 

presidency for the coming year. He companist for the voices. Richard 

will be chairman of the sessions on Jesson also did piano accompanying. 



plant physiology to be held at Dallas, 
Texas, next December. 



Max Martin presented several violin 
solos. 



FACULTY AND STAFF CHANGES 
INVOLVE SOME 150 PERSONS 



PRES. F. I). I \llltll I, ANNOUNCES 
LIST APPROVED BY REGENTS 



Dr. Ilernlce Kunerth of the Department 

<>l Food Economics and Nutrition 

(iOFH to WnMhliiKton 

on I.enve 

(Continued from page one) 
has been employed half time in the 
Department of History and Govern- 
ment and half time as assistant dean, 
will devote full time to teaching in 
the Department of History and Gov- 
ernment; Asst. Prof. L. E. Hudiburg, 
who has been devoting full time to 
the Department of Physics, will de- 
vote approximately half time to that 
department as associate professor and 
approximately half time as assistant 
dean in the Division of General Sci- 
ence; George Cochran employed as 
graduate assistant in botany and 
plant pathology, effective September 
1; Dr. L. H. Limper, professor in 
the Department of Modern Lan- 
guages, to be on half time, effective 
September 1; William D. Fitch to be 
employed as temporary instructor in 
the Department of Music during the 
sabbatical leave of Professor Downey. 
MRS. NINA RHOADES RESIGNS 
L. W. Patton to be employed as 
graduate assistant in the Department 
of Physics effective September 1; 
Dolf Jennings to continue in the 
Department of Zoology as temporary 
instructor during the leave of absence 
of M. J. Harbaugh; Miss Karolyn 
Wagner, in the Department of Art, 
changed from part-time assistant to 
full-time assistant, effective Septem- 
ber 1; Miss Ina F. Cowles, associate 
professor of clothing and textiles, to 
be changed to half-time basis effec- 
tive September 1; Miss Dena Ceder- 
quist, technician in the Department 
of Food Economics and Nutrition, 
resigned May 31; Miss Nina Edel- 
blute, temporary assistant in the De- 
partment of Food Economics and 
Nutrition, resigned May 31; Miss Pet- 
tice Davis, temporary part-time in- 
structor in the Department of House- 
hold Economics, resigned May 31; 
Miss Raymona Hilton, assistant in 
institutional economics, promoted to 
new position of instructor in insti- 
tutional economics, effective July 1; 
V. K. McMahan to continue as tem- 
porary instructor in pathology dur- 
ing the leave of absence of Dr. C. H. 
Kitselman; H. B. Summers, professor 
of public speaking, resigned May 31; 
Mis. Nina M. Rhoades, social director 
of Van Zile hall, resigned June 30. 

Dr. J. M. Horton of the Depart- 
ment of Student Health resigned 
June 30. Dr. Albeit G. Roode of the 
Department of Student Health re- 
signed August 31. Dr. Raymond H. 
Hughes appointed assistant College 
physician, September 1, to succeed 
Dr. Albeit G. Roode. 

Harold Fox appointed temporary 
instructor in agricultural economics 
for the period October 1, 1941, to 
June 30, 1942, during the sabbatical 
leave of F. L. Parsons. 

Mrs. Julia Bradley, assistant in 
the Department of Animal Husband- 
ry, resigned June 30. Effective Au- 
gust 1, Mrs. Gladys Williams ap- 
pointed to succeed Mrs. Bradley. 

Harold K. Heizer employed as part- 
time assistant in milling industry for 
the period September 1, 1941, to May 
31, 1942. 

.1. E. HBDRICK QUITS 
Dr. J. E. Hedrick, instructor in 
chemical engineering, resigned. Ef- 
fective September 1, Dr. A. W. Haw- 
kins of the same department pro- 
moted to succeed Doctor Hedrick. 
Effective September 1, Dr. Herman 
W. Zabel appointed instructor in 
chemical engineering to succeed Doc- 
tor Hawkins, promoted. 

Dr. P. H. Vardiman appointed 
temporary instructor in bacteriology, 
effective July 1, to serve during the 
leave of absence of Dr. M. J. Twie- 
haus. 

Effective September 1, Dr. H. J. 
Peppier, instructor in the Depart- 
ment of Bacteriology, is promoted to 
the instructorship made vacant by 
the resignation of T. M. McCalla. 
Effective September 1, Thomas H. 
Lord appointed instructor in bac- 
teriology to succeed Dr. H. J. Pep- 
pier, promoted. 

Dr. G. N. Reed, instructor in chem- 
istry, resigned June 30. A. L. Neal, 
instructor in chemistry, is granted 
leave of absence for the academic 
year 1941-42. Russell J. Beers, in- 
structor in chemistry, is granted 
leave of absence for the academic 



year 1941-42. Lowell W. Taylor, 
James K. Woods and Luther W. 
Brandt appointed part-time graduate 
assistants in chemistry, effective Sep- 
tember 1. 

Dr. A. R. Hanke, temporary as- 
sistant chemist, resigned June 30. 
For the period July 1 to January 31, 
194 2, Carl Latschar employed as 
temporary assistant chemist to suc- 
ceed Doctor Hanke, resigned, and to 
serve during the leave of absence of 
B. W. Beadle. 

Miss Minerva Cron, part-time 
graduate assistant in chemistry, re- 
signed May 31. Effective September 
1, Joseph J. Bryske appointed part- 
time graduate assistant in chemistry 
to succeed Miss Cron, resigned. 
NAME INDUSTRIAL FELLOWS 

Raymond A. Olson, Edward Stick- 
ley and Irwin Olson appointed part- 
time industrial fellows on fellowships 
provided by the Sharpless Chemical 
company, the appointments to be 
effective September 1. 

September 1 Donald Olson ap- 
pointed part-time graduate assistant 
in chemistry to succeed Raymond A. 
Olson, transferred. 

Miss Gertrude Roskie, instructor in 
education, resigned June 30. 

Effective September 1, Otto E. 
Wenger appointed part-time gradu- 
ate assistant in the Department of 
Entomology. 

The appointment of Miss Dorothy 
Peters as temporary instructor in the 
Library is continued from September 
1 to June 30, 1942. 

First Lt. George T. Hart of the 
Department of Military Science and 
Tactics transferred to Washington, 
D. O, by the War department. 

Effective September 1, Walter 
Roach appointed assistant professor 
of public speaking to succeed Dr. H. 
B. Summers, resigned. 

Allen Edgar, instructor in zoology, 
resigned August 31. Effective Sep- 
tember 1, Leo Petrix appointed in- 
structor in zoology to succeed Mr. 
Edgar. 

Miss Stella Beil appointed part- 
time graduate assistant in clothing 
and textiles, effective September 1. 
Miss Hazel Marie Scott appointed 
part-time graduate assistant in cloth- 
ing and textiles, effective Septem- 
ber 1. 

Miss Helen Forney, instructor in 
the Department of Food Economics 
and Nutrition, resigned May 31. 

Effective July 1, the academic rank 
of Chester B. Billings, instructor in 
agriculture in Home Study service, 
is changed to assistant professor. 

RADIO OPERATOR RESIGNS 

R. L. Meisenheimer, radio operator 
in the Division of College Extension, 
resigned May 31. Effective June 1 
Robert C. Dennison appointed radio 
operator to succeed Mr. Meisen- 
heimer. 

Miss Theresa Peltier, nurse in the 
College hospital, resigned June 30. 
Effective September 1, Mrs. Hazel 
Olney appointed nurse in the College 
hospital to succeed Miss Peltier. 

Eleanor Tibbetts, assistant to the 
vice-president, resigned June 30. 
Miss Juanita Vilander of the same 
oflice promoted to succeed Miss Tib- 
betts effective July 1. 

The leave of absence of Hale 
Brown, instructor in vocational edu- 
cation, granted for the period Decem- 
ber 18, 1940, to June 30, 1941, is 
extended to June 30, 1942. 

The leave of absence of M. R. Wil- 
son, associate professor in the De- 
partment of Shop Practice, extended 
to June 30, 1942. 

Effective August 11, Miss Doris 
Compton appointed instructor in rec- 
reation, Division of College Exten- 
sion. 

Effective September 1, John Wag- 
oner is appointed part-time graduate 
research assistant on industrial re- 
search fellowship No. 2, Chemical 
Problems in the Production of Starch 
from Kansas Farm Products. 

July 1, Albert Cane is appointed 
part-time graduate research assistant 
on industrial research fellowship No. 
3, The Manufacture of Colloidal Fuel 
from Kansas Coal. 

September 1 Raymond E. Seltzer 
is appointed part-time graduate re- 
search assistant on industrial re- 
search fellowship No. 5, Economics 
of the Kansas Meat Packing Industry. 

Rodney W. Johnston is appointed, 
on July 1, part-time graduate re- 
search assistant on industrial re- 
search fellowship No. 6, The Manu- 
facture of Starch from Kansas Agri- 
cultural Raw Materials. 

Effective July 1 Harold H. Munger 
is appointed full-time research as- 
sistant in the Engineering Experi- 



KANSAS STATE COLLEGE — 1941 FOOTBALL 

Sept. 27 — Ft. Hays State College (Boy Scout Day) 

Oct. 4 — Northwestern 

Oct. 11 — Missouri 

Oct. 18 — Oklahoma (Parents' Day) 

Nov. 1 — Nebraska (Homecoming) 

Nov. 8 — South Carolina University 

Nov. 15 — Kansas University 

Nov. 22— Iowa State 

Nov. 29 — Arizona 



SCHEDULE 

MANHATTAN 

Evanston, 111. 

Columbia 

MANHATTAN 

MANHATTAN 

MANHATTAN 

Lawrence 

Ames 

Tucson 



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the 

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pro- 



ment station; approximately half his 
time will be devoted to industrial re- 
search fellowship No. 4, New Sources 
of Highway Materials to be Used in 
Concrete Aggregates. 

Effective July 1 Miss Dorothy Ha- 
mer is appointed social director of 
Van Zile hall (women's dormitory) 
to succeed Mrs. Nina Rhoades, re- 
signed. 

MANY ARE PROMOTED 
The following promotions in 
demic rank were provided in 
1941-42 budget: A. A. Holtz, 
nomics and sociology, associate 
fessor to professor; 
Knittle, to be assistant dean of wo- 
men; George Montgomery, economics 
and sociology, associate professor to 
professor; J. A. Hodges, economics 
and sociology, associate professor to 
professor; John W. Greene, chemical 
engineering, assistant professor to 
associate professor; Harner Selvidge, 
electrical engineering, assistant pro- 
fessor to associate professor; J. N. 
Wood, machine design, instructor to 
assistant professor; A. O. Flinner, 
mechanical engineering, assistant 
professor to associate professor; Leo 
A. Moore, shop practice, instructor 
to assistant professor. 

L. E. Hudiburg, from assistant 
professor of physics to associate pro- 
fessor of physics and assistant dean, 
Division of General Science; Vernon 
D. Foltz, bacteriology, assistant pro- 
fessor to associate professor; Miss 
Margaret Newcomb, botany and plant 
pathology, assistant professor to as- 
sociate professor. 

Miss Eunice L. Kingsley, botany 
and plant pathology, instructor to as- 
sistant professor; J. C. Bates, botany 
and plant pathology, instructor to as- 
sistant professor; H. M. Stewart, eco- 
nomics and sociology, associate pro- 
fessor to professor; Edgar S. Bagley, 
economics and sociology, instructor 
to assistant professor; Mrs. Laura 
Baxter, education, assistant professor 
to associate professor; R. C. Lang- 
ford, education, associate professor 
to professor; M. C. Moggie, education, 
assistant professor to associate pro- 
fessor; L. F. Hall, education, assis- 
tant professor to associate professor; 
Hale Brown, education, instructor to 
assistant professor; R. H. Painter, 
entomology, associate professor to 
professor. 

D. A. Wilbur, entomology, assis- 
tant professor to associate professor; 
Miss Inez Alsop, history and govern- 
ment, assistant professor to associate 
professor; Hillier Krieghbaum, in- 
dustrial journalism and printing, as- 
sistant professor to associate profes- 
sor; Charles Stratton, music, assistant 
professor to associate professor; H. 
Miles Heberer, public speaking, as- 
sociate professor to professor; Nor- 
man C. Webster, public speaking, in- 
structor to assistant professor; Earl 
H. Herrick, zoology, associate pro- 
fessor to professor; E. J. Wimmer, 
zoology, associate professor to pro- 
fessor. 

Frank Byrne, geology, assistant 
professor to associate professor; Miss 
Maria Morris, art, assistant professor 
to associate professor; Miss Vida 
Harris, art, assistant professor to as- 
sociate professor; Mrs. Coral Aldous, 
child welfare and euthenics, instruc- 
tor to assistant professor; Miss Mary 
Smull, institutional economics, in- 
structor to assistant professor; Roger 
P. Link, anatomy and physiology, in- 
structor to assistant professor; O. B. 
Glover, district supervisor in Exten- 
sion service, to be assistant profes- 
sor; L. F. Neff, district supervisor in 
Extension service, to be assistant 
professor; Miss Gladys Myers, home 
demonstration work, instructor to 
assistant professor of home manage- 
ment; Miss Mae Farris, home dem- 
onstration work, instructor to assis- 
tant professor of home furnishings; 
L. L. Compton, Extension service, 
assistant professor to associate pro- 
fessor of farm crops. 
-♦ 
F. A. Smutz Is Honored 
Prof. F. A. Smutz of the Depart- 
ment of Machine Design was elected 
circulation manager of the Journal 
of Engineering Drawing at the recent 
meeting of the National Society for 
Promotion of Engineering Education. 



'41 CLASS, WITH 819 MEMBERS, 

IS LARGEST RECORDED BY COLLEGE 

(Continued from page one) 

Bachelor of Science In Milling Indus- 
try: Robert Jonathan Jones, Wichita. 

Bnchelor of Science In Chemlcnl En- 
gineering: John Gilbert Brewer, Arkan- 
] sas City; Clarence Arthur Day Jr., Ot- 
tawa; John Richard Romig, Bethany, 
i Mo. 

nnchelor of Science In Civil Engi- 
neering: Alan Dean Kinney, Haines- 
burg, N. J.; John Vito Sette, Corona, 
N. Y. 

nnchelor of Science In Electrical En- 
gineering: Alonzo Leon Cloninger, Cha- 
nute; John Henry Larkins, Le Roy; 
Raymond Lamar Meisenheimer, Hiawa- 
tha; Jesse Eugene Nease, Concordia; 



Miss Kathleen ! Louis Earl Raburn, Manhattan; Jack 
Sheets, Cozad, Neb.; Laurence Oscar 
Slief, Pratt; John Murray Stevenson, 
Hutchinson; Lloyd Bryan Tribble, Sol- 
dier. 

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical 
EiiKliiecring: James Alvin Farmer, To- 
peka; Raymond Hook, Osborne; Donald 
Alonzo Justice, Manhattan; Victor Gra- 
ham Mellquist, Manhattan; Henry Al- 
bert Thurstin, Chanute. 

Rnchelor of Science In Home Eco- 
nomic*: Genevie Elizabeth Allen, Man- 
hattan; Frances Lorraine Brooks, Nor- 
ton; Berniece Beatrice Brown, Toronto; 
Sarah Jane Buster, Lamed; Lillie Mar- 
tin Carleton, Manhattan; Isabel Naomi 
Dodrill, Stockton; Ruth Elma Douglas, 
Coffevville; Margaret Lucille Munger 
Furbeck, Manhattan; Mary Alice Guy, 
Longford; Jane Louise Hastings, La- 
kin; Pattie Patrice Hay, Eskridge; 
Laura Elizabeth Herr, Abilene; Letha 
Pearl Irvine, Stafford; Wilma Jean 
Jackson, Wichita; Eleanor Lee John- 
son, Salina; Jean Margaret Kallenber- 
ger, Edna; Dorothy Maye Knaus, Neode- 
sha; Jessie Marguerite Mason, Redfield; 
Verna Evelyn Matson, Miltonvale; 
Ruthe Eileen Morrow, Larned; Mar- 
garet Frances Roseman, New Cambria; 
Margaret Winnifred Schnacke, La 
Crosse; Dorothy Irene Stutzman, Ran- 
som; Gloria Joyce Swanson, Hutchin- 
son; Earlene Eleanor Trekell, Manhat- 
tan; Dorothy Mae Van Tuyl, Basehor; 
Winnivere Button Wright, Manhattan. 

Bachelor of Science: Eloise Artis 
Black, Coffeyville; Ellen Mae Carda- 
relli. Republic, Pa.; Richard Warren 
Cope, Holton; Aubrey Thornton Ed- 
wards, Manhattan; Lowell Windell 
Fowler, El Dorado; Shirley Evelyn 
Karns, Coffeyville; Reva Alma King, 
Council Grove; Irene Buckles Laceky, 
Beaumont, Texas; Dean McCandless, 
St. John; Daniel Claire Marshall, Man- 
hattan; Donald Herman Merten, Mor- 
ganville; Maxine Mae Milner, Republic; 
Rex Allan Neubauer, Manhattan; Carl 
Adolph Peterson, Overhand Tark; Car- 
roll Wayne Preusch, Healy; Earl Boise 
Reynolds, Colony; Earl William Rose, 
White Cloud; Bette Elaine Roth, 
Moundridge; Joseph Uhrin, Metuchen, 
N. J.; William Henry Wells, Colony; 
John Edward Wenger, Powhattan; 
Margaret Ann Wilkerson, Smith Cen- 
ter; Minnie Mildred Wilkes, Belleville; 
Joseph Brewer Zahn, Miltonvale. 

linchclor of Science in IIiinIiicnh Ad- 
iiiiniKtrntlon: Lawrence Theodore Buen 



WHEAT IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM 
IS REVAMPED AND REVITALIZED 



COLLEGE AND OTHER AGENCIES 
COOPEnATIlVG ON PROJECT 



Conntlen Will Have Chnnce to Partici- 
pate In Competition for "Blue Rlb- 
bon" AwardM for Select 
Seed Grain Fields 

Twenty-nine Kansas counties have 
an opportunity to participate in a re- 
vamped and revitalized wheat im- 
provement program which is being 
introduced in Kansas this fall, with 
"blue ribbon" fields of select seed 
grain replacing the wheat nursery 
plots that have been planted in about 
30 counties during the past few years. 

The wheat improvement contest is 
part of an extensive program for 
building up the quality of Kansas- 
grown grain by encouraging greater 
production and use of certified seed. 
Organizations sponsoring the pro- 
gram include Kansas State College, 
the Kansas Crop Improvement asso- 
ciation, the Kansas Wheat Improve- 
ment association, the State Board of 
Agriculture and the Kansas Indus- 
trial Development commission. 
EACH COUNTY COMPETES 

The "blue ribbon" fields will be 
grown on a competitive basis, with 
farmers striving against each other 
and counties competing against each 
other to see what individuals and 
what sections of the state can do the 
best job of producing quality bread 
grain. 

A primary purpose of the stream- 
lined wheat improvement program is 
to encourage the use of good seed 
wheat of desirable varieties, an es- 
sential foundation for quality wheat 
production. Emphasis will be placed 
on certified seed wheat, which has 
been inspected and approved by the 
Kansas Crop Improvement associa- 
tion. Emphasis also will be given to 
production practices that increase 
yields and improve the quality of the 
grain produced. 

IN "BLUE RIBBON" CONTEST 

The 29 counties eligible to compete 
in the "blue ribbon" field contest are 
in central and western Kansas. 

These are the counties that are 
eligible to apply for particiption in 
the contest. Only about 15 counties 
i can be handled because of the lim- 
i ited time and personnel available for 
performing the necessary field in- 
spection work. There will be com- 
petition among counties to determine 
which ones will compete in the wheat 
improvement contest: Cheyenne, 
Thomas, Decatur, Ford, Comanche, 
Osborne, Barton, Stafford, Mitchell, 



ing, Valley Falls; Kenneth Herbert I 

Graham, Framingham, Mass.; tllen Ed- j T ., R . R pno i arni> , Renub- 

ward Mueller, Anthony; Harry Otto, Lincoln, Kice, t 

Manhattan; Lloyd Arnold Starkweather, 

Clay Center; Oliver Rex Wells, Marys- 

ville; Ralph Edgar York, Dunlap. 

Bachelor of Science In Inilust riul 
Chemistry: George William Hartter, j Ril ey Marshall and Shawnee. 
Sabetha; Lowell Robert Ray, Wilsey. 



lie, Cloud, Ottawa, Saline. McPher- 
son, Harvey, Sedgwick, Sumner, Clay, 
Dickinson, Butler, Cowley, Geary, 



Bachelor of Science in IniliiHtrlal 
.lournnllNiii: Richard John Cech, Kan- 
sas City; David Edward Guerrant, Man- 
hattan; Herbert Dale Hollinger, Chap- 
man; Alice Claire Hummel, Kanopolis; 
Robert Rex Rogers, Manhattan; John 
Marks Williams, Parsons. 

Bachelor of Science In MiihIc Educa- 
tion: Lowell Warren Clark, Waterville. 

Bachelor of Science In PhyNlcnl Edu- 
cation: Leslie Albert Droge, Seneca. 

■♦ 

Advocate Moat Servings 

A serving of meat — and cheaper 
cuts are just as nutritious — was the 
daily allowance recommended for 
each person in the new food guide 
that was disclosed at the recent Na- 
tional Nutrition Conference for De- 
fense attended by Miss Gertrude E. 
Allen, nutritionist of Kansas State 
College Extension service. 



THROCKMORTON IS CHAIRMAN 

The executive committee in charge 
of the contest is headed by Prof. R. I. 
Throckmorton, head of the Depart- 
ment of Agronomy at Kansas State 
College. Other members include 
Prof. A. L. Clapp, secretary of the 
Kansas Crop Improvement associa- 
tion; L. L. Compton, agronomist of 
the Kansas State College Extension 
service; Dr. J. H. Parker, director 
of the Kansas Wheat Improvement 
association; L. P. Reitz, representing 
the Agronomy department, and E. G. 
Bayfield, head of the Department of 
Milling Industry. 

The contest fields must be planted 
with either certified seed or regis- 
tered seed. 



EVERYDAY ECONOMICS 

By W. E. GRIMES 



'Equality of the sexes is one of the delusions of modern peoples." 



Equality of the sexes is one of the 
delusions of modern peoples. Equal- 
ity of things that are different is im- 
possible. One might just as well try 
to make cows and horses or steam 
engines and gas engines equal. Each 
has its peculiar bundle of character- 
istics, functions and abilities. Ad- 
vancement in human relations lies in 
giving to each sex those rights and 
privileges which will make the in- 
dividuals most useful in society. 

Most of the advocates of equal 
rights have urged that women have 
all of certain rights that men have 
enjoyed plus all other rights that 
women could obtain. But no one has 
championed the right of women to 
dig ditches. Tacitly, there has been 
recognition of the fundamental dif- 



■< 



ferences between the sexes, but this 
tacit admission rarely has been ex- 
pressed. Once man wore the trousers 
but no more. Woman took them over 
and what she has done to them defies 
the imagination. She cut them short, 
put frills on them and made them all 
the hues of the rainbow. She not 
only took all that man had but added 
to it. 

All of this merely illustrates the 
age-old fact that equality of the sexes 
is a delusion which man uses to kid 
himself in his subconscious moments. 
Equality never has existed and it is 
hoped that it never will exist. But 
may the passage of time bring further 
opportunities for each sex to develop 
and use constructively its own par- 
ticular characteristics, functions and 
abilities. 



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